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[Chris_010292]

Hi, how are these four player machines played? For example i understand on golden x for example they have four machines and a high roller at the top how do these pay out and do you have to play four player when i say pay out i mean is the percentage of payout connected to all four machines? for example one machine may give the high roller (golden game) at random SURELY NOT!!! cheers lads.

[nails]

its 3 seperate machines that utilies the extra top box between them.

[lincs1]

top boxes have there own mpu5 boards and the machines are all linked

[DJDONKEY]

So is it effectively like progressive JP machines, where a certain percentage of the stake goes toward paying the top board streak?

[Bencrest]

I always believed it was down to the state of the slave machine if (and for how much) the top box was awarded.

Thats why I always lost when I played a Bullion Bars with the note acceptor light off - but occasionally won on ones with the acceptor 'on'. Obviously though I'd plough the winnings into some other shite straight after.

[TheMission]

To all intents and purposes the machines are separate. The top box acts purely as a display device, be it reels/screen whatever, for whichever machine is using it. Each machine maintains its own stats and makes use of the top box feature so long as it is available.

[mrmystery83]

I've often wondered how these work. How you can be sat pumping pound after pound in, then a person sits next you, and gets a £60 top board with a quid stake! If there's no one playing them with me, sometimes i will move along to the next one just in case. Or play two. Then you lose your money twice as quick!

[todd1970]

And me..for example if you have just pumped £50 into a PTA and some comes along and sits at an empty chair £2 or £3 later they get the "PLAYER 5.....ITTTSS YOU" then the topbox goes for say...£40 that messes up the one your playing..ie it woulda streaked for about £30-£40 but because someone won out another unit that sets your unit back.

[alfie09]

1 master... 3 slaves.. top box on its own board... serving as an independent pay out.... all have there own%, settings ,dill switches...... if one is turn:bigeyes11::bigeyes11:ed off.... do they all go off?... no..... all independent to the individual unit %..... no link.... load of old wives.... play on m8

[alfie09]

load of pony... i worked for astra... any one wants to tell me diffo... including techs.... which i am... then feel free...

matt

[TheMission]

What's a load of pony? Also, please fix that full stop key

[alfie09]

you know, i aint got a clue! i was having about 6 diffo convos, i.e phone, msn, other half and muttering to myself when i wrote that. still, just proves i am mad after all. and my full stop fetish is getting better, i have lapses every now and then so bear with me .............. see, some kind of mental block on just pressing the button once.

[todd1970]

Nowt wrong with that...i use that also to indicate a pause...between...words.

[Hairy]

If you got a few people playing Party time or the like, when one person gets up top, all the rest don't wanna press start coz they know only one can be up top at a time. Is this silly or what?

[alfie09]

that is a valid point, which is why the later partygames, bullion bars and prg 3+ goldengames have player waiting upgreads. i still stop playing on an arena if some 1 else has a top, makes no difference i know as the unit will go up when ready, if you have a win whilst the top box is in motion, it will bump up there first win next time. just more fable and myth that surround these fruits!!