GeorgeJG

Yes for sure, if it was rejected somehow a very simplistic way would be to put the residual value into the base game for example and yes on a less soft platform such as £100 communities it'd have to be a harder save for the jp rep, agreed.

I was reading this quickly and about to suggest Dulcolax or Senna However an idea I have had which never seems to have been implemented into compensated profiles is as follows. Let's simplify. Imagine I have a game I want to set to run at 80%, a compensated game. I'm saving 10% to the streak pot and 70% to the base game. The base game is reasonably soft and inoffensive, but not too boring. Let's say it's a £100 jackpot streak and it wants to offer up the 'free' £200 from the streak pot every so often. Basic maths that will be seeded every £2000 cycled then. However why not randomly and genuinely randomly seed it from £0 cycled to £4000 cycled? It's the same thing yet means the hybrid compensated/random game can never be killed with certainty as a streak/freebie jp rep can always be just around the corner.

No worries, it was a fairly recent release iirc, easy to miss when they get swamped with other stuff.

Drac Pack should also be the same as a p1 wiyb

Anyone know the absolute top whack streak combo? You'd think in theory as it can hold several times it could go for over £300 but they always felt once you got over the £170ish point that any hold from that point was not going to be a big one.

Good to see in action. One of those things I heard about all too late when the only remaining location was a fiery pub in Loughborough where the landlord threw a snooker ball through the car window of the umpteenth player who had called by to try the empty!

Super rare is Pure Madness on the £100 'Novomatic' flat front cab. I think you can even get it on i-bet/i-serve etc, maybe only on the hacked menu though. I quite like Pure Madness as a game and it can streak big, the rest of the Empire Wow from that era are a bit weak in my opinion, pig money etc Analogue Madness in a near by Mecca is on ticket in/ticket out but that is a very rare set up, as rare as seeing one on a digital Astra/Novo cab. The big streak can even empty a £350 hopper at times!

Clockwork Orange Free spins with the clock middle symbol and usual clockwork orange symbols 3*3 way for feature entry? There are two programs afaik, one that saves up the numbers from the middle clock symbol like an earlier machine, Pure Madness and the other one doesn't, it just dapples the numbers on a feature entry with symbol clock symbol on win line. I would think 10p stake is just a setting on the stakes/prizes key. £1,000 sounds seriously steep. That game bombed in terms of cash box performance compared to any other incarnation of clockwork oranges. You're right the WOW cabinets are built cheaply comparted to some techs. The marketing was always geared toward a budget value purchase for an AGC rather than something that would go head to head with the latest games. Afaik there's no empty for the software itself but the red note recycler if of a certain type was vulnerable to an illegal exploit which possibly explains the £1 stake comment or merely the fact that the hopper was only £250 not £350 and on arcade settings they do streak well eventually. If that's the case then typical arcade owner blind to the fact that Flo might be putting in £500+ for the streak and seething when she wins over £250 on the eventual streak. Could you trust that sort of character to give you a fair price for second hand goods? It depends how much you like the game but I'd say £150 tops for that tech/genre. They are prone to reel alignment errors, plus door and note acceptor security issues. Digital cabs versus mechanical? Pros and cons. Digital looks more modern, more player appeal but when it does go wrong it generally requires a different skill set to correct as a pose to mechanical. Digital generally more reliable as less moving parts but of course build quality be it a PC or set of analogue reels counts for a lot. I can't see Novomatic etc ever revisiting the Empire back catalogue much as it's an appealing idea to most on this forum. There's no way that the euro friendly high cash box earning powerhouses of Admiral and Cashino Gaming venues on the high street would every go for that. Even a lo tech Cash in the Box would mean nothing versus a Lucky Jewels or Chip Runner Hot Deluxe Magic.

Fair enough, I wasn't thinking straight, plenty of games that could be mullered and even the pluggers as Alex says would be mullered by someone who knew what they were doing to leave it relatively dead. That said roll on to 2007 and you had people doing the 4 reel purple cab deals leaving silly value in the main feature pot after ripping the end box pot mercilessly. Party Time over a decade earlier, no Internet, less players but still sounds like you had the usual idiots ruining things. Before my time as a more serious player, I can remember similar machines of the era, Spectre, Barcode, Streets Ahead etc one for the download list.

Logopolis - I once asked a publican that very question and his reply was that a pub was for people to socialise and hopefully enjoy one another's company. Things such as darts or a pool table for example where just diversions to hopefully bring people together in a non violent manner! He was always disappointed when people ordered a coke (unless designated driver) instead of a 'proper drink' and equated it into going to the best curry house in town and ordering a portion of chips. However he did concede the mark up was better and no messing about with barrels in a cellar! Note that this was back in the early 2000s when gentrification was of a lesser magnitude than today and pub's were slightly more traditional. Nowadays we all now it's compulsory to wear a mask, not touch any dirty fruit machines (if indeed there are any) and order a super green smoothie with five bean salad accompanied perhaps by a designer guest ale from a micro brewery. Alex - a lot of Big J's emptiers involve plugging. I may be speaking out of turn here but what he does/did shouldn't take value out the machine to leave it dead, in fact quite the opposite. It buzzes up the machine as the win is free on plugging. You may well have played a lot of dead £6 jackpot machines in your formative years but I'd put that down to bad %s, f***ed hardware/dodgy operators and other methods that did leave machines super dead.