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Boltorano
Fourth Circle
Total Comfort
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Posted - 2010.12.20 14:59:00 -
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Edited by: Boltorano on 20/12/2010 15:03:31
 Originally by: Hybok
Stupidity
You do realize that they did this with Chribba's Dice tool, and that with the number of tickets L'amour bought he had about a 1 in 11 chance of winning?
Are you calling Chribba out as a fraudster?
As for the time it takes to bonk that many bonks, you couldn't just set up a mouse clicking macro, right?  People were also saying you could just click once and hold down your Enter key and it would keep bonking until you let go.
Originally by: Admiral Rufus
seriously isn't that the same player who won the freki?!
Originally by: Mauddib77
yes admrial...and the nyx and last jump freighter...
Yes the Nyx, and the jump freighter, but no, not the Freki. That was Iella Wessiri.
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Andrev Nox
SOMER Blink
Cognitive Development
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Posted - 2010.12.20 15:03:00 -
[1202]
As above - this draw was done with Chribba's dice tool. Unless you're accusing him of being one of our alts too? :P
Yes, we took a loss on this. We intended to. It was part of our 10T celebratory give away. We specifically added prizes as the Bonk ticket number got into the "we're making money" numbers, twice, to avoid profit.
The NUMEROUS promos mentioned earlier in the thread were also part of that, and were all done at 1 isk. Several of the folks who won those have posted here as well, on their mains. :)
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Klashed
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Posted - 2010.12.20 15:51:00 -
[1203]
Stabber Fleet Issue for 1 ISK! \o/
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Soji Kanagawa
Caldari
X-ORE
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Posted - 2010.12.20 18:02:00 -
[1204]
Seems like its the same group of people who continously win anything worth while on there... I definitely am not putting any more isk into it. Although at the beginning it was fun to try to win stuff...but then you see the same guy winning all kinds of great stuff and everyone else can win a friggin Enyo and thats about it lol. I did get lucky once and get a battleship but I think that was just so they would keep me coming back for more :p
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theBEANman
Essence of Decay
C0NVICTED
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Posted - 2010.12.20 18:45:00 -
[1205]
if you like to gamble this is the site for you. I was starting to get discouraged today but then i won a mach. all i can say is good job and thanks somer
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carbomb
Super Team Munkey
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Posted - 2010.12.20 19:07:00 -
[1206]
nice! i won a promo today. Gist X-Type Ballistic Deflection Field for 1 isk is better than a kick in a ball sack! Phonton hardner would have been nice but hey, i'm not complaining.
Originally by: Soji Kanagawa
Seems like its the same group of people who continously win anything worth while on there
I can see how it would look that way. However, if you invested the isk and blicked on the amount of numbers they do then you would be one of the "same group". I would do it too if i had the isk to invest. Unfortunately i dont and therefore i only blink when i get some spare isk. i'm not doing too bad....
ISK Deposited: 3,670,175,807 ISK
Blinks Played: 385
Blinks Won: 65
Value of Blinks Won: 4,970,001,479 ISK
Winnings Transformed to Blink Credit: 1,299,614,000 ISK
Winnings Transformed to ISK: 764,320,000 ISK
Achievements Earned: 31
better than leaving my isk in my wallet :)
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NorthernBrewer
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Posted - 2010.12.20 20:49:00 -
[1207]
If they were going to scam us, by always having their alts win, don't you think they could probably afford an alt less memorable than L'amour Sausage? FFS, do you see how many tickets he bought?
You notice all the times people win, but nobody EVER seems to notice how many times people lose, much less how many tickets they buy.
Iella Wesirri bought 3.5 BILLION ISK worth of tickets for this and didn't win. Make sure you take that into account next time you see her win something.
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Torengire
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Posted - 2010.12.21 00:42:00 -
[1208]
I love it.
Someone wins a promo / gigablink / whatever.
If it's a guy who bought 1 ticket? SOMER ALT!!
If it's someone who puts billions of ISK into the site? SOMER ALT!!!
When do I get to become a Somer alt? I want rigged prizes tooooo.
Thanks again for the Bonk somer. :D Can't wait for 25T celebration!
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Ori Empress
United Systems of the Allegiance
Important Internet Spaceship League
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Posted - 2010.12.21 03:34:00 -
[1209]
Best lottery ever and is addicting! Just found out about earlier today from a corp mate and i've already won a proteus and a loki :D
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Totally NotDave
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Posted - 2010.12.21 08:45:00 -
[1210]
Blink is so awesome; I managed to win an Obelisk in a promo about a week ago, which was absolutely amazing. Using the money from selling it to finance some trading, I'm now up to ~1.3B in total ISK, my first time with anything near that amount of money. In short, Blink has made my wallet very very happy this past week. You guys rock!
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salabeth
Caldari
Point of No Return
Waterboard
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Posted - 2010.12.21 12:17:00 -
[1211]
I've played quite a bit and have had fun. A few of these people need to play the lottery in RL. I watched a guy a few days ago win at least 3 plexes in a row betting on one number "5".. You can log in and prolly see him sitting on one now. Not saying its rigged, just some lucky people.
As far as the bonkers, I personally couldnt stand to sit there and hit it 50 times much less 15k times. But if you can sit in a belt for 12hrs a day staring at rocks it not impossible to believe someone would bonk that much.
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carbomb
Super Team Munkey
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Posted - 2010.12.21 14:40:00 -
[1212]
Blink borked?
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Sarn Moran
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Posted - 2010.12.21 14:58:00 -
[1213]
I just won a Vigilant and a Machariel in a game run by Oktoberfest Mahm in the SOMER Lotteries channel. The objective was to find and pod Oktoberfest's alt, who was APing between trade hubs in highsec. Whoever delivered the corpse to Oktoberfest in Jita got a faction BS of choice.
It was awesome! I won during the second round. The guy who podded the alt in the first round didn't get the corpse, so Oktoberfest added a prize for getting the kill; a faction cruiser of choice.
Oktoberfest said that he will be running the game again, so keep a lookout for an obvious alt of Oktoberfest Mahm's.
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Somerset Mahm
Somer's Omnibus Exploration and Reclamation
Cognitive Development
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Posted - 2010.12.21 16:35:00 -
[1214]
It seems like the redirect from the old URL (somer.idiofx.com/blink) is having issues. I'm working on it.
This is a good time to update your bookmarks, though, to http://cogdev.net/blink/ which is the new URL :P
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SOMER Lotteries
SOMER Blink - new!
SOMER Escrow Services |
Joss56
Gallente
The Scope
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Posted - 2010.12.22 04:09:00 -
[1215]
Edited by: Joss56 on 22/12/2010 04:12:46
Now here's 1st mail sent to me a few minutes ago from SOMER Santa:
"Christmas is almost here folks! From now until December 25, any ISK deposited to S0MER Blink with the reason "Blinkmas" will be given 25% extra Blink Credit on Christmas!"
And here another one from Andrew Nox:
"Apologies for the spam, folks - the mail sent out by "SOMER Santa" is a scam, and not from us at Blink. Do not send ISK to that corporation. :)
Cheers for blinking!
-A"
Take care where you guys are sending your isk because between "SOMER Blink" and "SOMER BLINK" ther's something different.
scum should be defenitivly banned from the game.
OC CCP rules ... are fine [or not]
Take care you guys from Somer, and wish you merry christmas like to every one around here.
See you folks 
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"You do realise you live on a globe, right? And that there places outside the USA/UK?"
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Andrev Nox
SOMER Blink
Cognitive Development
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Posted - 2010.12.22 06:45:00 -
[1216]
Yeah, apologies for the impersonator spam-mailing folks (then having to spam you myself to avoid mis-sent ISK). It happens, though this one's a bigger nuisance than the 28 previous impersonators the GM's have nuked :D
Petition's in on this one too, it'll be 29 by this time tomorrow hopefully.
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Nadarius Chrome
Celestial Horizon Corp.
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Posted - 2010.12.22 07:12:00 -
[1217]
Edited by: Nadarius Chrome on 22/12/2010 07:12:37
Andrev's being a meanie and making us bump this thread with suggestions before he gives us our promo fix.
So here goes. Blink improvements and suggestions.
1) Remove the GIGANTIC 170kb bonk image. (I'm told this is already planned. :p)
2) Make promos expandable to see who's in (and what the ticket price was) after you've blindly and madly clicked a randon number to make sure you get in.
3) New achievement: "Hold a grudge". Win a Retribution, Vengeance and Vindicator. 
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RaptorX
Rage For Order
Angry Dogs
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Posted - 2010.12.22 07:13:00 -
[1218]
*suggestion* I personaly would like to customize my Blink experiance, maybe with custom color schemes or graphic themes... and yeah!
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Dextrust
Baseless Foundations
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Posted - 2010.12.22 07:15:00 -
[1219]
Make achievements for reaching a certain number of consecutive losses.
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Nadarius Chrome
Celestial Horizon Corp.
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Posted - 2010.12.22 07:22:00 -
[1220]
Ooooh, a "safe for work" scheme that looks like an excel sheet, without ship and avatar images. |
Gygax Cooperson
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Posted - 2010.12.22 07:23:00 -
[1221]
blinks is a great site, the poeple behind blinks are friendly and fun. there delivery is prompt,they dont forget you. everything about blinks is above board, ive enjoyed blinks to date. they care about the players im a link addict and proud :) thanks somer and gang keep on blinking.
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kenna holcolm
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2010.12.22 08:09:00 -
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SCAM!!!!!!!! pay attention to who is winning. the same ****ing people keep winning. EVERY TIME!!!! ive watched it for 40 minutes now and every time its the same 3 people that win. nice elaborate scam guys.
death, destruction, decimation... do these words sound familiar shrike? well if not your about to whitness them firsthand |
Andrev Nox
SOMER Blink
Cognitive Development
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Posted - 2010.12.22 08:27:00 -
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kenna,
Every now and again, someone sees someone else win a string and this type of post pops up. I'm always happy to address it, though :)
Sometimes, a person (or group of people) wins several in a row because they buy a larger number of tickets to a specific blink. "Buying better odds" essentially.
Sometimes, a person wins several in a row just due to sheer blind luck.
But with over 110,405 prizes given away (not counting the 756 free promo giveaways), we'd need a LOOOOTTT of alts to perpetuate a scam on the scale you're suggesting :p
And, as many others have pointed out over the months, every legitimately closed blink nets us a bit of profit. We'd be terminally stupid to rig the system in any way, as it would be the one sure-fire way to kill our business forever.
If you'd like, you're free to review the code we use to pick winners, though :)
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kenna holcolm
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2010.12.22 08:41:00 -
[1224]
Originally by: Andrev Nox
kenna,
Every now and again, someone sees someone else win a string and this type of post pops up. I'm always happy to address it, though :)
Sometimes, a person (or group of people) wins several in a row because they buy a larger number of tickets to a specific blink. "Buying better odds" essentially.
Sometimes, a person wins several in a row just due to sheer blind luck.
But with over 110,405 prizes given away (not counting the 756 free promo giveaways), we'd need a LOOOOTTT of alts to perpetuate a scam on the scale you're suggesting :p
And, as many others have pointed out over the months, every legitimately closed blink nets us a bit of profit. We'd be terminally stupid to rig the system in any way, as it would be the one sure-fire way to kill our business forever.
If you'd like, you're free to review the code we use to pick winners, though :)
sorry mate but each individual person im reffering to was only buying 1 ticket in each blink. they also were not blinking on ones that each other had hit blink on. way to any different variables for it to be a coincidence.
also dude dont care how many "prizes" your thing says. they can easily be all given to you and your alts. not gonna waste the isk.
death, destruction, decimation... do these words sound familiar shrike? well if not your about to whitness them firsthand |
Andrev Nox
SOMER Blink
Cognitive Development
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Posted - 2010.12.22 08:56:00 -
[1225]
Sorry to hear you feel that way :/
But if you honestly believe that we've been using 10 different accounts to mass-recycle alts to scam out 100k prizes...I don't think any logic is going to help calm your fears. :)
Sorry to lose your business, though.
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Dextrust
Baseless Foundations
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Posted - 2010.12.22 09:00:00 -
[1226]
Confirming that I am Andrev's alt.
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Trayvok
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Posted - 2010.12.22 10:03:00 -
[1227]
More suggestions for the Somer Lady:
1:) need a achivement for sucking at blink
2.) blinks for blink credit (cheap blinks) odds would say blink would still win but still fun nonetheless
3.) more games to choose from like blink bingo
4.) special blinks for the high rollers with side bets on the victor ( I would bet on smoulders lamour can't win every time)
5.) achivement for wining all ships
6.) achivemnt for wining multiple blinks in a row
7.) out of game sister site that supports flash
8.) a special blink for all the folks that won silly worthless crap in blinks infancy (sucks to waste your promo luck on dolls or tourists)
9.)blinks on stupid amounts of ISK with high purchase amounts 1bil prize at 250mil a ticket (I wouldnt play but I bet the richer\braver blinkers would.
10.) blinks on toons winner pays transfer fees.
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SlaveBringME xxx
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Posted - 2010.12.22 12:02:00 -
[1228]
Yes please, add a achievement for losing at blink. cause that would be me, and i would like some credit for feeding!
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Renesj90
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Posted - 2010.12.22 14:27:00 -
[1229]
Edited by: Renesj90 on 22/12/2010 14:30:05
I guess I don't have any luck, I'm out 70M..... 
Wanted to get a Cruor and Zealot that bad....
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theBEANman
Essence of Decay
C0NVICTED
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Posted - 2010.12.22 19:40:00 -
[1230]
bump for a great service
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