Pinball FX

[Thermal_Ions]

Congratulations Ffrog, and welcome Kelpie.

Thought you may have been a fellow Aussie given the handle, but I see you’re quite a bit closer to our hosts than I.

[Stirbelwurm]

Hey guys, sorry for the delay again but I spent some time in the hospital (nothing too serious though, it was planned).

Well, the last challenge had a rather … small player count. Maybe only a few people own it?
Anyway, even with more players, I’m sure Thermal Ions would still have won, with his impressive score, congrats!

Next up:

RPS PFX3 Challenge 16
Table: Star Wars: Rogue One
Password: RPSPinball
Rules: Survival, no upgrades
Created by: Bexo Dust
Duration: 7 days (finishes the 4th of march)

Good luck!

[Jurple]

blushes I actually own the Cap America table, but didn’t play. I’m sure I would have come in last, though, even with triple the amount of players.

Now Rogue One I don’t own, so there at least I have a valid reason for not participating.

[Blackice]

Now Rogue One I don’t own, so there at least I have a valid reason for not participating.

I own the table, but haven’t played it before, having only picked it up in a recent sale. In fact, I now own ALL of the tables… oh dear me, what have I done?

Congrats to Thermal Ions for another sterling win, and get well soon Bexo Dust!

Oh and if anyone does/has done the Pinball Family weekly competitions, this week’s table is Captain America so it could be a good chance to make use of the knowledge gained…having said that I’ve not managed to get anywhere near my RPS score yet!

[Stirbelwurm]

Well, I’m pretty sure that this time people really didn’t own the table! I was kind of hoping that more of you got it with the coupons … oh well. I guess only because of that I managed to win this time, so congrats Bexo Dust

Since we already had a table of the following pack, I know at least that more than 3 people got it, so here is hoping for the best!

RPS PFX3 Challenge 17
Table: Wild West Rampage
Password: RPSPinball
Rules: 5 minutes, no upgrades
Created by: Bexo Dust
Duration: 7 days (finishes the 12th of march)

[Blackice]

Congrats! Decent score in survival mode. I huffed and puffed quite a bit but was reasonably pleased with my score in the end. I liked the table too.

[Thermal_Ions]

Yes congrats. I got busy and just forgot to play this week.

[Stirbelwurm]

Another challenge is over and this time it was really really close! I should make a habbit of checking the standings a day before the challenge finishes

Congratulations Thermal Ions!

Before we move on, I noticed that the player count seems to go down … we already were at this point once. I don’t feel like the work is worth it when less and less people are playing. But instead of cancelling these challenges I’m trying something else. I’m now increasing the length of these challenges from 7 to 14 days, so it’s less work for me and our players have more oppertunity to take part in the individual challenges.
Maybe it’ll work better this way?

So, here is the next challenge:

RPS PFX3 Challenge 18
Table: Blade
Password: RPSPinball
Rules: 5 minutes, no upgrades
Created by: Bexo Dust
Duration: 14 days

[Fumarole]

For what it’s worth I appreciate the effort you put into this. Thank you! I haven’t played in the last few weeks as I am moving house and just don’t have much time, but I will be sure to resume in a few weeks once I am settled in.

[Thermal_Ions]

Agreed, your effort is appreciated. The change seems a reasonable approach to see how it goes.

[Stirbelwurm]

Thanks for that! I don’t want to give the impression, that I’m only doing this for the gratification. It’s all about having fun playing the game. And as we all know, the more the merrier!

So I try to keep this going as long as there is at least some interest.

(although you could say that it is already suprising how long this has been going on already. Just look at this thread and compare that to the other game communities! I think we managed to create something quite special within RPS and I’m just hoping we can keep that a little while longer!)

[Ffrog]

Thanks for continuing to organise these. I always play when I can, but I don’t own that many tables, so I can appear a bit infrequent

[Stirbelwurm]

Well, our first 14 days challenge is over and we got at least a couple guys together, so I guess we’ll be continuing with that for now! Also, in a completely unexpected twist, I managed to combine two multiballs and hit a lot of combos.

Congratulations: Bexo Dust

So, here is the next challenge:

RPS PFX3 Challenge 19
Table: Excalibur
Password: RPSPinball
Rules: 1 ball, no upgrades
Created by: Bexo Dust
Duration: 14 days

Good luck!

[Blackice]

Nicely done! I tried to catch you but I couldn’t even eclipse my early effort of 10mil. I’m still having a lot of fun with FX3, it has to be said.

[Stirbelwurm]

Looks like this challenge managed to attract more players again, thanks to everyone that participated this time! I think I’ll stick to the 14 day cycle. But maybe it was just because it was one of the older tables? Let’s see! The top scores this time are again on a pretty high level, maybe this group isn’t that casual after all?

Congratulations Kelpie!

Here is the next challenge:

RPS PFX3 Challenge 20
Table: Star Wars: Darth Vader
Password: RPSPinball
Rules: Survive, no upgrades
Created by: Bexo Dust
Duration: 14 days

Good luck!

[purex]

I’m really glad more people got to play this time around, myself included. Life gets in the way sometimes but I think everyone here appreciates the effort you put into organizing these tournaments. The 14 day cycle is a great way to accommodate people with less free time.

I actually did not get this table at all at first, but after giving up out of frustration on my first try, I came back and got really hooked on it, for some reason. Not quite enough to make it to the top, but I’ll get there one day (I hope)!

[Ffrog]

I spent far too much time trying to activate the multi ball on the right ramp. Only got four balls up there to activate it once, found it really difficult to hit. It was only when I gave up trying to activate that multi ball and concentrated on the rest of the table that I got over 10m.

Good table though, I hadn’t played it much before.

[Stirbelwurm]

First I’d like to welcome a new player to our Pinball group: |BLUE|@LWING@Hells Angles@RWING@ (what should we call you with that name? Hells Angles? )

And second I’d like to apologize for my current score in the challenge, it seems like I managed to get like 5 multiballs chained together …

[Stirbelwurm]

There’s been an update to the game, which features changes that (potentially) affect our tournament play:

Tournament Features
You can create new tournament with shorter lengths between 1-8 hours
New “Permission” filter has been added that shows private games only
“End Tournament” in-game notification added to alert players
Tournament has a new game mode: Real Classic Without Perks
You can set number of starting balls and turn on/off extra balls in the new Classic Tournament mode
Players may set the maximum number of available play attempts
Players may sort tournament by default or number of participants / time left

I can’t check the new options right now, since the current challenge is still running. The shorter times are probably not that interesting for us I could see potential use for the limited attempts, but I think for our more casual setting it would be better to not limit them, so that people can try learning the table.
I’m not sure how the “Real Classic Without Perks” mode works, maybe just a shortcut for what we are already doing? Maybe someone could test that?

[Thermal_Ions]

I agree with not limiting the attempts, and it sounds (on the surface) like the new mode is as you say effectively what you set up anyway.