[nhawk]

Originally Posted by OverhaulNetwork

To go into a bit more detail why midnight becomes an issue is because we draw the raffles on a live video stream. So we have allot of people watching to find out who wins as well as people who are just finding out about the raffles (the purpose of the raffles is to draw new members to our site) so if we are broadcasting for 4 hours we encourage everyone to register tot he site and get a ticket as we will be drawing a winner in X amount of minutes.

It would suck to have to say, "You missed out on this weeks raffle, you can register and wait another week." people want things now now now. Forcing them to wait a week can possibly cause them to skip registering.

I have just been setting the raffle to end the following day then manually drawing it to get around this. But then it shows as drawing on the following day it is actually being drawn confusing members.

LOL, please don't take this the wrong way.. but you have got to be the only person on the planet doing a live video feed of a raffle draw.

The original reason for the manual draw was to end a raffle early if it was so popular that a second identical raffle could be run. And then it was used sparingly with notice to the site's members (some 50,000+ when the raffle system first started with them) in a post. It was never intended to be used the way you're using it.

In any case, that's irrelevant because that's how you're using it.

Normally I wouldn't budge from my stance on this. But I will look closely at adding an end time option with a minimum spread between the draw and the end of the entry period. There are no promises as to when it will be done as this means reversing many changes over the time the system has been in existence. Once it's done I may even require you to run it for a period of time before I release it to everyone.