Employment doesn’t necessarily mean “wanting to work”. It is much harder today to find people that are truly invested in their job and want to excel. I find way too many people will try to do the bare minimum.

How many people work for your company? “About half of them”.

This is exactly the problem. The ball hits the target squarely back so fast that it pops back on the shelf before the spring can pull it down enough. I have not heard one report that the spring was too tight preventing the target from dropping. If that were the case, the lighter blows to the target would not go down. In all reports lighter/off center hits cause the target to fall... it is the hard and direct hits that brick/reject.

In all cases on here, the tighter springs (or shortened springs) have eliminated or improved the drop targets ability to drop. Never has it made it worse, even for soft shots. If it had, someone would have reported it. You are chasing a valid theory that doesn’t exist in the real world.

Why spend all the smart missles in order to use the Bond girls as an extra ball? You can use the Bond girls while you have missles queued since a flip toggles between missles and bond girls.

Never had that problem. It is at worst a flipper press and then the lockdown button. Unless it is a rocket down the middle, plenty of time. Practice it so you can use your missles when you have 7x activated!

My outlanes are all the way open too.

Yes, we will have to wait and see but in January, Stern made a clear statement that there would be no more LEs of a machine after initial run.

"Stern is done making second runs of Limited Edition games for machines. The specific statement that they made to distributors was "Drive Value: No more limited editions after launch. Current generation (LCD) LEs will only be issued once, buy with confidence." "

Agreed. 1900 plays really isn't that much for a well maintained machine. I got my Bond Pro with 900 or so plays and it looks and plays like it came out of the box.

It is definitely possible, I haven't played tons since the update but was able to get close with only 1 Q Branch remaining and the mini-wizard that follows. Everything else is stock but my tilt is also loose. For me, nudging and shaking is part of the fun. I still tilt and I did on the last ball of that game where I almost got to the final wizard. Given that I had probably 5 or 6x bonus, I probably lost more than half a billion by tilting on that one. Oh well, next time.

Why don’t you first go for the SPECTRE weapon that adds time to all modes. Get extra time and no bending of the rules.

Troublesome Tarantulas (Dr. No): The right ramp and side ramp are lit for a 10M hurry-up that counts down over 15 seconds. Shooting any lit shot ends the mode. Side ramp scores 2x the value. Once completed, all mode timers are extended by 17 seconds, and 007 Scoring is extended by 7 seconds.

Just got through HMSS and ended up with a 10B score overall which is actually not my highest score. I tilted on a bonus that would have been 1B+ and finished the game with 2 or so balls left. I should have played those balls just to get the bonus multiplier up BEFORE starting HMSS on my very last ball. That would have been another 2B+. I guess I know for next time. Use all of your balls before HMSS. Lots of bonus left on the table if you don’t.
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I mostly agree. My only issue with all of this is that the end of ball bonuses can be HUGE! Since the game ends, it is a penalty to not play through all the balls. I was on ball 2 with 1 extra ball left and ball 3. I should have at least drained once or twice if i was feeling lucky to start HMSS without draining since it starts on the henchmen ramp.

I think the rest is fair, but with 1B+ end of ball bonuses, if would definitely benefit you to play through as many of the balls as possible if you get to the end with balls to spare.

Pretty sure the bonuses are based on Henchmen, Villians, Weapons and Q Branches completed through the WHOLE game, not per ball. Every one of my balls base end of ball bonus has been higher than the previous ball. Even on a short ball, I got incredible bonuses.

You’ll have to make that shot again to start HMSS. It is on the Henchmen ramp.

Mine started on henchmen. I think the conclusion is that BOTH are lit.

So, we are both right.