I also realized there are lots of people with one post participating in the sweepstakes and a lot of them probably created accounts only for that. A simpler way to discard them would be to ignore accounts created after March 6. I bet many of those accounts are from people who already have another account and want to increase their chances of winning.
I still have another question: Is this contest restricted to the USA or would you ship anywhere in the world?
I am asking because I am Canadian, but I know there are lots of Europeans in CFC as well.
Weighed by post-count to reward frequent posters? Might as well send the things to the users with the most posts and be done with it, then - that way, no dirty sub-10-post newbie can get their filthy paws on the shiny games however lucky they are.
I know I was reading this site for over a year before I created an account, and then it took me another year before I had 30 posts. You shouldn't punish people that aren't as talkative as other posters. I think a simple ip check should be used to stop double entries, and that's it.
I'm pretty sure most everyone is joking around in good fun, at least I hope so. If not I'm going to post even though I already have the game just to screw someone else!
I'd imagine that TF will simply lock the thread ask random.org to spit out a number between 1 and n where n is the number of entrants. And correspond the results with post numbers. It would be pretty simple.
The sweepstake will end on March 14, 12 AM ET. I was considering ending the sweeptake 2 days early, so people don't need to wait too long, but I guess we could just let it run full 7 days.
It's pretty obvious that people have created multiple accounts to increase their chance of winning. Before the sweepstake, the GalCiv2 sub-forum didn't have nearly as many posts as it has now. Just take a look: over 1800 posts since the creation of the sub-forum which was about 10 days ago!
How crazy is that?
It isn't a proof of multi-account. A lot of lurkers have registered for the occasion. Anyway, when admins will pick up the winning numbers they will probably make an IP check on the winners. It's a matter of second to see that.
Looks like the tide is weakening. The number of post/day is less than a few days ago.
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