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Yes, indeed! It's grossly unprofessional and loutish to use expletives and foul language when making slot videos. You need to clean up your act.
My online slots videos (plus UK AWPs)
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Yes, indeed! It's grossly unprofessional and loutish to use expletives and foul language when making slot videos. You need to clean up your act.
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Hey Balthazar how's it going? Great to see you're still around
I've checked in periodically over the years but since I basically stopped playing online four years ago I didn't really have much to say or contribute.
That said, I made my first deposit to a casino in four years this evening, the first session is already complete and videoed. Should be edited together and uploaded before the end of Easter Weekend.
I figured I'd start off with one of the more controversial slots of the moment.....
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Oh, if ever one game will get the effing and jeffing going it's that bastard! I guaran-fucking-tee you had beginner's luck and got 500x or something.Hey Balthazar how's it going? Great to see you're still around
I've checked in periodically over the years but since I basically stopped playing online four years ago I didn't really have much to say or contribute.
That said, I made my first deposit to a casino in four years this evening, the first session is already complete and videoed. Should be edited together and uploaded before the end of Easter Weekend.
I figured I'd start off with one of the more controversial slots of the moment.....
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Why the strange pink shade to the image - were you playing it at sunset by Ayers Rock?
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Oh, if ever one game will get the effing and jeffing going it's that bastard! I guaran-fucking-tee you had beginner's luck and got 500x or something.
Why the strange pink shade to the image - were you playing it at sunset by Ayers Rock?
The 200+ page thread on Bonanza really intrigued me, I just had to have a look for myself
The pink tinge is me trying to get in touch with my feminine side, either that or just the tasteful hue my trusty old camcorder gives to everything in an exquisitely darkened slotting lair
@ChopleyIOM I basically stopped playing in 2015 too.
I basically stopped playing in 2015 or so (with some rare exceptions) when NetEnt and other providers started banning Canadians. I was no longer on this forum either but I came here a few days ago to post a screenshot of a 1700x win (it was pretty and I couldn't keep it to myself!)...dunover stopped to say hi and now you're here. It's like 2013-14 all over again
Big Time Gaming is where it's at these days. Bonanza IMO is one of the best slot of all time. Good volatily, good base game, good bonus.
Can't wait to watch your new videos Chop, I quickly subscribed to your YT channel.
Hey Balthazar how's it going? Great to see you're still around
I've checked in periodically over the years but since I basically stopped playing online four years ago I didn't really have much to say or contribute.
That said, I made my first deposit to a casino in four years this evening, the first session is already complete and videoed. Should be edited together and uploaded before the end of Easter Weekend.
I figured I'd start off with one of the more controversial slots of the moment.....
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I basically stopped playing in 2015 or so (with some rare exceptions) when NetEnt and other providers started banning Canadians. I was no longer on this forum either but I came here a few days ago to post a screenshot of a 1700x win (it was pretty and I couldn't keep it to myself!)...dunover stopped to say hi and now you're here. It's like 2013-14 all over again
Big Time Gaming is where it's at these days. Bonanza IMO is one of the best slot of all time. Good volatily, good base game, good bonus.
Can't wait to watch your new videos Chop, I quickly subscribed to your YT channel.
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Thanks Balthazar nice to catch up with you again!
The Bonanza video is uploading now but it takes a while on our VDSL (80Mb/s down but only 2Mb/s up unfortunately). I fear we may not share the same opinion of the slot.......
The Bonanza video is uploading now but it takes a while on our VDSL (80Mb/s down but only 2Mb/s up unfortunately). I fear we may not share the same opinion of the slot.......
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My first new online casino session video for four years. (This is NOT a reupload, it is a new video.)
Here I examine the controversial slot 'BONANZA' by Big Time Gaming and express my opinions on it.
PLEASE NOTE - There is a commentary maths error at 26m57s and 28m11s, the correct figure is £9,600,000 and not £9,960,000. I only noticed this after I'd finished editing the video together, rendered it out, and kicked off the upload. (Small sherries had been consumed at the time of filming.)
Here I examine the controversial slot 'BONANZA' by Big Time Gaming and express my opinions on it.
PLEASE NOTE - There is a commentary maths error at 26m57s and 28m11s, the correct figure is £9,600,000 and not £9,960,000. I only noticed this after I'd finished editing the video together, rendered it out, and kicked off the upload. (Small sherries had been consumed at the time of filming.)
I fear we may not share the same opinion of the slot.......
I watched your video...and I honestly think you've got the wrong approach with this slot. You described it as is it's comparable to NetEnt's Mega Fortune (ultra boring base game with a huge chunk of the RTP tied to progressive jackpots). It really isn't that, though. You're not playing Bonanza for the 10,000x wins, you're playing it for the 100x-500x bonuses and hoping that the base game will be kind to you until you get one (and the base game is often surprisingly good at maintaining your balance). Those 100x+ bonuses aren't frequent but aren't that rare either...that's where the money is and why you should play that slot. (Now if you think the slot is boring and the music makes you want to kick a kitten there's nothing I can say about that
)I'll say this though...if you play that slot on 20p on a £100 balance you'll not make money that's pretty much a guarantee. Bonanza isn't a super high variance slot, it's med-high. If you want to see super high variance BTG try Queen Riches or StarQuest (now that's 2 games where you can win relatively big on very low stakes).
If you try them you'll see that BTG isn't fucking around when it's time to make a high variance slot...they will either eat all your balance in record time or send you straight to the withdrawal page.
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Although I’d agree that Bonanza isn’t a totally terrible slot, if you are re-visiting online slots play - and from I remember from your videos first time round - I think you should have a look at the Novomatics, with Merkur slots a close second. These differ in variance (from Rumplewildspins to the likes of Book of Ra 6), but can give you decent play time, depending on their mood and variance, as well as universally being able to pay big - even Rumples can do 1000x of you hit the sweet spot. And they manage to do that a lot more frequently than likes of Bonanza too.
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Glad somebody else sees Bonanza for what it really is. I cannot stand it either although I will play Danger high voltage and White rabbit on occasion these two are both much better than Bonanza.
These days Play and go make the best low roller slots imo, not had so many 1500x+ wins since Reactoonz but it can be pretty brutal with its variance, Viking runecraft again can chuck out some massive wins with its 15x multiplier but is capped at 5000x some people just wont like these grid slots (I love them), but they still have 'classic' slots like book ofRa dead with its surprisingly frequent 5000x top win and 1000-2000x hits you see very frequently, almost daily in VS freeroll battles plus some of the newer ones such as Imperial Opera and Planet fortune while not so much about massive wins can still churn out a few decent wins here and there.
These days Play and go make the best low roller slots imo, not had so many 1500x+ wins since Reactoonz but it can be pretty brutal with its variance, Viking runecraft again can chuck out some massive wins with its 15x multiplier but is capped at 5000x some people just wont like these grid slots (I love them), but they still have 'classic' slots like book of
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OK, FYI Choppers:
Base game is approx. 74% RTP , feature frequency 460 spins average return just under 100x.
Base game potential is around 10-20000x (a full-reels spin 117649 ways with say 288 ways of diamonds is possible, they are 50x bet for 6OAK. There is a recent screenie on here of 2400x in base game, my best is 502x bet red gems on the full ways. The reels in the feature are the same and the feature draws 12 random spins just as you would get in the base game, it's just that you lose the G-O-L-D from the lower reels and have them placed on the scrolling reels. 3 gold mine carts is the equivalent of getting G-O-L in the base game, 4 is like G-O-L-D. You retrigger 5 or 10 extra spins in FS with 3/4 gold mine carts respectively. You can trigger the feature with 5,6,7 and even 8 scatters for 17, 22, 27 and 32-spin trigger.
You will have noticed the attraction - before your second feature you had churned 3-400 spins and only lost 11 or 12 quid and at the end you were slightly ahead for hundreds of spins of entertainment. Now you may see why I like taking on bonuses with it - the base game turnover is very good. I hit 2500x in a bonus, one on YT hit 14,000 on one spin. My best multiplier was 31x off of a 5-scatter trigger or 5 extra spins, it's in a video on my channel. It was also voted CM 'Best new slot of 2017' by a clear margin in my poll this year and some casinos report BTG slots which are few in number are taking 20%+ of their play. It's a 'Marmite' game - you hate it, I love it and it's anything but 'boring'. The wider view of the player community alas contradicts your conclusions here and far from a 'design mistake' BTG have shot other developers out of the sky with this one hence casinos are adding BTG almost daily at present. I think it's the other developers making the mistake by not creating something similar, which they may well be doing as we speak since it takes anything from 12-24 months to design and release a new game.
And you won 2 pints on it.
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Thanks for the information and stats there dunover, but nothing you've said has changed my opinion of the slot. (I've had another session tonight, dual-slotting with Bonanza and Danger High Voltage, hopefully I'll get that edited together and uploaded before the end of the long weekend, but the TLDR is that I still think Bonanza is a really poor slot in terms of gameplay and player experience.)
I do agree that I called it wrong on the base game in the video, and that it does in fact churn a lot of the RTP and can keep you in the game for an extended period of time playing stakes that are sensible relative to your bankroll. (Although I did revise my opinion on that even in the course of the video, in fairness.)
Average feature frequency of 460 spins is truly awful, and as we all know with averages, that means a lot of players are going to be seeing 1000-2000 spins or more with dead patches of no feature, and a feature that is most likely going to return poorly when it finally drops in. I note you cite an 'average' of just under 100x, I'd be interested to see the distribution of returns across the range to come to that average, because those multiple mega-wins on the table must be knackering things lower down, I think the 'average' flatters things somewhat TBH.
Why is the feature frequency so low? I stand by my assertion in the video that the variance within the feature is stupidly high and feature frequency has to be so low because it's the only way the slot can hit TRTP whilst servicing those multiple monster hits on the paytable.
For the record I have no problem whatsoever with high variance slots, and indeed I quite like to have a tussle with them from time to time, but Bonanza to me is a dreadful example of how to implement one.
I don't doubt these slots are doing very good business in the here and now, but as I note in the video, people only have a finite amount of money to spend and a finite amount of patience, they'll only chase a big hit for so long - is this kind of slot design sustainable? I guess we'll find out in due course.
Anyway, good to be chatting again with you again (and other folks here as well!) - I'm always happy to engage in an intelligent heated debate, as dear old Mrs Merton used to say.
I do agree that I called it wrong on the base game in the video, and that it does in fact churn a lot of the RTP and can keep you in the game for an extended period of time playing stakes that are sensible relative to your bankroll. (Although I did revise my opinion on that even in the course of the video, in fairness.)
Average feature frequency of 460 spins is truly awful, and as we all know with averages, that means a lot of players are going to be seeing 1000-2000 spins or more with dead patches of no feature, and a feature that is most likely going to return poorly when it finally drops in. I note you cite an 'average' of just under 100x, I'd be interested to see the distribution of returns across the range to come to that average, because those multiple mega-wins on the table must be knackering things lower down, I think the 'average' flatters things somewhat TBH.
Why is the feature frequency so low? I stand by my assertion in the video that the variance within the feature is stupidly high and feature frequency has to be so low because it's the only way the slot can hit TRTP whilst servicing those multiple monster hits on the paytable.
For the record I have no problem whatsoever with high variance slots, and indeed I quite like to have a tussle with them from time to time, but Bonanza to me is a dreadful example of how to implement one.
I don't doubt these slots are doing very good business in the here and now, but as I note in the video, people only have a finite amount of money to spend and a finite amount of patience, they'll only chase a big hit for so long - is this kind of slot design sustainable? I guess we'll find out in due course.
Anyway, good to be chatting again with you again (and other folks here as well!) - I'm always happy to engage in an intelligent heated debate, as dear old Mrs Merton used to say.
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It's not a dreadful example of how to implement a high variance slot, it is a very succesful implementation of a low to medium variance slot that still can give monster wins. If you start your analysis with the wrong assumptions and stick to them, the results will not be very good.
Those 5000x+ wins are so rare I doubt they even make up 0.1% of the total TRTP.
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So where does an average feature frequency of 460 spins come from then?
~100x average feature vs much, much lower for the typical slot?
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Yes I guess the maths would work out on that, but it still makes for an awful experience for many players when they're seeing 15-25x (or less) a lot of the time, and of course that '100x average' will be skewed by the big rounds further up the paytable.
To an extent we're all just guessing here without access to the maths behind the games.
zap987 says "Those 5000x+ wins are so rare I doubt they even make up 0.1% of the total TRTP" - and he might be right, and then you've got to translate that to the average experience for the player.
As ever, I love to talk about this stuff and discuss as best we can with the evidence available, and when presented with evidence, facts will always win out.
I love slot maths and discussing variance and stuff with you, dunover and others. I forgot the dude's name but remember that guy here years ago who managed to get 1M spins on various MG slots and posted the charts here? That was interesting.
As for Bonanza, yeah in the end it's all about enjoying playing it or not and that's subjective.
The appeal for Bonanza (for me, at least) is it gives you decent playtime and you still have a shot for a good win (and a monster win isn't impossible). That and the fact that there are so many different reel combinations that wins never look the same. In IR, for example, you know what to look for to get a big win (eg: Sarah + Wilds). In Bonanza it's a total surprise. I once got a 400x win just from a bunch of 10's in the base game. I really, really love that aspect of the design.Looking forward for your next video. Danger High Voltage has been mean to me and I lost a fair bit of money on it but despite that I think that it's a very, very good slot.
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Mostly the 460 spins/feature comes from the very high base game rtp, 74% only leaves 22% rtp for the features overall. Immortal Romance for example has 65% base game and 31% features while it's higher variance version The Finer Reels of Life is at 56%-40%
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The reels in the feature DO change, that guy toros (or whatever he's called), who 'cracked' the HTML5 which is downloaded to the client, has shown that, AND the reels change again above a certain multiplier (50x, i believe), where all the gems and diamonds disappear. Not that I've seen anyone get that high, with the 'UNLIMITED MULTIPLIER'
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I love slot maths and discussing variance and stuff with you, dunover and others. I forgot the dude's name but remember that guy here years ago who managed to get 1M spins on various MG slots and posted the charts here? That was interesting.
As for Bonanza, yeah in the end it's all about enjoying playing it or not and that's subjective.
Looking forward for your next video. Danger High Voltage has been mean to me and I lost a fair bit of money on it but despite that I think that it's a very, very good slot.
I think you're talking about kktmd. And yeah, I loved reading his stuff. I remember a discussion you and kktmd had (actually, I think Chopley and zap might have been involved in it too) about the Avalon 2 slot when it came out and the odds of hitting a full screen of wilds being something like 10 BILLION to one lol. Made for some interesting reading (a far cry from the CM forum today, which seems to be ridiculously overloaded with "it's rigged, I tell ya" threads).
I should mention that Blathaon (whom I think you will remember) sort of took over that longplay data compilation "role" that kktmd had once held for a while.
But sadly, he has been away from the forum for quite some time now.
Anyhow, it's great to have two voices of reason like you and Chopley back on the forum again. I can't speak for others, but I for one have certainly missed your respective contributions to this forum.
I think you're talking about kktmd. And yeah, I loved reading his stuff. I remember a discussion you and kktmd had (actually, I think Chopley and zap might have been involved in it too) about the Avalon 2 slot when it came out and the odds of hitting a full screen of wilds being something like 10 BILLION to one lol. Made for some interesting reading (a far cry from the CM forum today, which seems to be ridiculously overloaded with "it's rigged, I tell ya" threads).
I should mention that Blathaon (whom I think you will remember) sort of took over that longplay data compilation "role" that kktmd had once held for a while.
But sadly, he has been away from the forum for quite some time now.
Anyhow, it's great to have two voices of reason like you and Chopley back on the forum again. I can't speak for others, but I for one have certainly missed your respective contributions to this forum.
Yep that's him! kktmd. Of course I remember Blathaon.
kktmd's data was important because it was confirming that those MG slots in the base game had static reels with random stops.
I also remember that thread with Chopley when we were hitting the 100 free spins at X10 on 3Dice's Arctic Adventure. We had fun on CM.
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Yes, he played 1m spins through Thunderstruck 2, DoA, Immortal etc. and they all finished pretty much bang-on TRTP IIRC!Yep that's him! kktmd. Of course I remember Blathaon.
kktmd's data was important because it was confirming that those MG slots in the base game had static reels with random stops.
I also remember that thread with Chopley when we were hitting the 100 free spins at X10 on 3Dice's Arctic Adventure. We had fun on CM.
Brianmon says the reels DO change on Bonanza at 50x Multiplier, but there's more chance of one of us becoming the next Pope than seeing 50x so that's pretty moot and possibly exists to prevent a freak catastrophic result for casinos - imagine a multiway 6OAK diamonds at 50X!!! Each 6OAK would be 2,500 x bet!
In answer to Chopley the rarity of the feature (my best is 5 in just under 200 spins BTW) is why it can have a high average return of around 100x. Some players don't like the paucity of feature triggers and this is addressed in Extra Chilli, the latest BTG slot modelled on the hugely successful Bonanza - the frequency is halved to 230 spins but your average return is less than 50x if not using the gamble, if you do (as it's 50-50) you'll have a higher average again but be back to the 1/460 average effectively, so the player has some choice there.
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I would be very interested to hear Chopley's opinion on the feature buy in White Rabbit and Extra Chilli. I suspect it won't be at all complimentary.
Is there a link to Brianmon's data? I sure didn't expect the reels on Bonanza to be static, but if he did say that they use the same set of reels during the bonus it would suggest otherwise?
Edit: We're hijacking Chopley's thread here though, maybe I should start a new one.
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Thanks for all the input and extra info on Bonanza folks, more information is always a good thing, and it's great to be yapping with you again.
Here is a brief update and correction video for Bonanza
Here is a brief update and correction video for Bonanza
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Watch it! Tsunami on the way - that sea is suspiciously far out. RUN!
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In the blue corner, DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE. In the red corner, BONANZA.
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Immortal romance if my memory serves me correctly was :
4 reel wild desire 1 in circa 300,000
5 reel was estimated to be one in 3m+
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A lot of us who played it regularly hit these long period of no bonus - even defying reasonable maths variance. I thought a lot of these were bullshit until I managed over 6000 spins without a bonus at Metal Casino (chat confirmed) over the period of a week. Regarding the base game, if I’mhonest its one I enjoy and I still play it from time to time, had 1000x once, however I am well, well down on it overall at ALL casinos. Not something you can say about other games like Immortal Romance
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Yes I've just been taking a look at BTG's other slots, I'll be uploading my thoughts on White Rabbit's feature buy 'PLAYER CHOICE EMPOWERMENT' option in due course.
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Egg on the face ol' chap! I creased up on that last Bonanza feature.
1. Stop saying '5-of-a-kind' as you are in fact getting 6OAK in full-reel hits!
2. PLEASE stop filming with a hand cam under the influence as the viewers will either get seasick or a migraine.
3. Spend 30-ish quid of that result you got on that dreadful boring and shit game, ermmm... ah! Bonanza, that's it, on a Bandicam license to do stable videos, you can still zoom and remove or mix sound sources and also have a logo over your videos to stop content thieves!
As for the DHV wild reel 15-spin feature, most big hits occur when the wild comes on reel 4 or 5 and the preceding 3 or 4 reels contain a decent match of symbols. Reel 2 wild doesn't often put in big wins.
On the GoH feature you are doomed usually after the first 3 spins if none or just one single wild sub has landed in the middle grid. DHV gives a hell of a lot of 5-20x features on either type.
On your first Bonanza bonus you were on two occasions close to some pretty big hits on diamonds and red rubies respectively, unlucky.
Good session though, if you'd have started with a bonus on that 100 deposit, you'd now be pretty close to wagering, as per my preference for BTG slots.
"My issue with Bonanza is it just doesn't have that massive single hit potential" as I was watching the A's in the background and reeeaaaally wanted one to land on the 1st reel...
Good stuff...it's OK to have a different opinion when we get more data and the 1st impression isn't always right
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Egg on the face ol' chap! I creased up on that last Bonanza feature.
1. Stop saying '5-of-a-kind' as you are in fact getting 6OAK in full-reel hits!
2. PLEASE stop filming with a hand cam under the influence as the viewers will either get seasick or a migraine.
3. Spend 30-ish quid of that result you got on that dreadful boring and shit game, ermmm... ah! Bonanza, that's it, on a Bandicam license to do stable videos, you can still zoom and remove or mix sound sources and also have a logo over your videos to stop content thieves!
As for the DHV wild reel 15-spin feature, most big hits occur when the wild comes on reel 4 or 5 and the preceding 3 or 4 reels contain a decent match of symbols. Reel 2 wild doesn't often put in big wins.
On the GoH feature you are doomed usually after the first 3 spins if none or just one single wild sub has landed in the middle grid. DHV gives a hell of a lot of 5-20x features on either type.
On your first Bonanza bonus you were on two occasions close to some pretty big hits on diamonds and red rubies respectively, unlucky.
Good session though, if you'd have started with a bonus on that 100 deposit, you'd now be pretty close to wagering, as per my preference for BTG slots.
I figured this video might amuse you, I even thought to myself 'Yes dunover and Balthazar will have a laugh at this.....'
Specific points:
1) I'm old-fashioned, slots only had 5 reels when I was a lad.
2) I possess a full Bandicam licence and use the software for my fruit machine emulation videos (but I need my hands for that), I'll link an example of the capture quality below. I use the camcorder because it allows emotional involvement with the action at hand and I like to EMOTE PASSIONATELY with camera motions, I find Bandicam footage very sterile. It's an 'artistic choice' but I appreciate it might not be to everyone's taste.
3) See (2)
Thanks for the extra info on DHV, I think it's a slot I'll most likely be returning to in future.
As for Bonanza..... Yes, I can imagine I might have it running away as a second slot when I'm making a video about something else, the bonus round has piqued my interest now
Example of top quality Bandicam footage below with audio recorded via a headset. I'm happy to go either way on using Bandicam for the slots footage or sticking with the camcorder depending on what folks prefer, personally it just 'feels' better to me using the camcorder.
There are pros and cons. The camcorder gives your channel a unique feel in a sea of bandicam Youtubers, on the other hand it's more tiring to watch over a long period and IIRC you do get tired of holding the cam after a while. Ultimately it depends of what you like the most and what you plan to do with your channel long term. I think your commentary makes up for the "boringness" of plain Bandicam. If you look at the most popular slot channels on Youtube (The Bandit, etc) it's all about the commentary/personality and you've got plenty of that.
Random slots do random things and sometimes very random things. Years ago I went 1700+ spins without a bonus on MG's Playboy (and even complained about it somewhere on this forum). If you do the math, it's about the same odds as going 6000 spins on Bonanza (12.14x the avg on Playboy vs 13.04X on Bonanza). Players wouldn't think it's not random if it gave them a jackpot that had 1 in 1M chance of landing, but when it goes the other way it's gotta be rigged. It's random for a reason, it can do anything as long as the odds aren't zero.
Rigging the slots is so risky for a slot provider it's certainly not worth it. They don't have to do it to make money. Also, it's not good for them if you go 6000 spins without a bonus...they want you to enjoy the game and keep playing.
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Thanks Balthazar I'll give it some thought.
I have no intentions of ever trying to monetise the channel or making it 'professional' in any sort of way (a few folks have suggested I should at least add a Patreon link but I don't even want do that, for me it's important that money doesn't come into the equation at all), so part of me thinks I should go with what feels right.
I'll see what sort of mood I'm in when it's time to next record a session
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More UK SWP capers. (Recorded with Bandicam, for those who don't like the camcorder.)
Should have another online slots video published in time for the weekend (which I also recorded with Bandicam).
Should have another online slots video published in time for the weekend (which I also recorded with Bandicam).
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Bear in mind viewers that these were compensated just the same as AWP's. If it was 'ready' there would be loads more gold tokens making it easy to win the top prize, whereas if it wasn't it'd simply stop you, no matter how many crystals you had accumulated, by limiting the gold tokens. There used to be general knowledge ones that wouldn't even offer the top 20 quid prize IF they weren't 'ready' either. There was one you could always get 20 quid on, the Big Break snooker one if you were a smart anus.
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Fuck Me! (actually don't)
SCREENPLAY!!!!!
One of my all time fave AWP's back in the day.
I mastered find the knight and duck shoot and could get the "repeater" pretty much every time, back in my VERY early days even the giro day addicts would call me or mate over to do the find the Knight and We'd charge a small 'cut' if we got the repeater.
Love it lol.
SCREENPLAY!!!!!
One of my all time fave AWP's back in the day.
I mastered find the knight and duck shoot and could get the "repeater" pretty much every time, back in my VERY early days even the giro day addicts would call me or mate over to do the find the Knight and We'd charge a small 'cut' if we got the repeater.
Love it lol.
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Mostly true but not entirely
Don't know if you watched any/all of the video but I specifically discuss the first two editions of The Crystal Maze machines on their original chips, which even in their 'minimum gold' state of 59 gold tokens in the dome, could have the £5 taken out of them by a skilled player (which is what I used to do). The first 8-9 minutes of the video show exactly that on the original hardware that someone has restored to working order.
Barcrest later rechipped them to put a minimum of 51 gold in the dome, at which point it effectively became impossible to win if it didn't want to pay.
Unfortunately the first two versions are not yet emulated, only the third version in my video, which was never 'doable'
(As far as I'm aware.)Yes it's an absolute all-time classic of a machine, you do know you can play it emulated on your PC? (i.e. Emulation running the original ROMs to give a 100% authentic experience, as per in the video.)
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I suspected but didn't know for sure, lost all my emulators and roms MPU4's etc etc when the hard drive on my old PC got corrupted.
Searched high and low for the CD's which they originally came on and nowhere to be found, got all the old MAME stuff but no slots stuff
I could list a volley of classics I'd love emu's for on here a long as they were original and not chips or £5 JP's
Cash Force (BFM) Blue Moon / Sunset Boulevard / Up N Over (Barcrest) Hi Rise (Barcrest again IIRC) Jackpot 7's (Project Coin) to name a tiny selection off the top of my head!
Searched high and low for the CD's which they originally came on and nowhere to be found, got all the old MAME stuff but no slots stuff
I could list a volley of classics I'd love emu's for on here a long as they were original and not chips or £5 JP's
Cash Force (BFM) Blue Moon / Sunset Boulevard / Up N Over (Barcrest) Hi Rise (Barcrest again IIRC) Jackpot 7's (Project Coin) to name a tiny selection off the top of my head!
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Latest video on the channel is for the new slot 'Hardwell', which I ended up playing for real money when I didn't entirely intend to. Since MR HARDWELL started chewing through my balance which was intended for the next BTG slots video, I figured I'd record and narrate the second leg of the HARDWELL experience.
This is recorded using Bandicam rather than a camcorder so I figured if nothing else it'd make a good test bed for using Bandicam as opposed to the camcorder. Editing software is Vegas Movie Studio 15.0 as usual.
Even if you're not particularly interested in the slot, feedback about whether or not you prefer the camcorder or Bandicam for the videos would be appreciated.
This is recorded using Bandicam rather than a camcorder so I figured if nothing else it'd make a good test bed for using Bandicam as opposed to the camcorder. Editing software is Vegas Movie Studio 15.0 as usual.
Even if you're not particularly interested in the slot, feedback about whether or not you prefer the camcorder or Bandicam for the videos would be appreciated.
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Hardwell is StakeLogic (subsidiary of Greentube/Novomatic) slot and the RTP is 96.04% or factory TRTP as it were. I played this in demo a while back when adding it to my data sheets.
Inspired Gaming slots are all pretty much fixed at 95%
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Spent some time playing Hardwell the other day and can officially say I will never be playing it again. Poor returns, unnecessary animations and sounds (even when no chance of winning) - as Chopley pointed out in his video.
I also think Stake Logic have totally gone out on a limb branding a slot about a DJ that most slot players will never have heard of. Should have gone for Pete Tong, lots of opportunities for some rhyming slang as well!
I also think Stake Logic have totally gone out on a limb branding a slot about a DJ that most slot players will never have heard of. Should have gone for Pete Tong, lots of opportunities for some rhyming slang as well!
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Yes, I admire Chopley's persistence with it as I'd have personally been cursing from 5 minutes in due to the tedium and obvious lack of potential with it. Could've done Oakenfield too.
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No disrespect to Mr Hardwell, he is obviously well loved, but his name could easily be a product for erectile dysfunction. I think there is a missed opportunity here, maybe he should follow Pele's lead...
What a steaming pile of shit. Who the hell is going to play this? Another example of "when slot designers aren't slot players".
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Here's my take on Extra Chilli.
