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Curzon Dax
Spaceship Holdings
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Posted - 2007.10.12 17:06:00 -
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Hiya everyone.
I keep seeing these lotteries where people people put up a ship and expect 1.5 - 2x the value of the ship in ticket prices. How lame is that?
Here's my plan - I'm going to have a lottery via the event forums here. Tickets will be 1 million ISK per person, limited to one ticket per person. The prize is one of the following at the winner's choosing:
Bhaalgorn
Vindicator
Megathron Navy Issue
Rattlesnake
Raven Navy Issue
Tempest Navy Issue
Apocalyse Navy Issue
The thing that makes this a special lottery: The ship of choice will be completely officer fit, limited to what I have, or can get, with a spending limit of 50 billion ISK.
However, I'd be looking for a significant number of people to enter the contest - If Eve has 300 thousand+ active subscribers, I don't think it should be too difficult to get 2,000 people to buy in. Offhand, I'd disqualify any obvious alts.
This is my "Here's what I did in Eve" landmark. Just in case I haven't managed to do it yet with my parodies, other contests, etc.
So I'm going to leave this thread up for two weeks to solicit input from you, the community. Don't EVEmail me - my EVEmail box is cluttered enough. Don't send me ISK, this lotto isn't live yet. Post here with your thoughts.
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Curzon Dax
Spaceship Holdings
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Posted - 2007.10.13 02:55:00 -
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Edited by: Curzon Dax on 13/10/2007 02:56:46
Well, I hadn't thought about it yet.
I know the EVE Radio DJs have a lottery program that generates a name based on a random number generator for ticket entries. If there are two thousand entries, and I have to pick a number 1 - 2000, I can't exactly use a lottery. I'm not sure how BIG does it. Usually I just give ISK away in contests for people to write funny stuff, or make a video or something, I've never held a lotto.
*EDIT* Honestly, I could reduce ticket prices to 10,000 ISK per ticket - regardless of how you look at it, I'm not coming out ahead on this one, I just need a way to track people. =p
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Curzon Dax
Spaceship Holdings
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Posted - 2007.10.14 18:13:00 -
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 Originally by: Chu Ran
"with a spending limit of 50 billion ISK."
0.o
If it's 1 mil ISK for 1 ticket and 2000 tickets will be sold, that means the total Revenue from the ticket sales is 2 bil. You are donating up to 48 bil ISK to the winner? (Which, btw, is probably why the 1 ticket per person limit) I know you're rich Curzon, but if this is true, gotta give you props for being one of the most generous multi-billionaires in Eve.
Yes, the whole point of this lotto is to hook someone up. I don't believe that lottos need to be about making ISK.
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Curzon Dax
Spaceship Holdings
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Posted - 2007.10.15 15:39:00 -
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Originally by: Chribba
I'd say to track people using the API is not too hard since you could easily export the transaction log and filter out the unique participants (so if one gives twice the pilot would have "donated" 1M since the name will only appear once in the drawing anyway).
But ofc then there is the "problem" of chosing winners, I'd say in an event like this just throwing in all the names in a big bowl (read db and randomize the "select" statement) would be a good option - if it can be trusted that it will go down that way ofc.
/c
That sounds workable, even if I don't know what you're talking about. More details? :)
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Curzon Dax
Spaceship Holdings
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Posted - 2007.10.18 23:22:00 -
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Originally by: Tassemet
Count me in, hell, i'd tell my whole corp!
1 mil, and if I win, ill take the bhaalgorn, or a thanatos :)
Well, you'd be able to pick a Bhaalgorn, but not a Thanatos. That's not a faction ship. Of course, if you won and wanted a Thanatos instead of a faction battleship and fittings, that's completely acceptable too.
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Curzon Dax
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2007.10.20 05:05:00 -
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Originally by: Nyphur
Edited by: Nyphur on 20/10/2007 04:26:26
Oh I would SO be in on this. As would probably all of my corp. I would force my brother to enter this too. I could advertise it on my website if it helps.
EDIT: You know, if this goes well, you would probably get a news item and a spread in EON about it.
Eh. I've already done far more noteworthy things.
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Curzon Dax
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2007.10.26 04:45:00 -
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Closing this topic for now.
Two weeks and 4 pages - not sure how long it would take to make this the sort of Eve-wide thing that I'm after.
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Curzon Dax
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2007.10.26 12:32:00 -
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Eh...
I've had several billion ISK giveaways - no ticket purchases, just wave your hand hello pretty much and write something.
Not even those have drawn an immense amount of interest.
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Curzon Dax
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2007.10.26 23:10:00 -
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Originally by: Pokey McSmot
Heh i could tell you why there is not much interest in another one of your Love me by throwing money at the community schemes. Naw i think you already know...
Dear troll:
Your jealousy is well-noted, although I urge you to take your fantasizing and continual stalking elsewhere. Thanks! :)
Kisses and Huggles,
The guy who never wanted you as a fan
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Curzon Dax
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2007.10.29 20:27:00 -
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Freyya, you've got two days left to get into the latest contest before the deadline closes.
Visit it here.
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