Cheers for the reply Steve, I'm trying to get my head round how the Jackpot Party progressives work so all input is appreciated
The 'present' awards are the same on the JPP feature whatever the stake, and the final award from whatever star level you're on when you hit a COLLECT is the same on any stake.
The Jackpot Party T&Cs state that the chance of triggering the JPP feature is related to stake, and this is where I'm trying to work out if low stakes players are basically getting the shaft or not.
http://www.jackpotpa...iveDetails.aspx
Let's say someone has a bankroll of £1000 and they're playing at £10 per spin, and they play for an hour.
Someone else has a bankroll of £100 and they play £1 per spin, they also play for the SAME hour.
If the relationship between stake and JPP trigger chance is linear (and I can't get a straight answer off the Jackpot Party site or from one of their 'hosts' in the realtime chat, so we'll have to assume), then our £10 per spin player is 10X more likely to trigger the JPP on any given spin. Yes he may well lose 10X as much, but with the JPP values being fixed across all stakes, he stands a better chance of effectively 'buying' the JPP.
My basic thought here is that if you've got, for the sake of argument, fifty concurrent low stakes players on the site, and fifty concurrent high stakes players on the site, then the high stakes players are just going to continually cream off the JPPs, even if they're all 0 or 1 star JPPs and effectively worthless to them, it does mean that the low stakes players will hardly ever get a look in.
Certainly I've had some extended sessions at Jackpot Party, and you get a pop-up window every time someone wins a progressive (even the 0 star one), if there are high stakes players on, you'll just see their name come up time and time again. Some of them are happy to chat in the realtime chat window, there's a guy who was playing £15 per spin for an evening and he hit it about five times, I was talking to him again a couple of nights ago and he said he'd stopped playing at high stakes 'cause even though he got the JPP all the time £50-£200 wins were neither here nor there at such big stakes, plus he was losing a fortune due to the high stakes.
Because all the games are split 92% base game and 3% progressives, and because the vast majority of progressive wins are 0 or 1 star, and because the high stakes players are continually nailing them - it seems to me that the low stakes players (like me!) are effectively giving that 3% away and would be better off just playing elsewhere where the 95% payout is fixed for the game YOU'RE playing at the time, rather than chucking 3% at progressives that you'll hardly ever get to win.
TBH I'm starting to think that I was just INCREDIBLY lucky to hit the JPP three times in my first few sessions and make the profit I did, and that I'd be best off just calling it a day at the site.
If you think my reasoning or maths is wonky please just say so, I won't be offended