I deserve 100,000,000 ISK so that I can spend it on fully outfitting a Cynanbal and taking it on a roam to deep low-sec in order to die in a brilliant blaze of light and heat taking as many intruders into Fua with me as possible. I also deserve 100,000,000 due to my lack in poor thread making.

Derek sweetheart, there's no difference to the value of loss to somebody with or without a value on their head. As a matter of fact, most ship-losses would happen irregardless of a person's bounty status!

Shocking, I know. Run along now, sweetie.

While bounties may currently be merely an incidental reward for combat that would occur anyway, I have full confidence in the development of a professional class of bounty hunters that will do the damage solely to collect the prize. Your short-sightedness is matched only by your obnoxious condescension.

Careful not to get caught on the tangled webs that you weave as you back-pedal, Derek. We're talking about the present and, additionally, the point still stands that a 100M 'grant' given to yourself would not be the most economically sensible option for Vea, which defeats the premise of your post.

But continue posturing, oh you grandiose beast. I am sure that your 100M, divided among the posters in this thread, will turn the heads of all intergalactic bounty hunters.

Actually - no. Remove your head from your rear. You may be able to waft that potent musk of yours around any cheap baseliner ***** as you please but you'll find that up here we tend to have more dignity than to swoon for the likes of you.

Perhaps you'd be better off putting that 100M bounty on myself instead of our pretty Vea here, see how meaningful your business really is.

"I think that I should get the one hundred million ISK because . . ." is a bad opening line because it isn't a true declarative statement, instead it's very open ended and weakly presented. A declaration should be strong and convinced.

Wrong. There is one very specific thing about this line that, if changed, would make it a very good opening line.

The question at hand isn't why the recipient should receive the ISK, but rather why you should give the ISK. The appropriate opening statement is "You should give me one hundred million ISK because . . ."

That will be 10 million ISK, please.

Guess all that anger management training sort of failed with this onset of maximum *****. Oh well.

As for grandiose, you're a fine ******* one to talk. If you thought that way, you wouldn't have even responded. But know, you gotta stroke your own ego and position yourself as some lofty individual. And then you top it all off with a nice typical jab to baseliner "commoners" to finish?

Seriously, **** off.

Guess all that anger management training sort of failed with this onset of maximum *****. Oh well.

As for grandiose, you're a fine ******* one to talk. If you thought that way, you wouldn't have even responded. But know, you gotta stroke your own ego and position yourself as some lofty individual. And then you top it all off with a nice typical jab to baseliner "commoners" to finish?

Seriously, **** off.

Ten million to the first person that explains why "I think that I should get the one hundred million ISK because . . .(insert reason here)" is a poorly written opening line.

It does not matter what I think, what matters is what you think.

I'm going to give a hint here, since everyone so far has been wrong. The line is written poorly. Why?

As for why the phrase is wrong, out of interest on the subject, I would say it is wrong because of a double subjectivity: "I should get" is clearly a personal opinion, and "I think" is the same, thus both phrases put together are redundant.

To deceive is to sin against God. Repent, ma'am, and find your way to God's light.

Finally! You literary knowledge fills me with joy.

Ma'am, I think that you have no intention of paying anyone anything.

You should give me 100 million ISK because with it I will attempt to accomplish my life-long dream of becoming a booster manufacturer!

I am giving away one hundred million ISK to the one capsuleer that can answer this question the best: why should I give you one hundred million ISK?.

I am giving away one hundred million ISK to the one capsuleer that can answer this question the best: why should I give you one hundred million ISK?

You can use any criteria that you wish to answer this question. The only rule is that your responses must be well written. Remember, you are making a declarative statement in answer of a question. The worst thing you can do is fail to answer the question asked.

This contest will last until 2359 21.21 YC114.

Bonus: Ten million to the first person that explains why "I think that I should get the one hundred million ISK because . . .(insert reason here)" is a poorly written opening line.

You should give me one hundred million ISK because I'm about to dazzle you with my understanding of your motive, the return on your investment, and my dashing good looks. I'll throw in a threat, too! Read on, gorgeous.

I know you are disappointed with the quality of communication you see here at the Intergalactic Summit. You want your generous offer to draw out the most articulate among us to share some magnificent prose and add a little color to an otherwise dreary IGS experience. Your wish is granted: I'm here. I can't speak much for the rest of the rabble, of course, as you'll likely see a great deal of blathering from the usual troglodytes who can barely offer more than a grunt and a fart to communicate.

I noticed you are offering a grant, not a prize. That intrigues me. A grant is typically a patronage for some project or research that requires funding, not a gift in exchange for something already done. This post, therefore, is undeserving in and of itself. The grant should fund something of interest. I did some research on your career as a pilot, and it seems you like seeing other pilots explode. To that end, I will use your grant to place bounties on some of the losers in this very thread. Given CONCORD's payout rate, your grant will fund approximately five hundred million ISK in destruction. That's a return that any astute Caldari businessperson can appreciate.

Now, I promised you a threat. You should give me the grant because failing to do so will result in a one hundred million ISK bounty on your own head. Revisiting the previous math, that means you will eventually lose about five times that amount to clear the bounty, plus you'll have spent the grant money. Your total loss: six hundred million ISK.

Altogether, you stand to gain four hundred million ISK and avoid losing six hundred million ISK (including wasting the grant on some fool). You get one billion ISK in net value from me, and I'll even throw in a date so you can admire my shrewdness up close and personal--an invaluable bonus. Your choice is clear. You should give me one hundred million ISK because it simply makes the best financial sense and because your greedy Caldari heart is nearly bursting with excitement from reading this.