Maximum
Payoff
Payoff noun - The amount of money left when expenses are subtracted from the total amount received.
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A machine may have one payoff rate if you bet a single coin per spin (which most casual gamblers do) and a completely different rate if you bet the maximum coins per spin.
- This is particularly popular with fight scenes and explosions, as the director tries to deliver the maximum visceral payoff to the audience — or save money on special effects and choreography.
Source: Repeat Cut - The expansion, Ultima VII: Forge of Virtue, containins a dungeon whose payoff is the Black Sword, a weapon far more powerful than any in the original game, as well as boosting the main character's stats to the maximum (twice the maximum in the case of the Strength stat).
Source: Disc One Nuke / Ultima
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