I occasionally stare at it, and don't notice any recognizable patterns. Maybe I need to "lazy eye" it like those 3d posters. haha.

That was exactly my experience; the manual plunger was 100% problem free while the autoplunger struggled more than half the time. I guess it has to do with angle of attack on the autoplunger fork vs the manual plunger?

Glad you were able to fix it! Mine has been dead perfect since correcting my rails and I'm very happy with it.

Please report your issues with star post cracking and dimpling here. We need to have a centralized count and report so we can push this issue forward.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/potc-who-has-playfield-dimples-cracking-wear-around-star-posts-

My yellow lockdown handle is so tight, I have to use two hands to move it.

the two brass screws under the lockdown bar can be adjusted to make it easier.

Starmap installation is possible on an SE, at least with update at .98. All that is missing is a cat 5 cable and 5v power supply. If I remember correctly, Cat 5 connects to J109 under the playfield.

The issue, however, is twofold. (1) JJ will not sell the starmap to an SE owner; (2) the starmap may be blocked on future updates by the SE dongle, like the CE topper is blocked on the LE and SE.

With my POTC LE, i fixed a not listed issue. Fork mech issue stated by the pin as "Malfunction detected". Problem was on the small coil under PF who is releasing the fork. the Little arm bended needed manual ajustement, the gap was too width. Similar as Dialed In Trap Door knows issue where mech is similar.

This screw look familiar at all? It looks like it is brass or brass colored.
This rolled down to the right flipper last night with a ball. I think it came from around the ship or FOY area but not sure. I don’t see any similar screws. Not sure if it is from under the ship or the chest.
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When it clicks it clicks. I spent a month trying to figure the dam thing out then one night I looked at it and said that looks like a ship and hit the ship shot and got credit. Try watching someone else play and stand back far form the map and look at it as a whole picture not as stars. The pop up that shows you you hit the shot also shows the pattern displayed. So if you can watch a few games and when you see the pop up pay attn to how the stars look. The part that I didnt understand for the longest time was all of the stars are a part of the picture. I was trying to distinguish fast blinkers from slow blinkers and find a picture from it and thats not how it works. Also try looking at the map from farther away thats how I started to figure out the patterns.

Sweet. Man, they had them cranked down from the factory.

That might be the adjuster screw for one of the pop up diverter posts. if its a really tiny screw it might be one of the screws mounting the pcb boards. Hope this helps.

Mine we're really cranked down too.

So havnt played a ton of games on .99 but have noticed a weird issue starting multiballs. On occasion the game is kicking a ball out but not auto launching it. Literally watched it kick 3 balls out and the launcher not go off once. After 3 balls were there it started trying to get all the balls out. Have noticed during several games since update I have had multiple ball pushed/stuck in shooter lane. I still have not done any troubleshooting on it as I have order from jjp coming wednsday that is going to require me to remove BP. Going to all maintenance when that comes in including waxing and installing mylar at chapter select area.

Ya I know. Noticed it last night but didnt think anything of it. Then this morning watched it put 3 balls into shooter lane and then auto launch. Today was fish tank maintenance day so no work on machine. Did a small test after I was done with fish tank and basically just launched a ball and then let the auto save do its thing. All 3 balls the auto launch took prolly 10 seconds after ball was in the lane. The third one it went into ball search mode so more than likely it is the shooter lane switch. Will pull the glass in the morning and test to find out what is going on. Thanks for the tip

I read a few posts about flickering topper and spotlights.
Followed up every tip/fix I could find but no succes for me...

My topper is flickering too but when it does ALL the spotlights and the ledstrip on the left side of the BP ramp flicker too.
At the exact same time. And it happens irregular but A LOT and all the time.
Is anyone having the same problem or are all the spotlights and ledstrip supposed to flicker in sync with the topper??

Will need pics of fish tank.

Yea. Mine does. The one I played on location did.

I think it’s supposed to maybe simulate a storm or lightning or something...

I think it’s normal.

Normal far as i know. Only happens while playing, right?

Happens while playing, and in attract mode.
I only know my game, never seen one on location.
But if it’s supposed to do that i’m ok with it of course!
Thanks.

Mine does it, I don’t like it.

I like the flickering, I think it is supposed to simulate the flickering of a torch flame.
Problem is the led color isn’t warm and doesn’t really make it seem like that. It also doesn’t help that the torches on the topper are a sticker or decal.

I like it...

lol

Would think there's options for this in the menu.

there is an option for topper and GI brightness in the settings. if you put it on max, it's not supposed to flicker, lowering the value may cause flickering. No idea why this would be the case or what is causing it. It happens on DI too with the betty spotlight.

I don’t like it either...
Topper flickering is no problem for me but the flickering spotlights is a little too much in my opinion...

But if it’s programmed to do so i’ll have to accept it for now...

I like the topper flickering too, but the spotlights should just light up and stay on without flickering. Wish there was an option for that in the menu.

The spots should be staying on. Are you 100% sure the spots are flickering in tandem with the topper?

Yep 100% sure!

I don't even notice it. (The topper nor the flickering)

My spots don’t flicker with topper

My spots don't flicker either.

Ok, so I do have a problem...
I already thought that it wasn’t normal because it’s extremely distracting...
I’ll post a video later.

My spots also don't flicker (of course the BP lanterns do) but my topper flickers like the dickens and I have it set to max brightness and the attract mode off. Not sure if there is any other change to do.

Yup, you're right... incidentally so does the throne room light (on the wizard plastic).

when you didnt even realize you had a problem. My spotlights also flicker with the topper. Can be annoying at times but thought that was normal.

Well...I thought they didn’t, but I never noticed it or paid attention to it.

I will now...

So, maybe there is no problem after all and it’s completely normal.
Maybe some people just notice it a little better than others.

I just watched the last JJP POTC stream very closely and I noticed their spotlights were flickering too.
Although on camera the flickering effect is more difficult to see.

Maybe! ... =)

I'm still struggling with this ongoing discussion about soft playfield and overtightening sling screws and on and on and on...

Honestly, I think I need to put a good 1,000 games on this or so and ACTUALLY PLAY the damn thing before I start obsessing over something new. Plus, I was one of the fortunate ones? I guess because I have the washers already installed underneath the sling posts. It doesn't look the best being metal but meh.. don't even see 'em with the lights out!

Come on over, we're discussing here... might nice to move it out of this thread https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/potc-who-has-playfield-dimples-cracking-wear-around-star-posts-/page/3#post-4993917

This is the absolute best advice you’ve ever given yourself.

I un favorited the other thread on the issue because it’s borderline hysteria.

Eh, I know your opinion on it but I think there is still some validity to the issue of a game that is less than a year old losing pieces of the playfield. Is there too much hysteria, I think in a hobby with this kind of money involved and passion there is going to be stuff like that, but I think JJP isn't helping by not getting involved.

Yep had a wire come loose off the shooter lane switch. 5 second solder job and all is good again. On a side note had to do a little cleaning because glass was off (going to do full maintenance tomorrow) and cleaned the in/out lanes and map spinner. Spinning Map had some rowdy ball dust on it, like literally changed colors in front of my eyes. So psa when you guys are doing your minor maintenances make sure to give you spinning map some love easy to forget about.

Edit* Also changed out the balls as a couple of mine looked fairly rough. One actually kinda looked like a gold ball with a shitton of little dimples in it. The standard marco pinballs are correct? Can order something different if thats not right but had a spare 5 pack in my repair box so swapped them in and retired the old balls.

Map spinner? Depths spinner or BP spinners are all I know.

Did you see if you had the t-nut issue in the map hole? That could be causing your balls to get nicked up. As far as I know standard balls are ok, although I think there was some debate about magnetism and ball type.

the actual spinning map that makes your ball go all over the place....you know the omni directional spinning map
I did see the T-nut issue. Will prolly fix it one of these days but have to wait till I got a few hours with no one in the house.

I have to agree...

Some of those pics are very, very bad and for JJP to do 0 about it.

I just don’t know...