I like them as difficult as possible. It's the difference between successfully seducing the woman of your dreams or being able to purchase a super model type lady for the ultimate sex. I married my former.

(But still don't mind the occasional latter .. hehe)

I'd go with factory settings but with 5 balls not 3,
and when you get real good bump it up ex-hard.
nothing worse then new pinballers showing up at your place
and kicking you off the 'heros' list in points on the backglass.
Your game room is your turf!
defend it by being the top dog practice every week or more,
and one last thing - watch out for women!
-They can play a mean game of pinball.

Well i think you should config your pinball so you have the most fun when you play it !!

Do what you like, its your game! i put my DE star wars on hard settings and it changes the game completely. Now I enjoy trying to blow up the deathstar instead of being handed it on a plate. I always change to five balls too.

I'd be careful of setting games too easy. While you'll get to experience more of the game more often, those harder to reach modes will become common and somewhat pedestrian over time. With my Lord of the Rings it's a HUGE deal if I can make it to There and Back Again, and that's not even the game's final mode! If I set the game to 5 balls, easy multiball settings, and dumbed everything down, I'd probably make it to that mode nearly every game and it would lose its luster.

If a game is frustrating you real bad, maybe it's okay to ease things up a bit, but always make sure the game is still challenging you. You'll never get better unless you have to work at it.

Ya totally agree. Watch how much easier you make your machine. If you are able to conquer shots and jackpots and get higher scores more easily, you will play it less and loose interest and it will become a dust collector. I just keep mine at medium to hard setting. Still get that same feeling when I hit the jackpots and the lights flash and the knocker goes off as I did the first day I played the machines. If you get frustrated cuz the ball sinks too much, maybe change the playfield tilt to make it a bit slower or something. EVERYONE must say the same thing with this scenario, (1 more ramp shot to hit the jackpot and its at max....your standing on the tips of your toes zoned right in, you hit the ball a little to one side of the ramp and it hits the post, jumps off the playfield and hits the glass and proceeds to drain right down the middle. AND it was the last ball) F***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (my wife tells me to watch my language more than to turn the volume down on my machines) ;-P

I agree with factory settings until the game gets easy, then make it harder. 5 balls all ways.

By the way. I always wondered what's the factory setting for the outlane posts. Sould it be set to the middle? (if I change any setting, I always have the feel in the back of my head that it's wrong to play like that)

hard difficulty all the way.......

Factory is best. Don't know about 5 ball tho, I have hardly ever played a pin in the wild that is set to 5 ball

Thread is THREE years old. How do people even find these to bump?

Lots of zombie threads recently for some reason.

Lol I didn't even realise

they should delete these after a certain time......

I believe the answer in most cases would be:

Pinside's search feature automatically defaults by relevance--not date.

So someone searches some topic, sees a thread that intrigues them, doesn't notice the sort criteria and then asks a question--voila: ancient history revisited.

Sure explains some of the three-year old FS ads.