The selection of properties now has a start date. - Saturday, October 25th at 12:00

The game will be broken down into 75% random NPC properties, and 25% random user properties.  The entire 25% pool created for users, will be available to fulfill everyone who has a ticket and those who will get tickets after this announcement.

If you have a ticket before November 1st:

Everyone who has already won a ticket has been given a number, this number translates to the order of picking properties.  https://mafiareturns.com/manage/property_picker.php

At this time, there are two ways to pick a property, live selecting or pre selecting.  Live is done via your time slot by what number your ticket is, preselecting is done in advance via a URL (will be given a day before the start).

You can use a page to pre-select in order of preference, for example, if pick these 10 properties, if the first one is taken, it tries your 2nd, if taken, it tries your 3rd, and so on, until its tried all your preselects or it was able to secure it.  This can backfire if you have have a lot of "if/then" in your decision.  

If you do it live, you can get look at whats available and do your strategy with live data. You do not have to pick it at the exact time slot you were given, it just becomes available to you at that time, you can pick any time after live if you want. 

You are picking from the full pool of 25% of unowned properties.

If you do not have a ticket prior to November 1st:

You can get a ticket currently by BAM! Prizes during flash sales.  I will refill the flash sale if needed for the next few days. You are picking from the full pool of 25% of unowned properties.

November 1st 16:00
All unowned properties in the pool will be delisted, and then put up for sale via being dripped back in at random order, one at a time, every 5 minutes.
For example, if no one purchased any, then 20 minutes in, it would now have 4 randomly chosen properties in the game in the pool, adding 1 more random every 5 minutes.

You can now purchase a property for 5 million game cash from the city realtor of the city you are currently located in, if any are available. Every 5 minutes, 1 will be randomly choosen from one of the cities and put back on the market for that city.

December 1st 16:00
You can now have your city's realtor list a property, with a set price. Any purchases at full price are 100% anonymous.  Any offers and acceptances below asking price are put into the public ledger.

January 1st 16:00
Any property with taxes more than 1 month overdue will be lost back to the game. The taxes are a near irrelevant amount, its just a mechanism so that premium properties don't dissapear forever if the owner no longer plays, they get recycled back into the system and made available to other players

Feb 1st 16:00
Another 5% of the NPC owned properties gets dripped into the realty pool.

March 1st 16:00
Another 5% of the NPC owned properties gets dripped into the realty pool.

This repeats on a monthly basis until the entire amount is available sans a few reserved for future game features that need a property.

The first 250 slots for selecting a property have already been spoken for by the following people:

1) Reserved by Winners of the jail event prizes have received their number and will be selecting in the order they were given
2) Reserved Obtaining via BAM Bonus triggered from flash sale purchase up to this point - they will be selecting in the order they purchased. there are 208 up until this point)
3) Reserved for a few uppers who met qualifications from jail event will receive their number and will be selecting in the order they are given.
4) Reserving the remaining properties up until the 250th mark for various people who help test.
5) Obtaining via BAM Bonus triggered from flash sales purchase starting now - you will be given your order of selection, and you can figure out your time slot based on the chart below

So as the time of this writing, there are 250 properties that will be selected in a scheduled order. 

Starting October 25th, 12:00 Game Time, the following schedule plays out:

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This pattern continues, with every 5 minutes, the next ticket can select their property from the list of remaining unowned properties.
For example, if you are Ticket #255, you are 25 minutes after Ticket #250 above, and you can pick from any from the list of remaining unowned properties (or use the pre-selector).

I am just wrapping up the code now on selection, you'll be given a link as soon as its workable.