Why isn't one marker enough?

[s1im]

I was a marker whore, then I sold up everything including xmag etc, then I decided to get back into it, so i bought one pump,one modern marker 08 ego. enough got everything i need to play???? well i missed my xmag, so bought another, seemed to be missing a cocker, so bought one, then another, then another, then i see an x very cheeply so i bought it... and so the cycle continues!!!

[Daze]

All of these are good reasons. I'll add that sometimes we hold onto guns that we wouldn't otherwise because we can't ge rid of them for anything close to what we've got in them. Likewise, we just can't get rid of them easily because they're a little too 'low end'.

[ta2maki]

For me, it's the mechanism and design of the markers that is fascinating. Every marker that I've owned has been taken apart and studied before taken onto a field. The guns that I have purchased have been selected because of their reputations, good or bad; and my curiosity as to why they have attained such reputations.

[koleah]

For me, it's the mechanism and design of the markers that is fascinating. Every marker that I've owned has been taken apart and studied before taken onto a field. The guns that I have purchased have been selected because of their reputations, good or bad; and my curiosity as to why they have attained such reputations.

I will make an exception of two guns for you, good sir, to allow for the "twins".

(which I can't seem to find the picture of anymore)

[ta2maki]

I can only keep 2?

[shooter311]

I may be wrong, but it seems like the people who have many markers (such as myself), own older markers. I don't know anyone with 7 egos. I like having a bunch of different cockers, mags, and some old school angels and shoebox shockers. I only have one modern gun, and I don't have any want for another. All the people I play with are newer to the sport, and they just buy one top of the line gun. They always wonder why I have a different gun every time I show up.

Is it me or is gun collecting something that the seasoned players do?

[mpsd]

I agree. I mean, I don't have and never had any Ego, DM or any other Uber-expensive gun. I mean, of course I've put some money onto some of my Mags. But they are still Mags and they still keep up with these fast depreciating markers, without suffering from that effect so much.

The only modern gun that I could see myself buying in the future would be a BL Victory. Still, I'd buy it used for something like 40% lower than it's brand new price tag.

[skipdogg]

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

I'll answer for you....play with that Golden Eagle...or is it a poison???

[koleah]

I can only keep 2?

HOLY WALL OF GUNS BOTH NEW AND OLD AND RARE BATMAN!

Yes, you can only keep two. I will PM my address so you can send the rest to me for. . . storage and dispersal.




Edit: on second glance, just send me whats pinned up below the wall on the right side. Send the subject matter, of course, not just the photo

[Dirge]

Because moderation is borring.

[OPBN]

I need to show my wife this thread so that she will feel better about the paultry 11 (some in parts) markers that I have around here.

My base reason for having multiple markers is truly to have a back up and back up back up. I have actually been in at least one situation where between my brother and I, we went through 5 markers combined in a day of play to get two that were actually functioning properly. Considering at minimum, I have to drive an hour to a field, and in most cases 3-4hours or more, the last thing I want to do it get caught without a functioning marker. If you have two bone stock Classic Mags, I wouldn't see a reason to have any more as far as backups, but when you start adding ULTs, detents, LvlX, X valves, pneumatics or electronics, there is always an increased chance that something is going to get fubar. Add to that the constant changing around of configurations and it is even more likely to happen.

Oh, and it's fun to build new markers. I will say that I am not wild about wall hangers and it does bug me that I don't use some of the ones that I have more often. I actually sold a couple this past year that I knew I would never use for fear of scratching them up or something. Of course, I just took the money and bought others. Once I get a couple of the new ones dialed in properly I forsee a couple more possibly hitting the chopping block.

[Spider-TW]

I agree with these reasons above;

Collect
Build/Rescue
Dissect

I would add that markers are like golf clubs and firearms. It's possible to play with only one, better to play with three, and best to have the one that matches the situation.

I like electros and RTs, but I don't like playing rec ball with them, nor do I like playing pump in mixed rec ball. All pump play is fun. In games where you're the last guy against a 20 player push (or worse), RTs and electros are great fun also.

[M98Punk]

Because any gentleman can never have enough: Attention, Fine liquor, or beautiful women. Obviously markers fall between that later two, being that they are gorgeous and addicting.

Who knows where being a gun whore comes from. Lots of times for me it comes from the years in the late 90's where there were all those pretty guns that I could never afford, then then in 2008 you can buy a parts vaporized Bushie for $20 and add $100 in upgrades to have the gun you wanted 10 years ago.

And then there was the micromag I bought on ebay that started me on the path to collect one from each generation. (including the generation 1 body with the fixed barrel that I turned into a pistol)

And the tippman 98 I bought as my first marker, back when you had to send your clams back in because the barrel pointed 15* left of center.

I still have the parts of a project to put a classic mag in a walnut stock (ohhh to one day have a workshop in my house instead of a spare bedroom in my apartment)


I would have 22 sports cars if I could afford them and store them but I can't, luckily paintball markers are cheaper and smaller

[mpsd]

I would have 22 sports cars if I could afford them and store them but I can't, luckily paintball markers are cheaper and smaller

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[M98Punk]

MPSD..... Is that a chrome fixed barrel Micromag I see in those photos?