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[De Beuker]

It is clearly something MGS want kept VERY quiet, since if you ask any casino, or even MGS themselves (via a casino), you will be told it is down to your PC being "too slow/old", or your ISP being "poor".

If they actually admitted this, players would desert the tournaments as they would know they NEVER had a fair chance of getting what they have PAID for in terms of the number of continue "coins" bought. It also makes the tournaments BORING, because when you are playing against the clock, you want to be FAST, and being dragged back makes one IRRITABLE, and thus more likely to give CS "an earful" over the problem, especially where it appears to have cost you a placing and a significant prize difference.

I don't think it has gone up to 5 seconds though, more like 4 (trial recently on a Ladies Nite tournament).

The lobby games have also been slowed down a bit, but this may be down to them being HD video now, and with more animation than before.

MGS are NOT taking this into account when working out how many coins to allocate per minute of time, and this is what leads to the discontent.

I don't see the need for a set number of coins AND specific short periods of time at all, it should JUST be coins, and the only time constraint should be the end of the tournament as a whole, which should be displayed instead of the current session timer.

It seems that MGS want to make as much money as possible, but do NOT want to invest in the increased server capacity needed to cope with more players being able to get though the coins they have bought.

The current set-up actually gives an ADVANTAGE to those who know how it works, especially timings and behavior of the "crippleware", and this can be seen by looking for players who get through the most coins.

Cant agree more. Get rid of that timer and we would have great tourneys.

And the lags are now so bad I dont even play the free qualifiers on Thunderstruck.
Just too damn frustrating. I cant stand the slow spins.

One more thing:
That last 32RED tourney you did 350 continues, if I remember right, each one was 10 minutes, which means you must have been playing that gawd-awful, dead-slow and utterly boooring Thunderstruck game for more than 58 hours?!?

How did you survive that without any serious psychological damage??
Autoplay?

(btw, I LOVE thunderstruck in normal play with 'quickspin' enabled)

[vinylweatherman]

Cant agree more. Get rid of that timer and we would have great tourneys.

And the lags are now so bad I dont even play the free qualifiers on Thunderstruck.
Just too damn frustrating. I cant stand the slow spins.

One more thing:
That last 32RED tourney you did 350 continues, if I remember right, each one was 10 minutes, which means you must have been playing that gawd-awful, dead-slow and utterly boooring Thunderstruck game for more than 58 hours?!?

How did you survive that without any serious psychological damage??
Autoplay?
(btw, I LOVE thunderstruck in normal play with 'quickspin' enabled)

Absolutely, press autoplay ONCE per continue, and sit back. The main problem is that you STILL have to press "take free spins", whereas on normal thunderstruck you can uncheck "stop on feature" and let it go on and on and on.......... great for the Slotsmeister

32Red also gave PLENTY of time to get through all the coins, in fact SO much time that I was able to save coins up for a grand sprint at the end (I had to do some calculations though, to make sure I had enough time & continues to play them all).

Autoplay has made quite a difference, and before this I would NOT have tried this tactic, but maybe neither would others.

Don't get thinking MGS put autoplay in for US, they did it to make it EASIER to play through more spins, thus get more players buying more continues and rebuys before having to retire with sore fingers.

Now, what would happen if someone found a way to disable the "crippleware". MGS would be faced with accusing something of "cracking" something that doesn't exist, and would be a laughing stock. The alternative would be to come clean, and tell players that for YEARS they were being screwed over by the tournaments, and the bullshit "it's at your end" excuses.

[retlaw]

Since a couple of days I noticed that I have a square with a "?" inside at the back of my alias when playing a tournament.Does anyone know what this means.
I saw some other players have it too.

[sjonnny]

Me too.

I think i have it a couple of years.

And it means you will not win.

But seriously i don't no maybe also a mgs bug

[footdr]

I knew immediately orginal poster was talking about MG I never found their tournaments to fair. Due to connection differences, speed of computer, number of people playing at the time there were too many variables.

that is why EH groups tournaments are the best. It isn't timed play, you play your free chips until you attain a "winning" position or lose your free chips.

Timing it is just not necessary or fair in my opinion. Especially when you hit free spins (naturally) when time is just about up.

And MG tournaments it is obvious that those playing win approx the same as they play. As everyone seems to move up at the same rate. So whats up with that!

[mattsgame]

I usually have no problems with the MGS tourneys, but last night and today every time i enter 1 im playing for about 1-2 minutes and its kicking me out, Whether it be a GSOS,daily or the 1 hour free roll? is this happening with anyone else?

Its only started for me since the GSOS tournies where added?

[mrjones]

hi i have a little test today on these as i dont play them often, terrible lagging upto 9 seconds a spin , im guessing there is a problem , this has nothing to do with my pc & broadband speed there pretty much top notch , cant see the point in playing i had 5 mintues play only to cram in 42 spins , i would of thought this was enough to put anyone off play these games.