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The Lottery Man
The National Lottery
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Posted - 2013.03.30 17:24:00 -
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Greetings all Dust mercs, I am The Lottery Man, and I'm here to ask you a simple question; Do you like making lots of money?
If the answer is yes, then good news, as the National Lottery is finally here and can be played in New Eden. Everyone is eligible for entry and the isk prizes could make any who win exceedingly rich. This is a non-profit endevour by me to encourage some more of that good old risk/reward gaming found so easily EVE side, but is sadly lacking here in Dust right now.
For a ticket price of a mere 200k isk you will be entered into a winner takes all pot, with the prize draw taking place every saturday from now until the end of time*. Winners will be determined by my usage of the mystical arts of lottery divination, ancient scrying techniques, and impartial dice roller programs. Mostly that last one.
As for the mechanism as to how this system will work, it's rather easy; either yourself or one of your alts may apply to my corp, who I will then approve. You then simply make the donation of 200k isk to The National Lottery and send me a message indicating you have done so. You or your alt then leaves my corp. Alternatively, I can have my alt, The Lottery Man jr, join your corp and you can make the payment directly to him. I will then have him leave and rejoin The National Lottery Corp to add your payment to the pot.
Tickets may be purchased from 12AM GMT Monday, until 6PM GMT Saturday. I will conduct the draw and announce the winner at 9PM GMT Saturday, each week. Winners can then receive their prize money in the same way, with either they or their alt joining The National Lottery to be payed, or by having my alt join their corp and deposit the winnings directly into their corp wallet, whichever you prefer.
In the future I hope this will be much simpler, with direct monetary transfers, but for now this is the only viable way to work.
Now, I know what you're all thinking and screaming at your pc monitors; "Bah, this is a scam Lottery Man! Why would anyone buy your ticket, for the promise of an isk payout that may never come?" Allow me to attempt to waylay your fears right now;
1) Firstly, no, I don't expect everyone to jump at this frankly outstanding opportunity outright. New Eden is a cold, untrusting place and none of you know if I'm trust worthy, but I hope with time I can gain such trust with my shows of good faith each week as a lucky individual walks away with a stash of isk.
2) 200k isk Is hardly a lot of money, so its not like you're going to lose much if nothing comes of this event. And as I stated above, I hardly expect this to draw a massive crowd, so stealing the pot is not even worth my time or the effort it took to set this up. It would also take a LOT of people to pay into this to make it worth my while of stealing anything. Tens of millions is hardly a lot of money right now, nor will it be in the future especially with PC and FW on the way, but a prize amount of the same is enough to buy a winner that tank he needs, that proto weapon or suit for a week, etc, and if I can help those people aquire those things, well, then that makes me happy.
3) This is New Eden, a universe of businesses, megacorps, banks and an entire player run economy, yet we Dusters run around shooting each other and.... that's all. It's time we started acting like the universe we are living in. For my part, this is an attempt at a philanphropic gesture of goodwill, to get people to take a (rather tiny) risk, and see some substantial benefits from that. Really, I just want to make some people rich.
So, that is my proposal; Play the lottery, potentially earn millions! Who among you will take the first steps and win BIG?!
*Subject to the heat death of the universe. |
The Lottery Man
The National Lottery
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Posted - 2013.03.30 17:54:00 -
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*le sigh*
I suspected as much, but not quite so quickly. I can only tell you that I am attempting to run a legitimate enterprise here. If only a handful were willing to take a chance I would show you that. Is 200k really so precious to you? What do you lose by not taking that chance? If it is indeed a scam as you all so ludly proclaim, then don't you gain the satisfaction of calling me out as a liar?
I shall reiterate, in case the naysayers didn't fully grasp the concept previously; it is not worth the time or effort to make this a scam. I am fully aware that this is not going to be massively popular. Weekly winnings may only come to a few million if only a handful of people are willing to take the risk, hardly worth the effort of stealing it, would you not agree? I could make that kind of money in a short enough time by playing normally, there would be no need to set up such a scam.
What I am trying to do here is something for the community of Dust, a small little earner for a lucky player each week who's willing to take a small chance. I can only hope that a few have the courage to take that chance. |
The Lottery Man
The National Lottery
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Posted - 2013.03.30 17:59:00 -
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I am aware of that, I stated as much. But it's hardly 50 mil, it's 200 thousand. It's ten minutes work. 1 Ambush game. If people are not willing to risk even that, then this game is in trouble.
EDIT; Thank you Knight Solaire, I appreciate your trust and having a positive response at last. |
The Lottery Man
The National Lottery
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Posted - 2013.03.30 18:02:00 -
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Dr Debo Galaxy wrote:So what Nigerian prince do I have to send my bank account information to again. Also do you sell gravity insurance?
I do not want your bank account, merely a very small small amount of isk. I also do not sell insurance, this is a lottery.
I know you jest of course. |
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Posted - 2013.03.30 18:57:00 -
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Deadeyes Anterie wrote:The problem is you can't really verify who bought tickets. I'm just going to keep saying I donated 200k, sooner or later I'll steal someone else's ticket.
You make a valid point that it is impossible to see who has donated to a corp wallet with the current system we have in place, which is why the only way to be safe would be for me to accept only 1 person into the corp at any one time, make a note of how much money is currently in the pot at that time, wait until the person has donated for their ticket, then let them leave/kick them. Having say, 2 people in the corp and then coming back to find only an increase of 200k would leave me in the predicament of not knowing which person has actually donated.
This is much slower, and more time consuming, to the point where if there is enough interest I may be unable to accept payment for everyone within the week, but it is the only safe method of ensuring people have actually payed for their tickets. I pray for the day that ccp implements a tracking system for donations, so that I could more easily see who has payed and who hasn't. It would be even better if we could do direct transfers. Here's hoping for the next build then.
The other option of course, is for my alt to join each persons corp and be payed directly from the wallet under the direction of the person purchasing the ticket, who I would presume would then reimburse his corp. I beleive both of these methods are sound, unless there is some other, more expedient and safer method of transfer I am unaware of.
Icy Xenosmilus wrote:I'm down for this. It's only 200 k, I can usually make double that in a good skirmish. How do I send?
Exactly as explained above and in my opening post good sir! Send an application to my corp The National Lottery, and once accepted use the donation button to pay for your ticket, then vacate the corp so the next buyer may enter. In fact, Icy Xenosmilus, I now realise that other npc corp fellows like yourself will only be able to pay this way, as I would of course be unable to transfer to your corp to accept payment directly from yourselves. This is problematic and unfortunate. Another reason to hope for direct transfers coming soon **hint hint ccp*
Kain Spero wrote:Do you have any past record of running a lottery?
Honestly, I cannot say I do, no. However I doubt many of us have past records of running mercenary corporations either, yet we are all entrepanours in New Eden. I do however believe the system I have come up with is fair, straight forward, albeit convoluted somewhat by neccesity and will work for now, until more options are open to us. |
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Posted - 2013.03.31 23:23:00 -
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Well, it appears I've had a fairly equal number of interested parties as I have detracters, which I suppose is to be expected really. I've done my best to hopefully gain peoples interest and see if this can take off, the only thing to do now is see where it goes.
As of right now, ticket sales for the first national lottery prize draw are open to all who wish to take part. Either yourself or your alt may apply for my corp and I will accept you 1 at a time to make your purchase, or you can message me to have my alt join your corp to await payment.
Please note that if you are using an alt to make the payment, it is the alts name that will be placed into the draw, to avoid confusion should you win, or any attempts by people to pass themselves off as anyone else.
Please also note that if you wish for my alt to make the transfer that I currently only have the ONE alt, The Lottery ManJR. Any other variations on this name are not me and no payment should be made to them. Please be sure it is the correct character should you see him applying to join you before doing so.
Let's get this show on the road! |
The Lottery Man
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Posted - 2013.04.01 11:55:00 -
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2-Ton Twenty-One wrote:inb4 scam
Yes thank you for that, very original, very witty.
Ticket sales now open everyone, come and get em whilst they're hot! |
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Posted - 2013.04.02 12:19:00 -
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Just bumping this back to the first page so more people can see it, and to remind everyone that ticket sales are now open, until 6PM Saturday. |
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