@brakel
@Serenseven
yes, of course - why and how the created tables is absolutly clear - but this is a computer game and not a real table. and when you're running a company you need to do a little outside the box thinking, you need to get new customers to make money to go on. And by giving the chance to train "pinball" so that the whole experience get richer and richer and the game finally really starts making fun attracts a lot of new people, i'm sure about that.
To master all the moves like stoping the ball, special shots, etc... you need to repeat the same thing over and over again - hundreds of times - and therefore you need unlimited balls (or at least, it's more convenient that way) - and don't forget, it's just an option and has nothing to do with "faithful recreation of the tables".
With a bit of second though , alternatively , it may be useful to do this for at least a single table -the TOTAN table given for each new download, for example. For a lot of folks, pinball is simply a matter of launching a ball and then flipping like mad to see what they can do as far as score - the skills involved in hitting the right things when and whenever, activating a scoring chance, controlling the ball, etc. are often lost and not immediately evident . A screen prompted version of cut-scenes,perhaps, or regular play ( with enhanced training features ) asking players to accomplish certain goals such as hitting ramps for combos , how to get multi balls , holding or passing a ball on flippers, start high scoring runs, etc. would take the basic game a bit beyond this , and such insights would carry over to other tables ,I think. Novice players would then realize that the game requires a certain finesse ( along with a bit of luck ), and be more likely to give the game another look once they have a sense of what needs to be done and presented with a more understandable challenge -things can happen so fast in pinball that one is often mentally left behind at times and just plays by instinct .This can be very frustrating for people new to the game . Yes , the rules are there to be read , but seeing and doing trump that , imo, and the 'lingo' of pinball will make more sense to noobs .
One way we can assist Farsight ( and hence, ourselves ) is to encourage those who have never played before or had a simplistic view of the game of pinball to give it a try . As is, I'm fairly certain that a number of friends I suggest it to may give it a go , but then dismiss it as either boring or too difficult if they explore it on their own, having little or no experience playing before. A really clever tutorial would assist a lot, and I'm sure the folks at Farsight would be better able to put one together than the suggestions that I've set out here .
