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Which table(s) would you recommend for a beginner, besides Scared Stiff ?
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<blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 258358" data-attributes="member: 134"><p>My approach virtually every time to playing a table in TPA:</p><p></p><p>1. Just flip the ball around, shoot for flashing lights, if there are ramps, get the ball up them. Essentially just feeling out the table and seeing where I can shoot the ball.</p><p>2. After about a dozen games, there are bound to be rules or sequences I start to pick up on. If multiball is a thing, I start trying to activate it.</p><p>3. By this point I now have a good idea if this is a table I like or not. Also more than likely, I've gotten at least a few of the standard goals, if not all through nothing more than dumb luck.</p><p>4. If I'm liking the table, I will now look at what the goals remaining are and read the instructions for getting those goals. </p><p>5. On some tables, I can get all the wizards within a few hours or less of playing. On other tables, there will be 1 or 2 goals that take hours and hours to get. I play for nothing other than achieving the goal, often stopping and restarting a game before 3rd ball drain simply because a sequence to get the goal was not achieved. Interestingly, it is these moments that I start locking in my accuracy for multiple different shots, thus making every other aspect of the particular table easier.</p><p>6. Once I've gotten all the goals, I've become fairly knowledgeable of the rules and scoring tricks. If I haven't already picked up on how to get really high scores, I'll go onto the forum and see what others have done. Often what I find is I know the way, I just haven't achieved it yet.</p><p></p><p>I'm doing this very method right now on my real EBD I've recently gotten. I first had to forget everything of muscle memory from TPA's version, then I started bashing around. Real quick I started practicing certain shots, then I looked up the full set of rules in TPA and learned what was different from their settings and the dipswitch settings on my machine. Lastly I watched video on PAPA to see what is possible score wise on a real machine. Now I'm learning how to execute. So whether it's a real table or digital, I tend to approach and learn them in the same way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shutyertrap, post: 258358, member: 134"] My approach virtually every time to playing a table in TPA: 1. Just flip the ball around, shoot for flashing lights, if there are ramps, get the ball up them. Essentially just feeling out the table and seeing where I can shoot the ball. 2. After about a dozen games, there are bound to be rules or sequences I start to pick up on. If multiball is a thing, I start trying to activate it. 3. By this point I now have a good idea if this is a table I like or not. Also more than likely, I've gotten at least a few of the standard goals, if not all through nothing more than dumb luck. 4. If I'm liking the table, I will now look at what the goals remaining are and read the instructions for getting those goals. 5. On some tables, I can get all the wizards within a few hours or less of playing. On other tables, there will be 1 or 2 goals that take hours and hours to get. I play for nothing other than achieving the goal, often stopping and restarting a game before 3rd ball drain simply because a sequence to get the goal was not achieved. Interestingly, it is these moments that I start locking in my accuracy for multiple different shots, thus making every other aspect of the particular table easier. 6. Once I've gotten all the goals, I've become fairly knowledgeable of the rules and scoring tricks. If I haven't already picked up on how to get really high scores, I'll go onto the forum and see what others have done. Often what I find is I know the way, I just haven't achieved it yet. I'm doing this very method right now on my real EBD I've recently gotten. I first had to forget everything of muscle memory from TPA's version, then I started bashing around. Real quick I started practicing certain shots, then I looked up the full set of rules in TPA and learned what was different from their settings and the dipswitch settings on my machine. Lastly I watched video on PAPA to see what is possible score wise on a real machine. Now I'm learning how to execute. So whether it's a real table or digital, I tend to approach and learn them in the same way. [/QUOTE]
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