Now that the latest game

[betchrider]

has hit rat level i just wondered if all the pubs were filled with slotto/one button no feature type machines what will eveybody do?

[jeffvickers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM

[sir ratholer]

Probably lose all their money as they'll need to fund their addiction somehow. Either that or do all their money on roulette machines, coke, etc.

Hold on, most players do already...

[Mr McStreak]

has hit rat level i just wondered if all the pubs were filled with slotto/one button no feature type machines what will eveybody do?

Whats rat level?

I think most of the people on here are rats.

Especially those who draw attention to tricks.

[Been-Grant-Mitchell'd!]

. . . Or those who have dozens of other players numbers on their phones.

[griff50]

sadly, the machine manufacturers are trying to eliminate as much decision-making out of machines as possible. It won't be long before we have only lo-tec fruits everywhere with cycles so long that there will be no point in playing for profit anymore.

I think many people who used to play machines in arcades were wiped out with the introduction of the 500's. Players who had savings or who would spend mayby 100 say a week, lost big on those, and have now given up alltogether.

Look at nobles etc, full of sunbeds and bar seven bells on 10p. Most of the mid range gamblers have either left arcades and gone to fobt (roulette) or stopped gambling.

Another 5 years and who knows.
I do think theres not enough casual money floating around though for many to tap into

[betchrider]

So you clearly think i am a rat. You stick to dumping your it boxes with your pal. Sick of trying to be right with you you mug!

[betchrider]

Just the kind of answer i was looking for griff, makes you wonder doesnt it?

[trayhop123]

what makes a rat ?

for me theres no such thing really ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, were all out trying to make a crust

to some your a rat , to some a good contact/player



so seriously what qualifies as a rat ?????

[betchrider]

Some fucker who when you share machines with they go and do em behind your back. Thats a Fucking rat m8!

[ChrisBrighton]

sadly, the machine manufacturers are trying to eliminate as much decision-making out of machines as possible. It won't be long before we have only lo-tec fruits everywhere with cycles so long that there will be no point in playing for profit anymore.

I think many people who used to play machines in arcades were wiped out with the introduction of the 500's. Players who had savings or who would spend mayby 100 say a week, lost big on those, and have now given up alltogether.

Look at nobles etc, full of sunbeds and bar seven bells on 10p. Most of the mid range gamblers have either left arcades and gone to fobt (roulette) or stopped gambling.

Another 5 years and who knows.
I do think theres not enough casual money floating around though for many to tap into

I agree with your comments on Arcades.

I was in the two on West Street, Brighton at the weekend and these are the main arcades after the Palace Pier.

Both were absolutely stone dead.

5 years ago they would have been jam packed, however I agree that most people were wiped out when the 500's first came out.

I also believe that many punters who would have used arcases are now hooked on FOBT's.

Many would have gone over to Roulette, and is easier to play the slots in a bookies than an arcade.

[Mattb]

Rats are just people who try and pretend they are full time 365 days a year types, but really they only play when they head 43rd hand about how to do a machine that requires no skill to win from. When said machines disappear, they do too.

[Been-Grant-Mitchell'd!]

I think a rat is someone who rings everyone as soon as they hear about a clue, yet still manages to get info. Just like what has been happening over the last few days.

Yet still these people don't learn.

[sir ratholer]

Whats rat level?

My definition of rat is the following...and fully accept it's not the same as others definitions!

1. Anyone who's started playing semi/full time since £15 jackpots ended.
2. Anyone who dresses like a chav.
3. Anyone who brings it on top for better players.
4. Anyone who does a machine behind someone elses back despite previous agreements.
5. Anyone who drives a modified car on their route. (refer to point 2).

And any other points I've forgot to list.

[JG]

Well this is the thing Betch, this is the thing.

You can either

1) Become addicted to random Slotto bullshit and end up loathing yourself and wondering if your arm is too sinewy, or whether it can be chewed off.

2) Start making up method guesses to justify addiction, or method guess 'cos you're me and I'm amazing at crap method guesses apart from that winstopper one which actually worked out pretty well.
Trouble is on 'random' billed, long cycle compensatedly randomish games that are sooo 'en vogue' atm, one method guess = about £2000 expenditure, so imagine if they do a Slotto Hot Property Monoperty section B1 type thing - I'm stuffed.

3) Not play, give up and start your own business opening an arcade with another player. It has at least seven million roulette terminals under our numerous LBO licences for numerous 'buildings'. My experience of a soldering iron and dodgy EPOCH hardware will get us far in maintaining a faulty Triple 7 cab or a HD Itbox, not on profitshare, that has a CHR dongle comms err and a unsynced Tft modular prolapse.

4) Take up roulette

5) Take up tennis

6) Drive around and follow ex-pro fruit players in their day to day mundane AWPless lives. I'll be making extraordinarily loud blooping noises, at the backs of their heads, until they turn around, whence I shall hide in a bush.

7) Hope they release a Slotto dial up winstopper deluxe with anti Matteo pantented technology.

Refuse to open an arcade for ethical reasons (no room for those in business, yeah thanks HRK, done that posting for you there). Maybe a jacket potato van with Trayhop that will be famed thoughout Houventry and Chester for its super duper jackpot potatoes. There will be a few poisonous ones though, in case any irate Brummies are passing by.

9) Travel 90,000 miles to the last remaining unchipped Small Blues in Western Super PoolNess on Ho! by the sea which will have 10p in the hopper and sixty squillion, err rats waiting to play it at 9am.

10) Just go to sleep for a bit until things come around full circle and £100 play/ £4000 Jokers Wild is released. You can press down on the glass to slow the video reels.

11) Still drive around all the pubs anyway, as an empty may come out on Slotto Hot Property Monoperty and it's good to be first in the queue.

12) Develop a magic i-note that works its way out of the machine after insertion, stopping off at the meters to make sure it 'signs itself out'. It'll be the ultimate tool. A note, with a powerful super brain, on a super slim silicon/quark based matrix that has i-motion i-metric power. It's the future of tooling.

13) Dust off the old sledgehammer. It's a bit like 12 without all the sci-fi sophistication.

14) Wait for OB to play one out, tell me how bad it is, how he lost 50k on it, but then won that back on roulette.

15) Sit on the park bench. Have a cry. Try to avoid nervous breakdown. Readjust. Walk down memory lane. Walk back up reality lane. Move on. Hmm reminds me of getting move on back in the days of Vamp.....no. no must move on.

16) Assume that something else will come along that will ultimately financially award my own greed, vulnerability, gullibility and compulsivity.

17) Check with Susie Dent from dictionary corner that conpulsivity is a word.

1 Become a professional word soup player.



Personally I can see myself turning over a new chapter in my life, surrendering all my material posessions, even those clothes from ASDA with my name sewn in them.
I will live in a retreat and want for nothing apart from sex, i phones and central heating. Nah, let's not do that.


20) These are just options. Not sure where 19 went to be honest.

My final summary or synopsis. Or something.

I would just move on. I have the connections. I accept the friable and ultimately brittle nature of the game and it'd be a profitable hobby down the pan. Nothing I could do, short of threaten to blow up the Houses of Parliament unless Lucky Leprechauns were installed in every pub up and down the land.