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<blockquote data-quote="JPelter" data-source="post: 213553" data-attributes="member: 623"><p>We have a difference of perspective problem here, where I consider no extra balls to be the default state of the game. I guess I should have been more clear about that. I could also go on to note that 20 minutes is completely abritrary and affects different tables in different ways. It just seems really counter to the design of pinball in general.</p><p></p><p>edit: Also to the point of huge scores without timer. I would assume that Farsight would release tournament modes for the tables before removing the timer. Secondly, I don't see any difference in time required to get to the top spots. If every top 100 player or whatever in TPA decided they cared enough to aim for the #1 spot in a 20 minute tournament, it would easily take as much or more time to reach that than in a no timer tournament. Just because the single games take less time doesn't make it any less grindy or silly.</p><p></p><p>There are only a handful of tables where the optimal scoring path isn't incredibly obvious after a few tries. In those you could argue that the 20 minute timer is pretty cool because you can actually find a way to beat the others by finding a weird new trick for a high score. Every other table however would just become a crazy grind for the most amounts of shot X and/or Y you can cram into 20 minutes, which seems pretty mind-numbing to me. The only reason it hasn't is that I don't think most people care that much about actually placing other than being above the silver cutline in the tournament. Or maybe I'm just being grumpy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JPelter, post: 213553, member: 623"] We have a difference of perspective problem here, where I consider no extra balls to be the default state of the game. I guess I should have been more clear about that. I could also go on to note that 20 minutes is completely abritrary and affects different tables in different ways. It just seems really counter to the design of pinball in general. edit: Also to the point of huge scores without timer. I would assume that Farsight would release tournament modes for the tables before removing the timer. Secondly, I don't see any difference in time required to get to the top spots. If every top 100 player or whatever in TPA decided they cared enough to aim for the #1 spot in a 20 minute tournament, it would easily take as much or more time to reach that than in a no timer tournament. Just because the single games take less time doesn't make it any less grindy or silly. There are only a handful of tables where the optimal scoring path isn't incredibly obvious after a few tries. In those you could argue that the 20 minute timer is pretty cool because you can actually find a way to beat the others by finding a weird new trick for a high score. Every other table however would just become a crazy grind for the most amounts of shot X and/or Y you can cram into 20 minutes, which seems pretty mind-numbing to me. The only reason it hasn't is that I don't think most people care that much about actually placing other than being above the silver cutline in the tournament. Or maybe I'm just being grumpy. [/QUOTE]
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