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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 222517" data-attributes="member: 3745">Yes, changing Bash to Rock means you lose out on the rest of Bash.  But this is an acceptable tradeoff because Rock scoring is so high, as you say.  On a real machine, I'm perfectly happy to give up the rest of Bash to make sure that Rock starts before I might drain to end the game.  And like you say, you don't have to avoid the scoop unlike Merlin's.And yes, the Bash-before-Rock award of 50M isn't quite high enough to make up for missing Bash completely.  But I still prefer this over having to shoot and start Bash and Rock separately.  And this problem is easy to avoid - just make sure you leave one monster mode to stack into Bash instead of completing them all before Bash starts.  Creature is the easiest to leave for last this way, as the four shots to start it rarely happen accidentally.You could call these both small flaws in Monster Bash, but I think they are perfectly acceptable design tradeoffs to help the player get to Monsters of Rock.  As I mentioned before, Monster Bash takes so many steps to help the player rather than hurt him.I don't think this is a weakness.  Linear scoring is fine.  It's OK for one feature to dominate scoring if that feature is the wizard mode which makes you play everything else along the way.  It keeps your goals aligned: your progress towards the wizard mode is also your progress towards big scoring.  I prefer that over the table offering a bunch of side features that you have to ignore because they don't score enough (this means you, Ripley's).I actually think TAF is too balanced for scoring.  Like every single shot you do in TAF scores 5 or 10 million.  It doesn't matter what you start or what strategy you apply, pretty much everything is worth the same amount.  There are no big prizes to chase, no escalation, which makes the game duller and robs it of excitement.  I want the thrill of the lumpy scoring of LITZ and RTU and Monsters of Rock.  As long as the lumpy scoring makes you do a variety of things to get there and isn't just grinding one feature repetitively (Ripley's) and consistently rewards you rather than making you pass/fail on a narrow set of shots (Whitewater 3x jackpots, Stiff-o-meter, Road Show's wizard locks, BFTK.)This doesn't matter to me.  I don't care about collecting the gadgets or cities.  They are just counters of progress towards reaching the next modes.  There's no difference between "collect X junk" and "shoot ramp X times".I put AFM up at the top of the ranking.  Its only relevant flaw is the chanciness of the super jackpot requirement.  Other than that, I think it's almost as perfect as Monster Bash.  TAF can move down a bit.I agree with pretty much everything else you say.  Actually now the major problem with the list is missing the best tables that aren't in TPA: Indiana Jones, Revenge from Mars, Lord of the Rings, Simpsons Pinball Party, Stern Star Trek.  Should we start rating those too?  Although on a TPA forum, we'll have many players who haven't played them.</blockquote>

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