this interesting i made my way to the boran dry-dock and looked at the bulletin boards and noticed there a lottery in theere for the chance to win around 56 billiion credits WOW. and there only 3 choices to choice from for the lottery numbers. can you actually win or is it a fake lottery set up by some boran bastered lol anyway the ticket only cost me 2500 credits.
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almost forgot you can also win a argon mommoth and a few fighter class ships to go with the huge amount of money.
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interesting i did a search for a forum with lottery in it and found nothing lol oh well thats for the help i guess i should look in to the games files and see if there evan a chance at winning and if the game list the chance lol
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violentlyhappy wrote:interesting i did a search for a forum with lottery in it and found nothing lol oh well thats for the help i guess i should look in to the games files and see if there evan a chance at winning and if the game list the chance lol
...if you read the other topic, u would see that files do exsist sayong congrats for winninig the l;ottery etc etc but its either a red herring or impossible to win it just by simple odds.
You have better odds for winning the real lotteryKitch wrote:I was inspired by a post a while back to actually calculate the likelyhood of winning the lottery in X2. Having nothing better to do, I went and did it and post here for your viewing pleasure the premise that the lottery IS winnable, its just that unless egosoft sell 15 trillion copies of X2 and every owner plays it for 10 years, still nobody would win it. Doesn't mean it isn't possible though.
How to do it:
Measuring draw odds is quite easy...
Now, applying this to X2's lottery, we have to pick 10 numbers from 01-99
99x98x97x96x95x94x93x92x91x90 (56,534,085,859,976,524,800)
10 picks: 10x9x8x7x6x5x4x3x2x1 (3628800)
Divide numbers by picks gives us 15,579,278,510,796 (trust me)
Your chance of winning X2 lottery is 15.6 trillion to 1 against.
Or 0.00000000000006418%
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There is rumored to be a message saying that the lottery is taxed at a rate of 99%!!!
So maybe it would fit in your account...
But the chances are about "zip point sh*t".
So maybe it would fit in your account...
But the chances are about "zip point sh*t".
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