Here's a random silly achievement idea for IC I borrowed from early Xbox 360 games

The development team have an achievement unlocked for them. In order to get the achievement, you have to beat someone with that achievement. So there would be very few people in the beginning who have it, but then slowly more and more would unlock it by playing in competitions.

I noticed on the Stern IC page they use game numbers in a predictable format.

https://insider.sternpinball.com/insider/games/120

Basically the last 3 digits, starting at 100 going up. It covers all the IC games, except machine 119. Which Im guessing is the NFT game that had an IC dongle attached to it?

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Leaderboards are also still paywalled because they need to give operators something worthwhile

I also think there is limited appeal for the home leaderboards. Might be cool if they added a high score display that listed the best score for all the players registered on a particular games home team (or hell, anyone who comes over and scans themselves in). Then you get the same basic functionality without the server or an extra TV screen in the room.

Really they could be greatly expanding the local leaderboard system already. Why not tell me what my best score for mode XYZ is, and what the highest score by anyone on the machine is?

I like the idea, not the implementation

It should be each game has the top 5% highest scores, bottom 5% lowest score form an upper and lower average bound for each game title. That is set to a 0-100 point scale. When you play a game, your best score is a point value from 0-100 that would correspond with where you rank. Your best individual machine score gets sent to the state, those add up and are divided by the total state players that played.

That way each game has roughly equal weight, even though games like BKSOR and TMNT score way less than games like Godzilla. Because right now why bother playing TMNT? It'll add basically nothing to the total state average.

The logic is people won't play if it doesn't have some appearance of being competitive. When the goal is set that high on day two, a lot of people would bounce off and forget about it entirely. The point is to drive play all month

That said I agree anyone could do what he did. Maybe Jaws just wasn't ready for to be included

I think it would be fine on B66 because bookworm/Mr freeze is a valid strategy on a fully developed game vs trying to exploit the early beta code. Like what he was doing specifically won’t be in the next code. (Allegedly already fixed internally before he did it)

Admitting it is the first step to recovery

Worth a try to swap it with one from a good game.

Otherwise I’d try to reformat the SD card and similar.

Is Batman 66 the highest score potential for Spike 2 games? (I mean sure, you could theoretically play most games endlessly, but B66 seems like the only one where people can get into the trillions with a valid in-game strat)

Bond 60th is uniquely low scoring. A game over 50k is very good. Beatles I would compare more to TMNT scoring. A decent score is like 10m.

You can blow up the scoring if you really push your luck on The Beatles. If you don't collect the SJP after doing a mode and finish another mode, a multiplier is applied to the previous uncollected mode SJP. (The mode SJP is the value of the points you scored in the mode that just finished). You can, in theory, have a SJP collect that is 5x mode 1 + 4x mode 2 + 3x mode 3 + 2x mode 4 + 1xmode 5. That could be worth tens of millions

There are very few Batman 66's out there with the IC kit and yeah, people can put up multi-trillion point games on Batman 66 with the right strategies.

Batman 66 patch imminent

Again, they should weight the machines on a 0-100 scale based on the top 5% highest scores and lowest 5%. Then the crazy outliers don't affect this so much and you have a reason to play games like Bond 60