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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 239787" data-attributes="member: 3745">We don't know, we can only guess.Thing is, I don't think Farsight is interested.  They have no need to cater to an audience that cares about ball-is-wild physics.  That's preaching to the choir.  We're the addicts that are going to keep buying it if had the physics engine of Pong.Farsight's median customer is the casual gamer who wants to pull pinball godhood out of their pocket.  The super-wide transfer points and railroads are all positive for them.  That's who they're serving, not us, and rightfully so as a business.  These gamers don't care about wild physics to tease out the skill differentials between me and Tarek and Fuuta and Miwurdz.  They care about pressing the right buttons to check off all their wizard goals, even if their skill level wouldn't earn that on a real table in a hundred years.  Farsight occasionally throws us a bone like scattering the shot into the Ripley's temple, but it's never going to warrant the effort to build or port a proper emergent physics engine.  Visual and Pro Pinballs got to where they are as labors of love, not of business.That was me, except now we're realizing that the 60hz refresh rate isn't the limiting factor.  The transfer points are deliberately already wider than 1/60 second.  I'm sure of this now, based on how some railroads occur more frequently than others.  I always suspected that TPA's input resolution was coarser than 60 Hz, but never suspected it was so crude as to be deliberately coded into the flippers that way.</blockquote>

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