I updated the giveaways with more information:
***UPDATE*** after thinking about it and consulting with other I think I've come up with the best plan for how to share these peds. I've decided against doing a hunting event as I find it too limiting and they seem to just reward those that are already lucky enough to hit a big loot or those that have really good gear... pretty much excluding anyone that does mining or crafting or plays on a much smaller scale.
I'd really like this to impact the most amount of people possible. So I'm taking the advice that was given to focus more towards random unadvertised giveaways. I'm still going to do the forum giveaway as planned but here's the final breakdown of giveaways.
- 1 X 1,000 PED giveaway to a random person that gratz and comments on this thread = 1,000 PEDS
- 9 X 250 PED giveaway to random people that gratz and comments on this thread = 2,250 PEDS
- Random "ME WANTEE!!" Events In The Rookie Chat - Randomly I'll advertise a number of ped stacks available and will offer them to the first people to shout "ME WANTEE!!". Generally this will be a calypso thing but I might take a trip out to arkadia for a couple as well. I've already done this a few times congrats to the winners.
- Cash Grab Scavenger Hunt - Basically I run around dropping a bunch of random ped value stacks 1 - 25 peds and let people find them. I've done this a few times in twin peaks already but I'm thinking I might do this is obscure locations on calypso and then let people know in various chat channels and in highly populated areas the location where the peds are.
- Random In Person 25 - 50 Ped Giveaways - I've been going around trading random people giving them stacks of peds.
- Catch A Greased Pig Event - Me, Jambon (french for ham) will be running around PvP4 areas with 500 - 1000 peds of Garcen Grease in my inventory for one lucky player than can catch (and kill) a greased pig. I'll be popping into those areas randomly and will announce it on Rookie chat which PVP area I am at when it happens. So make sure you're tuned into that channel at all times so you don't miss you're chance!
So far as of the time of writing this about 1,700 peds have been given away to over 30 people!
***Prize giveaways are going to be limited to one per person. The forum giveaway deadline is friday at 20:00 in game time. The winners will be posted in the thread and will be contacted via PM. They will have 48 hours to arrange collection. If they fail to collect another winner will be chosen.
GL to everyone!!