HogwartsLive? That's using beans to get tickets, which you find on the site. This is using gold to get tickets, which you find on the site. Basically nothing different, as they're both a type of currency.
Right but beans is the alt currency of some kind. You just dont know how many beans you have till you go to the raffle area and when you find another bean.
Something manual that is random? That makes no sense either. And yes. 1) There's a news topic added, 2) It's saved in the settings, and 3) It's displayed in the village for all to see.
What I mean is...You click pick winner and when you click it one is chosen at random.
Date the raffle ends is displayed in the village.
Can it be displayed in the raffle page also? Like you enter the raffle page and see the option to buy tickets and whatever arbitrary text is there and then under is a table that says:
Buy Ticket* | Raffle description | Total Tickets Bought | Winner
* click it and it opens to a page to buy tickets from, with a return to main raffle page or adds a collapsible form that you can buy tickets from and when you buy tickets it goes away and then comes back when you click buy tickets again.
How many tickets bought is displayed in the character stats as "{your number of tickets}/{total tickets}"
Refer to previous statement.
Winner is displayed in the village.
Refer to 2 statements before this. Also could there be an admin settable option to turn this off?
I don't understand how alt currency works, never used it before. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to do though - find everywhere the gold and gems are used, and do the same for alt currency. Basically copy and paste, which you yourself have said you're a copy-and-paste type of coder.
Yea I would have to see the alt currency module and see how its coded and see how this is coded for buying tickets and make it used with alt currency and if I dont get it I'm sure my staffer, Jamoki might be able to help me since he messed with alt currency before.