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<blockquote data-quote="smbhax" data-source="post: 71186" data-attributes="member: 396"><p>Yeah, I was tending to restart if I wasn't in the neighborhood of 90K-ish after ball 4. Which kind of make sense if you think about what points are really available for ball 5, which I hadn't actually added up until now. But 15 targets at 3000 bonus each is 45K, I'd expect to have got about another 15K in non-bonus points in the course of getting that, so that's a max of about 60K up to hitting the first Special--then you get a target reset for another potential 60K, plus an extra ball for another potential 60K, which means that with a single Special you could theoretically get about 180K out of ball 5. Realistically, though, you might expect to average just oh 10 targets or so per Special, which means 40K per, ie 120K out of one Special on ball 5, 160K out of two, 200K out of three, etc. I never really figured I could hope for more than two Specials out of a single ball (and I very very very rarely did get two!), so yeah if you don't have about 90K by the time you start ball 5 you're looking at probably needing 3 Specials on that ball to break 250K, which is a tall order indeed!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smbhax, post: 71186, member: 396"] Yeah, I was tending to restart if I wasn't in the neighborhood of 90K-ish after ball 4. Which kind of make sense if you think about what points are really available for ball 5, which I hadn't actually added up until now. But 15 targets at 3000 bonus each is 45K, I'd expect to have got about another 15K in non-bonus points in the course of getting that, so that's a max of about 60K up to hitting the first Special--then you get a target reset for another potential 60K, plus an extra ball for another potential 60K, which means that with a single Special you could theoretically get about 180K out of ball 5. Realistically, though, you might expect to average just oh 10 targets or so per Special, which means 40K per, ie 120K out of one Special on ball 5, 160K out of two, 200K out of three, etc. I never really figured I could hope for more than two Specials out of a single ball (and I very very very rarely did get two!), so yeah if you don't have about 90K by the time you start ball 5 you're looking at probably needing 3 Specials on that ball to break 250K, which is a tall order indeed! [/QUOTE]
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