Voltaire Leriel
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Posted - 2005.05.13 00:43:00 -
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Edited by: Voltaire Leriel on 13/05/2005 00:48:53
Well, we don't pick the numbers and you guys can't see the database - so you can't cheat and we don't pick who wins.
Plus I think what nashi gave was just an example, we use more than the first few numbers; he said we try to use as many as possible.
I can tell you from past lotteries, that we are not biased as to who wins the lottery, we have had players win that where actually fighting against us at the time. (In fact the one instance I remember, it was a guy who put the entire pot onto his bounty :P)
Anyone can win the lottery, ANYONE.
PS: the website IS down, but it is not crucial to the ticket buying (as that is all done by hand anyway.) - so if you want information on how to play the lottery:
 Quote:
Copied from the Lottery page:
How to deposit money to "BIG Games" (buy a ticket)
* Open addressbook (2nd icon from the top)
* Enter the name 'BIG Games' and press Search
* Rightclick the portrait of BIG Games and select "Give Money"
* Enter the ammount of ISK and hit OK
* 1,000 ISK per ticket, 5000 ticket limit, so the max is 5,000,000 ISK to get 5,000 tickets.
Please note that the database is manually updated with the accountance info from the wallet of the char "BIG Games", so the lottery info will not (currently) be updated in real time. We will try to update multiple times a day.
Rules
1) You can buy more than one ticket. You can do this with one deposit (say 5K ISK) or multiple purchases.
2) Tickets bought will not be refundable.
3) If you pay in 1,400 ISK, the 400 ISK will be treated as a "donation" to BIG, and will not be refundable
If you later pay in 1,600 ISK the 600 will again be treated as a donation.
So you only get 2 tickets - and not 3 as if you had payed 3K at once.
Any amounts below 1,000 ISK, ie. 567 ISK, will also be treated as a donation.
4) BIG will keep 10% of the deposited ISK - the rest will be payed out as prize money.
5) BIG will only pay out as much in prize money as have been deposited into the lottery via ticket sales (minus the 10%)
6) Mails send to BIG Games will most likely go unread and not be answered.
Mails requiring the CSPA charge of 100 ISK, because you have not added BIG Games to you addresbook will never be answered.
7) No member of BIG is allowed to participate in the lottery
Special rule for this round:
* No more then 5000 tickets (5m isk) can be bought per char (if you put more then 5m isk, the rest of the money is treated as a donation).
Interesting fact:
* In each of the previous 52 rounds, BIG have waived it's 10% administration fee.
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