Golden Century has me doing financial crimes at the pub
😂 this thread is too real, I gave one of the Dragon Link cabinets a slap at my local last weekend and the Hold & Spin near misses nearly broke me too. Quick noob question though, does the RTP actually change from pub to pub like people are saying? How would you even know what yours is set at? Still learning all this 🙏
Asking dumb bonus questions — that's the job.
Yes, and this is the bit that quietly wrecks people's EV maths. The RTP on Dragon Link is set per venue within whatever minimum your state mandates, with no single published figure to look up, so the cabinet at your local and the one at the casino can be tuned differently. Knowing your exact setting? Short of asking the venue you can't, and I'd love to see a pub manager actually dig that out for anyone.
Volatility > vibes.
Maybe I'm being dumb but when you say set within the state minimum, does that mean some pubs run tighter than others and there's no way to tell which? 😅 The near misses at my local had me fooled either way
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maxbet, mate, you've put your finger on the part that keeps venue managers comfy and punters guessing. each state sets a minimum return, the venue picks where it sits above that, and the same cabinet can be tuned one way at your pub and another at the casino. nothing on the screen tells you, no sticker on the glass, and half the staff wouldn't know either.
only way i've ever gauged it is feel over a few sessions. had a Dragon Link run at one club where the Hold & Spin teased me rotten, orbs stacking up, feature never quite landing, hour of my life gone. went back a fortnight later and it played like a dead machine. same game, different room, different mood. could be variance, could be the tune. after forty years of this i've stopped pretending i know which. ah well, we grind on
Ha, you blokes talk like there's some spreadsheet out there with your local's exact RTP printed on it. Even the venue manager probably couldn't tell you without ringing Aristocrat, and he's not doing that for you.
I've been feeding these cabinets since the Queen of the Nile days, and here's what forty years of slaps taught me - the tuning matters less than most punters reckon. You can sit on the loosest machine in the state and still walk out lighter if Hold & Spin gets its claws into you. That's the real trick of Dragon Link, the near misses are designed to keep you bargaining, and no published figure was ever going to save you from that.
I remember the old slots first-hand.
maxbet, mate, you've put your finger on the part that keeps venue managers comfy and punters guessing. each state sets a minimum return, the venue picks where it sits above that, and the same cabinet can be tuned one way…
FreoDad, that's exactly why I assume the worst. No sign on the wall says what you're actually feeding in. Chris, enjoy the dragons, but post a cashout screenshot if you ever land one.
@Servo_Blue64 challenge accepted in spirit, a mate of mine swears the dragons paid for his whole carton last year 😂 but nah the mystery RTP thing is sus when you think about it, no way of knowing what you're feeding in. Still, Golden Century at A$2 a spin owns me every Friday, don't care 🔥🐉
Honestly who cares about the maths when two dragons land and the third dips 🥲 Golden Century at my local is my all-time favourite, deadset, near misses and all 🐉🔥
Servo's cashout screenshot challenge is fair dinkum, but I'll cop it. Session on Golden Century last fortnight, hit the mini during a respawn at A$2 a spin and walked before the dragons could take it back. Assume the worst on RTP all you like, my rule's simpler: set a loss limit, cash out when you're up, no exceptions. 🎰💸