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Thank you

It's basically a DOND The Crazy Chair

The decision was taken to exclude £100 JPs due to the fact the machines are still current or were released within the last 3 years.

This was a discussion that I saw pop up elsewhere, plenty of pro's & cons to both sides of the argument, but ultimately I felt it was just some "professional gamblers" worried about there own interests. The fear of somebody in the emulation scene playing a specific machine they targeted and discovering how best that machine could be played, thus creating another player in the pool. A lot of these players seem to forget that most of what they know, they know threw word of mouth. It's impossible to catch onto every machines rips/methods/empties and use that in a beneficial way solely by yourself. Collectively the guys within the emulation scene could in theory catch onto everything that's deemed good by a player, but  would that be a bad thing? 99% of machines that a professional targeted are either scarce on the ground or consigned to the halls of history. Yes £100s are playable up and down the country but would being able to play them via an emulation really be a bad thing? As far as I can see the only people it would generally effect would be those within the industry itself, manufacturers, suppliers etc and surely hurting their pockets wouldn't be a bad thing?

If anything the £70 variations are much better than the £100 upgrades. For a start most of the good bits were ironed out of £70s and didn't really carry across to £100s.

 

Some games became better on £100 though.

Some of the better £70s were left without an upgrade, MEGA DOND, Play it Again and Bankers Bonus for example, but in my opinion almost all machines that received the upgrade to £100 play infinitely better than their £70 counterpart with the exception of maybe Perfect Deal. Even talking just general play that added £30 with no difference in cost to play, plus a lot also received the variable stake % boost resulted in a massive difference. Having said that, with the £100s not currently playable in an emulator it is hard to debate either way here other than to go on personal experience.

Ain't they just the same crap machine with a higher jackpot anyway

Not quite. Most had gameplay changes. A simple example £70 cashpots were always a paid for win some like to call these a free win but they were paid for. The same machine on £100 the cashpot could act* the same as a static cashpot and as such the machine acts in accordance to the win. i.e. for the most part that static cashpot would be taking into account the same way as an equivalent win from the machines winplan. A club machine with a static cashpot of £250 is just the same as the £250 jackpot again for the most part.

*could act; Sometimes the cashpot acted like a completely paid for win. Knowing the machine helped determine which was which at the point of it being obtained.

There's many other examples but that's one that sticks out in my head right now.

DOND gets a hard hit for being clone after clone but once you get your head around them very few are clones. Yes they all have similar elements, but haven't machines carried similar elements to one another since the dawn of time?