Dynamic Paytable Awards With Persistent Outcome Reassignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming systems lack dynamic mechanisms to enhance player engagement and strategy by altering awards associated with game outcomes, leading to repetitive gameplay experiences.
Innovation Solution
Implement a persistent supplemental award mechanism that dynamically modifies awards based on ranked game outcomes, associating the supplemental award with different outcomes during gameplay, and adjusting its association through increment and reset events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a static paytable is used in gaming systems, then the system structure is simple and easy to operate, but player engagement decreases due to repetitive gameplay experiences
Solution Approach 1:
The paytable is transformed from a static structure to a dynamic one where awards are continuously modified based on game outcomes. The system automatically adjusts award values by applying supplemental awards to ranked game outcomes, creating a living paytable that evolves during gameplay without requiring complex manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback loop where game outcomes are continuously monitored and used to trigger award modifications. When specific ranked outcomes occur, the system automatically applies supplemental awards and adjusts the paytable accordingly, creating a responsive system that adapts to player actions and maintains engagement.
2Adaptability or versatility
If awards are dynamically modified based on game outcomes, then player anticipation and strategy are enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The award modification system is segmented into distinct functional components: ranked game outcome determination, supplemental award selection, award application, and paytable update mechanisms. This modular approach allows each component to be independently managed and maintained, reducing overall system complexity while enabling dynamic award modification.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically manages award modifications without requiring external intervention. The persistent supplemental award mechanism self-regulates by automatically selecting, applying, and tracking award modifications based on game outcomes, reducing the operational burden and complexity of managing dynamic paytables.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the persistent supplemental award is continuously associated with different ranked game outcomes, then gameplay variety increases, but tracking and management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The persistent supplemental award mechanism maintains continuous association with ranked game outcomes throughout gameplay sessions. Rather than resetting or requiring reconfiguration, the system continuously tracks and applies awards based on ongoing game outcomes, ensuring consistent gameplay variety without intermittent system reinitialization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses data structures and memory mechanisms to copy and store award association information, creating persistent records of which supplemental awards are associated with which ranked outcomes. This copying approach allows the system to track multiple award associations simultaneously without complex real-time computation, simplifying the tracking process.
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AI summary
Gaming systems and methods which utilize one or more persistent supplemental awards to dynamically modify or otherwise alter one or more awards associated with one or more game outcomes of a paytable.