i like pachinko games like peggle, but the point of this became cookie clicker-esque, which is not where my mind gets its dopamine. I stuck around to reveal a good amount of the map, but the limited effectiveness of the influence zone quickly started to grate on me. Also balls got stuck out of bounds constantly. Maybe some focused influence zone puzzles would be cool? like a zig zag with wide margins and a 1 gate at the end, only navigable through effective use of the zone in a few windows of the map. shortcuts as it were.