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I worked on a redemption device a long time ago, one of those "stop the lights" game for a large manufacturer. There were a few jurisdictions, Iowa and New Jer
by koz1000 5y ago
I worked on a redemption device a long time ago, one of those "stop the lights" game for a large manufacturer.
There were a few jurisdictions, Iowa and New Jersey come to mind, that were already aware of the nature of these machines and required the manufacturers to have their software audited and validated by (state approved) third-party gaming labs identical to what the slot machine companies do when getting code approved for release.
The key point was that the probability of a win couldn't be adjusted on the fly to make the target payout percentage (kind of what the article says). The probabilities had to be fixed for every player on every game. Although the first method is a lot easier to write, software-wise. =)
For the rest of the jurisdictions, the default payout was 40% and anything was fair game to hit that number. Remember that the next time you're in a Chuck E Cheese.
- nomel 5y ago> The probabilities had to be fixed for every player on every game. For every play of the game, or across all of those game machines sold?
- koz1000 5y agoThe operator-set percentage and payout was always local to the machine. There's no way to network these things, and even when do you see networked progressive slot machines (e.g. IGT's Megabucks), the RNG and payout is always local to that machine.
- Something1234 5y agoOn the same note could you name any of the third party labs? I'm interested in the topic.
- walrus01 5y agoCome on down to chuck e cheese, eat some low grade pizza in our rat themed child casino!
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoThe problem is not the payout probability being fixed or variable. The problem is a lot of these machines suggest they are skill-based when they are really skill and luck based.
- distances 5y agoI don't think you can call it luck when the machine is programmed to explicitly not give a win until a number of games. It's not luck, it's not odds. There's zero chance of a win until the condition is reached.