50 Lions hits different at my local than at the club up the road
Maybe I'm being dumb here but this actually explains a lot 😅. Been having a slap on 50 Lions at my local for ages and the free games always felt flat compared to the ones at the club up the road. Didn't know venues can set the return differently, so two Aristocrat machines could play that far apart. Something I should ask the venue or just swap venues? 🤔
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This might be a silly question but how does the venue actually pick the return on a 50 Lions? Like is it the pub manager choosing, or does Aristocrat set a few options and the venue picks one? 🤔 Always figured all the machines played the same, now I'm second guessing my locals 🙈
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No silly question at all mate. The way I understand it, Aristocrat build the machine with a few return settings available, and the venue picks which one it runs on, as long as it's above whatever minimum the state allows. So the pub manager isn't spinning a dial on a Tuesday night, but the setting that machine ships with is their choice from the menu. Two 50 Lions cabinets in different venues can genuinely be running different configs, even same suburb.
Which is why your free games can feel like a dead machine at one joint and rain lions at the club up the road. Same 50 paylines, same African theme, same feature, just a different return behind the glass. I learned this years ago on Queen of the Nile, used to think I'd lost my touch crossing town, turned out the machine across the road was just set meaner. Nothing dodgy, all above board, but your legs know the difference before your head does 😉
Wow, thanks JohnBrizzie for explaining that bit, it actually helps me understand it now 🙏. So it's not that the machine itself is broken, just that different pubs decided to set the return rate differently for their 50 Lions session? That’s pretty wild how much the venue choice impacts how the free games feel compared to what I remembered. My local is usually dodgy and doesn't ever change settings, so I guess I just get stuck with whatever return they've chosen. Do you reckon some venues try to keep the same settings across all their machines, or do they change it often? This stuff about venue returns is confusing, total noob here 😅.
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