MG casinos totally change the payout % every time the heat is turned up? Oh and before you come with the "millions of spins to see payout %", I dont care about that. Having played for 5-6 years I see the pattern, every time I have built up maybe a 2-3k win and go flat out I get smacked on the fingers. The games should act exactly the same at $100 as at $10 spins but they don't.
Anyone else come to the same conclusion? I myself find it almost as rogue behavior by the software!
Yes, I often feel that there is this kind of "envelope" parameter that artifitially enhances the streakiness of the games. It often seems that the big wins are more likely at lower stakes.
I had a spell earlier where I played many spins on Thunderstruck for a regular slot tournament. I was staking between 0.09 and 0.54 per spin, and managed a DOZEN wins of the elusive 5 rams in a short space of time. My thread did indeed raise suspisions in the minds of a few posters that there was "something odd" going on.
I have also learned that, contrary to popular belief, some of the early 5 reel video slots have weighted reels. If this weighting is on the newer slots, but more subtle, it could be used to generate these "patterns" if the weights are adjusted to enhance streakiness.
There does not seem to be a problem with meeting long term percentage expectations, but there seem to be long losing and winning spells on these slots, and not always due to the variance of big wins.
The one pattern that stands out to me is how the free spin scatters just seem to dry up for several hundred spins, which coincides with a long run of many hundreds of spins before the next bonus round. Then, at other times, the scatters are all over the place, and bonus rounds hit frequently, even if they are crap.
I have noticed another pattern on 5 Reel Drive, now known to be weighted, where it has this occasional spell of around 30 naked spins with a set of scatters roughly mid way, whereas most of the time there are small wins about every other spin - to me, it looks like the kind of thing UK Fruit Machines do, play reasonably for a while, then go into a 10 - 20 "suck" without a single win, before returning to allow frequent feature entry and minor wins. UK Fruit Machines are, of course, not random but controlled to a set percentage and cycle.