Is it Just Carnival - Has Anyone Else Noticed...

[icft]

I don't claim to have any great insight but I have noticed a trend that I don't particularly like with the slot machines on Carnival and wonder if I'm imagining things or of anyone else has noticed and has any thoughts.

 

It seems that with these new machines that all the machines of one kind are hot, normal or cold at the same time. For example all the "dancing drums" machines will be cold at the same time, showing a lot of numbers and letters rather than symbols, and will be normal to hot at the same time showing few, if any, letters and numbers. Of course there is some variation between each machine, but on the whole they are all hot or cold at the same time.

 

I used dancing drums as an example, but I've been seeing it on the other types of machines - buffalo, solar disk, scarab etc. also. The effect of this is that while there might be say 300 machines in the casino there is in practical effect only something like 20 machines in the casino. If fifteen are cold then three quarters of the casino is cold. On our latest cruise ALL those similar groups were cold the entire seven days and only the few one or two of a kind machines were normal to hot. Previous cruises have had about half cold and it is always all machines of the same family.

 

A casino with, in practice, only 20 machines is not our idea of fun. Are other cruise lines, outside the Carnival family, the same way these days?

[edrussell]

Haven't noticed that sort of behavior but we definitely did notice on our last sailing that night one and the second to last night seemed to be the nights the slots were loosest.  Especially so on night one.  Almost anyone I spoke to came out up via slots on that night.  A total coincidence for sure, but it was funny how anyone I spoke to about slots for the entire cruise mentioned night 1.  Either way we came away from our sailing way up.

[CasinoTech]

What ever you think is happening isnt happening. The slot machines run computer programs which cannot be modified onboard or changed onboard. They are the same machines as supplied all over the world to various casino's. The return to player percentages are set according to various regulations at time of manufacture, yes they could be changed by updating the core programmes or with older models changing the actual chip sets but still based on regulated perameters. There isnt techs running around changing things from day 1 to other days LOL. If you want to win big in a casino or not lose big then you need to learn the variosu games well and various strategies of play and avoid the slots for the only reason being that you have no control as a player on the outcome. If you learn something like blackjack the table game very well and learn basic strategies well then you have a uch better chance of winning simply due to not doing stupid things. LOL.

[memoak]

8 hours ago, CasinoTech said:

What ever you think is happening isnt happening. The slot machines run computer programs which cannot be modified onboard or changed onboard. They are the same machines as supplied all over the world to various casino's. The return to player percentages are set according to various regulations at time of manufacture, yes they could be changed by updating the core programmes or with older models changing the actual chip sets but still based on regulated perameters. There isnt techs running around changing things from day 1 to other days LOL. If you want to win big in a casino or not lose big then you need to learn the variosu games well and various strategies of play and avoid the slots for the only reason being that you have no control as a player on the outcome. If you learn something like blackjack the table game very well and learn basic strategies well then you have a uch better chance of winning simply due to not doing stupid things. LOL.

Having worked with people who program this chips that go inside slots there is no way to quite “flip a switch “ and change odds   You would have to pull the chip and reprogram it. Slots are all about hit some good jackpots and put some of the winnings in your pocket