Crime & Punishment

what relevance does that comment have to the post?

Somer Blink gave me 10bil isk for prizes for an EVE fiction contest. I only asked them for 2bil, but when they saw that the contest was legit, they unilaterally upped the donation to 10bil. They may be a for-profit business, but they're generous in their support for the EVE community.

It makes his spending $3000 USD on learning that Bookies take a cut.... less.... sad?

The most common misconception here is that the odds of winning a 1/16 raffle with 1 ticket are 1/16.

The truth is this is barely ever the case.

The truth is somer picks the winning number when somer wants to.

On ultras and gigas.

There's several somer alts posting in this thread about:

It's a casino,
It's gambling,

Neither really reflect the true nature as they prey on the stupidity of the masses who than
feel the need to disregard everything else and relate the operation to a simple lottery.

You're not allowed to pick your shill accounts in lottos, there are laws against it.

In fake spaceship world, there are no such laws governing.

People even think somer is female, on the contrary, somer is a male, whose life partner is also male.

There's nothing wrong with that but it shows you how clueless people really are, how disillusioned.

Somer buries alternates in the dozens both in blink and in game, literally adopts different personalities for these alternates.

Many of which were created 2010 or later, as that's when blink was implemented and old alternates for banking use would not suffice.

3 shil accounts can buy 7, 2 and 1 ticket respectively getting 10/16 tickets on an ultra, people don't second guess when they lose when you set it up this way, furthermore you can revert to the legit lines of code anytime should there be an issue.

The reason why additional profits are sought is because Isk has a real world money value, it's a great system though as we're not allowed to talk about specifics in this area because it violates forum rules.

The reason why ccp cannot nail somer is because you can tell a computer to send a fake set of data indecipherable from real data as to spoof information which would identify your computer. The specifics of which are also not allowed to be discussed on the forums.

There's a whole world out there, those in the know, those who are not. Knowledge is power.

Quick shout out to somer who gave me a plex when my account had no time left and 1 hour was left on the 4 hours granted to plex the account up.

Quick shout out to the success of blink and the customers it holds, it's the perfect amount of rigging, well unless you consider how many people look at shills landing 10 tickets in less than 1 second. Somer states he bans automated accounts, you'd think he'd include his own shills. Nobody can click 10 tickets in a second with the constraints of the human brain and body. The signals from our brain travel quickly, when the signal turns into mechanical action - not so much. The reaction time required is not possible - not nearly by even those with the fastest recorded response times in human history.

The house takes a lot more than the difference in ticket price at the end of the day, and very much of that isk given away is simply given back to the system.

Final note. Somer lists having given out 1 quadrillion isk.
Final note, Andrev, somer's partner notes no wallet has over 5 trillion in game
Final note, if they kept 0.5% as the margin on 1 quadrillion they'd have a wallet exceeding 5T
The isk is laundered and there is no way in the computer savvy world to distinguish spoofed data from legitimate unique nodes

Anyway, shill accounts turn a guaranteed profit (and the rake on Blinks is not small) into a wager. Casinos are not in the business of gambling on raked games.


Incidentally, it is perfectly legal for casinos to use shills (and proposition players) in raked games (generally this is done as a customer service when there would otherwise not be enough players to keep the game going, not as a profit seeking endeavor).

I am unsure why everyone keeps saying that SOMER has some house edge or statistical advantage over you. You aren't playing against SOMER you are playing against other players. SOMER is just providing the means for you to play with those other players. And for her trouble she takes a profit on each lottery.

That all said it doesn't mean that they couldn't have their own alts playing as well, trust is just something you will have to have. They publish the code they use to generate the random numbers as well. She is as open as I feel she needs to be about this service while at the same time protecting herself from competition. At the end of the day the service is a form of gambling and can be directly likened to a state or country funded lottery in real life.

Citation needed.

What else did you expect from a self-sustaining lottery ?!
That your company has to spend money to figure out the basic concepts behind the business model of casinos and lotteries is mind boggling.

[citation needed]

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