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Originally Posted by Lefty-Canuck
You have to look at it differently...
The increased number of hunters in the draw and low tag allocation is the issue! Not the 999 folks. Every year they choose 999 they are opting out of being chosen. Which allows someone else to draw. If a person 999's themselves out of the draw for many years they may pass on several tags they could have held.
This helps the lower priorities! Then when they do draw, it's one tag and the priority resets!
The biggest impact is the number of people in the draw NOT those who choose to 999.
999 actually helps! Because without it you have more people actively entering the draws and more people who don't plan and more tags not getting used, because there will come a point they HAVE TO PULL A TAG. Where as a 999 could opt out of the draw forever and never get pulled. If they had to enter with no 999 option everyone (with certain exceptions) would get pulled eventually.
Certain draw are nearly mathematically impossible to pull now because of sheer Hunter numbers and low tag allocations. No one will live to 300-400 years old which is how long you need if you want a 437 sheep tag. If you just start entering now it would take you that long.
Because even in the old system with no 999 people would always enter to increase a priority point and some would get surprised by being picked when they didn't want to. If you 999 you can't be chosen.
If I wait 15 years for a tag that normally would take 7 don't I deserve a tag after waiting 15 years? If I don't want to go earlier, 999 allows someone else a tag that I could have pulled.
LC
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I have used a P10 to draw a tag that most other people drew with a P5, so in effect, I could have drawn it twice in that time period if I hadn't used the 999 option. Then after I drew the tag once, I started over again. So the end result is that I am only drawing the tag half as often as the people that don't use the 999 option, so I only have half of the effect on wait times as someone that tries to draw every year. It's simple math, but some people either can't comprehend math, or they just want an excuse to blame for the longer wait times.