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<blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 216234" data-attributes="member: 3745"><p>Well, I've come up with going infinite.</p><p></p><p>This is the key: grind Super Payday for dozens of wheel spins to replenish your extra ball stock every time. Here's how. Start with a ball on each flipper. Step 0: shoot Fire-in-the-Hole and pin the ball with the blast flipper. Step 1: post pass left-to-right with the other ball; you can do this without dropping the pinned ball. Step 2: with the pinned ball, shoot the blast hole for the wheel spin. Step 3: while the wheel is spinning, shoot Fire-in-the-Hole again and pin it. Step 4: hold both flippers to catch the ejected ball on the left. Goto step 1.</p><p></p><p>I can keep this going accurately without missing the fire lane and blast hole shots for two or more complete wheel circuits, restocking any missing EBs. A quirk of Road Show also offers an advantage: unlike pretty much every other Williams game with the 4 EB limit, Road Show still allows <em>lighting</em> more EBs even while you're at the limit. So I go up to 4 EBs via the Super Payday wheel, then light one more, then just drain intentionally in order to collect the bonus, with the lit EB still available to come back up to max.</p><p></p><p>I don't see stages of gameplay like Maggie says. Why light all the cities, does that or the "Wow" screen do anything? I don't see it; visited cities are not enough bonus to matter compared to the souvenirs. Really the only reason to progress through cities is to reach Super Payday for the wheel EBs. I pretty much play as stage 1: get cities towards Super Payday when at 2 or fewer EBs; or stage 1A: when flush on EBs, get bonus X when necessary or souvenirs otherwise.</p><p></p><p>In my stratosphere, only bonus matters. Not any city modes, not regular multiball, not anything else, not even Super Payday's own scoring. Definitely don't shoot Red from a bunker eject, that's risky compared to a 100% guaranteed catch by not flipping.</p><p></p><p>Las Vegas isn't all that important in light of Super Payday wheel grinding, but it's still worth picking up a few wheel spins. Notice that you can actually aim for the EB spot on the spinning wheel. I do it by releasing the right flipper when the light is at 3 o'clock. The timing comes out right to land on the EB a decent portion of the time, maybe 1/3. If I get an EB or two here, I'll drain them for more bonus collection before entering Super Payday with 2 EBs in stock.</p><p></p><p>Yes, the Bridge-Out combos for bonus X are important. I'm much more consistent going right-left than left-right, which is dangerous if you miss the rolling shot towards the bumpers.</p><p></p><p>I currently have a game paused overnight, with 200B scored and the fully multiplied bonus at 9B. I stopped collecting souvenirs as I wasn't sure if RS can handle bonus over 10B, but looking back through Tarek's comments here, it looks like it can, so will push more tonight after work. I think I'll stop at 900B rather than try to challenge Tarek at 993B and risk rolling over past the trillion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vikingerik, post: 216234, member: 3745"] Well, I've come up with going infinite. This is the key: grind Super Payday for dozens of wheel spins to replenish your extra ball stock every time. Here's how. Start with a ball on each flipper. Step 0: shoot Fire-in-the-Hole and pin the ball with the blast flipper. Step 1: post pass left-to-right with the other ball; you can do this without dropping the pinned ball. Step 2: with the pinned ball, shoot the blast hole for the wheel spin. Step 3: while the wheel is spinning, shoot Fire-in-the-Hole again and pin it. Step 4: hold both flippers to catch the ejected ball on the left. Goto step 1. I can keep this going accurately without missing the fire lane and blast hole shots for two or more complete wheel circuits, restocking any missing EBs. A quirk of Road Show also offers an advantage: unlike pretty much every other Williams game with the 4 EB limit, Road Show still allows [i]lighting[/i] more EBs even while you're at the limit. So I go up to 4 EBs via the Super Payday wheel, then light one more, then just drain intentionally in order to collect the bonus, with the lit EB still available to come back up to max. I don't see stages of gameplay like Maggie says. Why light all the cities, does that or the "Wow" screen do anything? I don't see it; visited cities are not enough bonus to matter compared to the souvenirs. Really the only reason to progress through cities is to reach Super Payday for the wheel EBs. I pretty much play as stage 1: get cities towards Super Payday when at 2 or fewer EBs; or stage 1A: when flush on EBs, get bonus X when necessary or souvenirs otherwise. In my stratosphere, only bonus matters. Not any city modes, not regular multiball, not anything else, not even Super Payday's own scoring. Definitely don't shoot Red from a bunker eject, that's risky compared to a 100% guaranteed catch by not flipping. Las Vegas isn't all that important in light of Super Payday wheel grinding, but it's still worth picking up a few wheel spins. Notice that you can actually aim for the EB spot on the spinning wheel. I do it by releasing the right flipper when the light is at 3 o'clock. The timing comes out right to land on the EB a decent portion of the time, maybe 1/3. If I get an EB or two here, I'll drain them for more bonus collection before entering Super Payday with 2 EBs in stock. Yes, the Bridge-Out combos for bonus X are important. I'm much more consistent going right-left than left-right, which is dangerous if you miss the rolling shot towards the bumpers. I currently have a game paused overnight, with 200B scored and the fully multiplied bonus at 9B. I stopped collecting souvenirs as I wasn't sure if RS can handle bonus over 10B, but looking back through Tarek's comments here, it looks like it can, so will push more tonight after work. I think I'll stop at 900B rather than try to challenge Tarek at 993B and risk rolling over past the trillion. [/QUOTE]
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