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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epsilon" data-source="post: 21851" data-attributes="member: 381">Pinball is supposed to be fun, especially in a virtual pinball environment, where there isn't a profit motive involved in screwing the player with cheap drains to keep ball times down. This table, as presently constructed, is 75% luck based garbage. My first game was my best one, even as I supposedly learned the shots and tricks better. That should tell you something right there. I got comparatively lucky my first game and even as I get better, my scores can't improve. Unless I just endure endless frustration hoping I get lucky again. Screw that. This table needs to be fixed, badly. Note to Farsight: it's always better to err on the side of providing an enjoyable, fair experience. If you cater to the vocal minority of masochists, you're just going to drive away the much more massive casual crowd seeking to have fun. If you have a situation where a table is too easy and the only solution is to make it stupid hard, leave well enough alone.Otherwise, provide some options for the player under penalty of disabling leaderboard scores. You already do this with the unlockable Tilt option. If you do it for other options, say Cirqus Voltaire's ridiculous outlane posts, or number of balls per game, or Easy/Medium/Hard ROM presets, there's no harm to the leaderboards, and people other than those who enjoy punishing unfairness can actually have fun with the product they paid money for.</blockquote>

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