In Big Top Slots, what is the "Big Deal"?

[PlasticIcon]

Like what pays off a lot? In Cogs, it's the invasion, obviously. 888 doens't really have one because its normal payouts can run quite high.

But with the latest slot machine I can't quite figure it out - I just hit a roll where the first four bars were wild, and the last were mid-level icons, and that got me about 120k - nothing to sneeze at, but hardly a jackpot.

I've played the lion minigame, and never quite see big numbers there.

The reason I'm asking is because earlier in a thread one of the designer/programmers spoke of slots as having a "house edge" type figure, and a "frequency of payout" type figure, and said that the one coming up would be less likely to pay you out than the other two, but the payouts would be larger.

That hasn't been my experience though. I did walk away from 50 spins once and come back with 700RP earned, which is huge for slots, but I didn't see what it did and my bankroll at that point was big enough and I was sleep deprived enough from fighting off Negry that I could have won or lost 500k and not noticed it.


So if anyone has had the lion jump through the hoop with 1, 2, or 3, hoops still on fire, what happened? I can tell you what happens when it jumps through while the last is burning up - a 45k bonus.

What else? What are some of the big jackpots people have gotten on it?

[Spira]

I'm new so don't have much cash but it ate up 250k in about 100 spins without any win other than around 5K.

I was betting 3K and the most I got wasabout £140k back. I think you withr need 5 wilds or a good last reel. I had elephants on it (i think) they are highest payline. If you have skittles or something on then you don't really win much coz they have the lowest value.

Lion game usually about 10x bet but its not changed regardless of how many rings are on fire in my experience, just if you jump through the last hoop at the same time as it goes out which you've done.

I haven't managed to win anything on cogs after 200spins either though so maybe i just have bad luck/

[V1Ntis_F]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=501956579 my highest win from 1 spin
and there's no 45k but 15k Bonus

[PlasticIcon]

It was a 45k bonus, I'm sure.

[76561198088146082]

The main feature of Big Top slots is the expanding wilds. They give the possibility of having huge wins at any point in the game.

So far the stats show the house take for Big Top is right between 888 and Cogs, all three machines are within 0.5% of each other. So statisically they are performing as designed.

However, the streaky nature of Big Top seems to have turned some people off, as you can go several spins without having a big win with expanded wilds. Because the expanded wilds give such big wins, it means the bonus round has to give comparatively less - so it seems that users feel like the bonus round isn't that much of a bonus.

In Cogs, the main game rarely paid out more than 5x your initial bet, but the bonus round had very good returns. In Big Top, the main game can easily pay out 30-40x your initial bet if you hit some wilds, but the bonus round payouts are much smaller.

[chance2now]

One tweak I would like to see to this game is for the expanding wild animation not to trigger when there is nothing that it will match with. Usually I just want to get to the next spin if there is nothing to collect.

[dakin1]

I'm starting to warm to this slot (although I like the bonus round in Cogs better)--the thing to hope for is hitting wilds in the first 2 or 3 reels to trigger the bigger payouts. In tonight's session I had a 15x, 25x and 20x payout on different spins (and also a bonus round win too, which was nice). Standard deviation looks to be pretty big on this machine, but I expected that given that the devs mentioned this one was going to be geared towards fewer big wins as opposed to more small to medium wins on the other slots.