Re: The ANNOYING THINGS IN PINBALL list!

Keith P. Johnson wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yancy Blaylock) wrote:
> > - Bare metal posts atop in/outlane dividers. Is it just
> > me, or is it *impossible* to influence ball travel with
> > a nudge when the ball just thunks up against one of
> > those? That's one of my very few complaints with LOTR.
> > The test game can be brutal with no rubber and the
> > outside posts opened up all the way. Anyway, I'm
> > probably just spoiled, as nearly all the games I played
> > heavily when first getting into pinball had in/outlane
> > post rubber (TOM, MM, etc). A slight nudge at the
> > perfect time works wonders on those!
>
> You are absolutely correct here.  However, if you put rubbers
> on the outlanes in LOTR, ball time goes through the roof.

That makes sense. Whenever I have a LOTR outlane drain, I 
usually think "I coulda saved that with the help of a post 
ring", so it's probably good that it's not there. Not that 
I'm some master player (far from it!), but it would help my 
ball time significantly.

Still, if I owned one I'd put rubber rings on the posts, at 
least until I got to wizard mode a handful of times. =)

Yancy