In-Game Events and Gatherings

CAP THE GIGABLINK! Always the rich winning it because they can buy all of the tickets... Since there are less than 100 tickets this makes the odds ridiculously unfair! Make it 1-2 Tickets per person, make the odds of winning just this one draw about true luck and not about how rich you are.

Haven't read through all the replies, and at work at the moment, but I have a quick question:

What are the minibonks, and how do I tell if I won? Do I have to be ingame?

Thanks for the quick reply. Will check in game. Is there an ingame channel I should join, or do I get notified by mail if I win?

Also, what's the ingame channel (cos I'm lazy)?

Thanks!!

P.S. Damn you Somer Blink!! The ability to play in a browser has resulted in a thoroughly unproductive Friday at work for me :(

... I hate the Falklands ... worst internet EVAR!!! How am i supposed to deposit into blink and keep up with Celebrations and the likes if im never able to get online ... I think SOMER should give me a bil free credit because im a loyal customer .... and because im Andrev's love child .... he owes me that much!!!

Keep up the good works though and missing the banter!!!

Blacky

Regardless of who holds the other 63 tickets - your odds are always the same - 1 in 64.

I can tell you that holding 50 tickets does not guarrantee a win, nor does more than 40, not does more than 30 or 20 or 10 as I have lost plenty of gigas when holding more than each step of tickets I just mentioned. It is easy to win yourself into the poor house in this game. The rich don't always get richer, but because we all startedt this game with 5k and a ****** ship, some have learned how to become rich, but are still learning how many new and different ways there are to become poor. Once you learn one way to become rich, and that method does not become common knowledge, or CCP does not nerf it, becoming poor is not so scary as it might seem. I am still always looking for a new way, though.

Just forget about personalities, the winning ticket could give a **** who owns it.

We miss you Blacky...

I have not looked at your background, so I don't know how much experience you have in Eve or Blink. It is almost useless to make assumptions on that kind of data any longer as now people can accounts giving them abilities, but no experiences in how to properly employ those abilities.Fortunately, in real life we don't have a system where someone will say, "Hey, I want to be in the Army, I think I'll buy a 4 star General slot and get to tell a lot of peeps what to do." Oh wait, that did sort of happen on a larger scale, but voting is the system we have and sometimes it works well.

That said, I have a little experience in Eve and Blink and it has not been my experience where there has been a paucity of 2 mil ticket blinks. and of course, withe 30% of the board reserved for the lower tier of prizes and the experience of knowing those are the ones which go the fastest, anyone who wants to start a 2 mil ticket prize has more opportunity to do so than one who wants to start any other tier of prizes. When there are two ultras up, each started by one person with one ticket, they may take 40 minutes to finish. I doubt if any prize in the 30% of the board where 2 mil tickets have reign will ever last more than a couple of minutes.

This is not a an evaluation of you, this is my personal philosophy. If I only had 3mil, I would know my luck is sucking at that point and preserve my capital. I like to live by some personal rules, though I am not always successful even though I know from experience and a knowledge of the theory of probability and the theory of regression toward the mean, that 1. never try to bet your way out of a losing streak as the streak most likely has more patience than most ppl have assets. 2 preserve your capital. If the pond has no fish, stop drowning your supply of worms. 3. Gambling is not a ateady income as random is a thing that does wht you don't expect it to dobecause if it did, then it would not be random. 4. And this is for me and not a judgment of anyone else. I am happy to see others succeed as it shows me that if anyone can, then I can, too. It matters not to me if they have a larger bankroll than I do and I do not begrudge them for the success they have experienced and doing that will not help me but just hold me back. I thik we all started this game with 5k and a crappy ship. Certainly, there are those who introduced RL assets to move themselves forward in the game. But the game is just another part of a person's life and the success or assets from which they have at their disposal can be introduced here to be place at the peril of lose or the joy of gain. Had it not been for an outside bet to drive back to WoW a sniveling no talented wimp who relied on his mommy's credit card to buy him supers and the characters to sit in them so he could amply demonstrate his total absence of ability as his corpmates suffered in a destined to fail fleet, I would not have been propelled to where I am. He was someone who would have the coache's last pick in a little league game who bought his way onto the pitcher's mound in the World Series. He was not an example of the rich get richer. Regardless of the assets at my disposal, when I do dumb things I get less rich and sometimes downright poor, but with a nice stack of stats in my profile. When I play smart, I manage to get ahead.

Based on that experience, I sisagree with your statement that the rich get richer - I think those who play smartly get richer. It has certainly been my experience that I lose when I don't play smartly and I win when I am lucky enough to keep my wits at work.

If the loss of 3 mil is a disaster to you, maybe gambling is not good use of your time. And if you are too anxious to place the one last bet you can make, you could be pro-active and start a blink in the ticket price range of your choice. That 30% of the board is the fastest moving part, anyway.

Now that it is not the middle of the night...

I barely addressed this critical part of your piece I have quoted below:

"rich get richer, poor don't get a chance unless they continuously monitor it and if they are quick enough to get in on it. Yes anyone can win with just 1 ticket.. but you are FAR more likely to win when you own most of the tickets and the rich people are aware of this,"

"Poor don't get a chance unless they continously monitor..." It doesn't cost anything to monitor, it takes concentration - poor concentration skills cannot become rich concentration skills depending upon one's wallet content. It is a frame of mind, its self discipline. There comes a time in everyone's life when telling the teacher the dog ate your homework won't work anymore, because people discover they must first do their homework before the dog can eat it.

Get rid of the class warfare attitude about how those with more assets have more advantages and get busy making it possible for you to have more advantages, too.

There is a thing called poverty mentality - I know it well as I grew up in a house full of it. No one from my family was expected to go to college. I think my parents and two older siblings chanted to my mother's preggy bump (me), "you will never go to college, it costs too much money, no one in this family can fit in with the the brainiacs, they all come from rich homes, their brains are better, they all know which fork to use, you should be happy looking forward to a minimum wage job, get used to goodwill clothes or worse, it is the best you will ever have, you will drive yourself crazy trying to succeed at anything, your place in life is to be shiftless and gripe about everyones's success and how it could be you, but they had advantages you didn't have or deserve, embrace your poverty, use it as a shield whenever anyone talks to you about improving yourself, hide behind it whenever you are around those who were destined for success from birth, join only with others who embrace their poverty mentality, always strive for nothing better than second best, always buy the dented can, but pay full price for it knowing that the rich are just getting back at by not putting that dented can in their shopping cart because they probably have a pantry that costs more than where you live, dream of living in a small camping trailer all your life, you don't even deserve something that nice, if you ever do get a pair of new shoes, rough them up or people will think you are just showing off, get used to having help from the government for everything, one day when there are more thinking like you than the like the rich do, all of you can vote in someone who will take the money away from the rich and give it to you, spread the word....

Your family life was YOURSe, I hope it was better. I would like to think there is not another person in the world who feels their childhood was anything like mine, but I have talked to far too many who were raised that way. I hope no one reading this lived that childhood. No one reach out or ridicule. It was what it was. I've gone through all that and have accepted what I cannot change. I am now focused on changing what I can change where I once wallowed in what I could not change.

Here are some things to think about. Don't tell anyone else about your thoughts unless you really want to and choose that person carefully, but mainly just think about it.

1. If you have only enough isk to buy two tickets and some one who buys a single ticket might he/she look at you and say you had twice as much of a chance to win as they did, so you must be a greedy rich person.

2. What if you had enough to buy 10 tickets, would you?

3. if you only have enough to buy two tickets and you don't win, what difference does it make if the winner bought 20 or just one ticket? Either one could have bought the number you wanted. Would you feel the same way abut the person who won with a single ticket than about the guy who won with a single tickets and paid for 19 losing tickets? Would you feel the same way about 19 other people who were holding a single losing ticket. Do you feel your life is better or worse becasue the person who won held more tickets than you did? Or fewer tickets than you?

We are in agreement on a point I vaguely addressed earlier and would like to expound a little further.

This is just me. There were times when I did not know how often Jump Freighters appeared in Gigas, so I would mention in chat that I needed however many it was to reach that achievement and was was going to buy aggressively whenever they appeared, and I bought tickets till there there were no more to buy. It simply killed me the first time I tried and had about 22 tickets and lost my entire blink wallet.

I decided to be more gentlemanly about it and buy 3 or 4 tickets and wait a little to give others the chance to get in. At first I anounceced in chat that when the then present Giga hit 20 minutes, I would be buying the remainder of the tickets, and I did, sometimes losing, As I sat there, I thought about what could be holding up people from buying tickets? Are they trying to mine, rat, salvage, mission, PvP some more isk to buy a ticket? I was watching the Barrett Jackson Auto Auction on TV while refreshing the giga screen every few seconds and decided 20 minutes was way too long. Just like on Barrett Jackson, either someone was here to play or they weren't. I cut it back to five minutes. Then along came a lot of other players who were going into blinks like it was a Walmart Half Off Sale and some Gigas lasted 20 seconds during busy times. So now, it is pretty much like feeding time at the Beagle Barn so if you snooze, you lose. Anyone who hopes to participate in a Giga needs to always have enough in their wallet to do it they way they want to do it or just miss out. That kind of goes along with conserving your capital.

Good Luck to ya!

Main question, why there is no @get banned@ button on main website.Where whole screen warning about isk losing?
One way trip.