What would it take for you to switch to 50

[Spider-TW]

It would have to have at least equal performance and a really nice marker. Something built well along the quality lines of the automag. Not a wompy cnc electro flinger with the latest in "unique" valve systems, but a nice solid machine.

I wouldn't bother to convert jack to 50. I like purpose built, not converted.

[kevdupuis]

For the wife and I the day that only 50 cal. is used is the day we walk away from paintball.

[GoatBoy]

I really just care about keeping the properties of my current gun -- a y-gripped Automag with a q-loader. I've already tried playing with other guns, and they don't work for me anymore.

So basically if I can't get a .50 cal gun in the configuration I like, and everyone switches to .50, then I might as well just stop playing.

Either that, or change to pistol play if they ever come out with decent pistols.

[mt84]

Nothing so far would make change from 68 to 50.

[BiNumber3]

Only reason I'd even consider switching is if: Tom Kaye comes back, and there's a new automag that runs 50 cal...

AGG's have their pros, we have our Tom :P

[Psi]

I have never played with a Smart Parts product and never will. Richmond made a poor choice of partners.

[warbeak2099]

It would have to offer a radical performance increase and it would have to be ludicrously cheaper. And THEN, I'd have to have some kind of incentive from the gun manufacturer like a trade in program to fully commit to buying new guns. With those three criteria met, I'd probably go for it. Therefore, I just selected the last poll choice because very little of that will ever happen.

[sunshaker]

I picked "If I see demonstrated a noticeable performance edge" but I'd never fully convert (I also doubt that there will be any performance edge) I just like some of the markers I have too much. I'm sure there will always be .68 cal paint (even if it is the guys on MCB doing custom paint orders, they did a .62 cal order this year). I likely won't spend much money on a .50 cal marker (if at all) unless it fires .50 cal First Strike.

[Old School 626]

What would make me switch...

- Higher velocity, the kinetic energy would need to be around the same as a .68 ball @ 285-300 FPS but dramatically faster velocity.
- Range would have to be the same as .68 or farther.
- Better accuracy, accuracy with a production markers need to be on par with the best custom pump guns currently available with great .68 paint. Yes, paint is only part of the equation but if it's a smaller sphere then I would expect there to be less deflection.
- Lower cost paint. Buying paint I'm really buying gelatin, fill and labor. I would expect to see similar to lower prices for the same volume (not quantity) of paint. I would expect there would be efficiency gains manufacturing smaller balls. (Accountants: it's a generalization, chill out. Yes, I know about S G & A and overhead)
- Marking ability would have to be on par with .68 paint. There are already enough wiping idiots on the field I don't want to make it any easier for them.
- Safety. The paint would have to pose the same risk or less than .68 paint even with increased muzzle velocities. This includes risk to exposed skin, i.e. hands, necks and ears and also to equipment, i.e. hoppers, hosing, anno etc.
- Gas/air efficiency has to be markedly better as well.

And of course it'd have to age at least 10 years and appear on the Antiques Road Show to be considered... Old School

[chafnerjr]

you forgot to add a selection for those who would make fun of people playing with smaller balls