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[Hobbez]

In other profession sports, cheating is rewarded with full team disqualifications, removal of previous wins and even monetary fines. If it works for the NBA, NFL, NHL, and others, why not paintball?

[MassDriver]

Originally Posted by Hobbez

In other profession sports, cheating is rewarded with full team disqualifications, removal of previous wins and even monetary fines. If it works for the NBA, NFL, NHL, and others, why not paintball?

I'm unaware when this has happened, except for monetary fines. Can you give me an example? Also remember those sports are not played in tournament format, so if there is a full team disqual or such, it has to be done before the next game.
Brent.

[Luckless]

Originally Posted by Rockfrog

Am I missing something here? I perused the NPPL flyer and looking at the add on board ... it looks like exactly that ... it's a two wire addition that can be quickly wired to ANY electronic marker from the looks of it. Likely either to the solenoid (most accurate) or to the trigger and simply relays the appropriate pulses to a monitoring computer through Wi-fi.

This is nothing unusual really ... just Paintball taking the same route NASCAR did when manufacturers bent the rules to put illegal cars on the tracks back in the 60's (what, you thought the Charger Daytona was supposed to be a commuter car?). Now it's even more limited right down to suspension geometry and adjustment allowances resulting from the same manufacturers
cheating and creating unfair advantage ... and also to limit top speeds more recently. sounds pretty familiar to me ...

It all comes down to ... if one cheats, all pay ... limit the ability to cheat for all and everyone can get back to playing.

As for mechanical markers ... I can see a coin cell powered, microswitch activated addition in your future. If only to prevent the RT'd crowd from taking advantage of an unfair advantage.

just my 2 cents on it.

And are you going to have an electrical engineer dismantle and fully inspect each and every marker? Because cheaters will cheat. If I have access to my marker and the wiring harness, I can bypass this chip and make it look and act like it is perfectly normal.

My first approach would be to simply double wire the solenoid: Run two conductors up what looks like a single strand heavy gauge line, branch one into the chip, one into the solenoid. From there there are all kinds of methods of hiding the connection. If you don't know what you're looking for (And haven't disassembled the entire electronics package to trace the paths to confirm function) then all you're going to see is a normal looking solenoid connection with a branch into the chip.


A third party day-of add-on package means I don't get to mess with it. An official straps the package onto my marker and turns it on before I step onto the field. No time to screw with it, no time to do anything that can change how the data is actually being read.