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grecian · Post by **grecian** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:43 pm

What Nil said. Pretty unusual for an ItBox to have as little as £20 in the hoppers to be honest - to me, that would imply a decent-level player had visited very recently and taken a biggish haul.

The other point that's worth repeating is all these figures are based entirely on what games are out there - for the last year or so, there have been lots of good games coming out and pickings have been good, but you only have to look back a few years and pickings were much much leaner. If, as we're led to believe, ItBoxes are being withdrawn, my bottom line will suffer and I don't doubt others' will too.

wires74 · Post by **wires74** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:54 pm

ITBOX disappearing faster than pints at an irish wake, lost 6 today 2 were replaced by warehouses and more alarming 4 were NOT replaced by anything.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:57 pm

wires74 wrote:ITBOX disappearing faster than pints at an irish wake, lost 6 today 2 were replaced by warehouses and more alarming 4 were NOT replaced by anything.

saw i saw a Leisure Link ItBox being taken away Tuesday, And like yours it was replaced with nothing, then about an hour later Crown/Sceptre turned up and replaced it with a GamesNet, might be worth having another look

grecian · Post by **grecian** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:01 pm

Oddly, where I am in London I've seen little solid evidence of pubs changing yet - perhaps another indicator that the machine companies tend to start changes outside of London and do London last. Changes from an ItBox to a GamesNet would be welcomed by me; any other sort of change would not be welcomed at all!

mr lugsy · Post by **mr lugsy** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:08 pm

a couple of other factors that should be mentioned here are,

no.1, the payout perc on an swp is about 40ish so i'm told(hope i'm close)

no.2, you can drag a credit out (usually

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for these 2 reasons it would take alot longer for said machine to be ready again after one of you boffins had politely relieved the value from it.

so it's not really a level playing field in the awp vs swp match.
it is however much easier for a quizzer to scrape out a draw(or close game) than a slotter could on a machine going tits up.

finally a naive question for a quizzer: when playing an obvious non happy machine or one that chucks duff games in to a mix ,do you sack off the game to save time, or do you go for game breakers just to show it who'boss?

cp999 · Post by **cp999** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:33 pm

mr lugsy wrote:
when playing an obvious non happy machine or one that chucks duff games in to a mix ,do you sack off the game to save time, or do you go for game breakers just to show it who'boss?

If It's a game trail where you're not going to win anything unless you do something superhuman (eg 25pts for very long word/phrase on Hangman and the quid at 250 pts), then get rid of it asap - if you're intending to play a lot of machines in the day, you don't have time to piss around.

If you're dealing with repeated game breaker questions because it's trying to stop you progressing any further, what you do would depend on the likely or potential rewards for getting through the game breaker questions. On some games you're very unlikely to get a significant win unless you deal with these questions - but if you do survive them, it's often jp time.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:05 am

I couldn't care less about kudos, showing the machine who's boss, or topping the leaderboard. It's all about time, motion & money.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:00 pm

Absolutely. From the very early days I have always been happy to 'bin' non-paying games, either in favour of another go at the same game (something like Hangman would often give quite varying games consecutively) or a go at something else.

Seeing someone who is playing a machine I want to get on do this is in fact one of the key factors I would use to decide if they are likely to win sufficient cash to make it worth moving on somewhere else, the other factors being speed of reading/answering and their actual choice of games.

rogerthymes · Post by **rogerthymes** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:02 pm

seems weird that anyone would be surprised that people here could make 100 squid a day. it's pretty obvious some of us can jp certain games and if you took that in its basest form then
5 pubs @ £20 each = £100. Simple.
the problem of course is financing travelling round different places which whilst it's fun at first, eventually you start wondering whether you should do something more worthwhile and lucrative with your life!