In-Game Events and Gatherings

It would be nice if you could cut 112 pages of this :D

So i decided to play.
Ignored all the whiners about a lottery making money for the owners which is standard.
Invested 200.000.000 yesterday.

Which was all the ISK i had. Had barely enough leftovers to buy new ammo.

Now im freaking rich.

1. No Scam - Items get delivered promptly and without any hassle. Even to first time winners.
2. Somer gets ISK from this, by putting more in the pool than the Item(s) is worth. So what?
3. Since its a lottery try this - only invest a bit more than you loose.
4. Dont use your win - money to buy officer fitted gank magnets :D

<3 you Somer, you guys rock, keep it up!

note to self;

Don't play bonks and minibonks without realizing that some players will pour billions into the bonk especially if the prize is sweet and always understand that even that is no guarantee as one player with 75 tickets at 500k eack, just became one of the eleven players who won 50 billion isk, not Blink ISK credit. ISK

that damn random thing never gives any guarantees other than someone who buys tickets will always win - and a portion of those who don't become butthurt

The real sad part is most of the winners in the PGA, NASCAR, NFL. NBA, College FOOTBALL, or any game where chance is involved, the ones who play the hardest, understand how the mechanics of the game work and don't spend a lot of time posting things which are just not true. Yeah, we see repeats but more winners are new than there are repeats. Count 'em.

I saw several posts of the usual losers lament "the rich get richer" after the drawings and wondered if any one repeating it asked themselves how the rich got rich in the first place. All of them I have talked to all mention working hard, and that has been the answer in my life - real or in pixels.

Some will say all the rich ppl just bought GTCs, converted them and blinked the ISK. That is undoubtedly true for some who have the disposable RL$ and don't want to grind out ISK. You can see who they are as they usually make a quick rise in the Blink Stats and then they disappear when they may run out of money, are not amused by the game any longer, or more likely - standby, here it comes -- they realize it takes more than a bunch of ISK to be successful. Not everyone will be successful regardless of how much they bring into the game and it is not the responsibility of those who have worked hard to achieve to sacrifice to make those who don't understand how to achieve feel better about themselves.

You can give a corpie some ISK, then find out he owes everyone else in the corp, because he just cannot manage what he is doing. The successful blink players can give half of what they win to players who never seem to win and pretty soon it feels like you have adopted them or you have become an ATM for them. That is why I stopped giving to anyone who asked and now never gift anyone who has the gall to ask. I gift people who have demonstrated they are not afraid of work and could solve their low isk issue given time. I work too hard for it to just give it someone who is just going to p__s it away. I can keep it and do that myself.

Have you ever seen a whiner become a winner? I have adult grandchildren and will be a great-grandpa soon and I've never seen it in my lifetime. Whiners are the first ones who will accidentally fall out of my lifeboat, along with everything else which will jeopardize a safe rescue. Sorry, but you will probably agree that it would just suck to be some people who plod from low achievement to low achievement and blame it all on others. We all came into this game with sh_tity ship and 5k. I came into this world born in my families sharecropper's cabin and have never asked anyone for anything, or blamed anyone else when I failed to achieve, which happened a lot as I learned how to achieve and I never would have succeeded being a whiner.

I know every whiner reading this will have a reason why they are whining, but I've heard/read them all. And in this context, it will be the game is rigged and it is - it is rigged to be as fair as possible and like Eve, the opportunity to succeed is much larger than in the real world. I cannot understand how anyone who started with a raw noob toon and has played for 6 months averaging 10 - 12 hours each week does not have a billion in their wallet gained by nothing but working smart. Maybe their goal is to be a target flying a ship in which they are only trained to sit and fit with weapons intended for a smaller class of ships, and that is fine with me until they start whining about it. I just don't have any patience with whiners and have found they usually end up in groups because no one else wants to hear/read it either. I gave up PVP years ago just because of whiners who engaged me with poor fits and insufficient training to be in the ship they were flying and blamed me for their failures. I am so glad we have API now, because in those days most KMs were fiction.

If anyone reading this happens to be a whiner, please give heavy consideration to blocking me. I don't want you to ever see anything I have for sale because if you bought it, then you would probably blame me for losing it.

sup
just chillin and playin Blink

no regrets

I invest money from clone tags - it's like playing double or nothing :D

If you don't trust the site, cash out by taking isk for every blink win till you have no or little remaining blink credit, then leave and never come back.

Or, you could educate yourself by readinig about from where the winning numbers come. The Blink site provides a link to the independent third party site who provides the numbers, or you could just go to the site at Random.org. Once there, you can see the method used to provide the numbers and follow the links on that site to find out it is not just a shell set up by Blink.

You may get a hint as to why you see repeated names on the bonk and mini-bonk winning lists by looking at the lists of ticket holders and HOW MANY TICKETS THEY EACH HOLD which are made available to view or download (I recommend downloading) between the closing of ticket sales and the actual drawing and then remain available for viewing or downloading after the drawing as well. Please use the out of game browser for speed sake.

Having educated yourself on the source and procedure, which I recommend everyone do before committing a single isk to risk, and you still have doubts, cash out and go away.

Congratulations on being ahead and I wish you continued good luck.

New roulette blinks are great, wish I had some extra disposable isk to play them some more!

Every celebration since 30T and not so much as a consolation prize...

I'm beginning to think you don't loves me anymore.

Just woundering do you have stats on how many roulettes have landed on black.

I tried and failed. Will need to come back when I'm less poor and try again.