EVE General Discussion

No, not upset by you specifically at all. The Somer issue however reached saturation in GD some time ago. There was no need for a new thread on this topic (CCP really should make that "New Topic" button less visible) when there are a mountain of existing threads that contain the same information.



What? "people who would otherwise be wise in strategically purchasing lottery tickets". Maybe it's the wording, but that is difficult to make sense of and I'm a native English speaker. I suspect that people who read this forum with English as a second language will be totally lost by that sentence.

Sure, but for people with English as a second language, it's probably better and simpler to write:

"This is for players who might buy lots of tickets to give themselves the best chance of winning. Really, they have almost no chance of winning the major draws and are wasting money. My article explains why."

Thank you for assisting me with being more communicable with non-english speaking patrons of EVE. I'm glad we're on the same side now.

I don't have enough fuel for these drama cynos.

Mmmm, cake and bacon. Sounds like my usual saturday nights, except there's usually a bear wandering around and someone's missing a hand.

Blink prices include a house margin. ie it is possible to "win more than you lost", and still have lost.

I randomly glanced over their current offerings, fleet pest offered at 391 on blink, where best sell order is 343, and even jita is only 373. Firetail, up for 13.7 when sell orders in jita are 10.9 etc.

ie their margins run from 5% to 25% on jita prices, and probably reliably above 10% given they have sufficient buying and delivering volume to justify buying from all hubs.

It's actually a really clever scam, likely the most clever scam in EVE.

And by most scammers logic, the ISK they absorb is rightly due to them for being able to outsmart so many people for so long. My only issue is that it's been going on so long and they take such vast amounts of ISK, that it's actually hurting the game and the player count. Albeit, anyone who wastes all their money on Somer Blink probably shouldn't be playing EVE anyway, it's still bad practice. That's a MASSIVE amount of ISK that could be in the hands of players. I mean, 1,536,071,143,677,254 ISK is an ungodly amount to have robbed capsuleers. Ungodly, compared even to the greatest battles AND scams to have ever taken place in EVE put together.

I really wouldn't be surprised if they've taken the extra step with all their income to use it to generate RL money, but that's just speculation.

I actually didn't even realize those numbers, Tauranon. I never even thought to see how the prices correlated. Much much kudos.

All in all, such a well developed scam, but damn, lol, i wish they had respect for the game and other players.

On the same side? We were never on different sides. I agree that Somer is a scam and never said differently.

I just think you are about 6 months too late, not adding anything new to the information and adding nothing to the level of awareness that already exists in GD.

The thread is a pointless use of the New Topic feature. You should have posted in one of the existing threadnaughts and bought that back to the front page. After all, that would have added a whole lot more to the public service of raising awareness.

At the moment, this is just reposting old material.

Blink, like all lotteries, is a stealth-tax on people who lack a basic understanding of probability theory, but it is a system which can be gamed if you play the promos properly.

My blink investment: 150m ISK.

My blink returns: 2x Plex, 1x Machariel, 1.249 B liquid ISK.

It's a zero skill game with incredibly high juice.. It's a license to print money for the operator

Where's the story? It's the same as everyone real world casino (except actually somer juice is a lot worse).

The story is that the incredibly high juice is bait for you to drop all your ISK into their lap thinking you'll win.