The dispute over the new slot machine gaming system
Since last year when London's Cyberview company has devised a new gaming system in which a single computer brain is capable of sustaining thousand of slot machines, Indian tribes are still engaged in fierce disputes with the state over the status of such electronically linked gaming terminals.
The games are featured by their full reliance on central server containing a single random number generator that sets the destined winner and looser. The generator includes single random numbers for each separate slot machine. The advisory, issued by the Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office, last April, after the attorney general's office together with gaming commission carried out a survey of slot machines at more than 50 state's Indian casinos, determined that each terminal linked to a central system must be counted as an individual gaming station. The survey has elicited nearly 300 terminals attached to multiplayer games across the state casinos
The tribes maintain that in compliance with the compacts, each gaming device is determined by the existence of the random number generator, thus all terminals should be counted as a single gaming device. Should tribes win the debate, they would be vacated from the necessity of paying millions of dollars in fees on each gaming machine, resigning slot-machine limits. This matter might prostrate onto the global level where some European nations such as Poland already have limited the number of slots per casino.
