[FSPA] Ghostbuster Proposal--CarPool

[Rob Wintler-Cox]

Stephanie — possibly the only person in the world who loves this game —
maintains that a playfield multiplier strategy can beat a video mode skill
shot strategy every time. I tested it out under her tutelage at the league
party and was pretty successful… and I actually enjoyed playing the game
while doing it, which surprised me.

Maybe we just need to send her around to all the leagues with GB to give
VMARE classes (Video Mode Abuse Resistance Education).

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:23 PM, CJ Brown via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:

> If you want to disable video skill shot,  I suggest someone find a
> previous copy of the code that doesn't include it.   Otherwise it should be
> fair game.  On the other hand, you could just put Tron in that spot and
> everyone would be super happy.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Dan Reynolds via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
> wrote:
>
>> this is a fun idea.  to clarify -- players would not be permitted to pick
>> the Video Mode skill shot, but would still be allowed to light it and play
>> it by other means.
>>
>> but i have reservations about implementation.
>>
>> for one thing, my preplays were done with video mode.  would i have to
>> redo them?
>>
>> also, i get that preplays are somewhat on the honor system anyway, but
>> this adds an added opportunity for cheating (dunno if that matters).
>>
>> is there precedent for this?  have we ever had a competition game where
>> we've just been like "don't use that feature please"?  obvoiusly ops have
>> disabled features before.  but asking players not to go for a specific
>> skillshot is new to me.
>>
>> (god, why can't Stern fix this huge glaring balance flaw??)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Paul McGlone via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Suggestion has been made that we adopt a local rule that nobody can
>>> select video mode for skill shot; or that nobody can select it on Ball 1.
>>>
>>> This is a pretty good way to salvage a great game for competition.  The
>>> 1-ball variation opens up even more strategic choices—Play a mode, or not?
>>>
>>> I think Bob was against this by the time we finished on Thursday, but he
>>> liked it when we started (Player 4).
>>>
>>> We were playing the other night and it worked out pretty well without
>>> video:
>>>
>>> [image: IMG_3330.JPG]
>>>
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