This doesn’t make sense to me.

You don’t get to the SW (green) arrows either until after the first multiball. Immediately after that, even before the next ball lock, you get your next crack at the NW targets, including the one that was spotted at the beginning of ball 1.

That just means the NW target becomes the last of the eight targets to be shot, instead of the first. So I don’t really understand your complaint.

I probably agree, but doubling up on the NW targets to the exclusion of the SE for the first multiball makes those green arrows all the more satisfying when they finally make their appearance. (Fitting, too, for those slightly more challenging shots.)

That’s fundamentally the problem. While it might be nice to be able to disable the arrow spotting, the game rules also mitigate the impact of spotting by always awarding the easiest lit arrow. That’s supposed to be the left inlane.

I understand you want and like your machine set up really hard, but if the main (right) ramp is so hard that the lower red arrow isn’t the easiest of the eight arrows to hit, you have your machine set up wrong. Or at least contrary to design intent. That’s literally the one arrow I never notice being spotted.

A good player should be able to hit the main ramp over and over again; that’s why the (admittedly underwhelming) bonus is based entirely on ramp shots. Bonus, quick multiball (and other target awards), and two extra balls at default settings, all from the main ramp. Don’t shut it down, dude, you’re missing half the game! (Okay, maybe ten percent.)

If you absolutely need the extra steepness (what angle?), and a full plunger pull currently makes a complete loop nearly every time, you might want to try stronger flipper coils.

I can see this is going to be a challenge. I’m game, or I wouldn’t be posting.

As orangegxs observed, my use of the term “easiest” may not be precisely literal. Perhaps you should think instead in terms of the most frequently hit arrow targets, or the most frequently hit arrows in successful games. Or maybe you’re confusing “hunting arrows” (which you profess to be your favorite part of the game) with “flailing away”, which you previously suggested is the way you actually get arrows. No offense intended. I’m just saying ...

Aha! Then instead of fixing the coil strength problem which I hypothesized, you should fix the “flipper hop” problem you were already aware of. Hard is great, but fucked up sucks. You will obviously enjoy the machine more once you fix the known problems. Repeating: right ramp should be easy.