More conclusive proof MG cheat

[Rusty]

Cashapillar free spins Two quick retriggers so 45 Free spins.
OK so that is good right?

Yeah except the cashapillar not only never landed anywhere on the first reel it never even went past the first reel!
LMFAO

[zebedy]

i know what you mean, sometimes when i get the free spins on any slot i watch the reels and its like all the wild symbols have dissapeared, then when you finnish the freespins they suddenly appear

[vinylweatherman]

Sounds like RTG slots, not something we would expect with MG, where the reelstrips are supposed to be fixed.
I have noticed that a few MG slots are now offering variable reelstrips during bonus rounds, one of which is Tomb Raider II - the passports are removed during free spins, as well as the removal symbols that have paid out. Removing the passports HELPS the player though, these are dead symbols for the free spins.

If the symbols are messed with on Cashapillar during free spins, and the rules say nothing about it, then it implies that the free spin round is a bogus one, and is possibly only displaying a predetermined "pick" award. I often wonder if ALL free spin rounds are truly a series of independent spins, or the result of a pre-allocated "pick" displayed as a sequence of "winspins", as with the AWP games like Treasure Ireland.

To win anything from Cashapillar, you need those strips of wilds to turn up, ideally on reel 1 and reel 3 at least to get 100x 3 of a kind. The setup makes this very high variance, as without the wilds, the free spin round returns very little.

Getting all 5 strips of wilds lined up during free spins is a good deal less likely than hitting 5 wilds on Thunderstruck during free spins.

[Rusty]

Yup that is weighting for ya...but I decided to check something out.

I figured it must already decide how much it was going to pay before the freespins or preweight the reels on freespins so when I saw this happen I assumed I must be going to lose.
Sure enough I got slaughtered for a while but then hit this

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So the Two do not seem to be linked.

Only fair that I show this screenshot to keep balance but it does not explain how certain symbols literally disapear at times.

[vinylweatherman]

Yup that is weighting for ya...but I decided to check something out.

I figured it must already decide how much it was going to pay before the freespins or preweight the reels on freespins so when I saw this happen I assumed I must be going to lose.
Sure enough I got slaughtered for a while but then hit this

cshplr.JPG

So the Two do not seem to be linked.

Only fair that I show this screenshot to keep balance but it does not explain how certain symbols literally disapear at times.

Could be a display cock-up, MG software is riddled with such bugs. A display cock-up caused a stir on Mega Moolah when it first came out, stopped on the "Mega" jackpot on the wheel, but only awarded the "Mini".
MG hurriedly fixed this, and it turned out they had missed out some of the frames in the display movie for this bonus feature.

[Rusty]

Possibly but why have a different movie for reels during free spins?

Also it is noticeable that during normal spins sometimes only 1 cashapillar will appear at the bottom of reel one without the others going past.
If it were just a flash movie playing an animation to a random stop position this could not happen.
It is easy to have action script gather a random number from an RNG based on another server and then use that as a variable to stop at the frame you want.
I write my own slots in flash CS3 and the animations never have the glitches (cheats) I come accross in MG software and by the way as 95% true random slots they do not play the same either.

As an update I went on bomber Girl again thinking it could not be as bad as last time but 350 spins of pure kack!
The free spins are hard to hit and I have yet to win more than X10 bet not only that but my overall payout for this slot 28%!!!

At least I got my monies worth with that hit from cashapillar but Bomber Girls is a money sucking bag of proverbial shite.

[Simmo!]

You get similar things on the animations on Wagerworks and RTG - watch the reels and symbols appear to me mising, or changing. Pretty sure its just teh animation. I think each spin in the free spins is pre-determined, but the overall amount. Actually, you could test this using a "bug" (sic) on Cashapilla...

If you switch to currency mode from coins mode (may work in both) and watch closely, just as a spin starts, if its going to give you more than a few X back, your bank balance momentarily shoots up, then drops back before the reels stop so you can see what you are about to shoot up to. This may happen in the free spins too though not checked.

[KasinoKing]

I wish I could stop playing Cashapleter, but it's sooooooo addictive.
This is undoubtedly a very high variance slot (unusual for one with so many win-lines) and should be played with caution at least, or trepidation at best.
Basically if you don't get loads of stacked wild on reels 2 - 4 you're in for a thrashing.

I reckon the reels in free-spins are different to those in normal play - but can't prove that... yet.

However, I really do believe that all MG slots (except AWP's) are truly random.
I have seen nothing in 4 years of playing them that seriously gives evidence to the contrary.

[Matthew23]

If you switch to currency mode from coins mode (may work in both) and watch closely, just as a spin starts, if its going to give you more than a few X back, your bank balance momentarily shoots up, then drops back before the reels stop so you can see what you are about to shoot up to. This may happen in the free spins too though not checked.

This is very annoying. I emailed MG about this bug but they did not bother to reply. I then got 32red to forward my complaint to them and all I got from MG was a really stupid answer about how the coins count up They have no interest in fixing the bug, what I don't understand is why 32Red claimed they have never heard of this bug. YOu can't miss it, and it ruins the game play unless you look away each time you hit spin

As for Cashapillar, it would take too long for the reels to spin if they were animated to look truly random.

I also think free spins rounds are predetermined. This would explain why there are so many wilds appearing in free spins, not just Cashapillar, games like Mega Moolah. 3 Wilds in view is around as likely as 3 Scatter, but on this game I once hit 7 spins out of 15 that had 3 wilds inview.

[Slotster!]

Free spins need to be viewed as any other 'bonus' feature... Just because the reels do pretty things for a bit, it doesn't neccesarily mean that the outcome isn't pre-determined.

This does not in any way make a slot or software provider 'rigged'... Sometimes you'll get a 'good' or 'great' pre-determined payback from the freespins, in the same way you'll sometimes get a 'good' or 'great' result from a bonus feature... Similarly the opposite will obviously (more often) apply... It's just the way slots and percentages work...

What sealed it for me is, perversely, the disproportionate amount of times we see good five symbol wins line up in the free spins on Thunderstruck, Ladies Nite etc... That occurs when the feature pre-determines a 'great' payout - and does pointless pretty things with the pictures to make it fun and add up.

Finally, one last time, this is in no way an indication that a slot is 'rigged'... It's an indication that a slot is a slot, performing to the pre-determined overall percentage that it's supposed to.