Etiquette

[BMHouze]

At the show, I checked in on my machine and noticed the ramp cover had come loose.
I waited for the current game to finish.
Dude was playing multiball with the left flipper while parking balls on the right one.
Sure, it's a commercial grade machine.
But that's my babys coils you could be overheating if my game was older.
I realize it goes to a hold low power,
But why sell coil fan mods?
I certainly don't play that way.

Am I wrong?
Is parking just a strategy?
weirdest was showing up to level up before the day started and some dude is playing my game.
Gee, I wonder why the auto launcher is not working right....

 

[GUARD]

It's what the pro's do.....

 

[BMHouze]

He did score well
But with the right ramp cover off he was not going to get the Taarna target. Got all over the cabinet instead

I will have to look further into parking.

 

[Smokezz]

Even old machines aren't going to do much to the coils unless something isn't working correctly (eos switch isn't working) by holding the flipper. He wasn't hurting your machine by parking the ball like that.

 

[MrMikeman]

It’s just you. That’s normal gameplay and won’t hurt your game. Having kids or otherwise uninformed players do some non-stop chimp flipping however will lead to overheating fairly rapidly.

 

[BMHouze]

I am more familiar with my brothers shake the machine style.

 

[MrMikeman]

I am more familiar with my brothers shake the machine style.

That you can compensate with by making the tilt tighter. However, nudging IS part of pinball. In fact it was the only way to affect the ball prior to flippers!

Whenever I see folks getting alarmed at nudging I always have flashbacks of “Days of Thunder”. First race Tom Cruise is in he gets bumped and cries about getting slammed into. His crew chief corrects him. “He didn’t hit you or slam into you. He RUBBED you, son. And rubbing, is racing.”

In the end it’s YOUR game and you treat it the way YOU want. They cost a small fortune. If you want to act like it’s a Swarovski crystal then it’s your prerogative and understandable. Just don’t expect others to behave the same way unless you specifically ask them. Oh and don’t bring a game to a show.

 

[BMHouze]

It really not something I had seen before.
Me and the Boyz in the sticks play the old fashioned way after the devils lettuce.
And wow did the lettuce help me zone in on Wick.

 

[MoPin]

I would do yourself a favour and never bring a game to a place where it will be played by random people you don’t invite to play your game. You can’t control those that have no respect for others property (always a few fools in crowd). Beside that what is the benefit for you in Offering your game for play? Did you get a rental fee for all those plays, wear and abuse on your game? You now know the risk!! Would you do it again?

 

[GUARD]

Wow
I guess that makes me s complete idiot since I brought 15 games to the show...
What a selfish attitude.

 

[BMHouze]

At the end of the day " I assume all the risk" just to show off my game and show people what it really looks like.
It's going to be a way easier sell down the road if some people have actually seen and played the game.
It does have its share of negative publicity.
In the future I will bring sale games.
It was a night away with the wife,
And she had a good time.

Like I said, I have never really seen that style of play.
I can certainly do well the old fashioned way of playing 3 balls at once.

 

[GUARD]

I only got in 2 games on your pin but I really enjoyed it.
Thanks for bringing it, no matter what the poster above thinks, bet it plays just as good.

 

[hey you with the face]

I'm sure it didn't hurt it, but lets say you messed up the eos switch adjustment before bringing the game there and it did over heat... a new coil and sleeve worst case fixes it, all part of the fun. I get happy when a game breaks, gives me something to fix. All multiball games have the eos switches except for the new games now.

What game was it?

 

[GUARD]

Heavy Metal

 

[AlexRogan84]

Parking a ball or balls during multiball is absolutely part of the game. No question. If you have ever watched a Bowen Kerrins tutorial, you will see his magic fingers in action. He is incredible in being able to slow things down and control the balls. That's the key to big scores playing multiballs like that.

I would also agree it's unusual for casual players to see you do this and wonder what the heck? A friend of mine said that exact thing to me at one point... "I never would have thought to trap balls during multiball." It makes a hguge difference when you aren't just slapping the ball around. Slowing it down and choosing shots is your goal. And as others have said, it won't hurt the game to hold balls like that. The games are designed to be robust.

 

[hey you with the face]

Parking a ball or balls during multiball is absolutely part of the game. No question. If you have ever watched a Bowen Kerrins tutorial, you will see his magic fingers in action. He is incredible in being able to slow things down and control the balls. That's the key to big scores playing multiballs like that.

I would also agree it's unusual for casual players to see you do this and wonder what the heck? A friend of mine said that exact thing to me at one point... "I never would have thought to trap balls during multiball." It makes a hguge difference when you aren't just slapping the ball around. Slowing it down and choosing shots is your goal. And as others have said, it won't hurt the game to hold balls like that. The games are designed to be robust.

I didn't know there was a magnet above the left flipper!.. played this game a ton of times, never happened once. Cool!

 

[roar]

I didn't know there was a magnet above the left flipper!.. played this game a ton of times, never happened once. Cool!

There is an additional button by the left flipper button I believe to activate the magnet, it's intention is to be able to save the ball from going straight down the middle, as someone who owned the game for a while, it doesn't work that great, slow moving ones it can grab, anything with some pace still goes straight down the middle. More of a gimmick than anything else really.

 

[roar]

I would do yourself a favour and never bring a game to a place where it will be played by random people you don’t invite to play your game. You can’t control those that have no respect for others property (always a few fools in crowd). Beside that what is the benefit for you in Offering your game for play? Did you get a rental fee for all those plays, wear and abuse on your game? You now know the risk!! Would you do it again?

A pinball show is only ever as successful as the games the general public generously bring. Bringing a game usually gets you free admission to the show and sometimes early access as well, I believe that was the case at this show too. Also an opportunity to showcase a game you have for sale... the ones who selflessly bring their own games for no other reason than to offer it up for others are pretty awesome in my books.

 

[BMHouze]

With the light play it gets at home. I am quite happy with its day on the line.
There were plenty of tech dives being done at the show.
I have a pending severance grievance that finally hits arbitration this month.
That decision will become the new Pin fund.
If it does not go well HM may very well hit the trade block.
It may be more valued than my other pin on Pinside, but it with only 2 pins it is the dog of the collection compared to Aerosmith.

Quite happy with the replies,
And the spirited conversation.

 

[Corrie]

My understanding is that yes you're wrong. you can hold the flipper all day and it won't cause any issues on most machines. The coil coolers are there for when you play a long game and you've charged the coils over and over during a long game since the heat builds up. Holding the flipper puts it in a low power state and it probably actually cools off during that time or stays the same.

I get a little uptight about my machines considering how expensive they are but you have to remember they were designed to be pounded on by drunk degenerates day after day lol. They can take quite a lot.