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Quite true, LCA might be a good example for how much an EM would sell. And... LCA was probably a business mistake too. They do, but it's not that much work. I could write Big Shot's ruleset in a couple hundred lines of C# code probably in a day or two. Implementing the rule set isn't a...

There isn't enough demand for EMs to make business sense. They take the same level of work to model and digitize as any other machine, but there's no way any EM would sell as much as a more modern table. Tech isn't any limiting factor. Scripting an EM's rules is not hard. Farsight has...

More thoughts after another game, for 680M and #1 on the leaderboard: Now I disagree, don't go for this, the drops are too risky. Because the main points in multiball don't come from the jackpot itself. They come from the grinding. Every Mixmaster hit scores 30k base or 60k with 2x active...

The best use of this: when the ray shot to start multiball also started 1-2-3 Reflex. Soft-plunge to a catch and you have a free untimed shot at Reflex 2. Here's what to do with the Gazillion. Catch a ball on each flipper. Shoot the Mixmaster from the right, then _immediately_ post pass...

Any chance those scores actually are yours, but went to the wrong tables on the leaderboards?

You'd need the machines with the most to do. Lord of the Rings for sure. Twilight Zone next. TSPP would be the third choice in a vacuum, but it overlaps in style with those first two. I'd probably take Monster Bash.

Doctor Who doesn't seem like Stern's thing. It's still not quite broad enough on mainstream appeal, it's still at least somewhat on the niche and nerdy side. They only go for mass market franchises that *everybody* knows. Stuff like Transformers, Avatar, Star Trek, and all the Marvels are...

You missed the easiest one: Plunge softly directly into it. Every locked ball means a free Spider shot as well. Just make sure it's lit, shoot the web ramp before locking if you need. I remember some weirdness here too. I think it awards an EB the first time in the game but not after. Or...

Same here. Paying into the Kickstarter amounts to buying Addams twice if you plan to buy the season 4 pass anyway. I can kind of understand not doing it, though. Suppose they threw in the season pass at the $100 tier. Well that really makes it just a $70 tier since you were going to pay that...

Well, the solution is... don't shoot the left ramp. It doesn't do anything you need. Payback Time scoring is dominated by super jackpots and (in TPA) the chase loop.

This can be used to your advantage. Start multiball. Complete 1-6 to relight a lock. Lose one of the three balls (because you need one physically in the trough.) Lock a ball. The game will replace the locked ball with a new one in the plunger lane... which you can leave there as a backup...

The beauty of Kickstarter's business model is that it works both ways. Customers who just want to treat it as a (nonguaranteed) pre-order can do that. Backers who want to contribute extra for the sake of the cause can do that too and pick up extra rewards. Both groups are correct and neither...

This. I asked Farsight via Kickstarter and got this answer: So if you plan to buy the season 4 pass anyway, you aren't getting any value out of the table itself from the kickstarter, just the higher rewards such as Gold.

Well THAT would be a pretty strong piece of evidence that scores on TOTAN's leaderboard came from wrong tables. I don't suppose you have a memory of scoring 1.16B on some other table sometime before 2/24/2015? :)

Wow, when you dive in to something, you really go all the way. :) I believe he's said he did that with the Harem/Battle stack before TPA updated the ROM to patch it out. I think he even recorded it for Youtube. If a very few players are continuing to record TOTAN scores of over a billion, I...

+1. I'm not really interested in the higher rewards, but I'd throw in at $7 to support the Kickstarter, except it's a waste if the table will just come in a season 4 pack later.

Yeah, my leaderboard top score in regular play for T2 was more chase loop than anything else too. 40 straight shots totals a billion and is quite possible. Kinda disappointing that the TPA physics allow exploiting that so brutally when it's just a sideshow on the real table.

"Estimated delivery Feb 2015" says a lot about scheduling. Have at it over in the speculation forum. This bit is intriguing: I want to try that out and see how it works, but $50 for the novelty is rather steep.

Here's what seems to have happened: The exploit was patched out of a later version of the TOTAN ROM. TPA didn't have that ROM version at first but later updated with it. It doesn't seem to be possible now. I've done what should be the correct steps three or four times but it hasn't worked...

The point of stacking Gold Mine and Showdown *is* the bonus. It's a potentially unlimited multiball with all orbit shots feeding the bumpers. The jackpots still don't matter. What matters is 200M or more in bonus from the stack.