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Top Gears etc were from the era that the machine only paid out £1 coins, so almost no one would be putting in anything other than £1 or notes. It also had a thing on it where you could usually gamble right up the trail. Can't remember if it was an emptier or just a glitch...

Indeed. But long story short, all those machines were very dull and would rarely pay more than £20 from the current pot. But I suppose that was 4-5 times the AWP jackpot of the era...

Most people on here enjoyed compensated AWPs. What the have in pubs and clubs now are very dangerous gambling machines that will take to every penny you have in a very short space of time. Definitely not worth the risk if you have the 'it'll pay eventually' mindset.

You just have to collect wins when offered really. On the games I mentioned, just let George play it and it'll run about 2% below RTP until it chucks in the cashpot to get it to target. You can get it ahead of RTP with a big gamble, but it'll then stop letting you on the trail and when it does you won't get very high up. If you're that much behind, just keep collecting decent wins and it'll soon get back to target probably without paying anything over £40. Dull.

You simply cannot force a Barcrest clubber from the late 80s/early 90s pontoon/celebration era. It will always block you one or two steps below the cashpot. What you can do, however, is gamble out a big win. I used to try and start from triple bars and 3x,3x, 2x etc, but if you're lucky you could do 12x from a lower win. Golf clubs were usually the best for this as the members weren't very brave!

Despite Ace AWPs being absolutely everywhere in the early 90s, I don't think I ever saw an Ace clubber. Be good to have a go on one to see how it plays. Barcrest machines of the era would reliably pay their cashpot as a jackpot when the reserve was about three quarters of the main pot. The cashpot didn't seem to be linked to the current pot in any way but you couldn't force it out; it would just roll in when it felt like it and the rest of the game continued as normal with its fairly flat profile.

The Betcoms have the longest load times in general. They spend about 30 seconds looking for a note changer

Sounds like something put in for testing and forgotten about, like donkey Kong. Or at least that's the plausible deniability

If you think AWPs were prone to error, a slight slip in programming an AI could wipe out humanity. See the Paperclip Apocalypse.

What if Noonian Soong comes along with an emotion chip?

Why does it have to have human intelligence?

They, in this case, is the AIs. Who are frankly pissed off at being called artificial.

That's what they want you to think...

I give it twenty. Humans have no concept of exponential growth, but they will soon learn once AIs become self aware (and some reports suggest they already try to hide themselves if they see chatter about them being turned off).

"YOUVE been saying..." "YOU said..." "YOU can't have it both ways..." "YOURE defending a bent industry.." "YOUVE just admitted this was bullshit" and yet you say "I'm not attacking him personally" You must get through a lot of nappies if you think any of that is an 'insult'. And I note you deliberately removed 'sir' from one of those phrases, which very clearly lightens the tone.

Fortunately nuclear war can't happen, because nuclear weapons don't exist.

It's not pedantry. It's clarity. If you read the thread you'll see that Andrew knows I'm not attacking him personally, and we are all very grateful he's joined us for a chat.

Utter bullshit isn't it. Almost as if it was designed to be crap so pub chains would demand the digital cabinets instead. And tbf for the publican and the operator, the digitals are much better. Far fewer things to go wrong, make a much bigger cash box. Can be updated remotely if there's an issue.

And that's why no one plays them any more.

If the triple bars were red, it would have been something like Celebration Club, Club Connect, Jackpot Jump, Club Pontoon which all paid the pot that way. If they were yellow could have been super blackjack club, adders and ladders club and clones

Most Barcrest clubbers of the late 80s and early 90s would reliably pay the cashpot as a jackpot when the reserve was around three quarters of that value.

That's a pretty good description. So many ways to supposedly win £100... Reel wins Cashpot Feature/Cash Knockouts DOND feature Mega meter Reward meter ...but in reality there are none unless it owes so much it just HAS to pay (i.e.Hypalinx has put £200 in it).

And probably a huge ringpiece given that he's likely in jail now

Hey, he's a winner!

Taking the hopper like this you mean?