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The Factory
The factory is a production facility where L$ is transformed into prizes at a 97% efficiency rate.
At the factory you play tournament style games, the money paid to games goes to pots and you try to win these pots. You do not play against the bank or the owner of the machines but compete with other players for these pots.
At the factory you play tournament style games, the money paid to games goes to pots and you try to win these pots. You do not play against the bank or the owner of the machines but compete with other players for these pots.
At all my regions the systems are most generous to the players, at the Factory this generosity comes with a claim: 97%
of all money paid to the games goes back to the players. We do so straightforward and verifiable, all is visible on the boards.
The games
At the Factory we offer various games, at each game you can choose which tournament to play:
L$10, L$20, L$50
L$100, L$200, L$500
L$1000, L$2000, L$5000
We offer these games:
L$10, L$20, L$50
L$100, L$200, L$500
L$1000, L$2000, L$5000
We offer these games:
Each tournament has 3 game machines, all 3 with their own machine topper placed above the machine. The topper shows a selected prize and the score you need to beat in order to win that prize. On the tournament machine below the game machines you can see how much money is currently in the pot for that prize. When you win, you win that pot.
After your game is finished a new prize is selected. The next game on this machine will be for that prize. If no one plays the game within 10 minutes, the selected prize is set back to the default prize: Electricity. (A purple timer shows how much of these 10 minutes is still left over, when you are running out of time, simply click the topper to gain another 10 minutes.)
Thus, you know before you start playing which prize you play for. Remember that you will also know which prize you leave when you stop playing. Don’t play too long, stop on time, but leaving the game when e.g. a Robot price is selected might be unwise. Robot pots can grow rather high.
The pots themselves are always within easy viewing range, just below the game machines.
After your game is finished a new prize is selected. The next game on this machine will be for that prize. If no one plays the game within 10 minutes, the selected prize is set back to the default prize: Electricity. (A purple timer shows how much of these 10 minutes is still left over, when you are running out of time, simply click the topper to gain another 10 minutes.)
Thus, you know before you start playing which prize you play for. Remember that you will also know which prize you leave when you stop playing. Don’t play too long, stop on time, but leaving the game when e.g. a Robot price is selected might be unwise. Robot pots can grow rather high.
The pots themselves are always within easy viewing range, just below the game machines.
You cannot predict which prize will be selected for the next game, prizes are selected at random but some prizes will be selected more often than other ones. The number of stars show how frequent a prize will be selected.
At the factory you can be sure that prizes are selected fair, by a simple mechanism. If a pot is high or low, if you won much or little, the odds remain the same. No unverifiable magic on the background, somewhere in a script or on a server, not when you play at Morenda. Here you get straightforward odds, published on a big plate on the wall.
All odds are explained on the image here to the right.
The fun about the factory tournament system is that it pays out a lot, but rather irregular. Fight for the big pots, win them.
At the factory you can be sure that prizes are selected fair, by a simple mechanism. If a pot is high or low, if you won much or little, the odds remain the same. No unverifiable magic on the background, somewhere in a script or on a server, not when you play at Morenda. Here you get straightforward odds, published on a big plate on the wall.
All odds are explained on the image here to the right.
The fun about the factory tournament system is that it pays out a lot, but rather irregular. Fight for the big pots, win them.
When you play a game at the factory, the money you pay into the machine is for 97% going to the pots and contests.
The 3 winners contests each will grow with 4% of the amount you paid. These contests are often overlooked, but watch them a bit more careful than you might be used too. What if you only need to play a little more to get a higher spot? What if you played already so much that no one will take your spot, couldn’t you better wait till the contest ends instead of playing now? Maximize your profit, be aware of the contests.
Finally another 5% goes to the distributor, the device that links everything together, making sure pots always grow, even when no one plays.
80% of the money is added to the pots of the tournament. There are 8 pots over which this 80% is spread. Each pot gets 0 to 8 times 10% of the amount, the total for all pots being the 80% that is available.
The 3 winners contests each will grow with 4% of the amount you paid. These contests are often overlooked, but watch them a bit more careful than you might be used too. What if you only need to play a little more to get a higher spot? What if you played already so much that no one will take your spot, couldn’t you better wait till the contest ends instead of playing now? Maximize your profit, be aware of the contests.
Finally another 5% goes to the distributor, the device that links everything together, making sure pots always grow, even when no one plays.
The distributor distributes L$. 5% of every game, plus all amounts that would otherwise drop out of the system.
When a contest ends without all 15 spots taken, the L$ for the spots not taken go to the distributor. Credits won but not used? They too go back into the system by sending them over to the distributor.
97% = 97%, nothing disappears because it wasn’t claimed.
The distributor distributes the incoming money to pay for the incoming requests (these requests are very rare but in some cases a special prize won on some of the games as e.g. the pot at Fire might be so high that they can't be financed with pot financing, then the remaining is sent as a request to the distributor) and sends the remaining to the tournaments. The distributor selects a tournament and saves enough money for that tournament to increase the pots, as if a game was played.
The distributor makes sure that 97% back to the players is truly 97%, not less, not more. It also makes sure pots grow, on all tournaments.
When a contest ends without all 15 spots taken, the L$ for the spots not taken go to the distributor. Credits won but not used? They too go back into the system by sending them over to the distributor.
97% = 97%, nothing disappears because it wasn’t claimed.
The distributor distributes the incoming money to pay for the incoming requests (these requests are very rare but in some cases a special prize won on some of the games as e.g. the pot at Fire might be so high that they can't be financed with pot financing, then the remaining is sent as a request to the distributor) and sends the remaining to the tournaments. The distributor selects a tournament and saves enough money for that tournament to increase the pots, as if a game was played.
The distributor makes sure that 97% back to the players is truly 97%, not less, not more. It also makes sure pots grow, on all tournaments.
Claims of high percentages usually start with "upto", and that generally is not a good sign. I make a rather big claim with saying that 97% goes back to the players. Not upto 97%, but 97%. Period.
That also gives me the obligation to proof it, not just say it. When a game is played you see the pots with that game grow with each 10% of the amount, the pots of the winner contests you see also grow with each 4% and you can also see the money added on the distributor. The distributor shows where the money goes to and you can see the pots grow at the destination.
Thus, every dime is indeed verifiable, the entire money flow is made visible. I'll end up with 3%, all the rest goes back into the system.
The topper
Yeah, we call a thing that we put on top of a game machine a topper, not a rather orignal word, but that is what it is. The thing below the game machine is a stand, because the game machine stands on it.
On the topper you see the prize you are playing for, on the stand you can see the current value of that prize. You always start with the electricity prize, generally not the highest one, the next game a new prize will be drawn.
Hmmm...if you always start with the lowest prize? Does that makes it sensible to either not play at all or play more than one game on the same machine? Yes it does!
Stop playing when you felt you played enough, but you optimize your gains if you stop with an electricity or assembly line pot selected, these are usually the lowest (prizes are displayed on the stand). Stopping with e.g. a robot pot selected is a bit silly, as that is often the highest prize available.
Taking a break? Watch the time indicator!
Pot Financing
When you win a pot, you'll get the money that is in that pot, and the pot becomes empty. Not fully empty, because after the pot is paid there is still 10% of the amount you played added to each pot.
However, it will be rather lowish. And thus, there is pot financing. Money is taken from the other pots and put in the pot just won, this until it reaches its default value. The default value depends on the number of stars this pot has, (Buy in amount x Stars X Stars).
Pot financing is done by taking 10% from the buy in price from other pots, all the way upto the default value is reached. It goes in rounds:
- 1st round, L$ is taken from the pots with 1 star,
- 2nd round, L$ is taken from the pots with 2 stars,
and so on, from the 4th round all other pots give money to the pot being filled. When a pot would drop below its own default value, no L$ is taken from this pot.
This way we make sure the 97% promise is kept without having silly pots with less than the buy in amount.
When the new calculated pot is lower than the electricity pot, another round of pot financing is done. This is repeated until the new calculated pot is at least equal to the electricity pot.
Turbo Jackpots
The Turbo Jackpots
give a nice extra. As soon as all three conditions are met (30 minutes, 30 games played and at least one game with the minimum score) it pays out. Are the conditions not met, then it continues till they are.
It can go fast, every 30 minutes a Turbo Jackpot. There is no minimum buy in, everyone who plays at the game machines connected to a Turbo Jackpot can win it. Just have the highest score, and you'll win.
Jumgla contest
The Jumgla contest
is multi region. Every 5 minutes someone playing in the regions of our continent wins L$200.
Each time you play a game costing L$100 or more, Jumgla calculates you a Jumgla score. The one with the highest Jumgla score at the end of the round wins. You can read all about how this is calculated here. Jumgla is a skill-feature, examine how it works and you could benefit.
It is not enough to simple score as high as you can. When you game ends with only 5,000 points, your Jumgla score might be still a lot higher than one who just made 100,000 points.
Jumgla is here as our appreciation for you playing at our places. That deserves a little extra, doesn't it? When you win the Jumgla contest, it sends you the L$. Nothing special you should do to get it. But that is of course no more than you expect at our places.
Tournaments
The fun of tournament games is that you play against other players. I only facilitate but have no interest in the outcome of your game, therefor the margin can be so small. You, the player win what others loose, or loose what others win. This competition is fair, when all play a bit serious, otherwise the one who do benefit from the ones who don't.
A few tips:
- Be good at the game! Practice, read the manuals on this site. These are skill games!! The way you play them matters.
- Choose wise when to stop playing! As a rule of thumb, do continue until there is a one star prize selected. Stopping with a high prize selected and then later on starting again playing for a low prize is not very efficient.
- Consider the contests. A big part from you return comes from these. Play a bit extra to conquer a higher spot, or stop for a while when a higher spot on the 5 hours contest is out of reach.
- If the selected pot is lower than the electricity pot, then why not switch to the next machine with the electricity pot selected.
- Play multiple games at a row, the Factory is not suitable for simply playing a single game (my other places are, but not the Factory) as you always start with the relative low Electricity pot. Compare playing for 10 hours each hour 1 game (all electricity pot) with playing 10 games in a row (only one is for sure the electricity pot, the rest might be higher) and understand the player choosing the second option will win more.
- Choose a lower buy in amount than what you could afford. When you have a bad time playing, the consequence is that the pots go up, most of the money is still there waiting to be won back. Eventually you'll win big. It would be a bummer if you have to stop because you run out of funds.
