Tournament is still an endurance

Carl Spiby · Apr 30, 2013

I just spent over 90 minutes on NGG and got over 600 million points, I ended up purposely draining my last 3 balls because the table was acting up and I had to start using the attendant.

This is pretty ridiculous, especially in a tournament. Once again it boils down to whoever has enough spare time to sit there grinding away at the tables.

Clawhammer · Apr 30, 2013

I agree. I think they should disable EBs (probably most important), enable tournament settings and also not choose tables with significant and common game ending bugs.

Andrew Sully · Apr 30, 2013

maybe have it on one table and have qualifiers and sorta same as in rl, real life. But i like the fact i HAVEto learn tables in packs i woulnt usually play cos i buy a pack for 1 table.

karl · Apr 30, 2013

Clawhammer said:
I agree. I think they should disable EBs (probably most important), enable tournament settings and also not choose tables with significant and common game ending bugs.

What he said.

Also, no more than 3 entries pr user for each table. Not letting one quit in the middle of a game and start over is probably gonna be hard to control but there is a lot of other steps they could take to make it a little more challenging.

Sean DonCarlos · Apr 30, 2013

I still say make it like the PAPA qualifying, where you have to play all the tables once as a set and then either count all the scores or count none of them.

And as for the limited entries - what happens when a game-breaking bug occurs? Will it know enough to give me another entry as compensation?

Carl Spiby · Apr 30, 2013

Sean DonCarlos said:
I still say make it like the PAPA qualifying, where you have to play all the tables once as a set and then either count all the scores or count none of them.

And as for the limited entries - what happens when a game-breaking bug occurs? Will it know enough to give me another entry as compensation?

But my gripe is you have to allocate so much time, being forced to play 8 tables in one sitting will be hopeless.

Sean DonCarlos · Apr 30, 2013

Carl Spiby said:
But my gripe is you have to allocate so much time, being forced to play 8 tables in one sitting will be hopeless.

Why? You could still pause between tables and resume later, just none of the scores would count until the 8th table is finished.

Carl Spiby · Apr 30, 2013

Because TPA won't stay resident in the devices memory for that long, Android loves to free up memory on lower end devices.

Mayuh · Apr 30, 2013

So true... As I said in the previous tournament, I give myself 5 games each. I'm like 25-30th now, and I'll only touch the tournament button when I'm out of the top 100

I'd really appreciate 'some' limitations...

Never got my top100 reward from the last one though... ;-)

Jeff Strong · Apr 30, 2013

This is the reason I don't participate in tournaments.

Dylan_h · May 1, 2013

I agree with the limitations because the 2 hour long games are crazy, especially for someone who has a full time job and a life but I am enjoying it none the less. Papa rules would be welcome

inspector42 · May 1, 2013

Yep. The more time I put in, the better my rank is. That shouldn't be the determining factor for a tournament.

atlantis1982 · May 1, 2013

As one said, I say get rid of the extra balls. That should be suffice.

Mayuh · May 1, 2013

+1 and set it to hard/tournament mode.

KithKanan · May 1, 2013

Mayuh said:
Never got my top100 reward from the last one though... ;-)

Me either, not sure what happened to that. I sent Rob a pm last week but no response so far.

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karl · May 2, 2013

Be sure to check extras under table menu to see if you have any new balls.

superballs · May 2, 2013

Regarding the tables staying resident, the game could keep track of what tables you have and haven't played.

OR make it so that only your last score counted...posted 63mil and then only 5 mil your next game...guess what your tourney rank just dropped.

Normally I just focus on one table at a time and I generally find enough time to play it for that particular day.

TomL · May 2, 2013

superballs said:
OR make it so that only your last score counted...posted 63mil and then only 5 mil your next game...guess what your tourney rank just dropped.

I like this idea. Your score for a table is zero, until updated with a posted score. Once you start a game, your posted table score is set to zero again, so if you interrupt your game, your posted table score is zero.

Mayuh · May 2, 2013

karl said:
Be sure to check extras under table menu to see if you have any new balls.

subtract 'menu'

LOL! Good thing, I will never have to grow up...

Tournament is still an endurance

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