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<blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 165959" data-attributes="member: 3745"><p>Incorrigible restarter here.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This. There is no such thing as casual score play for me in TPA. I only play to aim at top leaderboard spots, and well there's just no sense doing that with a ball or two already wasted.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Total opposite for me. I play considerably worse on ball 3 when there's no margin for error. I know exactly why - I get panicky and flail the ball away instead of patiently coaxing it into a catch near that nasty scary drain. I gotta stay on ball 1 as long as possible where the play is more relaxed.</p><p></p><p>So my standards for even getting a ball 1 worth playing out are very high. My minimum standard on most tables is to get at least one <em>repeatable</em> extra ball; as in easy one-shots like AFM's second saucer don't count since that's guaranteed to come anyway. I restart probably ten games for every one that makes it up high on the leaderboards.</p><p></p><p>I even sometimes restart on real legit paid-a-quarter games. Only in the worst situation here - on ball 3 and the first two did absolutely nothing and the machine isn't one that has a pity EB available. I just won't have fun with my back against the wall. I paid for the ball, I get to decide what to do with it. Skip the agony and get on with a fresh game. I can afford it and the time saved is more valuable.</p><p></p><p>The gray area for me is real machines in unlimited play venues. Restarting is as freely available as on TPA and is the right move for all the same reasons, but there's also the complicating factor that you may be hogging a machine someone else wants to play. This falls somewhere in the middle, I'll restart if the first ball was absolutely terrible and nobody is looking, but otherwise play it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vikingerik, post: 165959, member: 3745"] Incorrigible restarter here. This. There is no such thing as casual score play for me in TPA. I only play to aim at top leaderboard spots, and well there's just no sense doing that with a ball or two already wasted. Total opposite for me. I play considerably worse on ball 3 when there's no margin for error. I know exactly why - I get panicky and flail the ball away instead of patiently coaxing it into a catch near that nasty scary drain. I gotta stay on ball 1 as long as possible where the play is more relaxed. So my standards for even getting a ball 1 worth playing out are very high. My minimum standard on most tables is to get at least one [i]repeatable[/i] extra ball; as in easy one-shots like AFM's second saucer don't count since that's guaranteed to come anyway. I restart probably ten games for every one that makes it up high on the leaderboards. I even sometimes restart on real legit paid-a-quarter games. Only in the worst situation here - on ball 3 and the first two did absolutely nothing and the machine isn't one that has a pity EB available. I just won't have fun with my back against the wall. I paid for the ball, I get to decide what to do with it. Skip the agony and get on with a fresh game. I can afford it and the time saved is more valuable. The gray area for me is real machines in unlimited play venues. Restarting is as freely available as on TPA and is the right move for all the same reasons, but there's also the complicating factor that you may be hogging a machine someone else wants to play. This falls somewhere in the middle, I'll restart if the first ball was absolutely terrible and nobody is looking, but otherwise play it out. [/QUOTE]
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