ANNOUNCEMENT: PM Wyrom announced the next Playershop Lottery; it is still considered a test run. It will draw on Sunday, May 31, at noon for up to 50 shops in Ta’Vaalor. Use the SHOP LOTTERY command for information and joining in. Requirements and details in SHOP LOTTERY HELP. If your name is drawn, you must claim your shop deed by the end of the day on Monday. After this drawing, Ta’Illistim will be next.
Text of Discord Post follows:
PM Wyrom
Fifth and Sixth Playershop Lottery – Ta’Vaalor and Ta’Illistim
on 29 May 2026 at 1:11PM
from the Official GemStoneIV Discord
on #general-announcements channel
The lottery for up to 50 winners for a shop in Ta’Vaalor will start soon. Please use the SHOP LOTTERY command for details. There have not been any new updates to the system, just a ongoing bug fixes. This is another test run to try to follow the process to see where there are some hiccups in the system. By participating in this lottery, you are agreeing to be part of a test run that may not go as according to plan. This lottery will run from just shortly after this announcement until 12pm ET (noon) on Sunday (5/31). You must claim your deed by the end of the day Monday or it will be forfeit. Everything else in the help menu should be accurate.
Right after the Ta’Vaalor lottery, it should start up for 50 winners in Ta’Illistim! Same deal as above. It should run until 12pm ET (noon) on Wednesday (6/3). This may not be accurate, so I will update on Sunday if it doesn’t automatically do what it should. If the timer changes mid lottery, please note that this announced times are the accurate times with a degree of changes within minutes. Last run it changed the timer pretty drastically at one point.
If you cannot enter because the system thinks you have a shop, unfortunately, you will not be able to enter this lottery automatically. You can ASSIST and each situation will be looked at. If you transferred ownership of a shop and the data is clear about the transfer, this can be resolved by me resetting some data on your character. If you transferred a character and the system shows you actually owning a shop, I won’t be able to fix this at this time. And at any time, if the data isn’t clear why you can’t enter, you’ll have to sit this one out.
After these lotteries, we will be doing very short lotterties of under 24 hours for the smaller batches until we make it through the remaining towns. After that we will be hopefully introducing new shops and any remaining left of old shops.
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