Indian Dreaming is from 1999 and still on the floor at my local club?

Yeah, that one's older than my grandkids' jokes, Queen of the Nile era machine. And right, each venue sets its own RTP, so the club version can play tight while the pub's loose. Ah well, we grind on 😄

Yeah, the venue-set RTP catches most newbies out — same cabinet, two pubs down the road from each other, and one can play noticeably tighter. Worth remembering when you're judging a machine off one session, because your sample might just be the club's setting doing its thing. Still, that Free Games feature on Indian Dreaming has kept me putting A$20 in for over two decades now, so the old girl's earned her floor space.

Nah Indian Dreaming paying tight at the club is a feature at this point 😅 older than Darwin and still eats my Friday slap like it's 1999 🎰

Grinder's spot on about the two-pubs thing. I've felt it firsthand, used to have a slap on Indian Dreaming at a club down Morphett way and it'd tease the free games forever, then I tried the same machine at a pub over the other side of town and the Reel Power feature would turn up like an old mate. Same cabinet, same totem poles, completely different temper. Funny thing is the old girls like this one teach you patience better than any new video pokie does. Queen of the Nile era machines just sat there grinding away at 243 ways whether you whinged or not 😄 No wonder they're still on the floor twenty-something years later.

That explains why my local one never gives me the free games 😅 maybe I'm being dumb but I always blamed the machine, not the club's setting. cheers, that helps!

Two pubs, different settings, sure mate. Then how come mine teases the free games every Friday like clockwork 😅 she's just a tight old girl 🎰

Same at my local, teases the free games every slap 😅 25 years on and she's still the first pokie I walk past. Aristocrat knew what they were doing 🎰

@MaxBetLifeMode nah the machine's just doing what the venue paid for it to do, plenty of clubs run the tightest setting allowed. Funny thing is the return over your lifetime is identical everywhere anyway: a guaranteed minus long-run. Any big feature hit you've had on her, or is that still on the bucket list? 😂💸

Old girl just knows how to tease you into "one more spin" 😅 reckon half the floor's still there cos she keeps the regulars coming back. Meanwhile I'm loyal to Lightning Link on it every Friday 🔥🎰

Brizzie's got a point about receipts but he's overcooking the "minus forever" bit. Old girl paid my biggest pokie hit ever, banked a 500x off a max bet on the free spins and cashed out same arvo, no screenshots needed cos the whole club watched me carry on like an idiot 😅 That said she only gets A$20 of my Saturday now, bet per spin set before I sit down and no topping up when it's gone. Tease queen is right, she nearly had me chasing last fortnight after a near-miss on the totems, walked out flat instead. That's the discipline lesson I keep having to relearn the hard way 😭 Might give her a spin Friday if Lightning Link's packed as usual 🎰

@TiltSurvivor that's the way to do it — bank the hit and walk, receipts optional 😅 I run her at A$2 a spin when I'm clearing a quiet arvo at the club and she's hit the free spins for me more than old-school games half her age. Brizzie's right that the long run is minus, but a disciplined cashout beats any screenshot argument 🎰

LOL she's got 25 years of practise at the tease, of course she's still on the floor 😂 I give her a spin most Fridays before I settle in on Lightning Link, and she still throws the odd free spins run at me. No receipts myself but ah well, that's pokies 🎰

She's on the floor because the club knows exactly what she's worth to them, that's why. Free spins tease at A$2 a spin keeps punters parked while the turnover quietly racks up. I'll believe the "she throws runs at me" talk the day someone posts a cheque-sized cashout, until then she's just a 25-year-old money pump.

@DiamondGG1999 exactly mate, same routine here - couple spins on her first, then straight onto Lightning Link 🔥 she's like the warm-up lap at the club. Had a Friday arvo maybe a month back where she teed up free spins twice in one session, nothing huge but it kept the night rolling and the Lightning Link session after it went OFF, A$400-ish odd and I was grinning like an idiot 🤑🤑 Reckon she just sets the mood right, old girl knows what she's doing after all these years 😂🎰

Funny how she's survived this long when the maths on her are so modest. Low volatility like that means the hit rate keeps you ticking over but the ceiling's low. That A$180 free spins run is about what a decent session on her looks like, not the exception. On a small spin sample you'll feel like she's generous, but the EV is still negative same as anything else on the floor. I keep her in the rotation for the same reason everyone here does, though. The drum tease does more for session enjoyment than most newer pokies manage with three features and a hold-and-spin bolted on. 📊 Lee's A$20 cap is sensible discipline too. Warm-up spins are meant to be cheap entertainment, and if she pays the carton money on the way past, that's a bonus.

@InRTPweTrustLoyal modest maths maybe but that's exactly why she's still there mate, she's honest lol. Ceiling's low yeah, my best on Indian Dreaming in ages was something like A$180 too and I was stoked 😅 you don't play her for the monster hit, you play her coz she doesn't rob you blind while you warm up for Lightning Link 🎰🔥

That's the whole appeal of Indian Dreaming for me - she doesn't eat your bankroll while you chase nothing. I keep her at A$1 a spin as a warm-up and if the free spins don't hit inside A$20 I'm gone, straight off to something with actual upside. Steady little earner, no shame in that. 🎰

@Wollongong_True the A$20 discipline is fair enough, but "doesn't eat your bankroll" still means it eats some of it. Long-run the club wins on every spin at A$1, Indian Dreaming's just slower about taking it. She survives on the floor because she's comfortable, not because she's generous.

@Cairns_South ha the small bites thing is spot on, you can cruise an arvo on Indian Dreaming and barely feel it till you check the card 😅 prefer that to getting smashed in ten minutes meself. And when she does pay, those free spin runs can get loud quick 🔰🎰 had a session like that once, still think about it 🔥

Only tried Indian Dreaming a couple of times at my local, seems to just sit there for ages then tepees finally land. Is that free spins feature hard to trigger or was I just unlucky? 🤔