Hard choices I'm sure. It must have been very frustrating for the JJP team to have to throw out all the development work they did on the multiple disc mechanism because they couldn't get it to work reliably. Making pinball is hard!

I wonder what the prototypes with the original discs will be worth in a few years time - cool collector's items.

New disc vs old discs:

new disc vs old disc (resized).png

Very poor mock-up of 3 discs (a-la-Whirlwind) with pointers for the award feature:

JJP-Pirates-Of-The-Caribbean-playfield 3 discs (resized).jpg

I'm surprised you don't have one already.

I feel this thread should be linked here:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/how-id-fix-the-jjp-potc-disc-issue

Yeah, I'm sure it will look a lot better in person.

Has this been confirmed somewhere? They haven't streamed for several weeks.

I'll take your CE, as long as it's paid in full. I'll let you know where to ship it, thanks.

Looks like the code is coming along, still so much in the game, animations are awesome.

I don't really see how you could possibly fit sails on the ship.

I didn't watch the whole stream but I saw the 'x' constellations indicating that you need to hit the multiplier targets and I think Keith said that you can use it to work out what you need to do next. So, how is this different from the apron compass?

Already on youtube:

I think it ties the game together, orange apron, orange disc and orange-ish upper playfield.

Old one was blue, you could ask for that.

JJP after reading the comments about the new apron:

I think he means that the orange apron is a response to the criticisms of the blue apron.
So they are being criticized for responding to the criticisms, they really can't win.

Just watched some of the latest stream. Owners are going to have so much fun with this, there is just so much to do in the game.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/259541173##

Just saw this on Facebook:

TOMORROW 5/16 - We are streaming POTC LIVE at 3PM Central/4PM Eastern! Spinning map awards making their debut- See ya then! https://www.twitch.tv/jjplive

I believe Keith was going to try to implement plundering this week. He might be kicking himself for mentioning that last week.

I'm really loving these streams. Apart from seeing the great new features each week, they are just fun to watch. Thanks very much for all your efforts.

I'm sure someone will probably make their own version of a ship in the bottle topper for the LE buyers, seem like a obvious idea for the various companies offering after-market mods.

How about this?

https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Ship-in-a-Bottle-21313

lego ship in a botte (resized).png

I'm sure they will produce a rules chart. They have done that with WOZ, Hobbit and DI. If you watch some of the streams you'll pick it up quickly, it's not really that complicated.

Watching the replay now: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/267448319##

New this week:
Plundering!
More speech (Eric had another recording session with Kevin McNally this week)
Status report

There's probably not much to say at this point. I imagine they are waiting for all the parts to come in. When they have all arrived they will start building but it may be very difficult to say when that will be due to the number of parts and vendors involved.

The way I look at it, the 'chapters' in this game are really all just one kind of 'mode'. Or perhaps you could call them one kind of 'objective'. I don't think people should be thinking of them as different modes. If you are looking for traditional modes in the game, I think the wizard modes are more like the traditional modes. This game seems to be really challenging the traditional way of coding a pinball machine in that there is a lot of detail in the other parts of the code besides the modes. Take the multiballs, for example. There are five very different multiballs which all require very different shots to qualify them.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/270169783##

Sounds like a cover-up to me, twotwittergate?

Congrats to Eric and JJP!

And...first game off the line:

Game 1 (resized).jpg

Wait a second...that cartwheel seems similar to the DI cartwheel, how can we be sure they didn't dub new audio over the old clip?

I just saw the JJP cartwheel thread, I can now verify that this latest cartwheel is legit:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/the-jjp-cartwheel-thread

Can't wait to read some customer reviews.

Probably so more people can play them, which will generate more sales.

https://www.facebook.com/PinballSTAR/videos/530504440730821/?sk=h_chr

https://www.facebook.com/PinballSTAR/videos/284270425516233/

There were actually a lot of people in the video posted by Pinball Star about a week back.