Bug Current tourney

[pinballchris]

While I do not like the current set up of the tournament with the tables, there is a bug with Scared Stiff. During Monster Multiball, one ball gets stuck in the crate allowing you unlimited shots with one ball. I think this was a bug in the regular table.

 

[Pinetwig]

Had the same bug during spider mania, one ball got lost and all I could do after draining was to force quit the app. I'm on android btw.

 

[pinballchris]

And I would like to know who is running the percentages on BOPB. In two games I have hit the big wheel 20 some times and the Billion shot has only lit 3 times. We have scores of 8B? Must have hit the big wheel 30 times in that game. Which isn't impossible I guess.

 

[Dylan_h]

And I would like to know who is running the percentages on BOPB. In two games I have hit the big wheel 20 some times and the Billion shot has only lit 3 times. We have scores of 8B? Must have hit the big wheel 30 times in that game. Which isn't impossible I guess.

It seems to depend on the game being played. The 8 billion game I put up seemed a little more generous than a few other tries and yeah it was probably around the 30 mark for big wheel awards.

 

[pezpunk]

on my 5 billion game, i had that 5 billion in the first 7 minutes of the game! i thought i was going to blow the lid off the top score but in the ensuing 13 minutes, i spun the big wheel i don't know maybe 20 more times but couldn't get another billion! i was very frustrated.

 

[RagingBull888]

Hence the reason BoPB is such a lousy game for a timed tournament. You can make every shot you are supposed to and the difference between a top score and being further down the pack is a random spin of the wheel.

 

[Mayuh]

Hence the reason BoPB is such a lousy game for a timed tournament. You can make every shot you are supposed to and the difference between a top score and being further down the pack is a random spin of the wheel.

+1

In real life tounaments I disable billion completely on my BoP...

 

[Dylan_h]

So I was curious how many big wheel spins I could get in the 20 minutes and with a few missed shots and one rebuild I ended up spinning 41 times and ended up with 8,774,506,260 so that's 8 out of 41 billion shots lol. I agree with you guys that Bride is bad choice for a tournament table.

 

[Pinetwig]

41 times? Heh, my PB is only 5B which I got on 6 or 7 spins. BoP is one random table for sure.

 

[pinballchris]

So I was curious how many big wheel spins I could get in the 20 minutes and with a few missed shots and one rebuild I ended up spinning 41 times and ended up with 8,774,506,260 so that's 8 out of 41 billion shots lol. I agree with you guys that Bride is bad choice for a tournament table.

At least on a timed table tourney. I finally got 3 Billion awards to pop up in one game, after about 8 times in a row of not coming up, I was getting frustrated for sure.

 

[Dylan_h]

At least on a timed table tourney. I finally got 3 Billion awards to pop up in one game, after about 8 times in a row of not coming up, I was getting frustrated for sure.

Yeah I'm glad its timed as I feel sorry for the ps3 guys grinding it out!

 

[Granny]

These are some hard tables. I went off on Black Rose and that is about the only highlight i have so far for the entire tournament. I had the billion shot come up a sixth time recently and choked. I can see where 8 bil can be done, but you have to be playing the right game for that to happen. It's like space shuttle. I can just about tell you which "game" I am playing by which "random" award you "bust" to by accidentally hitting the dang switcher lane.

 

[Granny]

BTW what's the deal with MOO? Obviously he didn't actually get 65 billion-shots in 20 minutes. I've noticed he has been removed from the tournament. How are these people doing this? I wouldn't even know how to begin to cheat, which makes me wonder; are there others who cheat but keep their scores under the radar?

 

[Pinetwig]

BTW what's the deal with MOO? Obviously he didn't actually get 65 billion-shots in 20 minutes. I've noticed he has been removed from the tournament. How are these people doing this? I wouldn't even know how to begin to cheat, which makes me wonder; are there others who cheat but keep their scores under the radar?

Check, FS's FB, for some tpa internet drama. MOO clearly has some issues haha.

 

[karl]

The timed tournament was a good choice by FS. It would be fun to have a tournament where there is only 4 tables and you have to play them all before restarting (there is always the pause button if you get tired)

That way, it reduces the "start the first ball again and again until you have a killer score" to the first table and you must have a good round on all of the tables for it to matter. Would be a fun challenge.

I also think that 2 weeks or more is to long for a tournament. One week should be plenty

 

[pinballchris]

I agree 2 weeks is too long, however, Farsight needs to do a better job announcing the tourney. I didn't even know about it until 2 or 3 days in.

 

[Heretic]

what woukd be a good solution? mailing lists? pop up notices via ios? as much as a forum regular as i am sometimes even i miss tournaments

 

[superballs]

I think just a small notification on the tourney folder in the gui would be good that way you would know as soon as you open the software

 

[karl]

Agree with you there Superballs. Good suggestion! Nice and simple. Should not be that hard for them to implement something like that either

 

[pinballchris]

what woukd be a good solution? mailing lists? pop up notices via ios? as much as a forum regular as i am sometimes even i miss tournaments

I think just a small notification on the tourney folder in the gui would be good that way you would know as soon as you open the software

Correct. I thought this was a done deal with the last update, guess not.