Apology accepted, except the spin part, and the part where you said I just make things up,lol, I dont make anything up, I just tried telling u guys about something i saw with my own eyes. At 43 yrs, I dont make things up, unless I am laying down with my 3 yr old son, patting his head and telling him sleepy sleep stories.lol Perhaps sometimes on here, we all take things too literally. If I pissed anyone off, incl the mods or Gav, or KTM,. or anyone else, apologies from my end as well. I just want this place to be fun and maybe we should all learn to be less aggressive when we dont agree with something else someone has written. We are all on the same team. The Positive Pinball team to keep this great hobby alive......No big deal, lets all move on.
If saying repeated positive stuff about Stern is spin, then fine, cause I try to be a positive person about new pinballs and I think it is extremely important we focus on the positive stuff about Stern to help get newbies into new pinballs. If we all just bagged Stern all the time, even though they are not perfect, than how can we expect newbies to grab a new pinball machine and start on their journey to be a collector in this fun pinball hobby.
If the Avengers pinny had of shown 500 swipes, I would have said 500 but it did say 1200 swipes per day. I cant argue with the games own software. I was there for 4 hours during the 10am to 2pm busiest times they have in school holidays. I didnt stay there the whole 15 hours they were open.
In any event the machine spitting out 1200 swipes on its software may have been a glich or whatever, I wasnt arguing that, I was just showing that every swipe costs someones pre-paid arcade card a $1.50 a hit etc. It was all designed to be informative, nothing else at all. Anyway, who cares, but i just tried to pass something on I saw on a game counter.
I will go back down there sooner or later, and I will ask the manager of TimeZone to let me have a look at the diagnostics for 3 or 4 of the pinnys, and if he lets me, I will take some photos of the data each machine carries, then u will see what i have seen and u can interpret what u want from it.
The point is, that i dont know if there is another pinball arcade or any arcade in the world, where say a Avengers Pro, or Xmen Pro etc, get absolutely hammered during the busiest days when people are playing the hell out of a pinball machine 15 hrs a day , 7 days a week. Who knows, perhaps TimeZone in Surfers Paradise is a unique place, where everything in the place just gets flogged n flogged n flogged. Thats what i have seen before when the place is absolutely packed with probably 800 or more people all in there at once with apparently another 3,000 people on top cycling thru the place per 24 hrs etc according to the Manager.
The fact that Avengers has only been there a handful of weeks, and it is already showing signs of various high game count service issues, shows how a modern day Stern does or doesnt stand up to massively high traffic. I have always thought drop targets would be good for a home machine but not so good for high usage on a sited game. The Avengers H drop target needs fixing and is worn out already. I dont think this will be a issue for a home game for a collector, but its food for thought for anyone siting a pin with the drop targets...
Does anyone know of another pinball place in the world which is open 15 hrs a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year...if not, maybe good old Surfers Paradise has the USA arcades beat when it comes to high traffic. Maybe Disneyland in the USA might come close if it has modern Stern pinnys on site ?? does anyone know. ??
Anyway, I have something I am going to add to the Avengers thread that i have had printed for all of the Stern flyers on A3 sized gloss paper with lamination done to each poster. They look great. See the Avengers thread for some info, costs and photos.
Cheers.
