GeorgeH wrote:
I've seen those. I never knew their purpose. I noticed you set the bottom height of the surface to 38 so the ball does not hit it directly but keeps it from bouncing up.
There's a lot going on behind the scenes. A solid steel ball is a wild beast that needs taming. And my experience helping to design real pinball games, showed me that the ball can leap up and get stuck in a real machine just as it does in Future Pinball. Game designers will add clear plastic surfaces to combat this. But as any game designer will tell you, if there's a chance the ball will go there, it will. So pinball game design requires you to try and outsmart the ball and think ahead. Trust me, the ball is smarter.
And this is why I like Future Pinball, because the ball can be just as crazy as a real ball. I like those imperfections, that randomness.
Harry Williams summed it up with his famous statement: "The ball is wild". He's right.