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.

So what Nigerian prince do I have to send my bank account information to again. Also do you sell gravity insurance?

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.

I'm down for this. It's only 200 k, I can usually make double that in a good skirmish. How do I send?

Do you have any past record of running a lottery?

New Eden.

This is a non-profit endevour

Nobody is going to leave their corp to join yours just to enter a lottery. Even if this is legit and not CBJ pulling off another multi-billion ISK scam, corp history is shown EVE-side, and pretty sure nobody wants to have corp history with "The National Lottery".

inb4 scam

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.

create bogus char, enter lottery corp. pay 2 tickets with the starting 500k.

Wait.

If scam. then meh. If legit, then maybe good surprise.

Risk ? nul.

How about using a secure 3rd party...

How about using a secure 3rd party...

He's not making anything so he can't afford 3rd party fees.

*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.

So what Nigerian prince do I have to send my bank account information to again. Also do you sell gravity insurance?