In-Game Events and Gatherings

IIRC the special (CCP donated and then adjusted, not bait-and-switched by SOMER) prizes were awarded based on total blinks played, each blink/win giving a set amount of tickets depending on the value of the Blink. I could see a request for a refund of Bonk plays prior to prize drawing being refunded because you wouldn't have purchased any equity on other prizes. Being able to put 16B on Blink, bid on as many Rorquals as possible, then ask for a refund later is an easily exploitable system (that would also cause issues for the people who lost the blinks you won and now want to return), and I can understand why a request like that would be denied.

I haven't followed the entire story so this may have been covered before but I'm wondering, did you spend the 16B blinking on actual prizes that you won/lost in order to gain tickets to the GM, or did you put it all into a Bonk @500k apiece without hope of winning other items?

I'm not taking sides on this and I have followed your efforts on this forum however this reply didn't answer the question he asked on whether you wagered. If you did and this was purely an exercise as you have described (i.e. You were only doing it for the tickets to the draw of that ship) then I, and I think everyone else reading your posts, would have expected you to take every seat on every ultra or megablink to get an isk return.

Did you do this? And if not why not? The loss if you did would have been minimal (70-80% of isk invested) and would add a lot of credence to your posts and efforts.

As an aside, while I understand the requests for "hard evidence" and people wanting me to "add credence", lets not forget that there has be no public statement by SOMER Blink regarding this matter. None at all. If there was no truth to my claims, don't you think someone would have said something? Perhaps a "we never received 16B in deposits" or a "you already played before the announcement" or a "you requested your refund after the draw was made" or something to negate any of my claims? Remember that Andrev Nox had no problem calling out Poetic Stanziel for 'hypocrisy'. Why hasn't he publicly said that I am in the wrong? I'll tell you: because everything I say is true.

I'll give you all the hard evidence you need, but meanwhile, remember that SOMER has given you nothing to balance the scales.

It was 1 ticket for participating in a Blink, a few more for winning a Blink (but not enough more to warrant buying all the tickets).



No. My "winnings" are worth slightly less than 70% of what I put in. That valuation is according to the website and does not take into account any costs, time and effort required to liquidate a wide variety of items.

I'm sorry but you're the one not doing research here. I claimed foul immediately after the announcement the prizes were changed. That was only a few hours after I played - the odds of winning hadn't changed in that timeframe - but the prize had. As for your claim that I should have bought every ticket in every major blink, it would have reduced the number of free tickets I would have gotten for the Gold Magnate lottery. As I said it was 1 ticket just for playing a blink, much less than 16/32 tickets for winning a big blink. And why in heavens sake would CCP have to refund me? SOMER Blink has my 16B! (They can get their 10.9B in stuff back from me.)

Okay.

You deposited 16 Billion, with the goal of winning a Golden Mandate through the promotion.
You proceeded to gamble with all of that money, as required to gain as many tickets as you could with that money.
You won around 70% of that 16 Billion back in prizes (a pretty good return rate given your buying of 1 ticket per blink).
The Golden Mandate prize was switched for another, of less value or desirability to you.

Sorry, but I don't know of any gambling establishment that would offer you even a partial refund under these circumstances. I don't know if SOMER has a legal section that states this anywhere, but usually with these things prizes are subject to change.

Had you deposited 16 Billion ISK, and then used the tokens to gamble on promos, never winning any and never actually spending any cash - I can see SOMER stretching to refund the cash as a sign of good faith when the prizes changed. I can't see anywhere refunding anything given your actual circumstances, though.

And this but put far more eloquently than I ever could. Well done Cayell

How do i choose more then one number before i start a blink?

You start the the blink with a single ticket and then like everyone else, you enter the fray to buy any additional tickets you wish to buy using the main blink page which you are taken to when you buy the first ticket. Because you know exactly ( your server response may vary) and you know which ticket is already taken when you bought a ticket to open the blink, you can have your cursor on your screen in the approximate location of the second ticket you want to buy. If you have started a blink during a heavy player presence of a prize with high popularity, you may or may not get a third ticket. Because your view of each blink does not change until you refresh your browser ( and auto-refresh is against the rules as it that puts strain on the server) others who are not hammering their F5 key to refresh, will not see the blinks change until the either refresh or do something that will cause the screen to refresh, such as buy a ticket which will refresh all blinks on your screen or click on the small green thing in the upper right of each individual blink to refresh that individual blink.

This is really a topic for the blink chat and not one I ever thought anyone who plays blink ever ask, so I answered it here instead of letting the poster sit in the dark about the mechanics of that game.

First, I do not hate any person and I do not hate Blink or Shattered Crystal. There are very few things I actually hate and besides discrimination, human trafficking (which may be more prolific now than at any time in human history), dictatorial oppression, abuses of power and hatred itself. I am working to end my cognitive dissonance of harboring hatred and hating hatred.

Because so much innuendo has been used to skirt rule infractions on this topic and innuendo leads to assumptions being made about the intention of an innuendo, I made the now apparent to me incorrect assumption the reference to information being available after November 7 might include the back and forth discussions which might or might not be (innuendo again) taking place between an affiliate and an authorized third party reseller who may not have upheld the affiliate incentive for one reason or another.

Because Shattered Crystal was mentioned and an item of fact exists about them which many readers here are not likely to have caught the public announcements of the Portland Oregonian Newspaper, I took the opportunity to inject at least one point of fact, to join the many you have provided about the EULA and affiliate rules and facts mentioned by you and others I am sure I have failed to mention.

The matter of Shattered Crystal declaring Bankruptcy in the Multnomah County Oregon court system, is not innuendo, conjecture, opinion, speculation, tinfoli hat size, but a matter of public record available to all who care to pursue it or happen to read about it during a daily perusal of the public notices in the local newspaper of record. In the United States, every court jurisdiction publishes notices of matters of public record in the most local newpspaper to the jurisdiction.

I will apologize for reaching into my magic bag of possible things which this or that innuendo may or may not have have been attempting to skirt and choosing poorly.

It is not my place or perhaps anyone's to apologize for Shattered Crystal declaring bankruptcy and no longer having their link on Blink but one more fact in a virtual tsunami of conjecture could probably not hurt, but I do regret a mention of fact was taken as an act of hate.

I am sorry the limit of 6000 characters on a post does not count the characters on the quoted posts, but I under stand why and hope the redaction does not cause any misunderstanding as I meant to include what seems related to the this reply, and we will see what we get when I hit "post".