[FSPA] Silverball Sanctum machine status & league night poll

[Bob K Mertz]

Looking forward to trying this out....  I've wanted to like GB since it 
came out and I hope this makes enough difference -- maybe I'll end up 
putting some money into besides the league mandated game assignments :)

On 09/04/2018 03:01 PM, Dan Reynolds via FSPA wrote:
> If the Rojo Ghostbusters Mod is putting those ribbed flippers on that 
> are an eighth of an inch longer -- then I can say from first hand 
> experience, it does make the game more enjoyable.  I have them on my GB 
> Pro at home.  you can cradle a little bit easier, and you don't lose 
> quite so many balls STDM.  You can actually think about making it to 
> Stay Puft every once in a while.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 2:32 PM Roland Joyal via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org 
> <mailto:fspa at fspazone.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi everyone-
>     Fall season is here, and wanted to point out a couple changes. 
>     League-favorite 50 cent Jungle Lord is back ...and nothing is going
>     away!   Location manager is pleased with the league and has allowed
>     a 7th machine.  And who you gonna /love/?  Ghostbusters!  That's
>     right, you are going to fall in love with the game now that it has
>     the "RoJo" mod.  Some people have told me they /should/ love the
>     game because of the great play field design, toys, theme,
>     artwork, sounds, etc, but they have a hard time loving it because of
>     the darn large flipper gap ...and I agree.  I have listened to your
>     woes and have devised a solution so that the gap is now the same as
>     any normal machine, and flipper angles remain the same, only now
>     you won't be losing the ball SDTM as much and feel ripped off that
>     you can't get far in the game.  Plays soooooo much better now, the
>     way it /should/ have been from the start coming out of factory.  And
>     for whatever reason the particular GB we have does not start video
>     mode nearly as easily as others, which was the minor complaint some
>     GB's have.  Dracula now has Mist multiball working, and all games
>     have play field and backbox LED's for better visibility w/o it being
>     over the top annoying.  And the air conditioning in the
>     place won't be much of, or any issue since it will be cooler with
>     the Fall/Winder weather.
>     As far as what night of the week Fall/Winter/Spring should be on, as
>     I have mentioned before, the location /can/ hold the league on
>     Thursday night versus Wed night /if you prefer/, and if you all want
>     to move it to Thursday they are willing to keep the place officially
>     open until 10PM and will not kick you out if you are still playing
>     when they are cleaning up after 10PM (just like they won't do now on
>     Wed after 9pm).  This will allow league to start at 7:30 or 8PM,
>     whatever is more desirable, and give people more casual time to play
>     after league play is complete for the night.  When I
>     polled the league a couple months ago, the only difference was a
>     "negative" difference to switch to Thursday nights, with 2 people
>     indicating that most likely they could not make Thursday nights if
>     it was switched.
>     So/if /it does NOT benefit anybody (by allowing a league member
>     to play when otherwise they would not be able to) to change it to
>     Thursday with a later start time then we will keep it at Wed at 7PM
>     so we will not lose those 2 people that indicated they cannot make
>     Thursdays.  But now that we have our Fall schedules for work, etc,
>     maybe things are different for other players, and maybe for those 2
>     players as well, *so let me know ONLY IF *it makes a difference one
>     way or the other, otherwise we will leave it the way it is.
>     Thanks in advance for your input.  -Roland
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