In-Game Events and Gatherings

....Replacement....whenever I read all your text I I get sleepy

Come on Rep, not even 5000 words, I'm dissapointed mate :p

I understand that partial information of the previous active blink character is displayed, and this is in part the point I’m trying to make, it leaves a huge gap when the contributions of that character are not displayed, and it’s all just piled into one pool under the new active characters alias, and it can look very suspicious. Perhaps I am just thinking overly complicated, but I just thought it would make more sense if people could visually see how Joe Blow was able to get xxxxxxx bonks when only playing xx games, it’s not exactly a huge modification to just show what character won how many of the total blinks on that blink account before being disabled. It would close the gap of speculation and people crying hacks or cheats.

This was never about my comfort in playing, nor me speculating that blink’s a scam… I simply said in my very first post that the characters numbers did not work at all. After being told about the character change, I simply tried to suggest that it would be less suspicious and far less crap to deal with because of people seeing numbers on the account like I did and freaking out, to show the history for each character registered to the blink account, history defined as all the statistical data shown, just divide it between who did what and show it. Simple clean and less room for bs because there’s no gaps in the data.

You reply saying that such history could have adverse reactions because of people doing Intel espionage… My response to that is don’t blink with a character you would want to hide blinking from… As the API system has been around for a very very long time now, and so has the Intel game… one should already be accustomed to think about this kind of thing before they start doing it. But in any event, I think anyone who would reject a skilled player simply because they play blink needs to get a full time job. It should be of no concern to anybody what a person does outside the boundaries of the game.

And for those who fear having large winnings attach to them, well if blink wants to emulate the same realism as EVE and real life lotteries, some lotteries require winners to identify themselves… It begs the question, should someone with huge vast amounts of blink winnings have a security blanket of anonymity and no repercussions in game? Or should they be required to identify themselves and be subject to criminals in game, such as people whom prey on lottery winners or the rich just as happens in real life? It does add an element of balance in that the big rollers will be hunted should anyone feel motivated to try and ransom a ship or something.

In regards to strict corps, if Player A used two characters on their blink account, we’ll say “corp” and “ncorp”; where “corp” represents the character that was important and was in a strict corporation with API rules… and “ncorp” an alt later switched active on the blink account, this alt can either be on the same Eve account or not, but for worst case scenario we will say it is. We will say corp was responsible for about 25% of the statistical data shown on the account. Without that being displayed, anyone crunching the numbers will see the gap and go rabble. But if I clicked ncorp’s profile, and visually saw that corp had previously won this many blinks, lost this many blinks… etc for a combined total with ncorps to get the true number shown on the account, I wouldn’t think anything suspicious. But are you trying to tell me that corp’s corporation is going to see he has an alt for SOMER on his account and get upset? What are they worried about, “well having an alt on the account will make it easy for someone to relay sensitive information should their main be a spy”, well in that event… If they are willing to go that far to sneak secrets, they would most likely just register a second account with eve. And at the very very least, if it just came down to people being afraid of having their identity attached to a SOMER account… for ANY reason and didn't know then and wants to change it now... at least just show that there was a character registered before, show as “inactive” or something along with the ‘real’ stats that player contributed to the account. This way the numbers make sense. It may seem irrelevant, but it does help with accountability when looking at statistics.

And finally onto the Giga thing… I am well aware of how easy it is to lose a draw when you own a large investment of it, I know its sheer luck with just better chances, and I don’t take it personally… However I am interested in fair play, and by fair I only mean in a sense that more people get a chance to play, not person A having a better chance over everyone else… The Giga blinks go way too fast; they are farmed by the rich and sell out in minutes… It’s not very fun as I was trying to explain, someone who isn't scanning the board every 10 minutes may miss out. It just seems a little unfair when it’s basically turned into a game only for the rich because they can essentially buy as many tickets as they like and sell the game out before most people that have the funds to purchase a ticket even have a chance to know its active. If there was a cap limit to tickets on the Giga, it won’t sell out faster than anyone knows it’s active, and a larger variety of the community has a chance to win… let wealth go around, it’s always the same people winning everything. And before you say “yes but anyone can win with just one ticket”, the win statistics speak for themselves.

Unfortunately, only reference numbers from purchases that went through the Blink banner are eligible, apologies.

you should hit yourself on the head for using automation if that's howyou lost isk if you lost it the normal blink way try again :)

Kind of hard to follow that mea culpa...

Congrats to all the winners this week - some really nice prizes! Thanks Somer, and all the rest of the seasons!

Once again, I had the opportunity to prove that holding the most tickets on a mini-bonk does not mean an auto win - so Players, never give up. It only takes one number to win, as long as it is the right number.

We are sliding into 550T pretty quick!

RL has over taken us here, not just shutting down the Christmas season, though that accounts for a lot of activity, but we had the extreme misfortune of losing one of the finest people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing. My wife's aunt who was 94 and six months ago anyone including her doctor's would have expected many more years of good health for her but she began to experience a sharp decline in early December, and passed away peacefully during a nap with her entire family and many friends close by on January 5th. The death of everyone is inevitable and becomes more expected with age, health challenges or dangerous activities, but the actual loss is never acceptable.

Please, instead of offering us solace, go kiss your loved ones and let your friends know you appreciate them, then reflect on your life and be sure you are living it in a way which will bring you a smile when you are at the end of your life. Two hours before Mary died, she was cracking jokes. I doubt she had any reservations about the way she lived her life. She certainly inspired everyone who was fortunate enough to know her.

Whenever she sneezed and someone blessed her, she would usually reply, "Thank you - Now let the band play on!" I'm guessing that would be her wish for all of us, to let the band play on and for us to continue to seek joy without taking it from others. GodSpeed Mary.

*TAP* *TAP* ... Is this thing on? ...

I'm looking for something epic in here...

play play play play play

550t is a lot of fun so far, keep it up Somer and staff.

I joined during 450t and Blink has been good to me. I am pretty poor so I mostly play promos, or sometimes trying for achievements.

The staff are all very nice and helpful, always quick to get something figured out. ISK or ships won are delivered extremely fast.

Of course some people win a lot, but as it has been said they play a lot.

Don't bet more than you are willing to lose, the house always wins but so do us players.



Thanks for all the excitement!

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