Teblin
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Posted - 2005.11.07 07:25:00 -
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This thread is going nowhere, so I'm locking it. The questions posed have been, to my mind, sufficiently answered by Oveur and yet are still popping up, a lot of them being posted by people who have not read oveur's explanatory posts. I'll summarise:
The raffle is being held monthly with each person having a number of tickets equal to the number of buddy program free trial accounts they gave out who subsequently signed up to eve after the trial runs out.
This means that each ticket equates to someone somwhere signing up for at least a month of eve. Buddy accounts which do not pay to subscribe will not be entered into the draw. This eliminates abuse as it will cost the perpetrator a lot of money to "buy" raffle tickets.
If someone decides to go ahead and sign up a bunch of dummy accounts and shell out the hundreds of pounds required to get a few raffle tickets for the month, their chance of winning will be insubstantial because there are currently thousands of users per month who sign up to play eve after using a buddy program free trial account. Signing up alts will do nothing but waste your money.
In the highly unlikely event that someone does sign up over ten thousand accounts at a cost of a hundred thousand pounds to pay for a month on each of them, he isn't guaranteed to win a prize but is almost guaranteed a game ban for it  .
Regardless of the amount of ISK these items are worth currently in-game, adding one more per month is also insignificant in the grand scheme of things because the number of these coming into the game per month through in-game means is very high. One more a month is not going to kill the economy or derail prices in the slightest. Only oveur knows how many enter the game per day and he assures us that it is a very large number.
The benefits are that once a month, three account owners out of over seventy thousand will be surprised with something nice for introducing a friend to the game. They could introduce one friend or one hundred, it's still a raffle and winning is based entirely on chance. There is no way to rig or stack the raffle without spending several hundred thousand pounds.
The most important benefit of this is that people have more incentive to introduce their friends to eve. More players means a larger, more involved gaming world and helps CCP push the limits of server technology. More players also means more money for CCP to spend on the development of the game and server technology to improve our gameplay.
If you have any problems with this system, the forums is not the place to discuss it. Please send a mail to CCP (not to the forum mods, please) or perhaps raise the issue in the next scheduled devchat. As always, if you have any questions about or problems with this moderator action or any other, please contact the forum moderators at [email protected] and be sure to include a link to thread in question along with your character name for reference and as some issues require us to know them before proceeding.
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