Why isn't one marker enough?

[koleah]

Why isn't one marker enough? How is it that people end up with four, five, eight different guns all of the same class?

I can understand having one pump, and one semi.

But its not like you're ever going to be able to use more than one gun at a time.

Okay, maybe you have a loaner to let a friend borrow, but unless you're planning to outfit your entire squad personally, I don't understand why people end up with such large paintball gun collections?

This isn't intended to be a dig at them, I'm just wondering.

K

[death594]

for me it is for the different feel and play of the game and i really dont like using my nice electros in the rain.

[Stayhuge]

I believe it starts like this:

You buy one marker, a pretty nice one.

Then you want to upgrade, so you decide to sell the first one and buy a better one, but you start to think, what if the new marker breaks down?

So you just buy a second one, maybe to use as your primary.

Then you realize that some of your friends might want to play and you can't have them shooting the rental markers, and they can't use your backup, because if your primary goes down, how can you ask for your marker back from the person that is borrowing it.

Then you start to think that maybe you have two or three friend that may want to play, and you can't just lend to one and not the others. You start to rationalize it by saying that once they play once or twice, they will just buy the extra markers off of you, but that doesn't happen.

Next thing yo know you have 12 markers, 9 tanks, and a bag full of hoppers, harnesses, and pods.

At least that is how I see it.

Then there are others that just love to collect markers. Same as any other hobby, just a little pricey.

That's how I see getting sucked into the black hole of paintball!!

[georgeyew]

Because they are pretty. Nuff said.

[Frizzle Fry]

Why isn't one marker enough?

Short answer? Because you can own more than one.

[hill160881]

personal collection

[maniacmechanic]

Because were Men

[Pyrate Jim]

I like having a choice.
Which shall I play with today?

[TwilightG]

I often ask myself the same question... and yet find it so difficult to sell off markers that I rarely use.
I think a lot of it really boils down to being a hobby separate from playing the game itself. We like to collect paintball markers/equipment.

[mpsd]

I started playing back in 1991, at age 13. At that time I used to rent cheap pump guns made here in Brazil called Busterballs. They were really, really crappy.

Later, as I played more and more I started buying some paintball magazines (mostly APG) and see the ads. I started draming about having an Automag but I just couldn't afford it.

My first own paintball marker was a red Crossball (another Nelson pump made here, a little better than the Busterball). that was in 1991 or so. I had two Crossballs, one Splatmaster Rapide, one Tippmann 68 Special, one Line SI Bushmaster Deluxe and one Speedmaster (the best Nelson pump ever made here in Brazil - it's a Phantom clone with Phantom quality). I had one at a time.

Later in 1996 when I was already in college, I bought my first Automag. It was a polished Minimag with a splash kit and a Classic valve. I stayed with it untill 2004 when I changed it for my black RT Classic. On the next year I sold it and bought my eMag. Later I had it sent to Tunaman for a complete overhaul and then I bought my second eMag and, for the first time, I didn't sell my previous paintgun.

Well, to make the story short, I now own over 65 paintball guns, including all the previous mentioned ones (except for the Speedmaster, which I can't find anymore), being 26 Automags. None of them look the same, trust me. Some are pumps, some are mechs, some are electros, some eletro-pneus and one is a pneuMag.

Now, answering your question, I bought of these guns because:

1- I could afford it (I call it "poor boy syndrome"). I'm unfortunatelly unemployed now.
2- It was a dream fullfilled (I bought almost every paintball gun I ever dreamt about having)
3- I like collecting them, specially if they are rare
4- I can loan guns, hoppers, air tanks and masks to 10 other people and therefore, I can convine my non paintball adicted friends to play with me

Here are come pics of my collection:




Not everygun I have is pictured but you get the idea.

[Drachen]

Because it's smart to have a back up marker. But what if your primary, and your back up fails? You'd need a back up to your back up. It can keep going for a while like that lol.

Though I think of it a little different, none of mine are back ups. I have my very efficient electro, I have a mech to borrow out/play in the rain or snow, I have my fancy mech that I use just because, I have my main pump, and then my rental/"I don't wanna ding up my good pump", then comes the "I don't know you well enough to borrow my good stuff, so here's a VL" mech lol.
I have always been like that. For two years I played pump only, but had 4 e-cockers, an Angel, and a Cyborg...never touched any of them on a field lol.

[shooter311]

Why isn't one marker enough?

K

Why don't you ask:

Charlie Sheen why one bottle of vodka isn't enough?

Nicolas Cage why one boat isn't enough?

Oprah Winfrey why one cheeseburger isn't enough?

Chuck Norris why one roundhouse kick isn't enough?

...

Its a sickness, sometimes we can't help ourselves.

[bound for glory]

one marker pretty much has been enough for me. but i guess i'm out of step here...

[mpsd]

Oprah Winfrey why one cheeseburger isn't enough?

[sjrtk]

Chuck Norris why one roundhouse kick isn't enough?

One is enough.

But as far as why isn't one marker enough? Its complicated, I find parts and pieces for sale here and there, I like them buy and them use them. The next thing I know i have so many spare parts I just slap them together bag another marker. But i do sell stuff off, when i decide i am done with it. But who knows why we do it. Mabey were are all twisted maniacal people with an insatiable need to own stuff to shoot people with.