Maybe I'm not the first to suggest this Tilt Variant, but today I was having a great game on Xmen and my ball was stuck in the play field. It's happened to everyone several times, but I had to move the machine to get the ball free. Unfortunately, I tilted.

Tilt Variant Idea: Change the Tilt so that if there is no scoring in the last minute on the machine, disable the tilt, so I can get the ball free and continue my game. This seems like it would be easy to implement and would not penalize players for something out of their control.

#2 9 years ago

ERW

chuckwurt

Pincinnati

10y 193K 31,356 16 13

OP
Quoted from Steve_PBH:
Maybe I'm not the first to suggest this Tilt Variant, but today I was having a great game on Xmen and my ball was stuck in the play field. It's happened to everyone several times, but I had to move the machine to get the ball free. Unfortunately, I tilted.
Tilt Variant Idea: Change the Tilt so that if there is no scoring in the last minute on the machine, disable the tilt, so I can get the ball free and continue my game. This seems like it would be easy to implement and would not penalize players for something out of their control.

Yeah this would be cool. Do you always play alone? I always call my wife or step daughter down if I need help.

#3 9 years ago

LAW

Law

Inactive member

9y 87,800 1,320 124

You should post this suggestion in one of the multimorphic feature-feedback threads.

Just to check, though- this is your machine, right? Pick up one of these to grab your ball with:

http://www.harborfreight.com/15-lb-capacity-telescoping-magnetic-pickup-tool-95933.html

and take the glass off next time!

If it's good enough for Mark Steinman, it's good enough for me. (Pretty sure that's who I saw using one and thought it was genius).

1 week later

#4 9 years ago

DAD

Steve_PBH

Pinside member

Indianapolis, IN

11y 32,400 195 8

Taking the glass off is a pain in the neck in the middle of a great game. Kills the momentum....

Reminds me of the song Paradise by the Dashboard light. All I want is to give the machine a good knock while the machine is performing a ball find.

#5 9 years ago

DAR

dar8dar

Pinside member

Savage, MN

10y 53,550 332 14

Open coin door pop another ball into shooter lane and keep playing
Usually frees up the other ball

#6 9 years ago

SMK

TheLaw

Pinside+ Addict

Ann Arbor, MI

12y 162K 48,070 19 30 1

OP
Quoted from Steve_PBH:
Taking the glass off is a pain in the neck in the middle of a great game. Kills the momentum....

You need to learn to deal with losing momentum if you ever want to be the pinball master!

#7 9 years ago

BJD

roffels

Pinside member

Minneapolis, MN

10y 85,300 1,993 3 20

Don't a lot of Stern's kill the ball if you open up the coin door?

#8 9 years ago

POP

RTR

Pinside+ Frequent

Franklin, TN

11y 118K 4,004 8 6

Just keep one of these bad boys in the basement:

http://t.harborfreight.com/30-inch-magnetic-sweeper-with-wheels-93245.html?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Picks that ball right up through the glass and drops it where you want it. Positioned correctly just above the flippers, you can get to wizard mode on ball 1...

#9 9 years ago

RLL

BobLangelius

Bob's Pinball Stuff

Trumbull, CT

10y 70,850 804 2

Maybe the feature should be to disable the tilt after a ballsearch and no subsequent switch events?

Enable the tilt after it sees the ball back on the playfield.

#10 9 years ago

JRB

exflexer

Pinside+ Frequent

12y 86,150 1,650 1

Quoted from roffels:
Don't a lot of Stern's kill the ball if you open up the coin door?

No.

#11 9 years ago

CAR

domijr

Pinside member

20y 36,400 369 1 10

Quoted from roffels:
Don't a lot of Stern's kill the ball if you open up the coin door?

You're correct, but there's a way to disable that. Here's a quote from my TSPP manual.

Adjustments - Standard Adjustments - 42

"Coindoor ball saver: Set to YES or NO. Default is NO When set to NO, this feature is not available. When set to YES, this feature allows the Coin Door to be opened during game play; the ball will drain but the game will be placed "on hold". When the Coin Door is closed, the pinball will return to the Shooter Lane, and the game will resume."

#12 9 years ago

DAD

Steve_PBH

Pinside member

Indianapolis, IN

11y 32,400 195 8

Quoted from BobLangelius:
Maybe the feature should be to disable the tilt after a ballsearch and no subsequent switch events?

Enable the tilt after it sees the ball back on the playfield.

I like this variant the best. Then again, RTR's link was a close second.

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