Go play some pinball and enjoy your games..

Thanks for creating this!

Don't trigger flippers when selecting character before game start.

Seriously, am I the only one that cares about this one?

Flying Dutchman triple cannon animation!

Arghhhhh

For LE and CE owners, having a colored scene for game number. Hobbit and WOZ had these and were a nice touch. Right now on Pirates, it’s just a black screen with text

Yeah his ship the Flying Dutchman has the coolest cannon.

Three barrels that rotate as they fire cannon balls, it’s called the triple cannon.

Need this in the game!

Well I believe they are shown in the scene where the pearl and Dutchman are battling it out in the maelstrom so somehow maybe tied to that, not sure.

Maybe a missed super jackpot or something not sure.

I was also racking my brain on how the depths and bayou could be a little more exciting and integrated.

At the moment in most games it’s very underwhelming.

I'd love to be able to skip the end of chapter animation when you drain (hitting both flippers, like the bonus count-up). It just seems to take way too long if you drain during a chapter (which, yes, I do often) and sometimes I'll pay a 4-player game by myself just to burn through a lot of balls and get warmed up. It's rather noticeable.

Thanks!

Actually, as CRAZY as it sounds, it makes the game feel cheap to me if you can believe it because it’s 100% unnecessary for the flippers to trigger when a silver ball isn’t in play...

At the risk of being a hypocrite, as I have been told my request #2 sdtm ball drain after star map chapter select does not require a fix, I question #1. With the tortuga hole you can just unscrew the top screw of the deflector and point it further up the left flipper. So since there is a mechanical solution, I don’t believe this needs a software solution. You can also hit the tortuga hole 5 times in rapid succession, so this could be used as a strategy for linking ball saves. People could take advantage of this. Also heaps of games have kick outs like this one, no s/w save.

The thing that makes the star map different from the tortuga hole is that the chapter select is a less frequent occurrence by its very nature and that no hardware adjustment is available to reduce the amount of drains.

As stated previously, unless you are in the middle of a multi ball, watching chapter select is like waiting for a bingo call. You watch the ball sling around expectantly and all the canons flying on the screen. When the chapter is selected, you watch the short clip and take stock of the targets you need to hit. You get ready the gate drops, the magnet kicks it lazily back up and the ball goes sdtm. Nothing I can do. Not all the time. It’s a random thing. May not get it for a day. Yesterday got it 10 times in 30 games. Gets me so cross I restart. Happened in my only 1 million plus game. My table is completely level.

A 2 second ball save needs to be configurable so purists who don’t want it can turn it off. It will not impact the game and cannot be stacked. Ball saves are used to give people a chance to have fun. That’s why we have them at the start of multiballs. A player should not accomplish all these tasks and then have the reward taken away because of a cheap sdtm. So too with the chapter select.

#3 is the one I want from that list. Stop spoiling the surprise!

when you allow the game to automatically select the character you are to play, post the rules for the character.

Sorry to ask again, how do you pull up all the character abilities again?

I guess do map award, and release ball from depths and then announce chapter? Or hold onto ball until map award done and announcement made. I wonder if they were trying to rush announcements together so ball isn’t held onto for too long? Maybe not a problem if it’s in there for a second or so longer.

Hold a flipper button down

I dont think a ball save needs to be added on #2,yes sdtm do happen occasionaly
What they could do to fix it is pulse the spinning map disk to create some randomness

Stern made potc.

It happens more than occasionally for me. If it is configurable you can turn it off. See everyone would be happy. 4 others in the owners club post have seconded this.

And If the map disc was to pulse on chapter select nobody needs to configure anything

So a ball that correctly was falling to the flippers now gets redirected by the spinning map to sdtm. Good one. The spinning map is meant to be a hindrance not a helper. The map suddenly spinning when it did not use to is going to piss more people off. Ball savers are there to stop an unfair drain which the player has no control over. Same as end of Strobe Multiball in AFM.

Sorry mate but I dont think you know what your talking about,on most chapter select releases the map disk spins already just doesnt spin on all of them

I have not noticed that. According to the rules in the manual, the map spins for a short time when you hit a map letter. When all map letters are lit the disc spins until the map hole is hit. This is according to page A22 of the manual. Whether you are right or not and it does come on for some chapters, making it come on for all will impact the flow of the ball during the start of all chapters which could cause problems. I believe a ball saver would have less impact. I guess we will have to agree to disagree.

And I’m not your mate.

So I’ll keep playing, but I’m PRETTY SURE I have never SDTM from Chapter Select area yet.

So I believed what you said even though I had not experienced this nor found this behaviour in the rules. You sounded so sure of yourself that I thought I would check to see if I misunderstood the game. I tested without hitting map targets the following chapters being started after hitting the star map:

All must divide
Proper mermaid
Fireworks
El matador del mar
Brilliance or madness
Where’s jack
Governor’s pardon
Proving ourselves
The Trojan horse
Infiltration
Captain’s daughter

Funny thing is none of these chapters initiated a disc spin. Weird! Maybe my pinball is broken, and that’s why I’m draining now and again from star map.

Can you please point me towards which chapter the map spins for?

Neither at worlds end or stranger tides Multiball will start the disc spinning (I did not check the others).

The only thing that will cause the map to spin whilst I have been playing (bar wizards, I have not tested them yet) is hitting the map targets.

I think you mistakenly had hit the map targets before you hit the star map. Easy to make the mistake. Shots may be a bit tricky for you and I guess it’s a bit confusing with all those things going on in the playfield.

Check your facts before you call someone else wrong.

I am not going to go through to many but I just tried "the black spot" using tia darma so I could wait for any phantom map target hits and it spun for me.Not realy interested in getting into a pissing contest with you,if you dont like my rule change suggestion so be it,màate

Well this is really weird. Took the glass off and fired up a green chapter with Tia Dalma and the chapter came up as “the black spot”. No disc spin.

Then I thought maybe it happens after so many chapters in a row to try and make the wizard harder.

Nope. Did all these in the same game, all part of Dead Mans Chest:

I am the sea
Something to trade
Caged up
A touch of destiny
Tortuga

None of them spun.

So you are reporting behaviour which I am not experiencing. So your suggestion will not solve my problem. And it would be adding in a spinning map when it should not. This would cause more harm than good.

I can only think you have triggered something else beforehand, or one of your map leaf switches is overly sensitive and is being triggered by star map vibrations which in turn causes the disc to spin. That would explain why it does not happen all the time for you. Either that or we are on different versions of code. I am on 0.99.

I apologise for my previous rant and if I caused offence.

Just a thought, how many people have had to reduce the following coil settings:

1) sling strength. We know slings are causing air balls and contributing to playfield damage. I think a lot of people have turned them down to 16.
2) flipper strength, straight out of the box people are getting a lot of air balls from lower left and right.
3) BP VUK. Balls should not go THUNK as they are delivered onto upper playfield. Opto can break and playfield is getting hammered behind the ships spinning sails.

I think JJP should review their defaults. I have a lot more dimpling because some of these defaults are too strong. They should at least give a warning to check these. All it takes is 50 games for the damage to show. This is manageable damage and it could have been avoided.

Fix the map award callout that says "1 treasures"

This is going to seem sort of trivial but I had thought I accomplished quite the feat when I sunk 3 ships during a single curse of the black pearl mb and other than the super jp callout....nothing exciting.

The fanfare/choreography should escalate a bit as you accomplish things like this. Need a little more excitement or drama. Just saying, that was hard as shit!

I like the animation but it would be cool if there was some progression to the clips for sinking ships.

There were plenty of ship battles to pull footage from without infringing on the whole character issue.

From a scoring perspective I thought it would have earned a bit more as well.

Really don’t know if it’s worth the effort as is, lol.

I thought it was over 10k per super jackpot. Tortuga and other multiballs gross me far less. Extra footage would be nice plus that shaker!!!

Really not sure what it scored but it isn’t easy to do 3 times during a multi ball.

I've only ever done one. To do 3 you have accomplished quite a feat!

I have done zero as well. I can keep the ball on the ship just fine, but STRUGGLE to load the cannon.

Haha.. that would be impressive. My gf managed to get 2 up there and they both instantly cams down the ramp.

I have yet to get 2 up there...

Seemed like quite the feat but thought something dramatic was going to happen!

To be honest, I don’t even think you get the regular ship sunk animation during the MB because it is cancelled by the super jackpot call out. Really minor in the big picture but this is a prime example where additional choreography can be added to further enhance the crazy depth of everything.