Patent ID: 8777726

Claim:
A state-based power-up management server comprising: a communications interface; a memory; and a logic device, the logic device, the memory, and the communications interface operably connected and configured to: instruct a gaming machine, via the communications interface, to provide an in-game advantage to a player during a first time period during wagering game play on the gaming machine in association with a state-based power-up associated with the player, wherein the in-game advantage provides an opportunity to improve a score or chances of winning within a game; receive first input from the gaming machine, via the communications interface, indicating that a game outcome condition has been met during the first time period, wherein the game outcome condition involves a comparison of the player's performance with respect to a game metric to another player's performance with respect to the game metric; determine that the game outcome condition has been met during the first time period based on the first input; and determine, after determining that the game outcome condition has been met during the first time period based on the first input, that the association of the state-based power-up with the player is to be maintained during a second time period, the second time period following the first time period.