Methods and systems for consolidating game meters of N gaming machines

摘要

A method of multi-player regulated gaming on a network of gaming machines may includes steps of enabling game play of a same game at each of a selected first to Nth gaming machine in the network; maintaining game performance meters at each of the selected first to Nth gaming machines; consolidating the game performance meters from the selected first to Nth gaming machines, and dividing the consolidated game performance meters by N to generate respective regulatory meters for each of the selected first to Nth gaming machines.

主权项

1. A method of multi-player regulated gaming on a network of gaming machines, the method comprising the steps of:
enabling game play of a same game at each of a selected first to Nth gaming machine in the network, the first to Nth gaming machine forming a virtual combined gaming machine; maintaining game performance meters at each of the selected first to Nth gaming machines of the virtual combined gaming machine; consolidating the game performance meters by adding together the maintained game performance meters from the first to Nth gaming machines; dividing the consolidated game performance meters by N to generate respective regulatory meters for each of the first to Nth gaming machines and reporting the N regulatory meters to a central system coupled to the network; removing a gaming machine from the virtual combined gamine machine whenever the game performance meters of the gaming machine reaches zero; carrying out one of:
causing a player of the removed gaming machine to forfeit his or her regulatory meters in remaining ones of the first to Nth gaming machines of the virtual combined gaming machine, andawarding the player of the removed gaming machine his or her share of the regulatory meters; continuing game play and returning to the removing step until only a single one of the first to Nth gaming machines remains, and awarding any remaining regulatory meters to a player of the single remaining gaming machine.