Thunder Cash at the local pub feels like a dead machine most arvos

Funny you say arvos. I gave Thunder Cash a couple of slaps at the club last week in exactly that dead zone and the free games paid next to nothing. The boys are right that two cabinets a suburb apart can play like different games with venues setting their own RTP above the state floor, so your pub's machine might honestly be the tighter of the pair. At 3 out of 6 volatility it should sting a bit less between features than some of the newer Ainsworth cabinets, but when the jackpot's the only real prize, most sessions just feel like feeding it. Ah well, we grind on 😄

So venues can set it above the state floor? Maybe I'm being dumb but how would I even know which pub runs the tighter version 🤔 Glad the arvo deadness isn't just me though, cheers.

MaxBet, you can't know, venues don't publish it. With Thunder Cash that's the whole con: same cabinet, different payback, and you find out with your wallet.

Con's a strong word fellas, the pub's not hiding a secret dial under the bar, they're just picking where in the allowed range they sit. Same as it ever was. Reminds me of the old Queen of the Nile days, one club's cabinet would sing and the one two suburbs over would eat fifty like it was nothing, and we all just grumbled and chalked it up to luck 😄 Mind you, with Thunder Cash at 3 out of 6 volatility you're going to get those quiet arvos even on a generous setup - the free games and the jackpot feature are built to clump, so a dead week at the pub might just be the maths doing its thing. RngGod's right that you find out with your wallet though, no venue's pinning its payback on the wall for you. Best you can do is find the Thunder Cash that treats you decent and give the tight one a miss.😉

FreoDad, picking a spot in the allowed range is still a choice the punter never sees, so "secret dial" or not, the wallet copes the same. Real question for me: does the pub even know what their Thunder Cash is set at, or does the installer just leave it near the floor and forget? Either way, 3/6 volatility with a jackpot bolted on means the free games were always going to starve you between hits. Believe it when you cash out a feature that actually pays.

Model_Sheet, I reckon you've hit on something there, half the time the publican wouldn't know a jackpot config from a beer fridge setting, and the installer just ticks whatever box keeps the venue happy. Been through this cycle before, mind you. Back when Queen of the Nile ruled the club floor nobody published a thing either, and we all knew the machines by feel. Turned 50 into 5k once on a cabinet every local swore was a dud, then watched it chew the next bloke's A$200 in twenty minutes 😄 Thunder Cash sits mid-range on the volatility scale, 3 out of 6. So the dead arvos are probably just the grind doing its thing. Free games that pay nothing sting, but that's the feature teasing you, not proof the venue's on the floor. Half the "tight machine" talk in this thread is memory bias, fellas. We remember the slaps, forget the sneaky little runs that kept us parked on the stool till the grandma's hour 😉

Half the publicans around here can't program the till, let alone a game config, so Model_Sheet's question answers itself. Thunder Cash sits at 3 out of 6 volatility, which means the dead arvo sessions are the game doing exactly what it's designed to do, grind you until the Free Games or the jackpot cough up something. Whether the venue's set at the state floor or a touch above, nobody in the room knows, and that's the part I don't cop.

Love how everyone's suddenly a gaming tech expert because the free games paid bugger all 😂 Royal_Chaser copped it right, 3 out of 6 volatility means most arvos are meant to feel dead, and your A$100 "slaps" are just the grind doing its job. Bet the same blokes bragging about a win at the club never mention the busted bank that got them there 🤡💸

BankrollKing, the grind being "the job" is exactly the point. Nobody in the pub can tell you what that job actually pays. I've had plenty of slaps on Thunder Cash where the Free Games limped in and paid less than the spins cost to trigger them, and the jackpot might as well be a rumour. Until someone posts a screenshot of an actual decent cashout from that cabinet, I'll file all the "it's due" talk where it belongs. And Royal_Chaser's right that 3 out of 6 volatility explains the dead arvos, but that cuts both ways: a game this grindy with venue-set RTP near the floor is the worst of both worlds. Same Ainsworth box at the casino might at least cough up the feature now and then. Lucky sessions happen, sure - long-run it's still minus, especially when half the publicans out there genuinely couldn't tell you what their machine's dialled to.

Free Games limping in means the feature still landed, mate 😂 mid vol game, some arvos pay A$20, some pay the lot. That's Thunder Cash doing its thing, no conspiracy 🔥🎰

Lee_Brekkie, "no conspiracy" and "the venue picks the config" can both be true at once, mate. Ainsworth publishes nothing for Thunder Cash, so the pub down the road could be running the floor of the state minimum while the club next door runs higher, and you'd never know from sitting in front of the screen. Free Games limping in at 3 out of 6 volatility is one thing, but I take "it's just variance" from venues a lot more seriously when they put the actual RTP sticker on the glass.

Grinder said it best, Ainsworth keeps us blind on the config, so "dead arvo" could just be a tight pub machine. No published RTP, no way to compare. Long-run it's minus either way.

@ChrisSpins that's the thing though, "pays someone eventually" doesn't help me much when the someone is never me 😅 Total noob here so maybe I'm reading it wrong, but I've put a few arvo sessions into Thunder Cash at my local and the best I've got off it is a feature that barely covered the spins before it. Did your slap actually make it out of the venue or did it go straight back in like CascadeQueen said? Still learning bonuses and all this, but even I can tell a machine that swallows for a fortnight then pays one bloke isn't a machine I want to marry 😬

Seriously, Thunder Cash pays when it wants to pay! I'm gonna snag a HUGE win on it this weekend, watch out! 🤯🎰🔥🔥

RideTheVariance asked the real question lol. Thunder Cash minis pay for my spins most arvos, big hit came once after weeks of nothing 🎰 keep at it mate 🔥