how many use the slotmachinesome

[Muljo_Stpho]

I went to the casino on Nar Shaddaa once, not knowing anything about how they worked or if they'd been nerfed. (I was in and out of the game a lot back then and wasn't really keeping up.) I found it boring and totally pointless. I wasn't aware there was a decoration you could get. Anyhow I've never been much of a gambler. They might have been fun when they first came out and actually did something.

 

What do they do exactly?

 

The tokens to play them cost 750 credits (before they altered it, that cost was 500). So you put a token in and:

* There's a 45% chance that your spin will result in a loss (it was only 25% before). This serves the purpose of ensuring that some percentage of your investment always goes directly into the toilet.

* There's a 20% chance that your spin will spit your token back out at you (unchanged from before). This serves the purpose of prolonging the experience.

* The chances are 16.999% for 1 green rep item, 13% for 1 blue rep item, and 4.5% for 1 purple rep item. (Before the change these numbers were 10%, 8%, and 5%.) The reputation is for one of the early series of cartel market packs. If you have the rep maxed already the only use for these is to sell them to a vendor. Green sells for 500 credits, blue sells for 1000 credits, and purple sells for 2500 credits.

* The chances are 0.20% for 1 green Jawa scrap, 0.15% for 1 blue Jawa scrap, and 0.10% for 1 purple Jawa scrap. (Before the change these numbers were all 10%.) Jawa scrap can be traded to some Jawa vendors on fleet at a 1:1 rate for almost any material in the game (with the exception of a couple purple materials that cost 2 or 3 purple scrap apiece).

* There's a 0.05% chance that your spin will win a cartel market certificate. (So that's theoretically once per every 2000 spins. So expect to pay on average about 1.5mil per certificate.) These have been available in many of the previous series of cartel market packs and they can be traded to certain vendors on fleet. Their primary use is at the vendors in the cartel bazaar on fleet, where you can buy select items from the old packs. They can also be used to buy some exclusive stronghold decorations. (For comparison on the value there, decorations purchased with certificates (cost is 1 certificate apiece) were typically selling on the GTN for around 150k apiece. (This dropped to around 80k while the slot machine drop rates were high.))

* There's also a 0.001% chance (once per 100k spins, ie around 75 mil credits worth of tokens) to win a special faction-specific recolor of the walker mount. (This prize was brand new with the changes to the machine.) I think the mount is bound to legacy? Or maybe it's bind on pickup? Either way, you must win it yourself if you want it.

 

Originally, the machine was too generous with the Jawa scrap and cartel certificate rewards which could be turned into valuable purple materials and stronghold decorations that could be sold on the GTN for massive profit. This high payout (and the massive stockpiles of Jawa scrap that many players already had from packs and from conquest rewards) compounded with the addition of the top tier materials to the Jawa vendors in the same patch to create a massive never-ending oversaturation of these materials and decorations onto the GTN during that week that we had with the machine before they nuked it. Currently, the machine is effectively only useful for acquiring the rep and it's a massive credit sink for very very few real rewards after that. (Cumulative 5.001% chance on each spin to receive anything that isn't a rep item or total failure or a refund.)

Edited November 19, 2015 by Muljo_Stpho