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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Slam23" data-source="post: 191893" data-attributes="member: 896">First off, good that you got that out of your system, holding it in is not healthy. Secondly, as somebody who has poured in way too much money in TPA, I must say that I agree on some points with you. I have been a very patient user, but the fact for example that they still haven't fixed POTO on iOS is making me angry. Your reasoning though has some flaws in my humble opinion and they are as follows:- I have used VP very extensively and when I did, table quality varied a lot and there were various crashing bugs that could cost you dearly. Farsight has screwed up a couple of times but their product is on the whole more stable and quality is more evenly distributed between tables, even with some bugs that should have been fixed already- You make a point of comparing Farsight making money of their tables and VP being free. I think that's not a fair point because the right to use the VP tables is dependent on you having the original ROM's of the tables you download and play. That's what that splash screen says before the table is started. That's semi-legal at best. Not to be more catholic than the pope here, but for argument's sake this comparison is not really valid- I'm into playing for highscores. Farsight has by far the best system of the two programs. There are a gazillion versions of VP tables, FS, Cabinet, widescreen, 4:3 with or without B2S, different VP versions that are not downward or upward compatible and the same author bringing out different iterations of the same table. Every table can be modified in the editor which can be used for rampant cheating. Factory settings can be changed etc etc. Farsight has some leaderboard hack problems but for the rest competing is fair and square- I think physics are not better in VP on the whole, you have some tables that play great but on the whole TPA will win out in the end in my opinion, and I base that on how TPA compares to the real life counterpart tables. This is offcourse subject to perception and taste I guess.I wish you the best on the cabinet though, that sounds like a nice project. I think I'll stay right here and be Farsight's b*tch for a while longer, and offcourse complain my @ss off from time to time.... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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