I am curious about this now. Do some people actually look at the timer bars? For the bottom timer bars (double scoring, super pops, super spinners) the only one that is helpful is the double scoring bar. Not sure about the LE, but Elis ramp lighting is WHITE during double scoring, so the bar is unnecessary to me.
For the vertical bars CLU and GEM, again the ramp lighting tells me what mode is running and during stacked modes, we have the inserts and ramp lighting cues. I can honestly say the vertical timer bars are not important either. How many people actually use the timer bars?
I looked up the latest 1.74 readme for the timers. Looks like Lyman added the third timer (ZUSE), so now all 3 are present vertically.
- Fixed CLU, Gem, and Zuse timer bars on the score screen. They now all
initialize to full size when the respective mode is started and will
rescale properly when time is added over the high water mark. Bars have
been reordered to match the lights on the playfield - bottom bar is for
Gem, middle bar is for CLU, and top bar is for Zuse.