Well - certainly an interesting thread, and a bit of a shame to see no meeting in the middle.
It's not easy otherwise everyone would do it and there would be literally no market for flipping.
I can also appreciate that while it's hard to give up trust of your possessions to other people that may or may not hold them in sufficient regard to look after them properly, you're making a mistake if you treat it as a permanent collection on display instead of a trading booth (as I expect PHOF doesn't sell their machines on,) and don't keep an eye on how things are holding up.
Saying that anyone could manage that effectively ans easier doesn't have much relation to the physical challenge of keeping the plates spinning at a live show of BYOB pinball machines of mixed qualities - which I'll be honest is a totally different problem. That's the hardest 'technical' trick in pinball to pull off; gotta respond fast, respond and repair positively, and keep it going all day long as the weaker games keep on toppling over. Nothing about that is easy.
Also not sure of the reasoning to make comments like that against someone that's down to bring ten of their own machines to the show. If anything, it's not the most constructive way to get the point across.
Sadly I think it starts with someone adding 2 and 2 together and getting 9 and a half, being abusive and then realising they ****ed up, changing their post and still getting it wrong; but hey we are all friends right?
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lets start from my point of view about hard, this is a picture of Shorty Crater on the moon from Apollo XVII - if two guys can drive a convertible car around the moon for a few days then I believe just about anything is possible. this was hard, running a few machines, not so hard.
In your response I dont understand your first point.
I think the clue is in the title of the place. Its the "Pinball Hall of Fame". Not the pinball hall of shame and the fact he is now asking for peoples money to run this place... oh and did I say, I've been there.
I think you are saying in your next point that running a place called the Pinball Hall of Fame is nothing like running a two day event where everyone brings their own machine in various states of dis-repair and you don't know how bad or good the machines are until the first hour of the show. Absolutely agree and something thats very hard to plan for but not impossible.
However, if you are able to have the right team of folks and a known set of machines - then its very straightforward. Look at Pinburgh as an example - 500+ games and most of from the three early eras including lots of EMs. The whole thing went without a single issue because they are well organised, have the right skills and the right number of people and have backup machines, but the fact that its all of their games makes this a known quantity and therefore manageable.
Running one game is hard if you don't know how to do it or you aren't organised to cope with it going wrong.
well if someone constantly sells games that are claimed to be working perfectly and they are not - they are going to get called out. Why we find it acceptable for some in this community to get away with doing this but not others is frankly ridiculous; "but i'll bring ten machines and buy my way out of my behavriour?"
Regards,
Neil.
