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[Azzy]

Maybe some of the paint spnsors are getting tired of just giving paint to these kids who will shoot it as fast as they can get it.

kindof like the pickle maker who takes out one pickle per jar to save the company millions in one year.

[Drachen]

Originally Posted by drg

This is quite an interesting move, and I wonder how it will play out. Many people can hit 13bps walking a trigger honestly. Far fewer can hit an honest 15 bps.

Ramping is the next thing they need to get rid of. As most of the people here at MCB knows, firepower isn't what's needed to get someone out. It only takes one ball to get an elimination. If you need electronics to make you shoot faster, because you either can't hit someone on those first few balls (with an exception to "burning lanes") then you shouldn't be shooting that much in the first place. Then again, with new markers coming out every year to squeeze out an extra ball per second, up to 50 balls per second or more, why bother? With this move, cutting down the legal rate of fire is going to take a blow to those high end companies that are purposely making markers shoot faster than any loader on earth can keep up with...... sorry, I'm done.

[minimag03]

Ramping is the LAST thing that needs to be gotten rid of. I think the PSP made ramping legal because so many people were cheating and doing it anyway, and getting away with it. If they made it legal, the PSP could regulate it.

So this will be the best it's probably ever going to get. A reasonable ramp speed,,,but still ramping...

[MondoMor]

Tourney speedball is facing the same challenges that Formula 1 racing is facing: inability of the governing body to monitor and regulate technology. In Formula 1, even if "Traction Control" is illegal, it's impossible to know if a team is using it, or if they have some secret means of enabling and disabling it for inspections.

F1 solved it by making everyone use the same Engine Control Unit. Small changes can be made to accommodate a Team's engine and gearbox, but the unit will not allow engine mapping to change based on input from the wheel sensors. Bang, no traction control.

One of Virtue's new products is a "Cheat to Win" badge for loaders, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if Virtue-sponsored teams sported cheater boards.

Solution: manufacture a tiny PSP board with harnesses for tourney guns. Cap the minimum cycle time (max bps) to whatever, and then allow for changes to dwell, eye delay, and whatnot. You get your marked-and-sealed tourney board at the beginning of the tournament, and must give it back at the end. You'd be able to buy unsealed and unmarked boards from the organization for practice.

[russc]

Solution: Agitated gravity feed.

[Al Ray]

The truely simple solution is to ban all forms of electronics and go back to stock class. Stock class play leans heavly on the individuals skill/athletic ability. we wont see paintball taken as a serious sport (ie olympics) until this happens.

[MondoMor]

Without expensive markers, how will we know how to treat our fellow players? People must be judged and classified! Dropping electronics from the equation will be chaos!

[chrislognshot]

way i see it. they will not sit as much and pray to hit. this will open game to where more people will make move to bunker to bunkers now. and will make better to film too. who wants to watch some standing on one spot praying to hit someone. when they rather see some make moves on bunkers more. more get people move around the field better it looks to tape or film to watch. if want watch some stands shoot i would rather go to gun range and just shoot pops 9 1/8 hand gun. for me i don't like stay in one spot to much it boring. i rather play games where you have to move around more then play a game pray to hit some one. that my 2 cents

[Uranus]

It should be mandatory to have all high end electro's shoot a revvy.

[Drachen]

I don't think bumping it down to stock class....maybe open class, just no batteries