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<blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 222186" data-attributes="member: 3745"><p>STTNG - the slingshots and outlanes. Any ball that comes near the top of the slingshots will probably fall down the outlane, and there's not much you can do about it, on both a real machine and TPA.</p><p></p><p>Also in TPA, how Borg Multiball jackpots dominate the scoring over everything else. This isn't so much an issue on a real table where you might get Borg MB three times in a game, but in TPA you can get it 20 or more times with the jackpot value over a billion.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Whitewater is an interesting case, because it's unbalanced in completely different ways on the real machine and in TPA.</p><p></p><p>Real machine - the 3x jackpots do dominate everything. It does take some skill to complete some rafts to increase the jackpot value to something worthwhile for tripling. But then nothing else (not even a 2x jackpot multiball) can score the hundreds of millions that you can get in a 3x jackpot multiball.</p><p></p><p>TPA - actually what dominates is the whirlpool awards. It's easy to get that extra ball over and over again and play infinitely. But the unbalanced scoring comes from Whirlpool Challenge, where it's easy to hold a ball on the left flipper and shoot the whirlpool over and over with the right flipper, just like CFTBL. Seriously, I have had one Whirlpool Challenge last for 40 minutes and 8 billion points.</p><p></p><p>On both the real machine and TPA, the 5x playfield isn't as unbalancing as people think it is. It only lasts for a short time, three jackpots at most. If you can keep multiball going for ten 3x jackpots, that adds up to way more than three 5x jackpots.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vikingerik, post: 222186, member: 3745"] STTNG - the slingshots and outlanes. Any ball that comes near the top of the slingshots will probably fall down the outlane, and there's not much you can do about it, on both a real machine and TPA. Also in TPA, how Borg Multiball jackpots dominate the scoring over everything else. This isn't so much an issue on a real table where you might get Borg MB three times in a game, but in TPA you can get it 20 or more times with the jackpot value over a billion. Whitewater is an interesting case, because it's unbalanced in completely different ways on the real machine and in TPA. Real machine - the 3x jackpots do dominate everything. It does take some skill to complete some rafts to increase the jackpot value to something worthwhile for tripling. But then nothing else (not even a 2x jackpot multiball) can score the hundreds of millions that you can get in a 3x jackpot multiball. TPA - actually what dominates is the whirlpool awards. It's easy to get that extra ball over and over again and play infinitely. But the unbalanced scoring comes from Whirlpool Challenge, where it's easy to hold a ball on the left flipper and shoot the whirlpool over and over with the right flipper, just like CFTBL. Seriously, I have had one Whirlpool Challenge last for 40 minutes and 8 billion points. On both the real machine and TPA, the 5x playfield isn't as unbalancing as people think it is. It only lasts for a short time, three jackpots at most. If you can keep multiball going for ten 3x jackpots, that adds up to way more than three 5x jackpots. [/QUOTE]
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