Just for information purposes lotusch, I am going to tell you what happened the
one and only time I made a deposit specifically with the intention of
playing this game in "feature buy only mode".
£100 deposit, feature buys at £20 a pop (ie at 20p a spin if I was playing the game normally).
I am guaranteed a
bare minimum of five paid features, but I am realistically expecting to manage to get
at least ten.
But I am also realistically expecting to not only bust out, but also to
never be ahead at any stage.
I was to be proved right...on both counts.
Anyway, here's the breakdown...
Feature 1 - 3 scatters, therefore 10 spins. Feature awarded: Unlimited multiplier. Amount won: £4.98 (RTP 24.9%) Balance remaining: £84.98
Feature 2 - 3 scatters. Feature awarded: Unlimited multiplier. Amount won (after getting a re-trigger for 5 more spins): £7.20 (RTP 36%) Balance remaining: £72.18
Feature 3 - 3 scatters. Feature awarded: Genie Streak. Amount won: £10.96 (RTP 54.8%) Balance remaining: £63.14
Feature 4 - SIX scatters, therefore 20 spins. Feature awarded: Genie Streak. Amount won: £10.38 (RTP 51.9%) Balance remaining: £53.52
Feature 5 - 3 scatters. Feature awarded: Unlimited multiplier. Amount won: £4.64 (RTP 23.2%) Balance remaining: £38.16
Feature 6 - 3 scatters. Feature awarded: Genie Streak. Amount won: £33.78 (RTP 168.9%)
First profitable feature - Balance remaining: £51.94
Feature 7 - 3 scatters. Feature awarded: Unlimited multiplier. Amount won: £6.80 (RTP 34%) Balance remaining: £38.74
Feature 8 - 3 scatters. Feature awarded: Unlimited multiplier. Amount won: £2.86 (RTP 14.3%)
Worst feature payout so far - Balance remaining: £21.60,
meaning the next feature could easily be my last....
Feature 9 - 3 scatters. Feature awarded: Mystery wishes (at last!). Amount won: £24.00 (RTP 120%) Balance remaining: £25.60. Still at the last chance saloon.
Feature 10 - 4 scatters, therefore 12 spins. Feature awarded: Locking wilds (at last!). Amount won: £30.34 (RTP 151.7%): Balance remaining: £35.94
Feature 11 - 3 scatters. Feature awarded: Genie Streak. Amount won: £7.12 (RTP 35.6%) Balance remaining: £23.06 - Back in the last chance saloon again.
Feature 12 - 3 scatters. Feature awarded: Unlimited multiplier. Amount won(after getting a re-trigger for 5 more spins): £8.48 (RTP 42.4%) Balance remaining: £11.54.
Now I have to buy a feature for £10 instead of £20.
Feature 13 - 6 scatters (OH, what a coincidence!
). Feature awarded: Unlimited multiplier. Amount won: £18.57 (RTP 185.7% - OH LOOK, reduce my stake, give me
my best RTP of the deposit, fancy that!
)
Balance remaining: £20.11. Back up to £20 feature buys then...
Feature 14 - 3 scatters. Feature awarded: Locking wilds. Amount won: £1.68 (RTP 8.4%):
Worst payout of the deposit - Balance remaining: £1.79
And that's a bustout.
So yeah, 14 features. 13 at £20, one at £10.
Only 3 of the 14 features gave more than 3 scatters. One of the two that gave
all six scatters didn't even make back the cost of the feature buy.
Proof of the pudding also known as "extra spins does not mean extra wins"?
Only 4 were profitable, while ten were loss makers.
NONE of the four profitable features paid more than "FB x 2" (double the cost of the feature buy).
And the one that came closest to paying more than FB x 2 just happened to be the only feature that cost £10 (pass me my Bacofoil Trilby please
)
Of the 10 loss-makers, EIGHT paid less than "FB x 0.5" (half the cost of the feature buy).
FOUR paid less than 25% of FB cost.
One paid less than 10% of FB cost.
Obviously, this is only one session, so it doesn't
prove anything. But I'd say a feature buy only strategy is
highly likely to lead to an unhappy ending.
By the way, I DO think this is a
great game. But it is also "cleverly tough" to win on.
However, when you see ACTUAL evidence that this game can pay 10,000x, then this has to be expected.
I think you're better off sticking to normal play, simply because Wild Megaways and Genie Wilds are both capable of paying 1,000x.
The potential to win is always there, even if you go on a lengthy feature-free drought.
Mystery Wishes arguably gives you your best shot at a win of 5,000 - 10,000x (if the screenies section on the Bandit's forum is anything to go by).
But basically all seven features (four from the bonus, three from the genie lamp) are capable of delivering big wins.
And getting six scatters on the bonus trigger doesn't mean anything either. A bonus with a 3 scatter trigger is just as capable of paying the big money.
This slot has achieved the new level of RTP check... now we will have people defending slots variance with things like
