>I posted last year about progressives and I am still having trouble wrapping my head around them. I understand that if a game pays back 99% and the meter rise is 1% and I am the only person who ever plays this game then the overall return of the game is 100%. Where I am getting confused is if I am not the only one to play it and I stop playing it sometimes without the jackpot hitting.
Generally, for practical purposes, ignore meter movement and base
decisions on the meter as it is. Not until your own meter movement
becomes significant, particularly when there is little competition and
you will play until it's hit, should it be regarded. Generally,
there's too much competition for this to be true.
>It seems logical to me from the above reasoning that the longer you play on a progressive, the higher the EV, with the maximum occurring when playing a session until it is hit, in which case the EV = (return of the base game) + (return from whatever the meter started at when you sat down) + (return from meter rise), and the EV can never be truly additive if you quit a session and the jackpot was not hit (by you or anyone else).
This is basically right, with certain complications. Playing at all,
without committing yourself to playing until it's hit, still gets some
of the benefit of the meter movement and committing yourself to play
until it's hit still generally doesn't get all the value of the meter
movement since competition generally increases as the meter rises.
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