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<blockquote data-quote="whoozwah" data-source="post: 178114" data-attributes="member: 4850"><p>I was actually thinking about this very idea this morning as to ranking the tables in TPA in order of their difficulty but given there are so many people on the forum you would need some set of criteria to measure it. So here are the factors that I would imagine you would use to objectively determine if a table should be easy or hard if you've never played it before. These are not in any order of importance.</p><p></p><p>1. Ball saver - if you drain immediately and there's no ball saver, that would (to me) make it a harder table than if it did have a ball saver.</p><p>2. Layout - clean play fields like Attack From Mars where all the shots are at the back (or sides) of the table would make a table easier than if there's all sorts of things on the table itself.</p><p>3. Flipper size - Games with lightning flippers would be in a higher difficulty tier than games with standard size flippers.</p><p>4. Simplicity of ruleset - how easy it is to figure out the rules of the table just by shooting from the hip vs reading the rule sheet</p><p>5. Intentional drains - if you have targets that are intended to drain the ball if you brick the shot then that would keep it out of the easiest category.</p><p></p><p>Feel free to add any other criteria if you like. Maybe we can actually come up with some tiers based on them and populate the tables in them. Then newbies like myself who really want to learn and get into pinball will know which tables are recommended to start off on and why.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="whoozwah, post: 178114, member: 4850"] I was actually thinking about this very idea this morning as to ranking the tables in TPA in order of their difficulty but given there are so many people on the forum you would need some set of criteria to measure it. So here are the factors that I would imagine you would use to objectively determine if a table should be easy or hard if you've never played it before. These are not in any order of importance. 1. Ball saver - if you drain immediately and there's no ball saver, that would (to me) make it a harder table than if it did have a ball saver. 2. Layout - clean play fields like Attack From Mars where all the shots are at the back (or sides) of the table would make a table easier than if there's all sorts of things on the table itself. 3. Flipper size - Games with lightning flippers would be in a higher difficulty tier than games with standard size flippers. 4. Simplicity of ruleset - how easy it is to figure out the rules of the table just by shooting from the hip vs reading the rule sheet 5. Intentional drains - if you have targets that are intended to drain the ball if you brick the shot then that would keep it out of the easiest category. Feel free to add any other criteria if you like. Maybe we can actually come up with some tiers based on them and populate the tables in them. Then newbies like myself who really want to learn and get into pinball will know which tables are recommended to start off on and why. [/QUOTE]
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