Love your ideas, Izzy! 

When it comes to the RNG, I'm alright with the way its 100%. If people don't get pooled so often, oh well, buy yourself into another round and hope you'll be more lucky. As you said, it should even out in the end :P

Our family/city didn't do a whole lot to get others to join, but it seemed a lot of people were happy to join either way because it sounded fun. But maybe you could include a prize for the family (best 1 or top 3?) who did the best overall? Like, for the family that had either most participants or won most rounds, everyone in said family would get a few hustle points/pied pipers/whatever seems appropriate. 

Just an idea if that would be something to consider :)

MY PROPOSAL

Step 1) Remove the house extra (house adds nothing to the pot and it is now forced to be completely user based)

Step 2) Lower the most expensive entry to 10 mill (More people will now enter and also the multiplier won't have people winning potentially way too much money)

You start with a base of x1.00

Each Godfather from [City] that enters at least 3 rounds or spends at least 2.5 million total adds 0.05

Each CL from [City] that enters at least 3 rounds or spends at least 2.5 million total adds 0.04

Each member of that city which enters at least 3 rounds or spends at least 2.5 million total adds 0.02

So lets say all 3 GFs enter would make it 0.15 and then 4 CLs count which makes it 0.16 and 7 total members enter which gives it 0.14. Anyone who wins a round from this city will now get x1.45 tacked on. So if the pot was $180 million they now get $261,000,000. 

OR

The extra money ($81,000,000) could be split amongst everyone who entered from that city so that the winner doesn't just receive it all, which further incentivizes more people to join.

This could be changed up mathematically to make it work better and I don't really know math so I could be extremely off base, but I just like the idea of having a multiplier that goes up based on how many people from your city enter. This would force Godfathers and CLs to rely on their members also entering if they want the maximum amount of cash, and vice versa for members to make sure they're in a city where the Godfathers and CLs care enough to enter these sorts of things.

The only downside would be that DT and CH have by rule have less Godfathers and Leaders than other cities, but they could also just receive a higher bonus for being smaller. (0.08 instead of 0.05 etc;)

idk thought it sounded neat in my head

What if the majority of the Rats where every man for themselves, but some rounds were a "Best crew/District/City"? Only downside to that is limiting the number of sign ups means if you don't sign up early you're fucked. 

I enjoyed it thoroughly and was glad it wasn't an event that required teamwork or coordination. I was able to come and go as I pleased. I would prefer it remain like this. Izzy I think your ideas are perfect, particularly the early signup bonus. 

Keep it in your pants Dixie_Rect

I very much like BusterScrugs idea of a multiplier based on participation. I would also be up for round winnings to be shared by the crew of the winner or the city of the winner for selected rounds. 

I like the idea of a 30th round for a tiebreak with a forced pool for those tied at the end. 

The only thing which seriously annoyed me was solo pools. In a particular round, I was beaten by a guy who had 2 x solo pool kills (Which jostled my jimmies) Plenty of people were eligible it was just bad RNG. Maybe try and set something just for the RATTLE event where min pool must be greater than 1.

I would also suggest looking at the pied piper for these events, either tweak how it works or turn it off. Despite a lot of activity, I found out I was hamstrung with the pied piper perk due to my crew's standings in the RAT top 10. If people are already killing lots of RATs (Hence being in the top 10) giving them boosts to have the potential to kill even more isn't a good way to promote competition for the top 10 places. 

All in all, though it was a great event. Would do again /10

If there is a solo pool, that means that 50% of all eligible people from the channels selected were picked.  So that means that only 2 people were eligible, with 50% of them being selected.  I spent about 2 hours looking into this, and every solo pool that I looked at was the result of people not meeting the requirements to join the pool.  (Most often it was because they were more than X minutes IA in the channels selected to build the pools from).  #main is the only channel where its activity is 100% of the time selected (You can view the % breakdowns on the Rat Eligibility page by clicking the rat icon at the top of your screen).  Time goes by pretty fast during the rats, before you know it you are IA for a few minutes past the required time to be included.  Also, the bot does not record activity for very very very short lines, saying things "lol", random emoji's or "nice shot" every few minutes will get you in 0 pools.

 

Thank you for taking the time to look into it. From your explanation, it just looks like I was unlucky & that there was only me & the person who got the solo pools eligible for both. I just got back-to-back bad luck on a 50% chance (Which is fine and understandable)
I still think the point of 'the pool must be greater than 1' is valid but as per your explanation if enough people are not eligible it is what it is. I would still sooner have the 50% chance of a solo pool than a fail/restart of the round.

We made sure we put "All forms of Pied Piper work during the event with the exception of KOH and RAT Leaderboard." in the sign up page for the event to let players know that their crews standings in the leaderboard, or with KOH will not trigger Pied Piper.   We thought it would be a little unfair if pied from out of your control was triggering for you (or your competition), so the only pied that would trigger are ones that are directly in the control of the shooter.

I 100% missed that on the signup page! My mistake. Looks like both of my 'suggestions' are already taken care of so a big thumbs up from me. 

Ok new suggestion based on people saying the single pools etc - we know I'm a big fan of people having to work a bit to be eligible, but I think when you know the event is going to be busy and how main was in a lot of the rounds I was in (specifically 1 & 2 though holy shit) I'd propose perhaps increasing the weights. 

Why?

Means you can keep up with conversations in main, so you don't have 30 people just babbling because there are no real conversations to be had at this time.

Also if you're on your 10th round, you might be sick of main and just want a nice chill chat somewhere else.

Plus increasing the weight in the city/district means the channel might be more active and build friendships and shit with the people in your city. 

I don't want to make the requirements to get pooled less or easier, but I think making it so you don't have to sit in main for an entire day when you might wanna murder but need a wee little break from the masses. 

I hate that you're not wrong lol. 

Maybe boost Trivia a smidge then just so those of us with shitty social batteries can have a breather? Given the requirements you'd still have to actually talk in there, and it can be monitored by HD etc during? Obviously, this would only be for another rattle event where there is money on the line. 

One suggestion and idea that I would like to see feedback on if people have any.

For a few selected rounds (Not the whole event. Maybe 1 at either end & one in the middle to cater for time zone difference) we have a couple of seeded rounds. What I mean is we have a champion's round where the top 20 Ratters (All time) can enter but others are locked out. Next round 21-40, third round 41-60. Maybe with a bigger prize or some extra +1s for the winners. 

Would be good for bragging rights and add some variety. Would also mean the same old fast people don't keep acting as flat-track bullies and beating the slower guys (Me mostly!)