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[MS] Rags to Riches
Hosted by the Market Squids!
Art by Yiazmat
Think you're a top-tier marketeer? Then put your money where your mouth is and battle it out in the economy to earn the most TC. Can you go from Rags to Riches?
Each contestant will receive an account with 20,000 Qi (So you can buy any item you need), and you are to use this account to do your marketing. It will have a special character at the beginning of the username to hinder the account from going ingame. This account will be permabanned after the event is over. You will have 5k to start with (provided by you as an entry fee). From there, you will use this alternate account to buy and sell items in order to gain TC.
To enter the event, just post saying here saying "Sent the 5k" or something of that nature and send 5,000 TC to "Marketeers".
1. You may not receive any TC from any other form of monetary gain other than selling items (this includes asking people to give you huge discounts on items due to the event).
2. You may not market using textures (art), as this would be much too difficult to keep track of.
3. All transactions must be done through either SafeTrade or through the market (you cannot send TC directly or receive an item directly to or from users).
4. If you receive 3 infractions on your alternate account, you will be disqualified from the event and the TC you gained will be taken.
5. You cannot use PayPal or any other way of transferring real life money to gain TC or items.
Originally Posted by Risk
Anyone found to be transferring items to or from their event account for any other reason than for legitimate marketing within the rules of this event will be immediately disqualified and have a hefty ban placed on their main account. Please don't try to cheat the system. We want a fun and fair event here.
The 1st place marketeer will receive a collectible item (it's a secret for now), a special achievement, 5 Shiai Tokens, and you will be able to keep your special account.
The 2nd place marketeer will receive a special achievement and 3 Shiai Tokens.
The 3rd place marketeer will receive 1 Shiai token.
The top 5 marketeers will receive a TC prize determined by how well they did compared to everyone else and how many people participated.
Equation for the top 5 marketeers' prizes
All members below the top 5 will be able to keep the TC (and items, given the qi required for the items is equal to or lower than the qi of your main account) they made and send it to their main account after the event is over.
The event will start on May 20th and end on June 20th.
Entries will no longer be accepted 24 hours before the event starts. Midnight on the 19th (0 GMT)
If you have any questions, PM a market squid.
Last edited by Clay; May 16, 2014 at 07:29 PM.
Originally Posted by Note
If what you got was an item on your alt account, and the qi is say 10k, do you just lose out on the item?
You lose out.
You will not get items that require a higher qi on your main back. You can have what you can get as if it was your own account from the event. Nothing more or less.
Originally Posted by soap
You will be able to send them to your main account (only if your main has the appropriate qi to hold the items. Otherwise people would keep high qi items in their account just so they can get no-qi items on their main account.)
Last edited by Link; May 15, 2014 at 05:28 AM.
Chickster: I literally don't know why I did it.
Originally Posted by Risk
They don't receive TC equal to the equation + original profits though. The equation factors in their profits. The only thing the equation does is it splits up a bonus prize pool which is determined by how many people participated in the event among the participants. Nobody's going to be getting millions extra. With the current number of participants (54), that's 540k being split up among the top 5 people, which gives them an average of 108k plus however much they made on their own.
Hi guys. Soap can't into math, so I'm here to correct him on it. The top 5 don't get that equation plus their profits; the equation factors their profits into it. What that equation does is it creates and splits up a pool of TC based on how many people participate in the event, and then divides it among the top 5 marketers based upon how they each did in relation to each other. If one of the 5 made 2/5s of the total profits among the 5, he gets his own profits plus 2/5 of the pool. If he only got 1/10 of the profits among the top 5, then he'll get his own profits plus 1/10 of the pool. It's pretty simple, but turning it into variables makes anything look scary and weird.
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sorry about that. I am the failure.
sorry about that. I am the failure.
