Just buy everything as soon as you can afford it. Ascend each time your population will quadruple from the process, and you will control the universe in just a day or two.
The kickers are just plain wrong. Take a look at the behaviour of the kickers on a real table, and see the the kicker face is straight, it does not curve at the end and push the ball down the chute when it fires. Also the kickers in this game do not fire the ball back at a realistic angle. Sometimes the ball fires away from the kicker as it should (like light reflected from a mirror), sometimes they fire the ball straight upwards, which is obviously wrong.
We really need a defence mechanism against the opponents that can become invisible. Otherwise when you are attacked by large groups of them, there is almost no way to prevent a gem from being removed from your pit, and then no brilliant rating for the level :-(
Yeah I suck at this game. I suck at any game where you have to get timing and placement EXACTLY correct to get past a certain point. I wanna be the guy!
This game is retarded.
On 'Total Loser' difficulty, it is really easy.
On 'I'm a Baby' difficulty, it is much more challenging - I have yet to get to level 50.
On 'Let's do this' difficulty I am unable to make it past level 5. The person responsible for the game has only ever gotten to level 8.
On 'Make it Hurt' difficulty it is mathematically impossible to finish the first level.
Yes it's buggy, but it's also a bucket-load of fun. If only there was something more to do after the fiunal mission - you don't even get to go home, you're just stuck there in deep space with your ship making it's own fireworks?