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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PinballLizard (Mark Wyda)" data-source="post: 136134" data-attributes="member: 4144">I read the article, and I have to say I disagree with it.I can only speak for myself but, my best 5-7 tables and best scores aren't really "1 in 1000", lucky games. Nor do I score big, only to "frustratingly" get crappy games afterwards.  It doesn't work like that with me.  Every time I go back to a table I'm good at, I pretty much get my best or at least close to it, every time (as long as I'm trying and not messing around).  My top 5 is all within fractions of each other, so to put it in generic terms, if my best was 140 million my top 5 is 140,139,128,135,130.  Now there are breakthrough games, where I've blown my previous best out of the water by a substantial amount, but then that becomes the new norm, because in order to have that breakthrough my brain has adapted, I've become more comfortable with a table, learned a trick to avoid drains, not made "stupid" plays, came up with a better strat , what have you.Now sometimes I'll have that insane ball 1 that is super close to my all time score, and think holy **** I'm about to blow my old score out of the water... Only to house ball my way back and end up only beating it by a small margin. But that's more psychological than anything, I call that psyching myself out and playing poor pinball as a result.I guess you could kinda call that the 1-1000, but a ball that good is also common for me.  The way I play is I don't pay attention to what ball or how many balls I have, because playing correctly in a sense means you can go forever. This is especially true of pinball arcade , digital where randomization is less than real, things behave in a set way every time, and the way nudging works in digital. So what I'm saying is that, every time I drain it's a mistake I made and not "the games fault", and theoretically I should be able to do it all on one ball, all the subsequent balls are just "do over" buttons for when you screw up <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Having a really good score and then scoring substantially lower every subsequent try sounds like me when I first got the game, and wasn't very good.  I'm not degrading you or anyone, all I'm saying is that once you get over a certain hump , you kinda control your own destiny after that. You can still plateau, sure, but that's what it is a consistent plateau vs a curve.</blockquote>

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