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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 164036" data-attributes="member: 3745">New leaderboard #1 owner at 191M here.  This was my strategy:Every ball, the absolute first thing you do is enter the lower playfield, complete the blue drops twice, then shoot the upper playfield top lane to score the extra ball.  Do nothing else until you get this.  I failed this only once the entire game, when the initial plunge rocketed from the bumpers straight into the left outlane.  If you gain any control of the ball from the plunge, you should always be able to get this EB and go infinite.Then go for one G-force, then for multiball.  Lock downstairs, hit the four yellow standups, and lock upstairs.  It's OK not to go for both G-forces.  One G-force will carry over to the next ball, while getting both means you need to redo them.  Multiball is easy enough with the gate permanently open that maxing the lower playfield at 999,990 should happen even at only 2x scoring.The key target on the lower playfield is the yellow drops.  Each of these is lit by hitting one of the upper playfield yellow spot targets.  When lit, they score 3000 bonus times the G-force accelerator, which is far more than anything else.  And the key to hit them is to play slowly and carefully.  It's very easy to start flailing like crazy on the cramped playfield with lots of balls, but don't.  Bounce pass left-to-right whenever you can, and the right flipper can usually hit those yellow drops.  Catch balls on that left flipper and deflect them to the right as you can.  It's also possible to hit the yellow drops from the left flipper on a ricochet from the center bumper, though the sweet spot for this is quite small.On every drain from the lower playfield, hold the left flipper to catch whatever you can, while turning your attention to the re-entry shot back into the black hole.  I can hit this shot about 90%.  There are also trajectories that miss but feed the ball back into the rightmost inlane for another shot.  Be ready for this.There's lots of skill in corralling stray balls to get them back downstairs.  The most important bit is to catch on the left main flipper whenever you can.  You can hold a ball here while making other re-entry shots.  Then quickly post pass and shoot the tunnel with that ball while the previous one is still descending.It appears that you can't get multiball a second time on the same ball.  I'm not sure if this is true to the real table or not.  But anyway, if multiball ends before reaching the 999k bonus max, I'll keep going with the single ball until reaching it.  I never failed to reach max bonus after starting multiball during my entire game.Once the bonus is maxed at 999k, there's not much else to do on that ball.  The fastest way to score now is to keep shooting the spinner for 1k/spin, just letting the ball go from the black hole without flipping as long as the re-entry gate remains open.  This isn't very fast though so I prefer to just intentionally drain to cash the 999k bonus.  Before that, do set up for the next multiball as much as possible: lock downstairs and complete 3 of the 4 yellow targets upstairs.  (If you complete all 4, they will reset on draining.)  Also make sure you leave exactly 1 of the blue targets up downstairs, so that next time you can open the gate and work towards the EB as easily as possible.Next ball, get that EB again, and repeat forever.  I went until I thought I had 150M for #1 (obviously miscounted by quite a bit) and just drained the last two balls intentionally.</blockquote>

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