The market for hypernet continues to shrink, hypercore holdings are too large, and consideration is being given to increasing hypercore consumption, e.g., spending twice as much on hypercores to create orders that last longer, decide on more or fewer hypercores based on the number of nodes.
As a host of big-ticket items, I’ve found it very difficult to sell big-ticket items lately. It’s rare to see new players joining, it’s always familiar faces at every offer.
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yes because a big ticket item costs a lot for a new player with no gaurnty of getting said item
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I looked at the Hypernet and didn’t understand how it works. It was a lot of Isk and it looked too much like I would lose out so I decided to get ships the old fashioned way: buy them.
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Here is a thought. I might actually play Hypernet, if it was not for the fact that the owner is allowed to buy his own raffle tickets. I frequent the local casinos and lose real money all the time never expecting to win big. However the state lottery scratch offs are not allowed to be purchase by the state lottery employees. When I punched up my first link to even look at a Hypernet, the owner owned 50% of the tickets. They win 50% of the time and keep the ISK and the prize. Another had an obvious ALT buy tickets, not much you can do about it since the Hypernet is made that way.
CCP should offer station owners casino nodes to attach. Then I know the house is rigged to win, but my character could dock and go play games of chance. Slots, Blackjack, Baccarat, Roulette, Poker, Craps, etc. could be simple mini games with the players in dock. The player owning a station would decide to spend PLEX on a casino and ( fuel costs ) to run their gaming. They in turn would collect on house winnings. Probably not going to happen.
Have fun!
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I read that there used to be player run casinos in Eve. They were removed. The owners of those casinos got more money than they could spend in their lifetimes.
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It would end up like Puzzle Pirates and no one would undock.
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Because evryone tired to see messages about Hypernet in Local and Corp window.
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If anyone wants to play poker at the ganker table, just hit me up. We play low stakes for 1 billion casual hold 'em, and 10 billion buy in if you want to go all in.
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This 100%…
Plus the fact that it’s PLEX 2 PLAY… 
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I tried hypernet twice, and didn’t really like it, so I didn’t again.
There are issues with it, the most glaring being that the owner of the raffle can buy up half the nodes, giving themselves an enormous House Edge.
If I want to waste ISK I’ll just fly battleships through null and chat in Local while am doing it.
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They don’t.
Hypernet is a negative sum game, meaning in the process value is removed.
That means, the total cost of the tickets is higher than the reward. So when you buy a ticket you lose money. Even when you buy your own tickets.
The reason you are not allowed to play lottery if you are owner is to avoid corruption and cheating.
Hypernet is a scam anyhow. It’s just a way to make money from gambling addicts for CCP.
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People don’t benefit from buying their own tickets, mathematically it’s no different than them buying tickets in someone else’s raffle. The reason people do this is because CCP has an unreasonable requirement that raffles complete quickly, so people are forced to buy their own tickets in order to complete the raffle.
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Done a little over 6 b on hypernets this month.
Starting to notice a trend when buying someone else’s hypernet that there is just so much junk on there that takes time to filter out.
Like who wants to win a crappy blueprint copy?
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There is even in in-house solution as those with gambling addiction or other related problems can even request to disable the hypernet for them to avoid the temptation altogether.
Availability
The HyperNet Relay may not be available to players in certain territories. It can also be disabled by player request through a support ticket
I 100% agree it’s just not enforceable. Even if game mechanics made it so the creator couldn’t buy tickets they would just use alts.
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when i use hypernet This is the same feeling i get when i go drunk electronics shopping on ali express… 
i like the factory fitted smoke vents so when it goes on fire least the smoke will get out… 
It doesn’t make any difference. If there are 10 nodes and you buy one of them you have a 10% chance to win regardless of who owns the other nodes.
I thought Hypernet was just another form of rigged gambling?
Hypernet is only “rigged” by the owner. If you buy church raffle tickets for $1 each you wouldn’t expect the clergy to own 50% of the tickets. The majority of the games will have a 350 million ISK ship up for the raffle and 1 ticket ( node ) will cost you 100 million. They will have 8 nodes but when you look the player own 4 out of 8. They will get 400 million ISK and stand 50% chance of winning the ship. You have 1 in 8 chance or 12.5% at best you spend 200 million ISK and still only have 25% chance to win.
CCP knows that removing the ability to buy your own nodes will crush Hypernet. They want the system working “as is” for the chronic gamblers to play and they continue to sell PLEX to buy hypercores.
For more details read the wiki.
Have fun!
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