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Originally Posted by Splink-Splink McGillicutty
What makes up for the the fact that you're doing 3 more holes (at least 20 minutes) and having to get gags in between? Is it because you typically can't sound through the cogs on the last few floors of the 9 so the cog battles are slower?
CraigC
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You are right, on a Back 9 you will usually run out of sound gags on the last few holes, which you have to take care of each cog single handedly. Of course the puzzles do offer sound restock, so there will be times that a single Back 9 will be faster than doing 2 Middle 6s, but that is not always the case, which means you just have to take each cog out one-by-one at the end.
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Originally Posted by Splink-Splink McGillicutty
This is only a discussion about how long things take. So even if 7 Back-9's can be done faster, that doesn't necessarily mean they're preferable. It's nice to know you won't run out of gags in a Mid-6 and it's nice to not have to commit to 88 minutes of playing time to get through it. I'm likely to take the Middle 6 approach even if the Back 9 way is faster.
CraigC
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Those numbers are just estimates from what I have been hearing from friends and people here on TTC. I know that a Back 9 can be done in just over an hour if the group is fast, but I would say the majority of the time for most people it will take about 1.5 hours due to lag, gags missing... so on and so forth. It would be nice to get a more exact figure.
I agree with you, even if 1 Back 9 is significantly faster than doing 2 Middle 6s, I too am likely to take the Middle 6 approach for many reasons. Some reasons I will take the 6s is because if invasion ends, which it always seems to end as the last cogs are blowing up, I would rather lose out on the Middle 6 points than a whole Back 9. Another reason being that there are major bugs in the Whack-a-mole game where the red moles sometimes dont come out. I have had a few friends tell me they had to get out of the Back 9 (near the end) because red moles never came out. Plus, if I am running a Middle 6, I know that I can quit and do RL stuff in about 45 min should I need to take off, whereas in a Back 9, Im stuck for about 1.5 hrs. Also, doing 2 Middle 6s gives you more stocks than a single Back 9.
The Dogfather