In-Game Events and Gatherings

Yet another year has gone by with The BIG Lottery running non-stop round after round, and giving away billions each time.

We can now celebrate The BIG Lottery 10 year anniversary!

10 years - That's rather monumental!

In those 10 years
56.320 unique characters have bought
978.786.830 tickets in The BIG Lottery (that's 978 billion ISK - and change)

And I have no doubt that we will break the 1 trillion mark during the 10 year anniversary round - Which seems rather fitting


For the 10 year anniversary we are (naturally) going completely crazy with prizes, and breaking all previous records.
I very much doubt we'll be seeing such large prizes any time soon (perhaps the 20 year anniversary )
So get your tickets!

200B ISK in total - We must be crazy





Round #261 - The BIG Lottery 10 Year Anniversary round runs
from Monday, April 29th, 2013
to Sunday, May 12th, 2013
-- Only tickets bought in that timeframe are valid for the anniversary draw.

Round #261 drawing : Monday, May 13th, 2013, 1800 EVE time (GMT) in ingame channel 'BIG Games'.


Please be aware of all the scammers out there that sets up look-alike characters to try and scam you out of your ISK.
The character to send your ISK to is "BIG Games" and is a member of BIG - and no one else, no matter what they say.


Good Luck all.

So i think this will be the first time i will try that lottery thing

We've always been sponsoring events of all kinds, to a varying degree of course. This is a pretty monumental milestone for one of the longest running player initiatives so nice prices were in order.

Anyone who's running an event and needs support is encouraged to contact the Community Team to discuss options! :)

Happy Birthday Big Lottery!

Yeah, I'd like some of that technology used by those guys running the alliance tournament that teleports people to POLARIS space, please. And also some limited-edition interceptors to give out as prizes. Nothing too fancy, just give them a nice white paintjob and slap the SRV logo on the side, if it's not too much trouble.

Oh, and I need that special GM client they use for targeting multiple ships and arranging the targets on-screen, that would be really nice, thanks.

Bad forum dwellers are bad as usual. Keep it up TS, been a blast joining them draws.

I think what TS has accomplished is amazing! A kudos to you, TornSoul!

But I think it's not very nice of the CCP staff to both give preferential treatment and pretend that they don't.

DON'T GET ME WRONG, I'm not saying preferential treatment is bad or they should stop. I'm just saying it's a little silly of them to have one branch of the company make all these trailers saying "EVE is a sandbox universe where everyone starts off with nothing and makes their own choices and builds their own empire with the tools that are available", and then have another branch of the company using tools and resources that aren't available to everyone to promote certain events and individuals.

Again, I'm all for preferential treatment. That's great. If part of the game is making friends with someone employed by CCP to gain benefits, or writing in to the staff to get a piece of the pie, great. That's fine. But do one or the other. Either run a level playing field, or make sure everyone knows that you're not running a level playing field.

I'd offer a free bump in support of BIG, whom I respect so much for their hard work and accomplishment, but what with the sticky and all...

SCL gets the overlay only because CCP I-forget-his-name sets it up and streams it to them on his own time. Come up with something original and interesting for players and watch CCP or individuals from CCP give you support.

Edit: And oh yeah, congrats to TS and the lottery.

Julius Rigel has legitimate points and he is far from being a troll. Despite so, I disagree with Julius Rigel. BIG Lottery has left quite an impact in the world of EVE and has enriched countless capsuleers' EVE experience ever since its humble founding.

BIG should be rewarded by CCP for all the effort and sets great precedent for many others to follow to make the game enjoyable for the rest of populous. CCP's sponsorship is marginal at best here and nothing game-changing (AS LONG AS ISHUKONE WATCH SCORPION IS AVAILABLE VIA OTHER MEANS AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS EVENT).

Sure, a for-profit organization gets given free stuff by CCP to make even more profit? How is this any different from the T2 BPO cheating back in the day? or any other form of dev cheating? It could just as easily be claimed that any of those other for-profits that were given free stuff improved peoples' lives even more than some lotto scam.

The BIG Lottery is non-profit (if that's the organization you where referring to) - Just to put that straight.
And BIG has even put a little bit into the prize pool on occasions

Note that "The BIG Lottery" and "BIG" the corporation are economically completely separate - I know that can be confusing to some at times.

"BIG Games" the character that holds the lottery purse, was in fact not even a member of BIG for a long time - exacectly to drive that point home.
But due to scammers I eventually had to have "BIG Games" join BIG, so people had *some* way of distinguishing the real "BIG Games" from all the scammers out there.

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Re preferential treatment:

I ran the BIG Lottery for a full year - Before ever getting any preferential treatment (prizes)

And still to this day, 10 years later, it's only that single one time a year that happens - The rest of the time I'm on my own.

I'm fairly sure that if you run a regular occurring event for a year, and you contact CCP, they would be more than willing to put the spotlight on your event, and add a few nice prizes (I'd be *very* surprised otherwise - CCP are actually quite nice folks)

On the other side of the coin:
CCP can't (my opinion) do that for every new startup - That would be manpower (and otherwise) unfeasible.


So - Hang in there, and contribute something to the community en large for a good while, and I'm sure CCP would be willing to talk to you.