virtualted said:
Jinnia,
I know you have your beliefs, but if you are asking a question than I will give you the answer. Since you brought up "Bonkers" I will give you how it is configured as of this morning.
coin % Jackpot Jackpot reset amount
.05 94 117 60
.25 97 702 300
.50 94 1541 600
1.00 94 2746 1200
5.00 97 6794 6000
Maybe at your casino they hit that low, but not at the few I play at, progressives are set to hit way too high, in my opinion. A normal jackpot hit on a slot (not a progressive) pays (example) $150, but on that same game that is a progressive, it go up from 800 to $1400 before a hit happens. Example; Diamond Deluxe pays at a non-progressive machine at $150, but on a progressive one, it can go over $1400, and that's on the nickel machine. Lowest I've seen it hit was $300, which is acceptable.
virtualted said:
The Jackpot never goes down unless it was hit and reset.
Not true at all. I play slots and slots only, (tried blackjack recently..ridiculous!) and play them one heck of a lot, I SEE this happen at every RTG casino I play at. I've even e-mailed the casino(s) about it and was told that they do that and as long as it stays within a $15 rollback, that's acceptable, but to inform them if it rolls back more than that.
virtualted said:
We can not change the reset amount or how much the Jackpot gets too. That is why on a game like Super Diamond Mine the 1.00 coin Jackpot is 227,000. if it hits it will reset for 10,000. So actually if you play for the Jackpot this is over 100% payout.
Ok, with that statement I now understand what is meant by the percentage payouts.
virtualted said:
The reason the Jackpot is so out of line is that the winning combination has been hit 4 times over the last couple of months by players not playing Max coins. So since they hit the sequence the random counter on it resets, even though the Jackpot is not paid.
If the jackpot is hit with only one or two coins, they only get paid the normal jackpot, not the progressive.
Shouldn't the max coin hit be seperately set from hitting with only one or two coins? That would seem only more fair.
virtualted said:
I am willing to bet that pretty much other softwares are set up the same way, but have no idea.
They may be, but I have not seen it at any other than the RTG powered casinos.
virtualted said:
As far as what has been put in the slot you need to remember that when the slot is turned on there is all ready the jackpot, so when the new money goes in only a portion of that bet goes towards the jackpot. I do not have the actual %'s.
Understandable about only a percentage goes toward the jackpot, a business needs to make a profit.
virtualted said:
Jinnia I hope this helps you out. I am not trying to change your beliefs I am just telling you what it is on this side of the machine.
Granted, some are only beliefs, but some are due to seeing and 'knowing' what I see and experience frequently! And no, not just a run of bad luck. Only online, I do great at land base. That's the reason I'll blow a bit online just to kill a few minutes when bored, but I do my serious gambling at land based casinos, 'certain' land based casinos.
virtualted said:
It's funny that we look at eact numbers sometime that we totally forget about the luck and fun factor. I think if everyone took Casinomeisters advice on the games we would have a lot more happy winners. My last time in Vegas I was playing Blackjack where the setup was terrible, I said to my friend, the house odds here are stagering. I said no one can win. So I sat down and proceded to lose my entire buy in, the whole time saying "I knew I could not win here". Like players who think that a switch is turned on or off, depending on their bet. When you start believing these things it becomes a self fullfilling prophecy.
Oh yes, luck and
PLENTY of it does it take (along with a thick wallet), to even get a few minutes of just 'play time'.
I'll leave with this which can be construed as it being said about a gambler AND the gambling business::
George Washington: "Gambling is the child of avarice (
greed), the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief."
Thomas Jefferson: "Gambling corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us the habit of hostility against mankind."
Benjamin Franklin: "Keep flax from fire, youth from gambling."
Statesmen and leaders such as these cannot be brushed aside as unimportant. They were concerned about the orderly moral development of our nation. They felt that gambling would be a HINDRANCE to such.
Columbia Encyclopedia says,
"Gambling flourishes in the United States usually under the control of a criminal element, and with the blessings of corrupt police officials."
Everyone will draw their own meaning into the statements above!