Impressive analysis! This aspect of SW makes more sense now. Except for the shot multiplier *not* applying to the 3rd shot of your lite mission shots -- that's coding/rules silliness, IMHO.

Then what benefit do you actually get from Leia for her "Character" benefit? Is there truly increased scoring in each mission's multiball when you play as Leia?

Whoa. The Force is strong with this one.

Hoochoo question on Luke's benefit... this is what is documented in the Rulesheet wiki at Tilt forums: "Luke (Increased scoring during Lightsaber Duel and can “use the Force” once per ball in play to add a ball during Multiball modes)"

Does this mean that once per ball, Luke can add-a-ball to mission multiballs **in addition to** the normal add-a-ball that's available to all characters?

For the Luke-Specific AAB, do you press & hold the action button like the other AAB, even when it's not lit Orange in color?

Thanks again for the in-depth analysis and sharing what you've learned.
The early-game scoring logic on lite mode shots makes soooooo much more sense now.

Thanks. That's what I thought, too.
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Help me understand the math of the Lite Endor shot shown here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/423806480?t=06h30m41s

- the LCD screen shows an award of 45M (which I presume is 5M x 9 for the 9x shot multiplier).
- However, the player's score jumps from 206M to 337M on that one shot, which is approximately 3 times the value of 45M, suggesting that the player is getting a 3x buff from the Leia character benefit.

Or am I totally off in my analysis?

Hehehe... I'm not sure if Dwight will even fully comprehend all the nuances of the scoring in his code.
Because of building things so complex, it's difficult to anticipate and keep track of all the interaction factors.

Good enough explanation for me, and a good point that Luke seems to enjoy the same level of mysterious balancing benefit. I noticed the same once when I played as Luke (I can only play SW on location -- I don't own one), but couldn't do glass-off testing with careful notes.
I find it amusing (frustrating?) that these weird-and-not-fully-understood -- nor published -- multipliers on planet unlocking shots end up being of seemingly greater value than mode shots and even planet multiball jackpots.

Do you already have documented somewhere else what the typical base value scoring is for some of the Planet Multiballs?