Is it possible to win the Lottery?

Hawk-2k · Post by **Hawk-2k** » Sun, 22. Feb 04, 22:25

hi all! im a long time reader, first time writer

, and this is a question thats bugged me for a while, im truly loveing this game! cant get enough of it, but anyway, i was wondering weather anyone here has ever won the lottery that you can find on the Bulliten boards. I must of spent over 20k on tickets for it by now, is it there just to tempt you to spend your money? or can you actually win?

thanks

Hawk

DrCBVI · Post by **DrCBVI** » Sun, 22. Feb 04, 22:29

I don't believe you can ever win.

Aekhiv · Post by **Aekhiv** » Sun, 22. Feb 04, 22:32

Yes, it''s possible in theory, but the odds are extremely low. Like as low as...winning the IRL lottery :-/

I hope Egosoft will implement other (smaller) prizes you can win in lotteries, so your chances are improved (ie. ships, money etc).

odin_grey · Post by **odin_grey** » Sun, 22. Feb 04, 22:35

Someone figured it out that if every person playing X2 bought 1 lottery ticket a day, it would take somewhere like 300,000 days to win or something.
Basically it is, but it isn't...

NeverSnake · Post by **NeverSnake** » Sun, 22. Feb 04, 22:38

Obviously if you win I imagine the game gets rather easy.

esd · Post by **esd** » Sun, 22. Feb 04, 22:38

Aekhiv wrote:Yes, it''s possible in theory, but the odds are extremely low. Like as low as...winning the IRL lottery :-/

I hope Egosoft will implement other (smaller) prizes you can win in lotteries, so your chances are improved (ie. ships, money etc).

Much lower than the r/l lottery - 8 numbers from 0 to 100!

One of the Testers or Devs did say that the "congratulations, you have won the lottery" message is in the code - why put in code that's never going to be used?

NeverSnake · Post by **NeverSnake** » Sun, 22. Feb 04, 22:40

Have you tried opening some games executables in hex editors?

Some are riddled with unused strings.

Samhorns · Post by **Samhorns** » Sun, 22. Feb 04, 22:40

It works, screen shots have been seen, posts made. However the odds are as you've all been saying close to more RL but not so hard. Main purpose is it does ruin the game when you do for the most part so it has been appropirately nerfed.

RustiSwordz · Post by **RustiSwordz** » Sun, 22. Feb 04, 22:42

I hope egosoft get around to putting everything in, i heard that a lot of stuff is in the game but needs to be activated using a patch or something which Egosoft will be working on i hope.

Seraph062 · Post by **Seraph062** » Sun, 22. Feb 04, 22:42

NeverSnake wrote:So one in every 300,000 people who buy a ticket win?

No, that's not what he said. He said that if every person playing X2 bought a lottery ticket, then it would take 300,000 days for one of those people to win.

NeverSnake · Post by **NeverSnake** » Sun, 22. Feb 04, 22:47

I know, I misread and edited my post about three minutes before you posted.

dR.Death · Post by **dR.Death** » Mon, 23. Feb 04, 00:54

esd wrote: One of the Testers or Devs did say that the "congratulations, you have won the lottery" message is in the code - why put in code that's never going to be used?

There's always the possibility that you can win and even on your 1st ticket, the odds are just really really really really really low. But i'm sure someone will get lucky in the next year or two

The_Abyss · Post by **The_Abyss** » Mon, 23. Feb 04, 00:58

dR.Death wrote:
esd wrote: One of the Testers or Devs did say that the "congratulations, you have won the lottery" message is in the code - why put in code that's never going to be used?
There's always the possibility that you can win and even on your 1st ticket, the odds are just really really really really really low. But i'm sure someone will get lucky in the next year or two

And forget to take a screenshot in their excitement no doubt

Spero · Post by **Spero** » Mon, 23. Feb 04, 01:01

Hmm

that's 8 numbers between 1 and 100,

that's 100^8

that's 100x10^16

that's 10,000,000,000,000,000.

Meaning you have a 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000 chance of winning!

So if everyone on Earth played X2 it would take...

1,666,666 tickets for somebody to win if everybody bought a ticket 'til that event came to pass!

Sirilius · Post by **Sirilius** » Mon, 23. Feb 04, 01:04

The_Abyss wrote:
And forget to take a screenshot in their excitement no doubt

You can always check Personal Information, theres abit which has "lottery Brought" and "Lottery Won"

Spero · Post by **Spero** » Mon, 23. Feb 04, 01:07

If my calculations are correct, it'll take an act of god to win the lottery, there's simply not enough days in out lives!

1 sec...

10,000,000,000,000,000 x 2500 = way over the jackpot!

Waste of money if you ask me!

mwirth · Post by **mwirth** » Mon, 23. Feb 04, 01:25

Actually, the odds of winning the lottery would be

(8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1) / ( 100 * 99 * 98 * 97 * 96 * 95 * 94 * 93 ) = 1 / 186087894300

or about 5.374 * 10^-12

Oxyonagon · Post by **Oxyonagon** » Sun, 16. May 04, 23:28

i was looking through old threads, and saw this but technically you could win the lottery tomorrow right? just the chances are real low

Dhaeron · Post by **Dhaeron** » Mon, 17. May 04, 04:50

mwirth wrote:Actually, the odds of winning the lottery would be

(8 * 7 * 6 * 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 * 1) / ( 100 * 99 * 98 * 97 * 96 * 95 * 94 * 93 ) = 1 / 186087894300

or about 5.374 * 10^-12

Still not entirely correct.

The odds are (100!/8!) / 8! to one (the chance to win is of course 8! /(100!/8!) )

Or to put it your way (9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2)/(100*99*98*...repeat...*10*9)
If you've got a scientific calculator the function is usually called "nCr".

BTW: i don't remember, weren't it 10 out of 100?

Arcanis · Post by **Arcanis** » Mon, 17. May 04, 10:09

I have a better idea, try to win the lottery in real life, there is more chances

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