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[Tessaract]

Originally Posted by Horizon

Almost all paintball players, including myself, hate hearing stories like this one, where idiots use paintball markers to intentionally hurt people. Yet many, if not most paintball players don't get particularly upset when players "bonus ball" another player, where the reason for doing it is exactly the same, to intentionally hurt someone. To bonus ball another player means you are trying to physically hurt them, much like a hockey player that swings his stick at another player. I realize a paintball player is wearing a mask and is probably used to paintballs hitting him, but it always seems like a bit of a double standard, to be appalled by one and be willing to accept the other, when both are meant to cause pain for another human baing. Anyway, hopefully I won't drag this too far off topic.

uhh dawg thats not bonus balling. bonus balling is unintentionaly overshooting someone. as in some idiot decides to bum rush 4 ppl yea you can expect he is gonna get lit up, overshot, bonus balled or whatever you wish to call it

and its not done to hurt someone, its done to eliminate someone. if your firing 10bps at someone your doing it to tag them out, there is a good chance there is alot of soft cover or hard cover between you and them your attempting to shoot through. thus you may not know on the first hit you got them out when 10 more balls are right behind it, some of which might hit them

and if you take on more than one person there all gonna be trying to get you out, there is no telepathic link between them saying dont worry i got this one.

if someone gets tagged out, especialy if making a play for more cover, or advancing or anywhere they are exposed people are gonna shoot as much as they can because its alot easyer to shoot someone in the open than behind cover. thus they want the maximum number of chances one of there balls is gonna hit them. they dont just fire 1 shot then go whelp it didnt get em guess ill try again next time. no you open up

once you get hit theres still balls in the air, plus its gotta register in the persons mind that they are hit and signal there out, and its gotta register in the other players mind they are signalling and stop firing

that is bonus balling. its not intentional and its not done to hurt someone, its part of the game



what your talking about is simply bad sportmanship. if someone calls themselfs out, has there gun up and walking twords the deadzone. clearly out and you start to fire on them. thats bad sportmanship

or letting someone walk by twords dead (still showin there out cause we all know DMW) and shootin them in the *** yeah thats intentional and done to cause pain and will lead to very bad things on the feild. prolly them turning around and emptying there hopper on you. i know i would, assuming the ref didnt get to you first and ejecting you from the feild for the day.

bonus balling is unintentional. being a jerk and showing bad sportman will lead to problems.

if a guy is walking, gun up and saying dead and you start shooting them then yeah you deserve to be kicked out, or whatever consiquences happen (and i advise against anyone doing some vigilante justice. it can lead to legal problems)

but if they are out, raised there gun and bam a less than a split second later a few balls hit them. it prolly wasnt on purpose.

or start to come out from behind cover and havent shown there out, expect bonusballs. or even simply walking and not showing there out. i would fire a few shots just to make sure.

edit: oh you can also freeze paintballs with liquid nitrogen(good luck gettin it. i know how na-na-na) or 2 items that can be purchased at walmart for under 5 bucks. but i refuse to tell what they are

[heinous]

I always don't care when I get hit after I'm out. I know some of them shoot me intentionally just to make sure I'm out.

[Tessaract]

Originally Posted by heinous

I always don't care when I get hit after I'm out. I know some of them shoot me intentionally just to make sure I'm out.

raise your marker and open yer trap and they shouldnt have to make sure

[heinous]

I do keep my gun up.

I've also saw movement in game and shot it only to realize it was someone with a gun up as he walks into view, so I have no right to bitch when I get bonusballed.

[Mr. Furious]

Originally Posted by Tessaract

uhh dawg thats not bonus balling. bonus balling is unintentionaly overshooting someone. as in some idiot decides to bum rush 4 ppl yea you can expect he is gonna get lit up, overshot, bonus balled or whatever you wish to call it

and its not done to hurt someone, its done to eliminate someone. if your firing 10bps at someone your doing it to tag them out, there is a good chance there is alot of soft cover or hard cover between you and them your attempting to shoot through. thus you may not know on the first hit you got them out when 10 more balls are right behind it, some of which might hit them

and if you take on more than one person there all gonna be trying to get you out, there is no telepathic link between them saying dont worry i got this one.

if someone gets tagged out, especialy if making a play for more cover, or advancing or anywhere they are exposed people are gonna shoot as much as they can because its alot easyer to shoot someone in the open than behind cover. thus they want the maximum number of chances one of there balls is gonna hit them. they dont just fire 1 shot then go whelp it didnt get em guess ill try again next time. no you open up

once you get hit theres still balls in the air, plus its gotta register in the persons mind that they are hit and signal there out, and its gotta register in the other players mind they are signalling and stop firing

that is bonus balling. its not intentional and its not done to hurt someone, its part of the game



what your talking about is simply bad sportmanship. if someone calls themselfs out, has there gun up and walking twords the deadzone. clearly out and you start to fire on them. thats bad sportmanship

or letting someone walk by twords dead (still showin there out cause we all know DMW) and shootin them in the *** yeah thats intentional and done to cause pain and will lead to very bad things on the feild. prolly them turning around and emptying there hopper on you. i know i would, assuming the ref didnt get to you first and ejecting you from the feild for the day.

bonus balling is unintentional. being a jerk and showing bad sportman will lead to problems.

if a guy is walking, gun up and saying dead and you start shooting them then yeah you deserve to be kicked out, or whatever consiquences happen (and i advise against anyone doing some vigilante justice. it can lead to legal problems)

but if they are out, raised there gun and bam a less than a split second later a few balls hit them. it prolly wasnt on purpose.

or start to come out from behind cover and havent shown there out, expect bonusballs. or even simply walking and not showing there out. i would fire a few shots just to make sure.

edit: oh you can also freeze paintballs with liquid nitrogen(good luck gettin it. i know how na-na-na) or 2 items that can be purchased at walmart for under 5 bucks. but i refuse to tell what they are

Uhh dawg, that IS bonus balling.

Bonus balling is when someone intentionally shoots an eliminated player as they are exiting the field. Bad sportsmanship at it's finest right there but not the same as overshooting.

Overshooting is hitting someone far too many times to accomplish the elimination. Certainly on a run-through you can expect someone to get lit up and they knew it was gonna happen before they made the run. But breaking 7or 8 on someone when you bunker them or take them by surprise and get beside them is overshooting.