What games do you think are more enjoyable when set to 5-ball?
Personally, I need to keep Sorcerer set at 5.
Mine's clearcoated and plays insanely fast and the outlanes like to gobble balls.
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I'll go ahead and Kick my Own AZZ 4- Posting this , but I set All my Pin's to 5-ball play , They Will
Leave Set on 5-ball .. The Only Pin that I had set to 3-ball was my SM ..
Quoted from BLACK_ROSE:I'll go ahead and Kick my Own AZZ 4- Posting this , but I set All my Pin's to 5-ball play , They Will
Leave Set on 5-ball Play.. The Only Pin that I had set to 3-ball was my SM ..
BR-
I sure hope that's your boot – not your X-ray.
Quoted from BowlingJim:None. All of mine are on 3 ball.
Agreed. Keeping it on three balls forces me to play better. Now there are definitely times I wish I had just one more ball, but with five balls I think I'd lose a bit of the tensity of the pin.
Many/Most of the older EMs pretty much REQUIRE 5 Ball - it is the way their rules were set up way back when. REPLAY scoring levels can certainly be adjusted - but things such as "Complete all 12 Rollovers" on a short-flippered game almost always demand 5 balls. (It is just one example)
Quoted from Ranhorton:BR-
I sure hope that's your boot – not your X-ray.
As you get 2 know me , You will see it Ever now & then ..
It is interesting... I tend to have better scores on 3 ball games vs. 5 ball. There is just a higher sense of urgency to each ball. I tend to snooze during the first couple balls on 5 ball games.
All of mine are set to 5 ball. It's the way all my friends and family remember them from the local arcades in the 70's and 80's. All were quarter play and then came the nineties and we got 3 balls for FIFTY cents. RIPOFF. Chips that had more air in the bag than chips came along for the ride and cigarette prices doubled. Gee, thanks...give me my five ball free play now.
Quoted from shanetastic:It is interesting... I tend to have better scores on 3 ball games vs. 5 ball.
My experience exactly. In the past when I tried to switch to 5 ball, my scores and progress stayed the same. It was weird so, it has to be the mental urgency thing.
Quoted from kwiKimart:Mine are both 3 ball games, but if I had to choose one, I think LOTR would be a good 5-ball pin.
LOTR? Cripes.....I'd be looking at 3+ hours a game with 5 balls on LOTR.
I set JD to 5 balls. I can reach the wizard mode just enough to keep it interesting on 5 balls.....never got there on three. That being said I haven't had it that long and I'm sure that once I figured it all out I could go back to 3......that is, if I hadn't just sold it. 
I have to go with none on this one. 5 balls just makes for too long of a game no matter what the pin is IMO. However, whatever you prefer go with that regardless of what others say because all that really matters is you enjoy flipping.
Quoted from TaylorVA:Skeeball.
LOL. awesome.
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Any game where the random chance dictates a certain amount of drain. Where skillful play dosn't pay off a certain advantage.
On older games with wide outlanes and/or flipperspacing, I'd rather see a tight tilt with 5 ball games than loose tilt with 3 ball games.
I had XMLE set to 5 ball on 1.22, but with 1.23 on Normal, I've left it on 3.
Some games have better rules on five ball play. Evel Knievel is a more balanced pin on 5 ball play, no raping the spinners until you knock down the drop targets to light them. On EK, scores will actually be lower on 5 ball, than 3 ball, just because none of the spinners are lit at the start of the ball.
Quoted from HighNoon:I set my EM's to 5 ball and SS's to 3 ball pretty much across the board.
--Luke
This
I have my High Speed on 3 ball, as this how I remember playing it in the pool hall, bowling alley, and arcades as a teen in the 80's. Yes games are faster on 3 ball, but when it kicks your ass it keeps me coming back for more!
if I haven't earned wizard mode on a game I have (on a few occasions) cranked the balls per game up right before it gets purged. funny thing is it rarely helps...
I just brought Whirlwind down to 3 balls last weekend.
Had it at 5 for the first few months to experience all the features.
Now that i have, I find myself focusing more on a strategy to racking up points and getting the mega door bonus.
Personally, I really enjoy playing a game i'm less familiar with using the 5 ball setting so i can see what it does. Then once I've experienced all the bells and whistles i appreciate the gameplay more when i only have 3 balls to work with.
However, i'm not sure i can ever take Sorcerer down to a 3 ball game.
It's way too aggressive.
I have my Black Knight 2000 on 5 balls/game because that was its default setting when it came out: 5 balls a game, $0.50/play. It didn't work out for Williams because the default setting after that ended up being $0.50/1 play, $0.75/2 plays, $1.00/3 plays and 3 balls/game.
My Haunted House is also set on 5 balls because I've seen it kick the ball from the center saucer in the upper left directly SDTM twice in a row.
My Laser Cue is set on 5 balls because bonus automatically holds over and even the bonus multiplier only resets down to 5x; the game is all about building bonus and bonus multiplier (goes to 20x), so having more balls makes sense. My Sorcerer on the other hand has virtually nothing that holds over from ball to ball, so I leave it on 3 balls/game.
My Swords of Fury, I already roll it over fairly regularly on 3 balls/game, it'd just be way too easy on 5 balls/game.
Tron would be a good candidate for 5 IMO. I gotta say though, there is a part or me that use to, and still do to a degree, thinks putting a game on 5 balls is semi-cheating 
I know it's not cheating, but my sense of accomplishment would have been a whole lot less when I finally got to, and beat, Portal multi-ball. I did it with stock settings and only 3 balls.
I have since set the replay at 18 mil to give a extra ball instead of a free game. It really is alot more enjoyable to me now. It's a home machine afterall and I bought it to have fun. Although my friends can hardly get 18 mil, it still gives them hope, lol.
My high score is with 3 ball still.
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Like most say, ems on 5 ball and really old SS on 5 depending (Mata Hari comes to mind).
Quoted from wayout440:All of mine are set to 5 ball. It's the way all my friends and family remember them from the local arcades in the 70's and 80's. All were quarter play and then came the nineties and we got 3 balls for FIFTY cents. RIPOFF. Chips that had more air in the bag than chips came along for the ride and cigarette prices doubled. Gee, thanks...give me my five ball free play now.
exactly all 5 balls , just like when I was a kid 1970's
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