Gameplay Lottery winable.

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Nathansalyer
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Gameplay Lottery winable.

Post by Nathansalyer » Sun, 3. Dec 06, 03:25

Docking at a station people always try to sell you tickets. You should be able to buy multipul tickes and instead of the Jack pot being worth Billion why not make it worth millions with a higher win rate.
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Post by UnderLord » Sun, 3. Dec 06, 03:38

then what would be the joy of trying to win such a big jackpot its sopost to be like "real" life or so i think.... :lol:

In real life i'v only played the lotto once =P and won nothing....
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Post by Lancefighter » Sun, 3. Dec 06, 03:49

ive participated in every single lotto drawing ive seen... 2. and won never.
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Post by bp2019 » Sun, 3. Dec 06, 05:39

its like a real lottery, only with more numbers, but a higher prize draw, if they made it easier the game would become to easy for so mny people, however people have won amounts upto 900k... so be patient =)
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Post by Stu Austin » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 01:54

Performed a search and this was the newest topic on the lotto. A couple of days ago, I decided to play the lotto again and yesterday I got a message stating that 4 of my numbers were drawn and I received 526,xxx credits, so this is telling me it is winnable in X3 vanilla. :)
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Post by softweir » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 02:16

...X3 Vanilla patched to version 2! Before that it was unwinnable.
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Post by Fresshness » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 02:30

I buy all lotto tickets that are offered (including the BBS Extra's winnable lotto). I get tickets offered for 2500cr and 10000cr (the 10.000cr ones are the BBS Extra's ones I think).

To date I've bought 27 tickets and won 0.

But the prices are ridiculous, because it's much more than your bank account can carry (only 2billion can be carried, but much much more can be 'won').

If you win something, it's probably because your ticket matches 2,3 or 4 out of the 6 (?) numbers, which yields a not that large price.

I've read, some time ago, a person winning about 400K with the lottery. I don't know if it was a BBS Extra's one though.

The best attitude would be to always buy them (not that expensive, appears not that often) and always expect to lose. That way, when you do win (after buying +200 tickets in 30 game days orso), you will win eventually....
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Post by LynkDead » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 03:21

Does the bug still exist where winning the lottery increases your trade rank?

I had heard of people randomly getting promoted to one of the top ranks, just after winning a huge lottery. Wanted to know if that's still around.
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Post by Carl Sumner » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 03:22

Fresshness wrote:But the prices are ridiculous, because it's much more than your bank account can carry (only 2billion can be carried, but much much more can be 'won').
There is a message in the game files about winning the big one, it says there is a 99.99% Tax! So it might fit fine. :wink:
you will win eventually....
But the big one might take a million years, real time. :P
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Post by Frankenbean » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 14:44

How much time passes between buying a ticket and being notified that you won?
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Post by Fresshness » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 15:01

Frankenbean wrote:How much time passes between buying a ticket and being notified that you won?
I have no idea since I never won but I assume this:

You are notified before you are offered another lottery ticket. So I think it could be pretty fast.
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Post by muppetts » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 15:05

I have never seen a screen shot of a win in the lotto so to date I remain unconvinced.
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Post by L12 » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 17:39

I've bought 227 tickets and not had a win yet. Money isn't really an issue for me anymore but it'd still be nice to win it once anyway.
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Post by Chronos Paradox » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 22:07

Carl Sumner wrote:
Fresshness wrote:But the prices are ridiculous, because it's much more than your bank account can carry (only 2billion can be carried, but much much more can be 'won').
There is a message in the game files about winning the big one, it says there is a 99.99% Tax! So it might fit fine. :wink:
you will win eventually....
But the big one might take a million years, real time. :P
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Post by killlord91 » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 22:26

I've won a ship with the lottery.
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Post by Fresshness » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 22:31

killlord91 wrote:I've won a ship with the lottery.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's with BBS Extra's (Cycrow) 3rd party script. either that or the Winnable Lottery (also by Cycrow).
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Post by Fresshness » Mon, 15. Jan 07, 22:40

muppetts wrote:I have never seen a screen shot of a win in the lotto so to date I remain unconvinced.
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Post by Stu Austin » Tue, 16. Jan 07, 00:20

Thats basically the same message I recieved. :)
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Post by thoggarth » Tue, 16. Jan 07, 00:21

Carl Sumner wrote:

Use SETA
Great, even at 10x that'll be 100,000 years real time - how long do you expect to live?
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