Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Dan, I suspect you were playing a machine made by AGS. Probably had a name like River Dragons, Forest Dragons, Fire Wolf or Wolf Queen. These games always run to at least $4990. If you play anything lower than $4930 you will most likely get in for more than it pays. I wrote about it in another thread. But anyways, feed me some information and we'll analyze the situation.

1. What was the name of the game? Manufacturer?
2. What was your starting number? Right to the penny would be nice but just the dollar amount will suffice.
3. I already know it ran you to $4999.31
4. Do you know the meter speed? If it was one of the games I named above I already know it runs at 0.26666%
5. Exactly how much money did you lose? This is important in calculating the drop.

If you can give me this information I can tell you what happened.
It was River Dragons. You're correct.

Starting number was $4870.

Don't know the meter speed. Should have paid attention but didn't.

I lost $1800, but $1000 of it was freeplay. Or, more accurately put, I lost $6800 in credits, but got $5000 back at the end (obviously), and $1000 was also freeplay, so I lost a real $800.

If it matters, I was actually doing okay until about the $4980 mark. At that point, I was $4300 in, and only $3300 of "real" money since $1k of that was freeplay.

The final $19 on the meter set me back $2500.

So ignoring which was freeplay and which wasn't, I lost $4300 moving the meter $110, and $2500 moving it the final $19. I also wondered if that was rigged in some way (or if that's even legal.)

Also the $500 must hit secondary meter was at like $460, and that moved faster. So that was going to hit on the way, fairly early, which it did. Though I'm not sure if the secondary started at $200 if I would have hit it at all throughout the cycle I did. It moves faster, but not sure if it's fast enough to cycle through once if starting at $200. I mention this because it was destined to hit once and only once for sure, while I was playing, in which case the timing of hitting didn't matter unless there was a chance it would miss completely if low.