Second Life Rant #1 - Zyngo Machines

What can I say about em. Their just plain evil. Hah. At times when I play this game, I wanna strangle the little shit that created it. Some say it there strategy involved. Hahaha! You kidding me? There very little strategy in this game. Just clicking on numbers. I say it all about luck. Pray the machine spits out numbers that you need.

If your unfamiliar what Zyngo is. Then I'll try my best to explain it. It mostly like bingo. You get 20 rounds. In those 20 rounds, the machine randomly gives you 5 or less numbers and you have to match the bottom numbers to the top numbers. You get points for completing numbers in a row, in a column or numbers going diagonal. And points for filling the pattern. The pattern are boxes that are the tan in color. Fill the pattern, get points. Complete the whole grid, you get major points. The machine will randomly give you numbers but also will give you green and blue jesters, red devils , angels and Diamonds. Green jesters let you choose any number on the grid above. Blue jesters let you choose any number in the column it appears in. Red devils take points away. It varies from 20-50%. Angels and Diamonds give you points. About 1000 points I think. On the grid, there are 3 symbols spread out. Angels, diamonds and 2x. Find these symbols and get points. 2x doubles your score every time you match a number, complete a row/column/diagonal or get a diamond/angel.

So why am I ranting? Well it mostly about those fucking red devils. They love to pop up at the worse fucking times. There is no limits on how many devils you can get. let me show you an example.

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What you see is example of a really bad game where the devil loves to fuck with your score. It took away about 260% of my score! At the end, I manage to get 34,550 points. It makes me mad when you get a devil in every other round. What worse that, you can get devils that will take away 50% of your score twice in a row. That a kick in the balls. My suggestion is maybe limit the amount of devils you can get. I say 5 devils max. Or have the angels double your score between 20-50%. To balance it out.

Another reason albeit a minor reason why I hate these machines is that even though the numbers are suppose to be random, there are a quite a few times that one number maybe show up in a column more then once. For example, the number 15 could show up in the first column 3 times in a row. That happen to me a few times. Just something I think the creator should fix. A better randomizer algorithm or something.

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My 3rd reason why I hate these machines. When you fill the entire board and still can't beat the high score, then that just another kick in the balls. This happens when you don't get to many diamonds and a few devils pop up here and there. My solution is to quadruple the points when filling the entire board. Adds alittle competition when trying to beat someone score. Maybe see more scores in the 100,000 area. I'll be honest, I only saw a score above 100,000 once in my time in Second Life. It was done by a person I know. I would love to see more scores like that.

4th reason, when someone beats your score in one try. When it took you about 30 plus minutes to get that score. Un fucking fair! I want that person to be there as long as me to beat my score.

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Not a reason but just plain retarded. To win 1,000L, you have to get a score higher then 84,999. Now I dunno if the paid machines work differently then the free ones but getting a score of 84,999 is pretty god damn tough for me. 100 lindens to play and none of it goes to the pot. So I assume it goes to the person that owns the machine. That fucking nuts! I be there all day trying to get that score. Not worth my time. To beat a score like that, make the payout more then 1,000L. Or have some of the money you pay, goto the pot at least.

Overall, the Zyngo machines needs some tweaking in my opinion. I come to realize that it gambling.. These machines were probably designed to suck money from you. Guess what?!? Not falling for it. I hate to gamble my money. I will stick with the free ones and win a few bucks here and there. I'm done ranting....GOOD NIGHT!