Cipio Alduin
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Posted - 2013.08.08 23:33:00 -
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Hello
One of the great mysteries of EvE Online is, what do the owners of SOMER Blink i.e the CEO and such, get out of the such hard work they put in?
I then began to, shall we say, research as much as i could about SOMER Blink, what drove them? What did the community think of them? What were SHILL accounts. This is what i do for a living, im given, ah, cases as it was, my job is to discern patterns in things. This for me was a great challenge. So i began in earnest to find what i could, i spoke to over 73 people who play SOMER Blink, asking certain questions, including winners and losers.
I then made an account and began to purchase PLEX and started to drop ISK into BLINK. I began to record my winnings and my losses. It struck me, that i had found a pattern in SOMER Blink. I had also began to record certain people who play BLINK every day. I also began to record, which of these five people, won, what blinks and how much they where putting into BLINK every day.
The pattern i found in BLINK, was a very simple one, that most players of BLINK seem to not notice. I had to go through 12 billion ISK before i managed to spot this pattern.
When you play BLINK, you deposit a certain amount of ISK, it's very easy to forget exactly how much you deposit when you begin to loose and win with equal measure. But, if you win, say 2.7 billion ISK, you transfer that to your account. You then keep playing, run out of money and deposit more money. Eventually, you will loose the exact or CLOSE to what you have won in ISK, BLINK Makes sure of this. Otherwise, they would by fact and simple maths, run out of money. Even with the amount of tickets they sell and there "profit". It still does not add up. They would run out of money within a month to keep buying ships to give to players.
The second point was i looked into SHILL accounts. I began to record names that were playing blink, depositing in excess of 10 billion ISK a day easily. In most cases, more ISK than this. I also then began to record the WINS these players won.
Below are the top 5 players who i recorded in the 5-10 billion ISK mark, some times within 2-3 hours or other times over 2-3 days. Now, we all know that making this amount of ISK in EvE without buying a metric ton of PLEXES.
Now, here is your list.
Bloodraven22 <-- Deposited 21 billion ISK on capital ships in less than 2 hours, winning 98% of the lotteries
R0ot <-- Deposited over 6 billion in 1 hour, bidding on everything he could and winning 90% of the lotteries
ejen8208 <-- Deposited 3 billion 20 minutes on capital ships and only lost 4 of the lotteries
Lord Peanut <-- Suspect with the amount of ISK being put in
Armarria <-- Same as above
Now the interesting thing about this, is these accounts are playing at one point WITHOUT FAIL every day on SOMER Blink, always. There are 32 other accounts i have recorded that are "suspect". Always wining large amounts of ISK on ships and depositing more and more ISK. (which can be worked out by doing simple math on what the player is bidding on as such and what the player is winning.)
Now. over the course of three months. I deposited over 90 billion ISK and i won 27 billion ISK in lotteries. Which, as part of my research, i put back into BLINK. I subsequently lost 25.4 billion ISK. Which was just shy of what i had made in profit. As you can see from my theory above. This was a 3 month test, done, month by month.
SOMER Blink is a scam, a very good scam that breaks no rules. But a scam none the less. Now, this is not a bitter rage, nor a abusive footnote. This is being put into my monthly research project we have to do, we get an allowance for our research. What i spent was a very small amount of what we get. This SOMER Blink fascinated me, why would players, put so much time into a lottery system, on a MMO, to "help the player base" - I'm sorry, but that does not swing any which way. They do it, because, they can pocket MASSIVE amounts of ISK from players, whilst still, shall we say, working within the law of EvE.
Anyway, i will be publishing my full report once i have permission from my work. It's about 30 pages long.
My advice to any Eve player, is to not play this lottery. It's very clever, very in depth. But it is a scam. You will in the end, loose close to, if not more, than you win and your original deposit, will be gone.
Anyway, i harbor no ill will towards SOMER Blink. But, that being said, people should be warned and be aware. I am a married man with children. I am just fascinated by the depth of this scam i.e lottery. Not to mention, how much ISK has been scammed by BLINK, which now numbers in the trillions. Incredible, yet fascinating
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