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Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 13, 2004, 06:30 PM
Well, post here to brag about what youve done, whether youve jewel suicided for events(not saying who, but it IS legal and I dont care about it going on), or just talk about the discussion.

Heres my opinion.

I think its a very fairly balanced event. Now that theyre adding in REAL prizes like iPods and Digital Cameras(and robosapiens, but theyre cheap kid toys) Softnyx seems to have a bit of money in their pockets (http://www.pockethouse.com). The games are random and it gives everyone a chance to win, as long as they gain access to the rooms. At least its not a room entry lag massacre that was the halloween event.
This is exactly like the bear event last year, except with a raffle and a few real prizes. The only downside of this in my mind is botters. They play on average, 500 games in one day for a botter who gains around 200 GP daily. Factor in that 3/5 games has an event. If they win every game, thats 300 tickets for the botter. Fuckin insane.

Just because you enter for an iPod doesnt mean you get one. Its a raffle, You need 15 tokens(about an hour of 1v1ing nonstop) to get enough for a raffleticket. REMEMBER YOUR SERIAL CODE ON THE RAFFLE FOR THE PRIZE DRAWING ON THE 24TH! and dont forget to update your address and birthday in case you actually win an ipod or digital camera.

Heres a simple diagram for the weirdass present page where you buy your tickets
NOTE: In order to see how many tokens you have, you need to click on of the presents.

Anyway, i made an easy guide to navigate the odd hidden present ticket buying

(http://img127.exs.cx/img127/2362/prizeguide1hk.jpg)


So far I've bought tickets for:
iPod: 1 ticket-15 points
Phoenix and Gold: 2 tickets - 12 points
Background set(2,000,000 users get it, and about 200,000 users are participating.. Gee i wonder if I'll get one): 1 ticket - 1 points

yeah i got 20 tokens so far :o
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: kiwibonga on Dec 13, 2004, 06:37 PM
37 clown tickets
1 Background ticket

Total wish points won: 76
Total wish points used: 75
Wish points remaining: 1

Keep updating your post guys, no multiple posts every time you make 1 point ;p
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: acdragon on Dec 13, 2004, 06:40 PM
I don't like the fact that botters will get free ipods and whatnot for doing almost nothing at all while the rest of us has to actually play game after game...
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 13, 2004, 07:08 PM
21 clown tickets
6 Teddy set ticket
1 background ticket

QuoteI don't like the fact that botters will get free ipods and whatnot for doing almost nothing at all while the rest of us has to actually play game after game...

Doesn't mean that they will win, but yeah they have a much higher chance of winning. I still find it insane that there are 9k tickets for the clown suit, in 6 hours @.@
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: kiwibonga on Dec 13, 2004, 07:08 PM
They'll only take away 15% of your chances, don't despair :P
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 13, 2004, 07:10 PM
I wonder what the santa set is ;x
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Blake on Dec 13, 2004, 07:12 PM
they don't get free iponds necessarily, just a very high chance >_<. And cheaters are always evident, let's just hope softnyx does a better time of catching them for once...this is one of the best events in a LONG TIME, so don't complain :^_^:
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: andrewcleung on Dec 13, 2004, 07:17 PM
Background set is the one that everyone can get it as long as they have a ticket (I think). But can we choose the prize of the background or expression?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: RancidslayerV2 on Dec 13, 2004, 07:37 PM
3 General+Gold Tickets
3 Bear Tickets
1 Backround Ticket
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 13, 2004, 07:44 PM
Last time i checked there were 415 tickets for iPods

woo! i have a 1:212.5 chance! for the next minute. By december 24th its gonna be 1:23,000 minimum  :angry:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: TonksLT on Dec 13, 2004, 08:05 PM
So far, I have:

1 Great General + Gold Ticket
2 Clown Set
3 Teddy Set
1 Background Set
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: SLdK on Dec 13, 2004, 08:15 PM
One Background Set

9 Wishes.

Oh how I want more! :(

BTW::

I think all of us should set a GBGL Goal. Like a telethon BUT FOR PERSONAL BENEFIT MUHAHAHAHA.

And yall will be seeing me play more often now. :D I r  Famouz.

AND I NOMINATE 10,000 WISH POINTS AS OUR GOAL
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: -SF- on Dec 13, 2004, 08:21 PM
time to go hardcore on 1v1 again -.-
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 13, 2004, 08:34 PM
You know, Jewel suicide has no expense of GP and is completely legal.

1: Start with dual cakes on cozy tower B(the thin towers)
2: If you get an event, Select one person to jump off
 a: That person jumps off, the winner gets a prize
 b: You then reverse that for the next event game. You take turns
3: If you dont get an event, Just jump off or fool around with jewel
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Blake on Dec 13, 2004, 08:36 PM
lol fun idea XD. Might get boring though..
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: RanmaFan on Dec 13, 2004, 08:42 PM
62 clown set....


thats all i want....
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: what on Dec 13, 2004, 08:42 PM
I don't know much about this event.. where do i go to get some info?
and is the event game only for 1v1?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Blake on Dec 13, 2004, 08:44 PM
no just go to gunbound.net to check out the event, it applies to all games and all servers.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: -SF- on Dec 13, 2004, 08:53 PM
wtf is a robosapien?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: SLdK on Dec 13, 2004, 08:58 PM
Some robot pet toy that does whatever you command it to do.

Aka Useless :P
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: acdragon on Dec 13, 2004, 09:18 PM
http://www.gbspade.shyper.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30 (http://www.gbspade.shyper.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30) <-- little guide I wrote  :lol:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ILoveAlliO on Dec 13, 2004, 09:31 PM
I'm a bit frustrated with this christmas event.  I bought the snowman avatar crap with the preordered 2000cash for tooya and myself.  I recieved the 20000cash that is standard with it but didnt recieve the avatar set or the 2000cash preordered.  Tooya on the other hand recieved the 20000cash and the snowman avatar set.  What do you think happened with mine?  Gb is pissing me off now a days... christ, spent over 200 bucks on this game... and then crap like this happens to me.  Earlier today... i bought 20000cash and thought that that would lead to me getting the avatar set... but then i find out that you're supposed to get it off of the damn frigging direct link from the christmas event page.  This is all PISSING ME OFF.  I aint investing anymore cash for gunbound if i'm not getting thie shit that i ask for.  God damnit, i love Gunbound just as much as all of you do... which is why i'm spending a shit load of money, that i could have bought a christmas present for my girlfriend with, and took it and spent it on the game that i love playing.  What the fuck is up with this?  Its ticking me off.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: -SF- on Dec 13, 2004, 09:54 PM
QuoteYou know, Jewel suicide has no expense of GP and is completely legal.

1: Start with dual cakes on cozy tower B(the thin towers)
2: If you get an event, Select one person to jump off
 a: That person jumps off, the winner gets a prize
 b: You then reverse that for the next event game. You take turns
3: If you dont get an event, Just jump off or fool around with jewel
so technically u can suicide bot in jewel n' not get banned  :rolleyes:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 13, 2004, 10:32 PM
as long as its jewel and youre not losing GP or giving away to another player constantly, its legal.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: kiwibonga on Dec 13, 2004, 11:00 PM
Quotehttp://www.gbspade.shyper.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30 (http://www.gbspade.shyper.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30) <-- little guide I wrote  :lol:
Pff... Make it viewable for people who aren't registered, that's just blatant advertising -.-
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: TonksLT on Dec 13, 2004, 11:03 PM
Would copy and paste help?

Do I need to re-write my guide to copy and pasting?  :P  (Seriously... a guy on a forum... did not know how to copy and paste...)
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: -SF- on Dec 13, 2004, 11:14 PM
Quoteas long as its jewel and youre not losing GP or giving away to another player constantly, its legal.
wut difference does it make softnyx still doesn't ban if u do it normally  :(:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 13, 2004, 11:26 PM
actually. Me and a friend were trying it in solo mode on noob accounts. She got banned for three days.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: SLdK on Dec 13, 2004, 11:42 PM
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/SLdK1/you_win_the_prize.jpg)
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 13, 2004, 11:55 PM
Damn your global modness. If i posted that id get warned for spam  :huh:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Platon on Dec 14, 2004, 12:24 AM
eh this is interesting i made a room today. playing in it, and so far, atleast every 2nd game has been an event game, and i also got 6 events in a row... i'm so lucky.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: -SF- on Dec 14, 2004, 12:28 AM
im gonna just wait till the last day n' cash my wish pts to see the chance of winning something
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Toasters on Dec 14, 2004, 12:31 AM
All tickets for Ipod on the last day!
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: -SF- on Dec 14, 2004, 01:05 AM
i think the event is crashing my GB on loading screen (4x in a row) =(
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: lVlithra on Dec 14, 2004, 07:01 AM
I don't think I like events anymore. I minimized for 30 minutes to work on more pixel art and ended up with this (yes, it's sorted)..

(http://img96.exs.cx/img96/2068/wah3gq.th.png) (http://img96.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img96&image=wah3gq.png)

:o: :blink: :ph34r:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: uberbacon on Dec 14, 2004, 07:26 AM
poor mithra :( make a passworded room and idle next time ;)

I have 5 on clown, 12 on teddy and one background. 35 wish points earned. I'll not put more on clown now :)
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: SnowiePhoenix on Dec 14, 2004, 07:48 AM
So i vowed never to msg her again.. so there




Ok  Here's mine:                             Points so far .... 69

4 IPod's

2 Clown's  (Then i saw what they look like, darnit)

1 Teddy

1 Background
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: nars2 on Dec 14, 2004, 08:22 AM
Ill put one on each than devote all the left o one specifically
thats only to have chance in all, which is funnier =D
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 14, 2004, 09:22 AM
Teddy is the way to go in terms of event suits. Everyone loves the cute pink or brown piles of fur.


Warning: Jewel suicide is now illegal according to dovo and if youre caught, it is a 3 day ban, plus your tickets are taken away

Sorry dovo, dun smite me,
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: EatEmAlive on Dec 14, 2004, 09:48 AM
QuoteREMEMBER YOUR SERIAL CODE ON THE RAFFLE FOR THE PRIZE DRAWING ON THE 24TH!
You don't need to remember your raffle numbers.  They are listed for you now.  Not sure if they were before.  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: MaNdubOy on Dec 14, 2004, 09:53 AM
Around how many tickets do you think we have to earn in order to win?  I'm only aiming for clown and teddy and so far I got 26 on clown....
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: andrewcleung on Dec 14, 2004, 10:30 AM
I got myself a background raffle ticket and a clown suit ticket. I think that it's 100% chance to get a background.

Btw, can u get more than 1 background for prize in this event and can u choose ur own background or it's set randomly?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: 404Error on Dec 14, 2004, 10:31 AM
Quoteactually. Me and a friend were trying it in solo mode on noob accounts. She got banned for three days.
You weren't a poweruser. No kidding she got banned.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: EatEmAlive on Dec 14, 2004, 10:36 AM
Overall I think it is a good idea for an event, other than the usual "delete the damn botters already" thing.  I do think they could have added a greater variety of prizes though.  I'm not talking about the tangible things such as the Digital Camera, but more avatar prizes, or even gunbound cash as prizes.  

In the future, they could do this type of feature only for power users, and there is a fortnightly or monthly draw for prizes.

Also I find this statement on their website amusing:

*Your chances goes up with more raffle tickets

Well thats stating the bleeding obvious, but after such reasoning, I cannot help but think of Homer Simpson buying lottery tickets:

Homer: I've never been so sure of anything in my life. I am going to win this lottery!

Marge: Homer, the odds of winning are 380 million to 1.

Homer: Correction: 380 million to 50!!!!
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: phook on Dec 14, 2004, 12:23 PM
QuoteWarning: Jewel suicide is now illegal according to dovo and if youre caught, it is a 3 day ban, plus your tickets are taken away

Sorry dovo, dun smite me,
"legal" botting....nicely done....hope your "friend" isnt too pissed at you.... :blink:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 14, 2004, 12:25 PM
Quote
Quoteactually. Me and a friend were trying it in solo mode on noob accounts. She got banned for three days.
You weren't a poweruser. No kidding she got banned.
Indeed, if you are a power user you can get away with anything.  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: MaNdubOy on Dec 14, 2004, 12:39 PM
Sorry, might be little bit off topic, but whats the limit on how much gp you earn per day.  I heard its around 3000gp .. is it?

Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: genty on Dec 14, 2004, 12:59 PM
anyone know what the expression set looks like?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: BSDragon on Dec 14, 2004, 01:51 PM
Quoteanyone know what the expression set looks like?
It's the new face items in the ava shop (I believe), which would be the crying eyes, the angry eyes, shocked eyes, and some other one (cannot remember...
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: MaNdubOy on Dec 14, 2004, 01:57 PM
Go the gunbound homepage, click on the christmas event link, and on the bottom of the page, it shows what prizes you get.  Hope that helps. ;)
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: phook on Dec 14, 2004, 02:03 PM
QuoteSorry, might be little bit off topic, but whats the limit on how much gp you earn per day.  I heard its around 3000gp .. is it?
under 2500, friend got banned for that much....when i go on marathon playing days i try to have it around 1500 at the max
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 14, 2004, 02:38 PM
Botters rarely make it past 2400. Dovo seriously needs to lower it. Uberbacon played for 18 hours straght and got 839
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: MaNdubOy on Dec 14, 2004, 02:39 PM
Quote
QuoteSorry, might be little bit off topic, but whats the limit on how much gp you earn per day.  I heard its around 3000gp .. is it?
under 2500, friend got banned for that much....when i go on marathon playing days i try to have it around 1500 at the max
k.  Thanks PHook.  I might want to stop playing for a while, and oh yea my count for the Merry Gunbound even is

52 for Clown and 3 for Background in total 55 raffle tickets

and total of 100 wish points..

Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: BSDragon on Dec 14, 2004, 03:25 PM
Oh, plus, as of now, my only raffle tckets are:

1 Background
3 Bear suit
3 Clown suit

Must get more @.@
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: kiwibonga on Dec 14, 2004, 03:49 PM
To have a 100% chance of winning:

You need (number of entries)-(number of items available) tickets.

Clown set has 51000 entries right now, this means you need 45000 clown tickets to have a 100% chance of winning (pigeonhole principle ^_^)

So yeah, nobody's winning anything but a background :)))))
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 14, 2004, 03:52 PM
blah I just hope that sotnyx bans the botters from the event, or that they don't count the tickets of the abusers. I just to have a fucking chance at the clown suit. I mean after all I bought the first damn ticket for it -_-
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: MaNdubOy on Dec 14, 2004, 03:57 PM
Yea, after playing so mcuh and not getting picked in theh lottery will suck.  I hope if we dont get the prize, we will get something else for having those raffle tickets.... =/
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 14, 2004, 04:06 PM
QuoteYea, after playing so mcuh and not getting picked in theh lottery will suck.  I hope if we dont get the prize, we will get something else for having those raffle tickets.... =/
yeah spending all this time playing, then getting nothing for it. Blah....if botters win this,  I'll be royally po'd. -_-
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Dreamcatcher on Dec 14, 2004, 04:31 PM
QuoteBotters rarely make it past 2400. Dovo seriously needs to lower it. Uberbacon played for 18 hours straght and got 839
And?? Whats your point, did you ever think that maybe, just maybe, he earned that gp, for once in your life, stop thinking about banning people for getting alot of gp, I mean 18 hours, you can get that much gp. I dont think you quite understand botting and what it consists of. Are you accusing Uberbacon of botting?? He's a staff member of the league, and kiwi knew that uber was the right person for the position, why would kiwi let a botter be in that position?? Stop making false accusations.

-SecksyDreamz  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 14, 2004, 04:32 PM
I used to make 900gp in under 10 hours legit O.o

800+ in 18 hours is nothing special. actually, its a small amount x.X
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 14, 2004, 04:40 PM
Quote
QuoteBotters rarely make it past 2400. Dovo seriously needs to lower it. Uberbacon played for 18 hours straght and got 839
And?? Whats your point, did you ever think that maybe, just maybe, he earned that gp, for once in your life, stop thinking about banning people for getting alot of gp, I mean 18 hours, you can get that much gp. I dont think you quite understand botting and what it consists of. Are you accusing Uberbacon of botting?? He's a staff member of the league, and kiwi knew that uber was the right person for the position, why would kiwi let a botter be in that position?? Stop making false accusations.

-SecksyDreamz
uhhh. I wasnt accusing uberbacon of anything. I was saying that if it takes someone to earn 900 GP in a day of hard work, a botter gaining around 2400 is alot. Its just that I've never seen on uberbacon's list any botter getting over 3000 GP. even 2000 is almost impossible(be quiet sol :P) Uberbacon plays fair. I know what botting is, I know how its done, I dont bot, I have a year of experience. Don't flame me. :wacko:
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 14, 2004, 04:43 PM
Quote
Quote
QuoteBotters rarely make it past 2400. Dovo seriously needs to lower it. Uberbacon played for 18 hours straght and got 839
And?? Whats your point, did you ever think that maybe, just maybe, he earned that gp, for once in your life, stop thinking about banning people for getting alot of gp, I mean 18 hours, you can get that much gp. I dont think you quite understand botting and what it consists of. Are you accusing Uberbacon of botting?? He's a staff member of the league, and kiwi knew that uber was the right person for the position, why would kiwi let a botter be in that position?? Stop making false accusations.

-SecksyDreamz
uhhh. I wasnt accusing uberbacon of anything. I was saying that if it takes someone to earn 900 GP in a day of hard work, a botter gaining around 2400 is alot/ Its just that Ive never seen on uberbacon;s list any botter getting over 3000 GP. even 2000 is Almost impossible(be quiet sol :P) Uberbacon plays fair. Dont flame when you dont know exactly what youre flaming. I know what botting is, I know how its done, I dont bot, I have a year of experience dont flame me. :wacko:
wanna bet?

http://www.kiwibonga.com/gbcookie/index.php (http://www.kiwibonga.com/gbcookie/index.php)

go there, look at the stats for a user named ZuCoR.

Look at his cookie logs. the guy makes 2300gp+ in 8 FUCKING hours.

if botters wanted to, they could make over 5000gp in a single day. ;x
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Blake on Dec 14, 2004, 04:45 PM
whoa...check out gunbound.net, they posted pictures of all the prizes (go there and check it out!!):

We're actually getting more of some things than I thought:

Here's the listed prizes:

Sony Digital Camera (DSC-F88)
Ipod Mini 4G
RoboSapien Toy Robot
Samsung Yepp MP3 Player (YP-T5V)
Phoenix + 50,000 Gold
Great GeneralSet + 50,000 Gold <---- both pieces, sweet
Expression Set <--- All four pieces in case you didn't notice
Santa Set <--- Sorry but it's the one available in stores, so no need to really put points into this
Background + Teddy + Peacock <--- So instead of just the teddy, we receive the peacock and background (the same one as 2 mil chances) too (so I guess we can get multiples of the same background? Might as well put all your points into teddy or clown then)
Background + Clown + Acrobat <--- Same as Teddy, you get a flag (Acrobot) and the background too
Background Set (Front + Back) <--- So it's a two piece background

This is truly the greatest event softnyx has come up with so far.

EDIT: Wow...look at the hoardes of people for the phoenix and MP3 Player, glad I got a phoenix from a online friend for free :^_^:
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 14, 2004, 04:48 PM
Quote
Quote
Quote
QuoteBotters rarely make it past 2400. Dovo seriously needs to lower it. Uberbacon played for 18 hours straght and got 839
And?? Whats your point, did you ever think that maybe, just maybe, he earned that gp, for once in your life, stop thinking about banning people for getting alot of gp, I mean 18 hours, you can get that much gp. I dont think you quite understand botting and what it consists of. Are you accusing Uberbacon of botting?? He's a staff member of the league, and kiwi knew that uber was the right person for the position, why would kiwi let a botter be in that position?? Stop making false accusations.

-SecksyDreamz
uhhh. I wasnt accusing uberbacon of anything. I was saying that if it takes someone to earn 900 GP in a day of hard work, a botter gaining around 2400 is alot/ Its just that Ive never seen on uberbacon;s list any botter getting over 3000 GP. even 2000 is Almost impossible(be quiet sol :P) Uberbacon plays fair. Dont flame when you dont know exactly what youre flaming. I know what botting is, I know how its done, I dont bot, I have a year of experience dont flame me. :wacko:
wanna bet?

http://www.kiwibonga.com/gbcookie/index.php (http://www.kiwibonga.com/gbcookie/index.php)

go there, look at the stats for a user named ZuCoR.

Look at his cookie logs. the guy makes 2300gp+ in 8 FUCKING hours.

if botters wanted to, they could make over 5000gp in a single day. ;x
I wasnt saying botters wont make over 3k gp a day, i was just saying it is rare. Will everyone stop jumping to conclusions about my posts?

QuoteIts just that Ive never seen on uberbacon;s list any botter getting over 3000 GP
:dualhuh:


ps: Damn, zucor is a cheap bastard  :o:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 14, 2004, 04:50 PM
I even know the guy, he's a regular to channel 8 ;x

Edit: by regular I mean he's in there, when he doesn't bot.  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 14, 2004, 04:52 PM
report him to dovo, He'll be smited fer sure
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 14, 2004, 04:54 PM
Quotereport him to dovo, He'll be smited fer sure
the guys a power user I believe, so small chance of him getting banned ;x
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: kiwibonga on Dec 14, 2004, 05:09 PM
You guys are fools for hoping that botters will be banned during the event.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: uberbacon on Dec 14, 2004, 05:19 PM
o.O what did I do? I made over 1500 gp that marathon.. and I didn't play all the time (shame on me)
I could make a lot more.

the last I've seen is 990 by EatEmAlive on the updates though (:
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 14, 2004, 06:13 PM
Quote
Quotereport him to dovo, He'll be smited fer sure
the guys a power user I believe, so small chance of him getting banned ;x
QuoteHowever, as i told before people with powercard tend to whine and make fuss about the banning. But starting from now, we have fortified our rules against the botters. They will receive more harsh punishment.

He says he doesnt care about power users whining because they wasted a few of their bucks on a phoenix and power cards so they can get more gp botting. kudos to dovo to sticking it to them.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ILoveAlliO on Dec 14, 2004, 06:36 PM
does anyone have any idea as to why i havent recieved my snowman avatar and tooya did right after i bought it for him?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Dreamcatcher on Dec 14, 2004, 06:56 PM
That has been happening alot, try emailing through the FAQ and ask them about it, although it should work.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 14, 2004, 07:15 PM
Maybe something happened because you ordered it for both and it was delivered to one.  I dont really know, sorry  :-_-:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Blake on Dec 14, 2004, 09:01 PM
Is it just me, or has the event occurences decreased dramatically? I went through a period of about 15 games with only one event game, opposed to yesterday with like one every other game, sometimes long chains of 3 to 5.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: -SF- on Dec 14, 2004, 09:07 PM
it has indeed dropped :(
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: SLdK on Dec 14, 2004, 09:10 PM
Same here, I've had like 1 out of ten
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Post by: MaNdubOy on Dec 14, 2004, 09:12 PM
thats been happening to me too.  I then tried it on my other account and the occurence rate went up.  Could it be that if you already have the "right" ticket number, that the occurences will lower itself?  Probably not right?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: qwazi on Dec 14, 2004, 09:21 PM
Completely random.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 14, 2004, 09:26 PM
what the fuck. I just had 17 tickets, then bought for 4 more, now I got 27 tickets O.o what the bloody shit?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: kiwibonga on Dec 14, 2004, 09:33 PM
Quote
Quote
Quotereport him to dovo, He'll be smited fer sure
the guys a power user I believe, so small chance of him getting banned ;x
QuoteHowever, as i told before people with powercard tend to whine and make fuss about the banning. But starting from now, we have fortified our rules against the botters. They will receive more harsh punishment.

He says he doesnt care about power users whining because they wasted a few of their bucks on a phoenix and power cards so they can get more gp botting. kudos to dovo to sticking it to them.
Look at the top 200 ranks. And then say to my face that they're making their punishment harder. I will attempt not to laugh. Or cry.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 14, 2004, 09:34 PM
Quote
Quote
Quote
Quotereport him to dovo, He'll be smited fer sure
the guys a power user I believe, so small chance of him getting banned ;x
QuoteHowever, as i told before people with powercard tend to whine and make fuss about the banning. But starting from now, we have fortified our rules against the botters. They will receive more harsh punishment.

He says he doesnt care about power users whining because they wasted a few of their bucks on a phoenix and power cards so they can get more gp botting. kudos to dovo to sticking it to them.
Look at the top 200 ranks. And then say to my face that they're making their punishment harder. I will attempt not to laugh. Or cry.
well dovo said starting now, so prolly this week or soemthing. But yeah if the top 200 get away with everything then yeah I agree.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 14, 2004, 10:22 PM
Quote
well dovo said starting now, so prolly this week or soemthing. But yeah if the top 200 get away with everything then yeah I agree.
That PM was from last friday, so its probably happening now.

BACK ON TOPIC:

What the fuck is with the event backgrounds? Theyre almost as blinding as the world cup backgrounds... wel maybe not, But the nak in the center is creepy.

A funny picture of the nak eating one of my friends,
(http://img65.exs.cx/img65/2152/gunbound00000795bp.jpg)
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: -SF- on Dec 14, 2004, 10:46 PM
bg off > all

i doubt the botters will be punish or punish harshly enuf
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: CommunistBus on Dec 14, 2004, 10:57 PM
I have found it a bit hard to see the arrow on the wind indicator with this BG. I turned it off though. Problem solved. (I like to play bg on. It helps me to judge distances and such)
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 14, 2004, 11:44 PM
I had been playing bg off until this afternoon, when i turned it on and i was shocked. everyone was all "What, you havent been in an event yet?"

:>  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: EatEmAlive on Dec 15, 2004, 02:07 AM
As far as I am concerned all penalties are not harsh enough for the botters.  The only penalty that is fitting is to delete them, or reset their account to 0gp (although this would still leave them with their cheated gold and avatar items).  I know of one player that has 3 accounts in the top 100 (one is a dragon), and he uses the same dummy bot account for all his accounts.  This dummy account has -185020gp.  Don't believe me?  Look up the name sunshinegrl.

Now remeber for each -1gp this dummy account has, that means +3gp for his other accounts.  This means that pretty much 99% of this guys gp is done through botting.  And he isn't the only one.  Delete their account, or reduce their gp to 0, thats the only fitting penalty.  Besides, in the so called GIS rules, it states that players are supposed to be penalised 120% of ther cheated gp.  Yeah right.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Monkey Fat on Dec 15, 2004, 02:12 AM
I have around 40 right now and im aiming for 200 by the end of it.   50 for clown, 50 for bear. :):
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Post by: lVlithra on Dec 15, 2004, 05:06 AM
I have..

29 on teddy
1 on background
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Capnkj2 on Dec 15, 2004, 05:16 AM
Free Wish Points: 0
Total Wish Points Spent: ??
Total Wish Points Earned: ??

=====================================================
0: Real Prizes--I've decided that all of the "Real" prizes are not worth my time--I don't really want a Robosapien anyways lol  :P
=====================================================
0: Teddy Suit--Already have it but I may put points in for the peacock for   collector's purposes.
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1: Clown Suit--I might put one in it...but I didn't like what I saw. Again, it'd be for collector's purposes.
=====================================================
0: Expressions--I'll fork over $8 if I decide I want them.
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0: Phoenix+Gold--Already have one.
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1: Background--I'll put one or two in just for collector's purposes...seems to be a guaranteed thing so far.
=====================================================
7: Great General+Gold--This will be my primary focus for the event.
=====================================================

Unfortunately I have finals this week or I'd be staying up ALL NIGHT playing Gunbound. I'll be done by Thursday night though...  :):
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Regist3rMe on Dec 15, 2004, 08:32 AM
Oh hell, I just lost 2 raffle tickets. I'd start my story-telling session now.

Aight, I got bored of playing, so I thought I'd buy some raffle tickets first. I went to the event page logged in and saw that I have 35 points. Aight, what the heck, I bought 5 "Phoenix & Gold" raffle tickets, I actually copied down all the raffle ticket's "numbers" to notepad.

But when I bought the 5th ticket, something wierd happended. The ticket "number" kept on changing and changing. I waited until it stopped and once again copied down the "numbers". Now I'm left with 5 wish points. I thought I'd recheck, and HUH? There's only 4 tickets listed! I mailed an query to the customer service, hoping they would look in to it :rolleyes:

Now, screw that. I went to buy more raffle tickets. 5 wish points left, bleh, I'd buy 5 tickets of the background set. Who knows, the same thing happended! At the 5th ticket, the ticket "number" kept on changing again. This time, I thought, rather than waiting it to stop, I'd click "OK" first. After that, I checked again, whalla! 4 tickets rather than 5 AGAIN.

I guess I'm having a really bad day :<_<: I could win someone few rounds straight, but once it's an event game, I lose :-_-:

Some of you might think I shouldn't whine over just 2 damn tickets, but.. Bleh, I'm bored :<_<: And I don't want it to happen again if I buy another 5 tickets :-_-:

Anyone got the same encounter? Or does GB really hates me?

:mellow: Peace :mellow:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: MaNdubOy on Dec 15, 2004, 08:40 AM
Nah, nothing like that happened to me but  like Sol, somehow I ended up getting more tickets than what I bought.. o.O weird.. or maybe I just miscalculated..

Anyways, I think my chances of getting a clown or teddy avatar is really slim, there are over 70000+ people signed up for it.  I currently have 48 on clown.  I decided I'll put around 100 or 200 in for each and stop.  

After my finals today, I"m just going to spend my time playing gb.. damn college sucks!

one more thing, what is an "illegal" way of getting raffle tickets?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: lVlithra on Dec 15, 2004, 10:44 AM
Playing 1 v 1 and one person jumping off the side.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Monkey Fat on Dec 15, 2004, 10:47 AM
And buying them from a hooded stranger in a dark forest. :ph34r:
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: MaNdubOy on Dec 15, 2004, 10:49 AM
QuotePlaying 1 v 1 and one person jumping off the side.
Playing 1v1 with a friend, a normal 1v1 is considered to be "illegal?"  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Monkey Fat on Dec 15, 2004, 10:53 AM
No when the friend kills themself so that the other person wins automaticaly.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: MaNdubOy on Dec 15, 2004, 11:03 AM
aite thanks, just wanted to make sure.  I also read that "jeweling" will get you banned too?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Monkey Fat on Dec 15, 2004, 11:05 AM
What do you mean by jewling, if you mean playing jewl well thats ok.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: lVlithra on Dec 15, 2004, 11:07 AM
playing jewel is fine but most people are using jewel to bot so they don't lose gp or gold when they jump.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: JediKitsune on Dec 15, 2004, 12:41 PM
Well, seeing how many people have entered now, my chances of winning anything are slim to none...Go figure....

How the hell do people manage to play so much with stuff like school (which I'm currently in) and work?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 15, 2004, 02:45 PM
what about Picking someone to round up and get 100 jewels? Its not suiciding or losing GP, so i guess its legal, though not fair nor practical.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 15, 2004, 02:56 PM
*points to user RoyalChief on the current rankings* 3 fucking dragon acconts ;x
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Blake on Dec 15, 2004, 03:55 PM
buying 5 background tickets was kind of pointless as they are giving out 2 million of them =P. Hasn't happened to me yet, nor others I believe who have bought many of the same thing. PM softnyx and get one of those generic answers :(. Oops, he was on the 3rd page not 4th ><.

Lord...what are you talking about...that's still cheating I'd say since you predetermine the winner and it's basically the same concept as ice tag, without hurting eachother.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: sober on Dec 15, 2004, 04:36 PM
QuoteWell, seeing how many people have entered now, my chances of winning anything are slim to none...Go figure....

How the hell do people manage to play so much with stuff like school (which I'm currently in) and work?
Its the school hols in the Asia region and most students dont tend to work in the hols ( good life and parents provide everything )

Of course you have to factor in botters but the bg prize is a sure win unless there are over 2 million entries by the end of the event.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: JediKitsune on Dec 15, 2004, 04:38 PM
Quote
QuoteWell, seeing how many people have entered now, my chances of winning anything are slim to none...Go figure....

How the hell do people manage to play so much with stuff like school (which I'm currently in) and work?
Its the school hols in the Asia region and most students dont tend to work in the hols ( good life and parents provide everything )

Of course you have to factor in botters but the bg prize is a sure win unless there are over 2 million entries by the end of the event.
And knowing GB players, that's HIGHLY likely.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: lVlithra on Dec 15, 2004, 05:32 PM
Ok.. I made this because I get IM'ed CONSTANTLY while I'm playing asking "how do you use wishpoints to buy raffle tickets?"

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1) Go to gunbound's website.

2) Login. (http://img146.exs.cx/img146/8794/login2gy.png)

3) Click the banner for this event. (http://img146.exs.cx/img146/9863/banner3wi.png)

4) Go to the very bottom and click the "buy raffle tickets" button. (http://img146.exs.cx/img146/4148/button2wb.png)

5) Each present on the tree is different. Someone already posted earlier about which present on the tree holds which item. Click the present of your choice. (http://img146.exs.cx/img146/361/tree2ri.th.png) (http://img146.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img146&image=tree2ri.png)

6) It will come up with the information. Click buy if that's the one you want.(http://img146.exs.cx/img146/7461/buy7et.th.png) (http://img146.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img146&image=buy7et.png)

7) Your raffle ticket "reciept" is shown. It shows how many wish points you have left, the prize, the ticket number, and the purchase date. (http://img146.exs.cx/img146/5713/ticket6gc.th.png) (http://img146.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img146&image=ticket6gc.png)

8) A little bit further down, it shows the tickets and ticket numbers you have purchased so far. (http://img146.exs.cx/img146/6468/tickets8fh.th.png) (http://img146.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img146&image=tickets8fh.png)

There. Hope it helps anyone still confuzzled.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I know most of GBGL knows how to do that but I've had endless IM's day in and day out about it and I see many visitors on here so who knows when one needs to know.

Also for anyone who hasnt seen the presents yet..
(http://img146.exs.cx/img146/5807/prizes13gi.th.png) (http://img146.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img146&image=prizes13gi.png)

There they are. Nice and shiny and most almost impossible to get. ;):

At least working for these tickets is helping me get the gold for christmas presents. :):  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 15, 2004, 05:43 PM
I echoed my prize guide to aid Mithra's post

(http://img127.exs.cx/img127/2362/prizeguide1hk.jpg)
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: qwazi on Dec 15, 2004, 11:37 PM
QuoteAnyways, I think my chances of getting a clown or teddy avatar is really slim, there are over 70000+ people signed up for it.  I currently have 48 on clown.  I decided I'll put around 100 or 200 in for each and stop.
Yes I'm sure all 70000+ of those tickets are individual people.  It must have occured to you that most people who want the jester will have lots of tickets in it, with probably no more than 10,000 people actually trying to get it.  That along with the fact that you have more tickets in it than most others should almost guarantee you a suit.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Monkey Fat on Dec 16, 2004, 06:43 AM
There is a glith or something with the tickets and sometimes it gives you more, lots more.  Ive heard someone gaining nearly 100+ tickets than they bid.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: phook on Dec 16, 2004, 11:24 AM
i just gained an extra 30 tickets than what i purchased....hope it gets fixed, cuz 100+ could really screw things over
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: StyloTiM on Dec 16, 2004, 11:41 AM
Im going for clowbackground got like 1  ticket
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Tooya on Dec 17, 2004, 12:24 AM
I truly hope that GiS moniters the raffle game well.... the section of buying tickets is made in flash.....
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: -SF- on Dec 17, 2004, 12:48 AM
QuoteI truly hope that GiS moniters the raffle game well.... the section of buying tickets is made in flash.....
its like ez to edit, just getting it to work is different, apparently the softnyx coders aren't stupid and they thought about this (somewhat) but i believe with editing it can be easily exploited

like:
(http://img151.exs.cx/img151/9532/3xploi72wd.jpg)

no the submit doesn't work it just for looks (pointless in other words)
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 17, 2004, 02:51 PM
I have played for an hour today, and I cna't seem to get one damn event game. -_-
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: mezzaninex on Dec 17, 2004, 03:22 PM
i think the occurance of events will go down as it become closer to the final day.
the first day, i got about 24 tickets! second, only about 14. yesterday i got a sorry 6 tickets. i spent about the same amount of time playing each time.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 17, 2004, 03:37 PM
Quotei think the occurance of events will go down as it become closer to the final day.
the first day, i got about 24 tickets! second, only about 14. yesterday i got a sorry 6 tickets. i spent about the same amount of time playing each time.
I just want a damn clown suit, and I know my guildmate does too. We are playing as much as we can for it, but bleh, weith the lack of event games. Its going to be hard to get one. -_-
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: MaNdubOy on Dec 17, 2004, 03:57 PM
Seems weird that when I play with my noob account, the rate of the event games is higher than when I play with my first account..=/  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: mezzaninex on Dec 18, 2004, 02:14 AM
current odds:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/m0untaindew4u/GBGL/odds.gif)
background is 0 because its rounded up to the nearest ticket, but apparently 0.2 rounds down xD

not the greatest odds in the world. and its not over yet >_<


btw today, i got about 90% event games playing with The ODDITY. she/he is crazy lucky.  :D:
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Monkey Fat on Dec 18, 2004, 02:25 AM
Well with those odds i should win the teady set, now to start on the clown >.>
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: happylight on Dec 18, 2004, 11:40 AM
... How did you calculate those "entries required to win"?

Besides background, even if you have a BILLION tickets in each of the other gift you might still win nothing.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: TonksLT on Dec 18, 2004, 12:08 PM
But then again, if you have one ticket on each, you could still win. (Very unlikely, but it's possible... in some alternate universe...  :blink: )  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: qwazi on Dec 18, 2004, 04:27 PM
Quotecurrent odds:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/m0untaindew4u/GBGL/odds.gif)
background is 0 because its rounded up to the nearest ticket, but apparently 0.2 rounds down xD

not the greatest odds in the world. and its not over yet >_<


btw today, i got about 90% event games playing with The ODDITY. she/he is crazy lucky.  :D:

You realize of course, that there are not 300,000 applicants, I doubt there are even 100,000.  People are putting in more than 1 ticket into that raffle.  There is no way to calculate the chances unless you know the number of people in the raffle.  

Additionally, whoever made that chart had no comprehension of statistics.  You can't take the odds and say that's how many you need to win.  For example, say 100 people (each with 1 ticket in it each) are in a raffle that results in 1 winner.  To figure out your chances of winning with x tickets, you would do 1-((100-1)/100)^x.  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: VirusPanda on Dec 18, 2004, 05:48 PM
Quote
Quotecurrent odds:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/m0untaindew4u/GBGL/odds.gif)
background is 0 because its rounded up to the nearest ticket, but apparently 0.2 rounds down xD

not the greatest odds in the world. and its not over yet >_<


btw today, i got about 90% event games playing with The ODDITY. she/he is crazy lucky.  :D:

You realize of course, that there are not 300,000 applicants, I doubt there are even 100,000.  People are putting in more than 1 ticket into that raffle.  There is no way to calculate the chances unless you know the number of people in the raffle.  

Additionally, whoever made that chart had no comprehension of statistics.  You can't take the odds and say that's how many you need to win.  For example, say 100 people (each with 1 ticket in it each) are in a raffle that results in 1 winner.  To figure out your chances of winning with x tickets, you would do 1-((100-1)/100)^x.
Very interesting...

The accuracy of both that chart and a chart I created in another thread relies on one thing - Whether or not we can win more than once. If we can win more than once then the odds are according to the amount of tickets. Whereas, if the event allows only one win per person, then once a player wins, it voids all the other tickets within that category.  Which brings up a very good point....

If the prizes are calculated immediately -- as in,
10 prizes for 100 people and 10 people get prizes as opposed to....

If the prizes are calculated one by one - as in,

10 prizes for 100 people, the first prize goes to one guy, but that one guyhas 10 tickets so once he wins all the rest his tickets are void, thus the rest of the tickets are out of running which would leave the prize calculation at....

9 prizes for 90 people .....Kinda blows your mind, doesn't it?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: qwazi on Dec 18, 2004, 11:18 PM
There is almost no chance you can win more than one copy of an item.  Dupicate items pose no use to anyone seeing as they cannot be gifted.  Were softynx to allow that, they would have made a colossal error.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 19, 2004, 12:50 AM
According to VirusPanda, Once a lotto ticket from a user has won, the others for the same prize are void. Im not sure if hes right.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: qwazi on Dec 19, 2004, 01:16 AM
QuoteAccording to VirusPanda, Once a lotto ticket from a user has won, the others for the same prize are void. Im not sure if hes right.
Virus panda is just drawing from his common sense.  Theres no reason for a person to be able to win multiple prizes in one raffle.  Imagine someone winning 100 clown suits.  I don't think so.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: mezzaninex on Dec 19, 2004, 08:15 PM
i made my little chart to give you a general idea of the odds. i made # of tickets required to win by making "(current number of applicants + odds of winning)/# of prizes = number needed to win (rounded up)"
i did that because on some, you needed sooo many tickets that it changed the odds enough to notice.

it is based upon the assumption that every ticket = 1 chance of winning. if someone wins, and thier number of tickets are voided, the odds are better in your favor. this is a worst-case odds. no matter what, if the event were to end with the same data i gave, and you had the required tickets, you would win it.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/m0untaindew4u/GBGL/odds19.gif)

good luck getting robosapein now. jeez! thats up hundreds of thousands of applicants from last i checked >_<

ive got 11 tickets on teddy... 6 on clown... *hopes*
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: qwazi on Dec 19, 2004, 08:25 PM
Quotei made my little chart to give you a general idea of the odds. i made # of tickets required to win by making "(current number of applicants + odds of winning)/# of prizes = number needed to win (rounded up)"
i did that because on some, you needed sooo many tickets that it changed the odds enough to notice.

it is based upon the assumption that every ticket = 1 chance of winning. if someone wins, and thier number of tickets are voided, the odds are better in your favor. this is a worst-case odds. no matter what, if the event were to end with the same data i gave, and you had the required tickets, you would win it.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v33/m0untaindew4u/GBGL/odds19.gif)

good luck getting robosapein now. jeez! thats up hundreds of thousands of applicants from last i checked >_<

ive got 11 tickets on teddy... 6 on clown... *hopes*
*shakes head*
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Slash on Dec 19, 2004, 10:14 PM
As soon as more than 6000 ppl buy a raffle for Clown/bear, there will never be a 100% chance of winning.  By the looks of it, there are a lot more than just 6000 ppl trying for clown, so I don't think there is going to be a number of raffle tickets that will guarentee a win.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 19, 2004, 10:22 PM
QuoteAs soon as more than 6000 ppl buy a raffle for Clown/bear, there will never be a 100% chance of winning.  By the looks of it, there are a lot more than just 6000 ppl trying for clown, so I don't think there is going to be a number of raffle tickets that will guarentee a win.
eh not really. I have 30 tickets in the clown suit. There are 41000 (rounded up) say that everyone has atleast 20 tickets in it. so 41000/20 = 2050 people. again there prolly aren't even 6000 people going for it. Not to mention the different amounts of tickets that people have. so yeah, there is still a high chance for people to get that. weee

Edit: simply put I doubt that there are even 6000 people entered for the clown.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: qwazi on Dec 19, 2004, 10:43 PM
Well, sol, the only problem with that logic is that there are a whopping 304721 entries in background at thte time of this post.  I can't see most people putting more than 1 in that event, so I'm guessing at least 300,000 people are in this raffle.  It would be a safe bet a good number of them are going for the jester/teddy suit.  

Additionally, you forgot a digit.  There are 426662 entries, so by your logic 21333 people.  Makes things quite a bit more grim doesn't it?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: MaNdubOy on Dec 19, 2004, 10:46 PM
I'm done with thsi event, I've spent enough time, I got 70 tickets on for clown, 4 for background adn on my other accout, 20 for teddy suit.  I'm done.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 20, 2004, 12:05 AM
QuoteWell, sol, the only problem with that logic is that there are a whopping 304721 entries in background at thte time of this post.  I can't see most people putting more than 1 in that event, so I'm guessing at least 300,000 people are in this raffle.  It would be a safe bet a good number of them are going for the jester/teddy suit.  

Additionally, you forgot a digit.  There are 426662 entries, so by your logic 21333 people.  Makes things quite a bit more grim doesn't it?
that it does. yeah I'm tired not seeing things good >_>
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ChosenOne on Dec 20, 2004, 01:03 AM
Do we have to remember all of our raffle numbers?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: mezzaninex on Dec 20, 2004, 01:30 AM
QuoteDo we have to remember all of our raffle numbers?
no, gunbound keeps track on the choose prizes page, right under the flash animated santa and xmas tree
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: VirusPanda on Dec 20, 2004, 09:58 AM
I bought a background ticket - which it recorded, but I've bought 3 great general tickets which it took my points but didnt record...
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: DJ_Smurf_2004 on Dec 20, 2004, 10:14 AM
ive got 17 background sets, 2 santa sets and 2 pheonix and gold :)
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Slash on Dec 20, 2004, 11:39 AM
Why more than 1 background set...?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: nars2 on Dec 20, 2004, 12:13 PM
i had 110 wishes to spend
after spending all, i had 60 clown 40 teddy one background one general one santa
o.O make the count see how much wishes that is worth =D

certainly not 110
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: sober on Dec 20, 2004, 12:23 PM
I spent the last 3 days playing FFT again... Currently i only have 10 on clown, one on background and 5 on teddy, does seem like I am not winning anything for the event
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: phook on Dec 20, 2004, 08:11 PM
has anyone been getting free points latley?  i spendt like 200 pts in clown and teddy and came out with 2 in background, 1 in great general and like 200 in each clown and teddy....something is screwy...hope i dont get in trouble for what is going on
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Monkey Fat on Dec 20, 2004, 08:14 PM
I think that if you buy lots really fast it could screw the system.  o_o
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: phook on Dec 20, 2004, 08:27 PM
QuoteI think that if you buy lots really fast it could screw the system.  o_o
suprised they didnt say anything about it on the front page....wonder if they are gonna deduct raffle tickets cuz of it...i am sure i am not the only person this has happened to
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: nars2 on Dec 20, 2004, 09:34 PM
thats exactly what happened to me....i bought it fast and got twice more than I should have....omg weird but lets hope it affects only a few, like us =P
no actually it would be nice if it got fixed, imagine how many botter would get that way =O
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 20, 2004, 10:07 PM
I tried to buy 2 iPods within like 20 seconds and i only got one ticket for it :kiwihuh:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ILoveAlliO on Dec 21, 2004, 01:12 AM
Bah... forget about the iPods!! at least each and everyone of the people who register for a background... get a background!  I'm mighty happy with that!  Bah... is there a possiblity that someone who hits a raffle card in for a background... might not get it?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: EatEmAlive on Dec 21, 2004, 09:06 PM
It seems that all the gunbounds have the same amount of prizes.  For the hell of it, I transfered an account to the Latino version a few months ago.  The chances of winning prizes there are much greater because there are far less entrants, and yet they still have the same amount of prizes on offer (ie 2 ipods, 3 mp3 players, 300 pheonix's etc).  Check out the comparisons to GIS entries:

Digital Camera  GIS: 139093,  Latino:  13593  
Ipod     GIS:   87479,   Latino:  7750  
Robosapien  GIS:   315442,  Latino:   12772
MP3 Player  GIS:  193278     Latino:   10913
Phoenix & Gold  GIS:  359135,  Latino:   210051
Great General & Gold   GIS:  109407,  Latino:  44696
Expression Set   GIS:  75207,  Latino:  32068
Santa Set   GIS:  52265,  Latino:  17310
Teddy Set   GIS:  395908,  Latino:  91352
Clown Set   GIS:  617128, Latino:  93307
Background Set   GIS  364073, Latino:  152470

You will notice that most of the tangible items (ie the digital camera, Ipod etc) have far fewer entrants in comparison (under 10% the total GIS ticket entries).  The latino robosapien for example has under 4% the amount of GIS ticket entries.

However, items such as the pheonix and gold, Great General or the Expression Set has around 50% of the total GIS ticket entries.

Perhaps there should have been a greater amount of items in more busy gunbound versions at least in the non tangible items.  I bet there are some versions of gunbound that would have even greater odds for winning stuff than this.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: FatKidRulez on Dec 21, 2004, 10:02 PM
28 in all
5 phoenix and gold
1 background
btw umm why would they be asking so much for santa avatar,
wonder if its anything special
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: SnowiePhoenix on Dec 21, 2004, 10:07 PM
Ahh, that's crap!  I've got only what I had spent... and expected.  Ah well, I'm getting background.  I'm betting, though, that as soon as everyone gets the backgrounds, they'll have more backgrounds to buy!  Happy hunting, Merry Christmas!!
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: andrewcleung on Dec 21, 2004, 10:48 PM
Looks like teddy set is pretty easy to get.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: SLdK on Dec 21, 2004, 10:55 PM
Quote
Ipod     GIS:   87479,   Latino:  7750  
Robosapien  GIS:   315442,  Latino:   12772
MP3 Player  GIS:  193278     Latino:   10913
Phoenix & Gold  GIS:  359135,  Latino:   210051
THE IPOD HAS THE LEAST?

What the hell? Crazy latinos  :wacko:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: CrazyToKill on Dec 21, 2004, 11:38 PM
4 phoenix
2 clown
1 background
1 great general
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 22, 2004, 02:13 PM
less than a day left to get tickets! hurry hurry.  :>_<:


Also, i think theres some form of ticket cheating going on. The tickets for iPod has almost tripled in the last 15 hours.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 22, 2004, 03:12 PM
Quoteless than a day left to get tickets! hurry hurry.  :>_<:


Also, i think theres some form of ticket cheating going on. The tickets for iPod has almost tripled in the last 15 hours.
you don't say.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Blake on Dec 22, 2004, 07:57 PM
Definitely...look at the huge surge in robosapien tickets...it's now surpassed all the other things for material possessions. God, who the hell would want that thing -_-;;
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: -SF- on Dec 22, 2004, 08:16 PM
well assuming that more than 75% are abused pts, lets just hope gis keep to its words and stop the abuse, that increases the chance of fair ppl
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: 404Error on Dec 22, 2004, 08:18 PM
Quotewell assuming that more than 75% are abused pts, lets just hope gis keep to its words and stop the abuse, that increases the chance of fair ppl
I highly doubt they will.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: EatEmAlive on Dec 22, 2004, 08:38 PM
Quotewell assuming that more than 75% are abused pts, lets just hope gis keep to its words and stop the abuse, that increases the chance of fair ppl
I also highly doubt they will.  GIS never keeps their word.  They always talk so much crap about punishing abusers etc, and they do bugger all.  They would have to be the most amateur company on the net.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: kiwibonga on Dec 22, 2004, 08:39 PM
I think given the circumstances we're better off playing and winning points without worrying about the outcome... Trying to predict who'll win is pretty useless... Each ticket you buy has a 1 in 100,000+ chance of winning... Meh. Wait for the results, then bang your head on the wall for wasting your time :)
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 22, 2004, 08:41 PM
Meh, Its gone from 87k to 260k in 24 hours now.

Clown set has gone from 403k to 734k

background has gone from 215k-235k

yep, definately cheated tickets.

Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Blake on Dec 22, 2004, 08:44 PM
merq, background is at 430k now o_O clown at 830k and robo at 338-339k.

215k-235k isn't really a big gap compared to the others.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: nars2 on Dec 22, 2004, 09:59 PM
I'm just posting now to say this goddamn santa with the gifts to choose is totally screwed
omfg y does softnyx really manages to SCREW every single event!!! argh omfg!!!

Ppl are getting more raffles than they should have. Also, some ppl, LIKE ME, are getting the wrong raffles. I bought a raffle for each gift, mp3, digital camera, ipod, phoenix....and I got 4 raffles for phoenix WTF!!! >.>

Man, i just can't believe the best event of the year so far is starting to go by the board. The golden finish for this would be botters not getting banned, and therefore winning the prize.....

Also, my fuking wishes are gone just as if I had bought those 15 wishes worth raffles, while I only have 4 phoenix, which is 6 wishes =/

ARGHHHHHHH, now I've jusst bought one more for mp3 and got 2 more for phoenix!!!!!! omfg I'm mad............

AND MORE OMFG. I had 60 clown raffles and 8 wishes (i had 72 but the goddamn santa took them and gave me phoenix....). I bought 4 raffles with the 8 wishes. When I updated, I had 72 raffles for clown. What the very fuck is happening?
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 22, 2004, 11:00 PM
Quotemerq, background is at 430k now o_O clown at 830k and robo at 338-339k.

215k-235k isn't really a big gap compared to the others.
Holy mother of god. Thats fast. Its probably just the servers refreshing cuz that info was from around 3 hours before my post. Its most likely that GB is gathering everything. or everyones left their tickets until the last day.


And nars, i dont get screwed by the santa. Its happened once in which case i bought a iPod and a MP3 player and i was stuck with an iPod raffle. all others went fine.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Blake on Dec 23, 2004, 06:27 AM
for me so far nothing has gone wrong.

EDIT: Nars, I think your problem has to do with the sheer number of tickets you have.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: lVlithra on Dec 23, 2004, 06:52 AM
Right now the standings are :

Digital Camera : 414k
Ipod : 341k
Robosapien : 340k
MP3 Player : 245k
Phoenix & Gold : 477k
Great General & Gold : 163k
Expression Set : 116k
Santa Set : 67k
Teddy Set : 548k
Clown Set : 985k
Background Set : 490k

Probably another 3 hours til Clown Set is in the millions. :<_<:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Blake on Dec 23, 2004, 07:29 AM
They better disqualify some people x.x
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: nars2 on Dec 23, 2004, 09:01 AM
Quotefor me so far nothing has gone wrong.

EDIT: Nars, I think your problem has to do with the sheer number of tickets you have.
I really don't get it. I spent around 200 wishes, and i have clown and bear tickets worth like 350 wishes, plus i got all the raffles wrong from that evil santa......  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: mezzaninex on Dec 23, 2004, 11:22 AM
i think that they should make much more of the gunbound prizes, just to be nice, in the holliday spirit :D:
i dont expect them to spend any more money on ipods, but if they made the people:prizes ratio of gunbound latino service, it would be a much happier event.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Blake on Dec 23, 2004, 03:41 PM
Quote
Quotefor me so far nothing has gone wrong.

EDIT: Nars, I think your problem has to do with the sheer number of tickets you have.
I really don't get it. I spent around 200 wishes, and i have clown and bear tickets worth like 350 wishes, plus i got all the raffles wrong from that evil santa......
omg h4xorz >_> Maybe it'll fix up when the event comes to an end. Or you will have a better chance to get prizes :D
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 23, 2004, 03:59 PM
QuoteRight now the standings are :

Digital Camera : 414k
Ipod : 341k
Robosapien : 340k
MP3 Player : 245k
Phoenix & Gold : 477k
Great General & Gold : 163k
Expression Set : 116k
Santa Set : 67k
Teddy Set : 548k
Clown Set : 985k
Background Set : 490k

Probably another 3 hours til Clown Set is in the millions. :<_<:
clowns already approaching 1.2mil

ipod, robosapien, and digital camera are all well into the 500k's, Background is up to 520k, Teddy is almost 700k, while santa is a pitiful 72k

I really think somethings wrong with santa

Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Auga on Dec 23, 2004, 04:02 PM
Alrite 3 hours left for the event and 7 hours till you get your prizes...

So play as hard as you can >.>
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: kiwibonga on Dec 23, 2004, 04:02 PM
I bought 2 clown tickets and it went from 55 to 56. :(

There's all kinds of weird bugs, I'm guessing we have to wait for the correct stuff to display... Especially since it's the last few hours, people who have been keeping all their points until the end will be buying their stuff now = lots of delay :P
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: 404Error on Dec 23, 2004, 05:03 PM
Quotepeople who have been keeping all their points until the end will be buying their stuff now = lots of delay :P
It's not that. It's that some cunt at a hacking forum released a wishpoint hack to the public, thus, the numbers are fucking skyrocketing.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: -SF- on Dec 23, 2004, 05:08 PM
its coding flaws in the flash script, it doesn't stop right, cuz if u haven't noticed, it doesn't immediately send the msg to buy when you want it to, henced messed up and y some ppl are getting more/less
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: nars2 on Dec 23, 2004, 06:34 PM
Quoteits coding flaws in the flash script, it doesn't stop right, cuz if u haven't noticed, it doesn't immediately send the msg to buy when you want it to, henced messed up and y some ppl are getting more/less
what takes me to say softnyx screwed the event that had everything to be the best of the year. They have the awesome skill to ruin every single good idea with foolish mistakes. If it's not corrected, then great, another evennt for the big list of "events ruined by softnyx".
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 23, 2004, 07:59 PM
This one adding extra punch because it took so much time out of our lives to see an iPod  go to a 20 year old botter living in college cheating at online games.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: -SF- on Dec 23, 2004, 08:06 PM
atleast softnyx did the smart thing and deleted the flash stuff so they did one thing right so far, now lets see in a couple of hrs if they get they're stuff right :)
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: shii on Dec 23, 2004, 08:33 PM
QuoteDefinitely...look at the huge surge in robosapien tickets...it's now surpassed all the other things for material possessions. God, who the hell would want that thing -_-;;
I would, it sells at Spencer's Gifts (for us people residing in the United States) retailed at $100.

So, if I could get a free piece of shit toy to fuck around with and scare my cat while enjoying myself some gunbound I think I'd take it.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 23, 2004, 08:34 PM
Well the flash is gone, But the 3million+ suspicious tickets over the past 24 hours still remains :kiwisad:
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: CrazyToKill on Dec 23, 2004, 09:10 PM
EVENT IS OVER
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 23, 2004, 09:37 PM
yeah damn it. I still had wish points left..fuck.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: kiwibonga on Dec 23, 2004, 10:01 PM
About an hour left before the winner announcement.

There's gonna be a lot of crying :( I want a glitch to give everyone a clown suit :X
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 23, 2004, 10:14 PM
QuoteAbout an hour left before the winner announcement.

There's gonna be a lot of crying :( I want a glitch to give everyone a clown suit :X
heh not really. I won't cry. I'll just be po'd. then am going to strangle softnyx. o.o
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: XelsDaniel on Dec 24, 2004, 12:14 AM
Lets see, Main account:
465 Tickets

15 Tickets: iPod
10 Tickets: Robot dude
1 Ticket: MP3 Player
60 Tickets: Expression set
60 Tickets: Phenoix + Gold Set
150 Tickets: Bear set
150 Tickets: Clown Set
The rest: Background set
(arent exact number, forgot to take a screenshot of it :/)

Second Account:
9810 Tickets

9000 Tickets: iPod (ill be banned before i get it)
100 Tickets: Robot
400 tickets: Phenoix + Gold
210 Tickets: Great General Set
100 Tickets: Teddy set

Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 24, 2004, 12:16 AM
QuoteSecond Account:
9810 Tickets

9000 Tickets: iPod (ill be banned before i get it)
100 Tickets: Robot
400 tickets: Phenoix + Gold
210 Tickets: Great General Set
100 Tickets: Teddy set
Dot Dot mother fucking dot.


that is all I'm going to say.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: XelsDaniel on Dec 24, 2004, 12:19 AM
heh, it'll be banned/removed from the pool, unless the GMs are stupid enough to fall for it..lol...Its on one of my old wand accounts, so I dunno..
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: SmellyBeans on Dec 24, 2004, 12:21 AM
i had fucking 2 tickets i forgot to use up..godamnit..

now my chances of winning something somewhat gets slimmer.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: ErrorSol on Dec 24, 2004, 12:25 AM
when the hell are th winners supposed to be announced
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: HeavenCloud on Dec 24, 2004, 12:27 AM
one more 1/2 hour i think.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: qwazi on Dec 24, 2004, 12:36 AM
I don't see them announcing winners if their site isn't even online.  

And XelsDaniel:
Fuck you.
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Dissemble on Dec 24, 2004, 12:38 AM
I would say qwazi summed it up pretty well right there
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: XelsDaniel on Dec 24, 2004, 12:38 AM
QuoteAnd XelsDaniel:
Fuck you.
Ouch, no need to be hazordous  :-_-:  
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: 404Error on Dec 24, 2004, 12:48 AM
Quote
QuoteAnd XelsDaniel:
Fuck you.
Ouch, no need to be hazordous  :-_-:
Maybe if cunts like you didn't fuck shit up for people who play FAIRLY, he wouldn't be "hazardous".
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: LordMerqury on Dec 24, 2004, 12:57 AM
Quote
QuoteAnd XelsDaniel:
Fuck you.
Ouch, no need to be hazordous  :-_-:
Did you know that that is considered laundery and  burglary by  law and is punishable by above a 2500$ fine or a year in prison. gg bitch. Also cheating on a funded contest DOES include the ability to be sued.

Look at lotterires in the US. If someone steals lotto tickets from a shop they aumatically get fined 25,000 dollars. It is the same system here, A lotto consisting of a prize of over 100$. Youre fuckin pwned. Can you say "prison bitch"? or are you too busy editing the scripts?

This should explain it

(http://img158.exs.cx/img158/9721/tolerance8li.jpg)
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Zigmond on Dec 24, 2004, 01:09 AM
A lot of people pretty much said what needed to be said. But I just have one question, why the hell are you advertising it? You're dumb enough for screwing everyone out of it in the first place, but then go on a forum and post it? Good job *Clap clap*

-Ziggy
Title: "Merry Gunbound" Event discussion.
Post by: Dreamcatcher on Dec 24, 2004, 01:14 AM
What is with all the profanity?? Its Christmas, how the hell did fuck, cunt, and bitch get involved? Its a discussion about the event, this is NOT something to flame about.

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