Dr who, playfield multiplier, and sonic booms, multiball comes
on its own kind of.
The Super jackpots on fishtales make multiball worth it.

Typically they are not worth it as it's still very high risk and require a lot of setup.

It really comes down to how easy or hard the game is playing. When 200m or 300m will win most matches, monster fish + video mode is an easier path. Especially if the ball lock kickout sucks.

FGY. Plow through the 5 modes to get to TV wiz mode. Which is a (very valuable) 1 ball mode. You can get a hell of a lot of points on FGY without starting a single multiball.

Ha, play against lyman or KME and you need to score in the
Billions! Video modes should not count as playing pinball.
hey Bob, look water skiers.

Somehow there were 2 identical threads, so I locked the other to avoid confusion. You can see the other posts here:

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/what-machines-do-you-not-go-for-multiball-for-in-tournament-play?

Cyclone. Too difficult to achieve.

I rarely go directly for multiball in Jack-bot. My game has VERY dangerous eye locks (oldschool saucer style!) that kick STDM and you basically HAVE to nudge or bump off the post to get both balls. I usually go more for casino run, at least the first time around. It's generally a lot safer on my machine, even when ya need to shoot the ramp.

T3 I never go for the standard multiball. The light lock shot is waaaay too risky and the points just aren't there. Assault is a different story, though.

TAF too. If the electric chair isn't too tough to hit, I'll skip multiball and just collect rooms.

MM, I'm not good enough at the game to collect damsel, joust, etc multiballs, so it's castle all day.

STTNG, it's hard to setup and isn't really worth it.

I am typically more comfortable going for tour on TAF than multiball in a tournament setting. This is situational of course and depends a lot on how the machine plays, particularly the kickout from the chair.

What? You can get two of three locks with the skill shots, unless it's been disabled, and if you make the first lock manually on ball one, you can automatically get multiball on ball three. If you get two locks on ball one, then on ball two. I would argue that it's most valuable the second time around when supers might be in excess of 200 million depending on how much pops action your particular game sees.....mine tends to kick out of the pops relatively quickly, so 3x JP's rarely get above 175.

It's not a total waste, like some, but yeah, if your competitors are douchebags and sitting there timing out modes to get to Final Frontier, you're screwed going for JUST multiball.

Earthshaker. End of the road is more valuable. And you can always pick up some Quick multiballs if the captive ball doesn't return your ball SDTM.

Embryon. Reaching multiball is useless. Build bonus and bonus multiplier instead.

Barracora. Far better to leave your top hole locked ball as an free extra ball that kicks out once you drain instead of going for the 3-ball multiball.

I used to own a Jokerz, and it had a very risky two ball multiball. I would not personally try to get multiball on it in a tournament. I'm not sure if a highly skilled pinhead would agree with me or not though.

Coffin multiball on Metallica Premium.

Space Shuttle -

Too dangerous outlane ricochets
- just let the lock balls happen, because they do with the slings.

Agreed.

Because it doesn't exist.

Three drop targets advance spinner value. Lots of points there.

- The Party Zone - max out way-out-of-control lane value to 10m, collect 10x Playfield Values reward, and watch your score rank up in no time.
- Hurricane - who cares about the multiball jackpots, just get a scoring multiplier from Mystery Score and collect as many Hurricane / Comet Millions as possible
- Creature from the Black Lagoon - SUPER MODE
- Tales from the Crypt - time out all modes and then do Crypt Jam

Okay, this is just crazy talk. Coffin is the most lucrative thing in Met prior to End of the Line, and you have to get HALFWAY THERE to qualify your first EOL *anyways*. Might be different on a premium or LE, but there's no excuse at all to not get coffin on a pro. The return from the captive ball rarely goes anywhere but back to the flippers, or in the snake mouth..

I mean, if you want to throw away an easy 40 million+ points, then be my guest...I've won a lot of matches because of coffin, and that was when it required like 75 hits to start on the early code...

Spinner value.

Crazy talk?

I believe I was very clear in including Premium in my description. In fact you even agreed it may be different on a Premium or LE

I didn't say coffin multiball wasn't lucrative, but intentionally going for coffin multiball on a Premium and hoping all the balls get grabbed by the magnet isn't my idea of a sound strategy.

It's still early in the morning here...

The only premium I've ever played on actually had zero trouble with the locks...it was before the code updates and hardware replacements.

You pepper the spinner lane.
Goes up to 7,000 a spin, and you can sweep the increase targs inside the lane easily.
And...you can get 7x 69,000 in bonus - with lots of up and down lane action from the pops.
You miss...ball is high enough in the table to not screw you.

Look at my play in for the B division finals first round bye - Pinburgh 16 this year.
I believe it is on stream still.

If the spinner on Space Shuttle is dialed in you can score a vast amount of points with it. Side benefits of shooting the spinner lane include: Bonus X increase from the USA lanes, Open Airlock from the spinner Target Bank.

If go multiball you risk leaving locked balls for your opponent to release and use against you.