I can see there's been some debate recently over raffle lionesses and them getting stuck on disused accounts or players being harassed over winning. I'm sure we can all see both sides, as those that win and those (the majority) that don't.

At present, every week there is 1 lioness between (at time of posting) 418,077 players, one lioness to spread her RL markings between all of those players.
Of course, not all of those are dreamboats, but let's look at the current 20.01.23 raffle Lioness.

Gee, that's a lot of players for one lioness, wouldn't you agree?

Now, I love how the raffle lioness system works - my only qualm is, the numbers do not work out anymore. It used to be that there was one lioness between maybe 1000 dreamboats; now it's 10,000.

My suggestion is this, make the Raffle Lioness into a "harem". There are five "sisters" with similar breed-only traits (new raffle markings, bases, etc), and each one is available to be impressed - but you can only impress one per account. These lionesses would have maybe 4-6 traits in common (new markings) but would have other markings that could appeal to other players - one could be a colour bomb, one could be a greyscale, one could be natural, one could be random and one could be pastel. Different tastes for different players!

The lionesses would ideally have 3-4 markings the same between them, but the rest would be different & different bases/mutations/personalities.
It would still cost 50SB to make your attempt, but now instead of it being 1/10000 chance, assuming everyone picks their "favourite" of the 5, the spread should be on average 1/2000 on peak weeks.

The Benefits
This would increase the chances of rare markings being spread.
The odds of "marking hoarding" would be reduced.
Decrease the chances of the lioness ending up on an abandoned account.
Reduction in player conflict & harassment over RLs.
The code is already there and just needs some minor tweaks!

The Negatives
Raffle Lionesses may drop in value, as would their clones - even though all five "sisters" would technically be different RLs in their own right.
Over time there would be a lot more RLs in the system, for example, 52 weeks = 260 RLs, however with the growing member base and the fact that most RLs only live for 120 days (excluding those that freeze them for event months.) This would still be only 260 RLs a year between 418,000 (rounded down) members. (That's 0.00062200956 RLs per player.)
This would require dear Katze to design 5 different (although keeping similar markings) lionesses each week, which may be too much for her.

Compromises
Instead of doing 5 a week, we could do 3 a week instead, if people feel 5 is too many, it'd be a nice middle ground whilst making RLs feel more common and reducing the aforementioned risks.

Suggestions:
I'll add others' ideas here!

Please, if you don't support please explain WHY below - I can't improve the idea without YOUR feedback, it's worth checking back often as I intend to change this and grow it with the input from the community. I'll probably get flak for this but I had to say it.


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