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Best Era for Pinball Rule Design?

By VanishingVision

2 years ago


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    “Best Era for Pinball Rule Design?”

    • EM 6 votes
      6%
    • Early SS 8 votes
      7%
    • System 11 7 votes
      7%
    • 90's DMD 37 votes
      35%
    • Modern 49 votes
      46%

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    #4 2 years ago

    I recently picked up a Stern PoTC and thought that one has rules that are in the sweet spot: not too simple, not too deep. The rules card is amusingly vague, but it reflects that you can learn the game by playing it. I appreciate that in a game. But I can also appreciate various depths of rules too.

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    I think an interesting question would be, how many times do you have to play the game to learn 90% of the rules. Difficult to say all rules, because getting to a wizard mode that has special rules would skew that too much. This is actually something that might not be that far-featched to measure as there's now AI-playing systems that pretty much do this.

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