Because in that situation you're sharing your first cycle of meter rise with 5 others, so you only get 1/6 of the meter rate of the first cycle for the times that you don't hit the jackpot in the first cycle. And as you said previously this assumes everyone plays about the same rate with about the same strategy, which might or might not be the case. Some players might be slow playing or siting at a machine reading a book waiting for a higher number, and so on.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Tom Robertson <007@...> wrote:
>
> I wrote:
>
> >When I first >started playing progressives, there was one with 6 machines that I was
> >going to play a lot. I calculated that playing the first half cycle
> >by myself, having 5 competitors come in after me, and then we all
> >played until it was hit, made my average jackpot equivalent to me
> >getting about half a cycle of meter movement.
>
> I believe that should have been that playing the first cycle, not half
> cycle, by myself ended up with me getting half a cycle of meter
> movement.
>
