I asked my friend in shadow and they said that they started collecting prizes suuper early. But aside from the basic packs the organizer wanted to make, there weren't many other donations and it didn't seem like prize donations were advertised much. Also apparently their INF raffle is a lot better, it has gene scrolls and a shadow sprite. Makes me wonder if they were organized by the same people.
I'm in Shadow but I've been too busy to be super-involved in Dom organization stuff lately but can confirm that what your friend says is right. The in-flight raffle has way more and better stuff. Shadow sprite, genes, sylvan apparel, boss familiars, usermade accents...the out-of-flight raffle has none of that.
I don't know what happened there. The raffles are run by two different people (Aeonox is running in-flight, BeingOfNature out) so I don't know if BoN dropped the ball on collecting donations or what. Aenox's thread for collecting donations for the in-flight raffle does name check two people for donating a lot of expensive stuff to it, so maybe those two are responsible for how good it is. That thread also mentions that because holiday dom is uncontested they're looking to save the treasury funds for actual dom battles later and aren't soliciting super-amazing items right now, so maybe that attitude was also carried by whoever was organizing/donating to the out-of-flight raffle and no donor with a lot of funds to throw around came to save it from mediocrity.
Maybe starting so early (I've heard a whole year beforehand) has part of the problem. If you make the thread so early, I'd think that people would just stop caring and forget about it after a while- there's a reason why most festival prep starts 2-4 months ahead of time instead of even earlier. Plus I don't think Shadow has a mod (besides Undel, who doesn't count), so it's not like they could get the planning stickied or anything.
Just a small note about not having a mod (which idk if everyone knows about): if a flight doesn't have a mod, people can ask/ping Aequorin for forum stuff. It's not very worth it if it's just to get threads moved, but it is very useful for stickies! So they technically could.
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(Anonymous) 2016-02-17 12:43 am (UTC)(link)I don't know what happened there. The raffles are run by two different people (Aeonox is running in-flight, BeingOfNature out) so I don't know if BoN dropped the ball on collecting donations or what. Aenox's thread for collecting donations for the in-flight raffle does name check two people for donating a lot of expensive stuff to it, so maybe those two are responsible for how good it is. That thread also mentions that because holiday dom is uncontested they're looking to save the treasury funds for actual dom battles later and aren't soliciting super-amazing items right now, so maybe that attitude was also carried by whoever was organizing/donating to the out-of-flight raffle and no donor with a lot of funds to throw around came to save it from mediocrity.
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(Anonymous) 2016-02-19 02:38 am (UTC)(link)Food for thought.
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(Anonymous) 2016-02-19 02:53 am (UTC)(link)Just a small note about not having a mod (which idk if everyone knows about): if a flight doesn't have a mod, people can ask/ping Aequorin for forum stuff. It's not very worth it if it's just to get threads moved, but it is very useful for stickies! So they technically could.