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Ok, I played Dude and put together 149M, good for third place and above pinballwiz45b's 122M that I saw now. Hadn't played that table in forever, certainly not since I studied Creature and learned the joys of keeping a ball in custody on the left flipper for eternity while grinding jackpots. :)

What happened? I see AntonR just a bit above me but that's no big deal. Is this the left sinkhole? That only works on platforms with old code. On PC and others with current updates, there's enough randomness in that kickout that the catch isn't reliable.

Not quite any table. I'm best at tables that have a set strategy to repeatedly grind for points and extra balls. On tables that don't have that (say Central Park or Gorgar), I struggle to make top ten. One could say I'm great at playing Pinball Arcade but merely good at the actual pinball part.

I had somehow never heard of Black Rose before TPA, so that sort of thing is quite possible. I also hadn't heard of Class of 1812, El Dorado, Genie, Goin Nuts, or most EMs, though those are all a bit more understandable.

Time Machine also says its own name in the pic. On the right inlane plastic. The "Time" is obscured by the light reflection though.

That last is platform dependent. On some platforms (mobile primarily), the left orbit exit isn't always smooth enough to do that catch. Only on platforms that have the most recent code updates (PC, PS3/4) can you get that reliable catch. This makes an ENORMOUS difference in the difficulty of...

But those are the same thing. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :cool: :o (and needs about 10 more smileys)

Fox licenses out the Simpsons intellectual property everywhere and anywhere. They'd be perfectly happy to play ball on the licensing, it's just a question of working out the costs. It's not like TAF with Julia's estate or Disney where the answer is almost a flat "no" before the negotiation...

The primary objection to using all tables is that not all players have all tables available on their platforms. A secondary one is that some players may be good but uninterested in investing the dozens of hours into every one of the tables. We want to find the best players, not just the ones...

It's luck that the method happens to hit the hardest target on the Flight 2000 table, but it's not luck that I found it. I do this sort of thing analytically on most TPA tables. For every eject, try all combinations of holding or not-holding flippers that the ejected ball will contact and see...

In the immortal words of third grade, "no way? Yes way!" I've put legit 12 hour games into high scores on several tables, and I have a normal job and family and social groups. It's not that hard to play for 3-4 hours per evening over the course of a week. Playing on a desktop PC definitely...

Yup, Cactus Canyon is all about the bonus X. I just took the #1 score on the table. Of the 2 billion points, over 1.4B came from bonus. I maxed it at 99x four times in the game for over 300M each time. Just shoot for Gold Mine MB over and over again, and shoot the right orbit repeatedly for...

I found a railroad-physics method to get the O reliably. First get only the top two drop targets down with the bottom one still up. Shoot the blastoff lane so that one ball pops out to the top rollovers. DO NOT NUDGE OR FLIP. Let this ball follow its predestined railroad path. It will...

I bet that's legit. Black Hole is quite easy to play very long ball times, and to earn back an extra ball when you do drain (just complete the lower drop target bank twice then shoot the left lane upstairs to collect.) I've been over 50 million on the table a couple times before losing the game...

I practiced a bit more. I can hit the KISS shot fairly consistently from the kickout fed by the snackbar and KISS itself, but _only_ that way. I can't hit it consistently from a catch or inexplicably from a left ramp feed, which apparently isn't quite the same motion as the kickout. But yeah...

Um, that Transporter pic says its own name right there in the left outlane. :)

Waterworld, of course.

High Roller Casino could be covering that shortly.

Is this true? I plunge on most tables by click-dragging the mouse downwards. Does that not work on Whodunnit?

The math sounds intense. Doesn't this end up creating a feedback loop? The point value of each table changes depending on who the top 100 players are... which changes based on the point values of each table. :) I suppose a closed-form solution is possible but that's talking about solving 100...