Rules

1. Participation

Participation is only allowed for

§1 Entropia participants (called players) who haven’t graduation in Entropia yet (called newcomers)

§2 and players who haven’t met a certain skill level in their graduation relevant skills

Graduation Skill	Newcomer	Max. allowed
Coloring	1900	3000
Concentration	1900	3000
Engineering	1900	3000
First Aid	1900	3000
Handgun	1900	3000
Longblade	1900	3000
Make Clothes	1900	3000
Power Fist	1900	3000
Prospecting	600	1200
Rifle	2000	3000
Shortblades	1900	3000
Surveying	600	1200

§3 if you’re not a an known (big) reseller, estate broker or land owner. The reason for excluding this group of players from participation is, because we see no need for giving out prices to people who are already wealthy enough in-game and want help the “normal” and low-level people with some money

§4 Participation is absolutely FREE! There are no hidden fees or charges!

§5 No registration is required

2. Qualification

§1 Submissions

In order to determinate the winner, you’ll need to submit a screenshot to prove that you’ve found the hidden treasure. However, there are some rules on submitting screenshots and if you don’t meet them, you will be disqualified. So make sure, the following information are visible:

• You character should be visible!
• The treasure should be visible and targeted on the ground, so we can validate that you’ve found the the correct item
• The exact position should be visible in the chat window (you display the position by pressing the P-Key in-game)
• The exact time should be visible in the chat (you can display it by pressing C-Key in-game)
• Your Full Name needs to be visible in either the UI near the radar or by displaying the “Avatar Info” Window. Without full name, it’s impossible to exactly identify the winner
• Minimap should be visible on the screenshot too
• An event password or key phrase needs to be visible in the screenshot. Either in chat window itself or in the chat box (where you enter the the text, but before sending it, if you fear that there are players around who could hear you ;))
• And last but not least: Your Avatar Skills window, sorted by points have to be visible!
• Only Screenshots in jpg, jpeg2000 and png formats are allowed! NO BITMAP (*.BMP) OR TARGA (*.TGA) SUBMISSIONS!
• Make sure to post your avatars full name and society in the mail too, so it will make it for us easier to identify you, if some information are missing in the screenshot (i.e. your name isn’t fully displayed in the screenshot etc.)

The number of submission isn’t limited, however we reserve the right to disqualify certain player if they send in to many submissions within a certain time, to prevent cheating etc.

§2 Disqualification

If one of the points above is not met, we may disqualify you from the event. If you get disqualified or not will be decided in a case-by-case situation and depending what kind of information are missing. For example, if the time is missing but other things are ok, you may be still qualify for the event.

You may also be disqualified if one of the cases below is true

• Editing Screenshots: Basically it’s not allowed to edit Screenshots with a few exceptions, to protect players privacy
  1. You may hide your current account balance (the one next to the radar) by overlapping the amount with a small black box in your favorite image editor.
  
  Or if you don’t have an image editor, extract the PEDs from your card and place it in your inventory before making the screenshot
  2. You may hide your party window, if you’re in a party. This includes the HP bars/names of all party members as well as the group name
  3. You may not hide your friend list. Instead, close the friend list before you take the screenshot
  4. If you’re having a private discussion with friends (in-game private message system), you may hide the discussion only if the discussion was important and you can’t close the window, otherwise prefer closing window before taking the screenshot
• Number of submissions: Basically you’re free to send as many submissions as you want. However, if we decide that you’re sending to many within a short period of time, we reserve the right to temporary or permanently ban you from this and further events or if you’re sending huge e-Mails (i.e. with TGA or BMP formats) or if you send edited/faked pictures in an attempt to cheat. In most cases you will be warned before
• If you don’t met the requirements listed under “Qualifications”, for example your skills is to high or you’re missing some vital information
  

3. Event rules

§1 Duration of the event

The event will usually last 1-2 weeks. If the treasure wasn’t found within this this time, the event will be restarted. The pot will be taken over from last event and in most cases also be increased as well. Once started, you will be able to participate 24 hours per day until the event ends.

§2 Start of the event

The regular events will be starting at Thursday/Friday evening, so the players will have the first weekend after event start to search for the treasure. We decided that this is the fairest solution for people who have a job.

However, there may be cases, where the event will be started on non-regular days, for example a premature event occurs and the treasure hunt needs to be restarted.

§3 Premature events

The event may ends prematurely, if one of the follow events occur:

• A player who found the treasure was disqualified (i.e. his skill is to high, or he made fatal errors in the submission, making it impossible to identify him)
• Someone who is not participating in the treasure hunt found that item. In this case we may either restart the event, drop an replacement item on the same position or choose a new position

§4 Winning conditions

The winner is determinated by the first-comes-fist-services principle. First person to find and submit a screenshot showing the treasure (See Qualification rules above) and is qualified for the event wins. In order to win, it’s important to have the right password or key-phrase visible in the screenshot.

§5 Event password/key-phrase

In order to qualify for the event, you’ll need to provide a given password or key phrase in your chat and mail subject in order to validate it.

The event password/key phrase will change regularly during the event, so make sure to regularly check out the event website.

The password/key-phrase has some important roles in the event. First it’s to help validating the screenshots. It can also mark certain stages of the event (i.e. after the event was restarted due to any of the premature events above) or when additional tips are given where to find the treasure

§6 Tips & Hints

From time to time, we’ll give some hints if we see that the participation is low or people have problems finding the treasure. Every time a tip/hint is given, the payout amount will be reduced by 25%.

In other words, there will be max. 4 Hints at any given time (100%, 75%, 50%, 25%) before the event ends. The money which isn’t paid out, won’t be lost! It will be added to the next events winning pot!

Example: After the 3rd Tip, the winning payout is 50%. If the winning pot is 100 PED, this means 50 PED will be the winning price. The other 50 PED will be used for the next event additionally to the normal winning pot.

Sponsoring

§1 Who can sponsor the event

Basically everyone could act as sponsor. Sponsors will be mentioned in the current events post. If a sponsor owns an business, shop or offers an in-game he can also submit a short description of his business as well as a link and banner (if available) to his homepage.

§2 Participation

Sponsors aren’t allowed to participate in the current event, they are sponsoring. However, if they don’t act as sponsor in the next event, they are allowed to participate, if they meet the Participation Rules listed above.

§4 Donations

Donators may donate PEDs and items to the event. Their names will be added to the Donators list of the current event, if they wish to be added. The difference to sponsors however is, Donators are allowed to participate if they meet the Participation conditions above

§5 Winning Pot Contribution

• Donations: 75% of all donations will be contributed to the winning pot
• Sponsoring: 50% of all sponsoring will be contributed to the winning pot
• Advertisement: 50% of all advertisement income, will be contributed to the winning pot (this is basically my money I’m putting into this project and make the prices more attractive)
• In-game items: Sponsored and donated items will calculated by
• their TT value, if the Markup is less than 200% (on stackable items) or TT+50 (on non-stackable items)
  
  Example:
  An crafter sponsors an OreAmp OA-102 (L). TT Value is 100.00 PED, Markup 115% (115 PED). It’s lower than 200% so we use the TT value:
  100.00 PED, 75.00 PED will be contributed to the winning pool. Since it’s an item, 25.00 PED will be taken out and the AMP will be placed in.
  
• 75% of their markup value if their value > 200% or TT+50
  
  Example:
  A weapon with a Market Value of TT+100 PED, TT Value 50 PED. That’s 150 total. 75% of this is 112.50 PED. This value will be taken. Now 75%/50% of this will go into the winning pool, in other words: 84.37 PED. The difference will be taken out (if there are enough PEDs in the winning pool. If there isn’t enough PEDs in the pool, the remaining pets will be taken.

§6 Payouts

The payouts will usually occur 1-2 days after the event ends. We will contact the winner and set a date for the meeting.