Ok, after putting about 50 games on my premium... The game is a lot of fun, really like the nonlinear way it can be played...each game feels different. Overall I'm enjoying the game but for issues:

From a technical perspective: I can get some left orbits, but not consistently. I'd say 30%. Left orbit screws for the plastic cover do not touch the ball. Fixed screws protruding into elevator shaft.

My biggest annoyance, running 1.23, is that elevator occasionally won't make it to the playfield about 10%, won't make it to the throne ramp about 20%, and bounces out of throne about 10%. The last one is really annoying because for mystery choices, the flippers are dead so the ball drains.

Since I'm whining, this is my first Stern... Pushing the playfield back down after it has been lifted seems to need quite a bit of force to get over that last catch. Not sure why this is, my Bally games slide back effortlessly.

You mean the dragon kick back? Yes, on occasion I've noticed that -- Seems about the same as an LE I played, too.

Have you removed the protruding screws from the elevator? I get occasional misfires (usually to the throne level).

Just did the coil sleeve mod and adjusted the diverter by expanding the holes slightly.

As a tip for the diverter... Remove the screws and see how much play there is to slide it. That will give you and idea as to much to remove. Turned out mine was pretty much all the way up, I suppose it may be slightly better. But the coil sleeve mod seems to help, nailed a couple orbits already and previously would only get about 20%.

Is it just my imagination, or are there a couple of duplicate connectors without obvious color coding under the playfield where all the ramp wires go? Seems like there were a couple of three pin adapters ... But I was annoyed this took so many hours to do, I just hooked it all up and pray-tested. Everything seemed to work, so the adapters are either swappable or I guessed correctly.

Good to know -- I think I got one of the holes wrong based on my photos (which didn't give me enough info to really figure it all out)... however visually I couldn't tell the difference from above the playfield. Marking them with a sharpie makes sense and I've done that before.

I checked the opts/switches in diagnostics and they seem to be the right position/ramp, so I may have just guessed correctly.