Progressive Award Retention Across Gaming Session Resets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming systems provide static progressive awards that reset to a common value, leading to player fatigue and inefficiency, as players lose motivation to continue gaming sessions after the award is reset.
Innovation Solution
The gaming system determines an amount of a progressive award based on a prior gaming session and allows players to retain an incremented award value for a temporary duration, enabling them to win it independently of subsequent resets, through mechanisms like progressive award growth retention events and supplemental awards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the progressive award is reset to a common value after being won, then the system maintains fairness and controls payout costs, but player motivation decreases and gaming session duration shortens
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by granting the player access to the incremented award value before the reset occurs. When a player wins a progressive award, the system captures the incremented value and allows the player to continue gaming with access to that captured value even after the progressive award resets for other players. This preliminary preservation of the award value maintains player motivation while still allowing the system to reset and control costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the award value into two distinct components: the current progressive award value available to all players, and the captured incremented value available only to the specific player who won the progressive award. This segmentation allows the system to maintain fairness by resetting the progressive award for general access while simultaneously providing the captured value to the winning player as a motivational incentive for continued play.
2Productivity
If the progressive award amount is increased during gaming sessions, then player engagement and system activity increase, but the system complexity and tracking requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary component that captures and stores the incremented award value when a progressive award is won. This intermediary mechanism automatically records the award value at the moment of winning and manages the transition from the progressive award structure to the captured value structure. By using this intermediary, the system reduces the complexity of manually tracking award histories while maintaining accurate records of captured values for each player.
3Ease of operation
If players are allowed to retain access to incremented award values after reset, then player retention and session continuity improve, but the financial risk and potential payout exposure increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter of award value accessibility by transitioning from a shared progressive award model to a personalized captured value model. When a player wins the progressive award, the system captures the incremented value and changes its accessibility parameters so that this specific value remains accessible only to that player even after the progressive award resets. This parameter change allows the system to manage financial risk by limiting the exposure to captured values while maintaining player retention through continued access to meaningful award amounts.
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AI summary
Systems and methods that determine an amount of a progressive award based on a prior gaming session of a first player and, independent of a current amount of the progressive award, enable the determined amount of the progressive award to be won by the first player responsive to the first player initiating another gaming session.