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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smbhax" data-source="post: 65361" data-attributes="member: 396">Are you sure they aren't the regular 3" flippers? Did ST:TNG have the slightly shorter "lightning" flippers like Dracula or something? 'Cause I measured them them onscreen in pixels vs a TPA table with definitely standard flippers--this was in a thread about this some time back, maybe over in a PS3 update thread--and they came out pretty much the same; they look kind of stubbier in ST:TNG in TPA because the cameras are zoomed out more since it's a widebody table, and the camera view (3, on PS3, anyway) is slightly lower than usual, so you see more of the wide view of the side of the flipper, which makes it look chunkier and thus shorter.Definitely don't like the cannons blocking the view of the outlane area. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> No problem shooting right ramp on my PS3 though!But really the only thing that holds this table back somewhat for me so far--eh aside from a simulation ROM crash I've hit a few times in TPA--is the scoring, like how some of the modes really aren't worth the risk--Bowen at PAPA mentions this, anyway, and my limited experience hasn't been able to deny it--and how apparently grinding Borg multiball ends up being significantly more profitable than going through Final Frontier; so basically I guess really the way to play for score is to ignore most of the table's otherwise great stuff, and just do ball locks and Borg over and over. In my view, a table should make you want to do everything it has, both for fun and for score, and apparently TNG doesn't manage that in terms of scoring.But I do need to play it more myself to find if for me Final Frontier still stands up to BorgBorgBorging it, or if I just love Borg forever and ever, so I think there's still a fair chance that this table will work out for me, which I hope it does because--aside from the darn cannons--I really like the presentation and the shots.</blockquote>

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