Just isn't quite the same without an ashtray on top and a couple of chavvy kids watching over your shoulders giving 'advice'.
But I cannot see how this can be random, if it was set to pay out the 1000x and you collect six quid on the trail how can that be correct to the stated RTP? and more importantly how do they sim this for testing the RTP, wouldn't it end up over/underpaying a lot.
So is the 'optimal strategy' just to go for it every time, like trying to force a compensated AWP.
And my three big money features from this evening. SPOILER ALERT - they all pay 150x
Yeah, it's definitely reminiscent of a pub slot, I mean you played it in a certain way, continuously and 3 times it dumped exactly the SAME pre-scripted 150x feature. I reckon it would have kept doing it too had you continued.
In the space of 823 spins I got:
3 x BIG MONEY (all three of which paid 150x)
1 x STREAKER (80x IIRC)
1 x 100x
1 x 50x
3 x Take It Or Leave it features (which paid 10x, 20x and 50x IIRC)
Multiple x crappy wins and features
Multiple LOSE results
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So according to the rules, the best strategy is basically to force it, and the RTP is listed as 96.57%.
Don't accept any offers in the DOND game, don't take any features, and just play everything to the end.
So I wonder what happens if you always just collect the first thing you're offered, you end up at less than 96.57% over billions of spins? Is that allowed on a random game?
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It's hard to say really, maybe the RNG makes multiple calls at the start of the round with different values assigned to different player actions? i.e. Play to cashout awards 5x, feature collect awards 20x or something like that. But then again the cash trail is a variable target that the player can collect whenever they want, so the game can't 'force' a specific value on the player for that.
I think I'll lob a deposit at VS for this game and crank out a video for it (Nothing I've seen in the Holy Diver thread has persuaded me to even try it in free play, let alone with real money!)
I guess that from a regs point of view they're covered by listing the optimal strategy, it may well be that you can get close to T-RTP long term by collecting at 15x or whatever it is, as a forced cashout is usually close at that point, but ultimately those BIG MONEY awards are only going to come from the cashouts so the more cashouts you get in the long term, the better.