Right now, even forty balls onscreen at one time is pushing it. More than 60 and it will drop below 20fps, which in my opinion is unacceptable.

It's not just the balls. They are not the MOST important thing on the screen (though with a game like pachinko, the more the better, thousands are cool). The balls have to go through things like funnels and spinners to make it interesting, and to make it exciting they have to spit out the winning slot in the thousands!(litterally, when you win at pachinko, you have some big buckets of ball bearings to take to the counter -to take to that completely legal hole in the wall around the corner )

This thousands of winning balls spewing out troubles me, because it so important to the fun aspect of the game. For now I'll just concentrate on the main playing field. Just that is hard enough for now.