[FSPA] Ghostbuster Proposal--CarPool

[The Bob]

I changed the level of the game so you can't auto plunge the skill shot and
it also changes the geometry of the game somewhat but it's still easy to
get.  ALWAYSVIDEO did it 3 times last night including one ball where he
literally got 6 ball saves due to the way the game qualifies the
playfield.  There's no setting regarding video mode and you can't do
anything physically to the game as that shot is used to complete other
modes.

Competition pinball is different than purely recreational pinball.  League
to me is competitive even if I'm not. :)  If you have a decent game, play a
few modes and get multiball you'll outscore a video-only strategy.  If you
have a sucky game you'll get crushed by a video-only strategy.  If you go
for video mode and miss it, you're in points jail as you have to make a
bunch of risky shots to get a mode started.

I'm sure Stern has heard about the imbalance in scoring for video mode and
I hope they address it in the promised summer update.


On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Dan Reynolds via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
wrote:

> Our GB isn't easy to make off the plunge, but the game code gives you a
> million chances to make the skill shot even if you screw up the plunge.
> last night i only made it off the actual plunge once, but still managed
> flail or catch my way into the video mode skillshot 3 times.  i demolished
> the 3 other three players in my group, and i barely did anything other than
> video mode.  :/
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 9:20 AM, Stephanie Traub via FSPA <
> fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:
>
>> Stern definitely still needs to fix how many points you get from it (64
>> million).  All people do at Lyman's is practice that shot so they can do it
>> in league and many can do it 100% of the time (and ours does not
>> automatically plunge to the scoop).  In fact, I played with AlwaysSmooooa
>> last week and he purposefully didn't start modes so he could do it every
>> ball.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 5:26 AM Wei-Hwa Huang via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Dan Reynolds via FSPA
>>> <fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:
>>> > (god, why can't Stern fix this huge glaring balance flaw??)
>>>
>>> Because, as mentioned elsewhere, not all GBs make it easy to get the
>>> scoop off of the plunge.  There's a GB at one of the league locations
>>> I've played in, and there's no easy bounce into the scoop.  I
>>> generally can get the ball into the scoop only about 1 out of 4 balls,
>>> which means sometimes I don't get it in a game at all.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Wei-Hwa Huang, onigame at gmail.com
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