If you want to keep it tame off of the dry and still get length go with a Rico Drilling
just saw my friend throw a Rico drilled balled and man was it tame on the backend off the dry and retained plenty of energy for great pin carry

I would go that route

The Mars gets a ton of natural length, and is very controllable when used in the right circumstances.  However, for me (especially as a lower-rev bowler), it can be very squirrely whenever there's any carrydown at all.  I drilled mine strong (4x3, x-hole in P3 location) and usually have it either very lightly polished, or perhaps even sanded depending on the condition I'm going to be facing. On a house shot when the outsides are toasted by the 3rd game, the ball can really cover a ton of boards, but if I get it a little too far inside and catch some extra oil, it's going to just skid and skid for ages.  The best use I've gotten from my Mars has been on shorter patterns when the backends are jumping.  It creates such natural length and continuous motion off the spot that I can stay further right and square up more to break the pattern down and have predictable motion that still carries, then switch to something stronger and move further inside and bank it off the spot I had been playing down lane with the Mars.

For fun one day, I tried using Valentino's UFO extender polish on it, and it hooked less than my plastic ball.

Ya I was going to use a newer Reign of Fire drilled 4x4 and was hooking way too much I was in the mood for it in league. Could of used it but tried my Mars and had an awesome direct line from outside. This ball shines playing straighter too I think.