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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.06.12 14:43:00 -
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Rumors have been flourishing in recent days about the upcoming intergalactic grand lottery game also known as the 'BIG Lottery'.
Mass hysteria grasped pilots all over the galaxy about the previously unheard of amount, the news seemed to spread faster then the subspace chat channels allow, making thousands leave their current occupations and reach the nearest station to buy, what seems to be, the chance to win a brand new life style.
"I cant believe its so easy!", said an amarrian accountant - "and the ticket costs next to nothing!".
The secret to the huge success of the BIG Lottery is the low cost of each ticket, people are often seen buying several tickets to increase their chances of success and to become the next galaxy wide known winner.
Technology has come a long way since the lottery concept was first conceived, and now participating in the BIG Lottery events is as simple as a click of the button, from anywhere in the galaxy.
These news are indeed what makes our galaxy as great as it is. There is nothing more wonderful then waking up in the morning and finding out that you are 10 million ISK richer!
BIG Lottery
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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.06.12 15:14:00 -
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Time to move this little BIG Lottery intro to the new boards
Please note that all the BIG Lottery pages are designed for ingame use, and thus look very poorly in your out of game browser.
FAQ
Q : When is the drawing?
A : Please check the BIG Lottery link. That page will always have the updated info.
Q : How *often* is the BIG Lottery held?
A : Each round lasts 2 weeks, and the next round starts the second the former round has ended.
A new round always start at 00:00 EVE-time between sunday and monday.
Q : How do I buy tickets?
A : Please read either the BIG Lottery page, which has a 'How to' at the bottom of the page, or check the top of the Rules page for more detailed info.
Please read twice...
Q : I want to buy 3 tickets. Should I wire 1000 ISK 3 times, or can I wire 3000 ISK in one go?
A : Please wire it all at once! I have to enter each and every entry by hand into the BIG Lottery database.
Please dont wire me 1000 ISK 30 times, as some has done.
Q : How can I be sure this is not a scam?
A : You cant - simple as that. Either you trust us or you dont.
If you mistrust us, dont play.
But I encourage you to ask around if BIG can be trusted or not, I think you will find that the answer is "Yes BIG is very thrustworthy".
Q : Uhm it would be nice with some sort of 'Proof of Purchase', can I have that please?
A : Sure thing - Check the Receipts page (only works ingame)
Q : Do I have to be present at the drawing in the ingame channel BIG Games in order to win?
A : Nope. Taking part in the actual drawing is optional. But please show up, it's good fun :)
Q : Thats all very nice but what can I Win!
A : The prize money varies in size, but has always been in the multi-millions.
Check the BIG Lottery Winners page to see excactly how much past winners have won.
Please spread the word - the more people that takes part, the BIGger the prize money will become.
Good Luck!
Edited by: TornSoul on 07/07/2003 19:02:59
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Sara Kerrigan
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Posted - 2003.06.13 06:09:00 -
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Question: Can a winner participate in future drawings?
Answer: ??
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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.06.13 18:38:00 -
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A : Yes [;)]
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If you wanted to, you could purchase for 10 mill ISK tickets each and every time (thus gaining incredible high odds of winning), and you would probably win 8-9 out of every 10 BIG Lotteries.
If you feel like gambling like that - Go ahead [;)]
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Sybylle
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Posted - 2003.06.16 14:12:00 -
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Yup...
Finally somebody is using my idea :p
I posted that on the "old" forum, thinking it was a great idea and allowing everybody (even noobs) to get something valuable ingame :D
Well done guys :PPPP
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Groan UUnngghh
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Posted - 2003.06.16 19:57:00 -
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TornSoul,
May i make a suggestion?
on your website outlining the rules and such, you list the price of each ticket as 1.000 isk.
well to me that says a ticket costs 1 isk due to the use of your decimal instead of a comma or nothing at all.
similarly, you list the prize as potentially 10.000.000 isk.
again, this mans that the winner will win a whopping 10 isk!!!
Just a friendly suggestion. I know that you mean the proper amounts, but just to be safe, and to avoid any virtual-legal action that may be taken on you or by you towards you or others.
Groan UUnngghh.
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Ga'shitan
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Posted - 2003.06.17 06:01:00 -
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It depends on where you come from in the world mate. Many European countries have the function of a comma and decimal point reversed. There's no way to please everyone.
Obviously you're intelligent enough to understand what he's meaning, since fractions of ISKs would be a bit silly.
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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.06.17 07:35:00 -
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@Groan UUnngghh
As Ga'****an points out, there is no way 'pleasing' everyone.
No matter which way I do it ~50% will think it's the wrong way around.
So I've opted for the way I myself is used to see it, as this at least should increase the chance of me keeping it consistent, and thus avoid (further) confusion.
It's a valid point - that just lacks a solution that will 'please' everyone.
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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.06.18 07:53:00 -
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Update
FAQ
Q : I want to buy 3 tickets. Should I wire 1000 ISK 3 times, or can I wire 3000 ISK in one go?
A : Please wire it all at once! I have to enter each and every entry by hand into the BIG Lottery database.
Please dont wire me 1000 ISK 30 times, as some has done.
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Chizu Uchuu
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Posted - 2003.06.18 12:38:00 -
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Just a suggestion: why not use 1K isk for the ticket and 10M isk for the prize?
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Sieur NewT
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Posted - 2003.06.24 13:02:00 -
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It"s not a 'borg he will have maybe 1000 times more tickets with this price :p
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Freak
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Posted - 2003.06.24 13:38:00 -
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this sounds interesting :)
Q: "I have to enter every entry into the database by hand" < Realy?? surely you could write a php or asp site ??
if your hosting supports this then give me a shout and we could work something out, you should be able to get enough info from the journal or transaction log in your wallet to know who has and hasnt paid.. thens ome form of simple list of players that have bought tickets and some tick boxes to say "Paid" to then update your database??
probably teaching grannies to suck eggs but hey !! sorry if i am... give me a shout if you want a hand with some ASP or PHP database stuff to make life a little easier ... at a cost of course ! :)
FreakOfNature
AKA: Freak.
Quote : "If God posted his second coming here i would ban his ass for being off topic !" :)
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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.06.26 09:11:00 -
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@Freak
Don't worry, its all ASP driven :), but the DB the ASP pages take the info from has to be filled up with data first.
Currently its not even possible to copy/paste the stuff from your jurnal, so therefore I have to painstakenly type each and every entry in the journal *into* the DB, before the ASP pages can do their job :)
CCP fixed it so we could save chatlogs - Ever since I've been crossing my fingers that they would also make it possible to do the same thing with the journal....
Thanks for offering assistence though
(care for me to send you some screenshots of my journal, that you then could type into the DB - onyl help I really need atm :))) )
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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.06.27 14:34:00 -
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Update
FAQ
Q : How *often* is the BIG Lottery held?
A : Each round lasts 2 weeks, and a the next round starts the second the former round has ended.
A new round always start at 00:00 EVE-time between sunday and monday.
Q : Do I have to be present at the drawing in the ingame channel BIG Games in order to win?
A : Nope. Taking part in the actual drawing is optional. But please show up, it's good fun :)
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DocDoo
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Posted - 2003.07.25 15:54:00 -
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Som people asked me in-game and I just wanted to let you know that The BIG Lottery is still on and millions and millions of ISK's are handed out to a fortunate winner every 14 days 
May the godess of fortune smile upon you!
/DocDoo - BIG - President of Science & Industry |
TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.08.04 18:42:00 -
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Edited by: TornSoul on 04/08/2003 19:14:59
The BIG Lottery just got even BIGger!!!!
50.000.000 ISK - BIG Lottery anniversary giveaway!!!
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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.08.11 07:40:00 -
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As already stated elsewhere, the *minimum* prize of 50M seems to indeed be a 'minimum'.
This rounds (#7) prize is by far going to exceed the promiced minimum of 50M.
So take a stab at getting filthy rich, and by some tickets already 
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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.08.19 20:49:00 -
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Almost forgot
Round #8 of the BIG Lottery is already underway - and looking good
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Chai N'Dorr
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Posted - 2003.08.20 14:45:00 -
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Hmm, might as well send some over tonight. Love this idea!
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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.08.24 15:24:00 -
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Looks as if most people blew all their money on the last anniversary lottery
We are not going to break the record this time around - but stil looks as if we are on track for a pot around 10-15M - So go get it! 
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Thallia
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Posted - 2003.08.25 10:04:00 -
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I'm in for some
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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.10.02 15:49:00 -
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Time for people to read the FAQ again at the start of this post (can also be found here.
Increase in my mail correspondance lately 
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will9anthony
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Posted - 2003.12.15 02:35:00 -
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lol i hope this work i just wire 35mil :) sorry i was getting bord with the game maybe i'll wire 100mil more >:)
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will9anthony
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Posted - 2003.12.15 02:40:00 -
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oh crap is it 100mil or 10mil Lottery
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Hiigara Soban
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Posted - 2003.12.15 05:34:00 -
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great... noobies like me ain't got a chance agains't 35mil, i might as well not even participate 
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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.12.15 08:30:00 -
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Wrong
If its one person puttng in 35M or several persons doing it, your chance is excactly the same.
And as this is a 100M+ drawing you shouldnt be too surpriced by the odds.
Let me also remind you that we once had someone who had only bought a single ticket win it
So instead of dispairing, rejoice about the fact that there will be so much more cash to win
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will9anthony
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Posted - 2003.12.15 12:16:00 -
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hmmm will see about that 200mil ha beat that
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TornSoul
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Posted - 2003.12.15 12:36:00 -
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Edited by: TornSoul on 15/12/2003 12:50:57
O..... M..... G.....
Click it: Nearly a quarter of a billion in price money to be won......
You do realize you stand a (very roughly) 50% chance of loosing it all......
Hats of to you for giving the rest of the EVEians this chance though!
EDIT : ROFL I need to change my DB setup now - it was never intended to cope with such large numbers 
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will9anthony
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Posted - 2003.12.15 12:56:00 -
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well i'm finish with eve i had a good run, may be i'll put some more in :), and i posted in the wrong post :), i wasnt planing to keep the money for my self any ways
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Hiigara Soban
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Posted - 2003.12.15 22:39:00 -
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how could i have the same chances? 35mil is 35,000 tickets... say a nooby buys 50 tickets for 50,000... thats 50 tickets vs 35,000... which is the equivilent of 1 to 700... so if just those two people, the 50 ticket buyer, and the 35,000 ticket buyer were to run in a series of a 700 drawings, with just them, nobody else included... of those 700, the person who bought 50 tickets is likely to win only 1 time.
If the chances are pretty much the same, im obviosly missing something here... please fill me in if i am.
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