Drawing will be held on Friday nights at 9pm EST. Winner will take 90% of the pot. 10% will go to funding shard events such as scavenger hunts, tournaments and resist events. Depending on weekly turnout, I will continue to run it indefinitely. Will start accepting money for tickets today with the first drawing on Friday, March 11th at 9pm EST. I will post results of each drawing publicly on the forum. You can post in this thread, pm me on forums, or IRC me @ [UO]Dyne. If you have any reservations about the honesty of this service, then please do not purchase a ticket. I will be handling all tickets, cash storage and the drawing personally to alleviate anything that could go wrong in the process. Let's make the first pot worth 1 million or more!! Only need 20 tickets sold!!
Good turnout so far. I will be contacting each purchaser on IRC or PM over the next week to pick up the 50k checks. Payment will need to be secured in the "stash box" by Thursday night at midnight EST. Any tickets purchased after 12 a.m. Thursday will go on the following weeks drawing. I will try to be available every thursday from 11pm to 12 a.m. EST to pick up checks for the last minute purchasers. Still plenty of time to purchase and get me the checks!
Great idea to raise some gold for player ran events. Question, how do you plan on picking the winning ticket? Oh, and 1 ticket please .
I will assign a number to each ticket, based on order of purchase, so whoever bought ticket #1 will be number 1. If a player bought 3 tickets, they would be ticket # 12, 13 and 14 etc etc I will use a random number generator and probably generate 3 rolls with the 3rd roll being the winning roll. I haven't fully decided yet, I was going to do a little bit of research and see what is the best way. I will put ya down, so far we have 12 tickets sold. The pot is already 600k and it's only been open a few hours!! At the end of the week, we may have well over 1m, and closer to a 2m dollar pot. I may in the future look into doing 2 lotteries, therefore making it a bi-weekly thing. A 10k drawing on tuesdays and a 50k on Fridays, or maybe even switch to wednesday's/saturdays like the powerball. This was just the first run, and something I felt needed to be done. Since I have the time and reputation as an honest player, I figured I would be the one to start the endeavor haha We will also look into different types of events, so if there's anything in particular someone would like to see, please PM me with your ideas. We will be donating some to zyler's fishing tournaments, hosting an idoc type event where I drop a house randomly in a 1 hour window with loot and a "book with password" for the grand prize hidden somewhere among the mess. Just a few ideas we have for the upcoming year.
Hell, i'll take a ticket Dyne, and help out you endeavors, ill get your a check next week before the drawing
I will contact all of those that have requested tickets tomorrow and pick up the checks. If you are unavailable by IRC, I will send a pm through the forums. Checks have to be collected by thursday 3/10 at 11:59pm EST to count towards this weeks drawing.