Neutral Zone behaviour

I played quite a few games of ST:TNG last night and it struck me that I had only gotten Ferengi multiball awarded from the Neutral Zone. I've not seen the Cardassian or Romulan modes at all.

On my own ST:TNG machine the award of these modes is random, so could anyone confirm if tournament mode is enabled in the operator settings in TPA or that something else is inhibiting the random award of these Neutral Zone modes?

To be honest, Ferengi is my favourite mode of the game (I love add-a-ball multiballs) so I'm not *that* upset about not seeing the others.

I've had Romulan mode as well, not sure about Cardassian, though.

Got Cardassians and Romulans just fine. Though I'm guessing it's not quite a random pattern...

I've seen them all.

I've seen them all as well. Are you quitting the table mid-game? That resets the ROM to a known state...probably one where Ferengi Multiball is next up at the Neutral Zone.

Sean DonCarlos said:

I've seen them all as well. Are you quitting the table mid-game? That resets the ROM to a known state...probably one where Ferengi Multiball is next up at the Neutral Zone.

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I've not been quitting mid-game. Sounds like I've just fluked getting Ferengi so many times in a row. Probably won't see it for days now.

Anyway, it's good to know that the other modes are all present and correct.

Sean DonCarlos said:

I've seen them all as well. Are you quitting the table mid-game? That resets the ROM to a known state...probably one where Ferengi Multiball is next up at the Neutral Zone.

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it does seem like Ferengi is always first from a ROM reset.

It seems Ferengi are first on a new game, nevermind ROM reset.

And it seems the Fergengi are the most common - it's like 2 Ferengi, then a Romulan, then 2 Ferengi, then a Cardassian, then 2 Ferengi, then a Romulan then two Ferengi. So if it's random, it seems to follow that pattern - 8 Ferengi, 2 Romulans, 1 Cardassian over 11.