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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alex Atkin UK" data-source="post: 138980" data-attributes="member: 1290">To be fair, I suspect that the machine manufacturers originally considered it cheating and only adopted it as professional players were using it.Its a lot like using a glitch in a video game to boost your score, reduce your lap time, etc.  It becomes acceptable merely because "everyone does it" and so patching it out would actually kill the experience and require wiping the hiscores.With pinball it would be near impossible to prevent it anyway as if you set the nudge sensors that high then even getting a little enthusiastic or someone walking past knocking the table, could completely ruin your game.As for the magnets myth (which is the most common misconception I have come across), it still amazes me how the ball can seem to be almost entirely in the inner lane and then bounce out and drain down the outer one.  I wonder how much is just an optical illusion?</blockquote>

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