Electros bad for futur of sport u can get them so cheap that newbi can get them

[skife]

Well that's not too shocking as the forums has been around since ~2000 or so.

i've been here since feb of 03... so a little more than half the forums life.

[personman]

This thread makes me giggle.
Mostly because the posters from 6 years ago, when I first joined, didn't care about the poster's grammar.
Then flash forward to 2007 and everyone flames him.

AO really has gone down hill.

[Al_Steel]

Holy thread resurrection Batman! - ok, now that I got that out of my system...

Who here can remember when the introduction of the 68 Special was going to mean the DEATH of our sport as we knew it?

I remember ooohing and ahhhing over a 68 and an SMG 60. We had to rearrange our games to make it "fair" for the other poor saps that were only running pumps. Later, if someone showed up with a Mag.. well that was game over right there. j/k

Semi's made things more interesting but it also made you a better pump player. They were also real good at increasing your paint budget. Now semi's are commonplace and pumps, well you gotta be a special kind of crazy to run a pump today. When electro's came out it was dejavu, people screaming the "electros are coming! Run for your lives!" Now they are everywhere and they are fun but they have their drawbacks too. Have they made the game more "intense"? Yeah I guess, but what they have really proven themselves good at is increasing paint sales, not eliminations. I'll take my mech against a e-marker anyday... especially a rainy one.

[Desega]

LOL this thread brings back memories. I remember swearing off electro's becuase they were too finicky. Now I own an Intimidator, e-mag, and e-hoppers. Thankz

[hmudd13]

It's like giving the keys to a top fuel dragster, to a 12 year old.
I remember being shot 5 times by a guy with a ramping marker after I missed with my pump. It was from 30 ft. There were trees......
Not a problem.
It was the 15 I took, out of about 20 fired, as I was leaving the area. I was in the open and putting my barrel plug in. The kid said "sorry, I didn't know it was on full auto"

In the wrong hands it's still not a closed issue

[Jimmykaboots]

Man, I wish we could all go back to the 80's. It was all so much simpler then.

If you had more than 15 rounds in your feedtube, you were considered god.

Dude I am so with you lol! I wish paintball was really played like the olden days! I don't like these ropes and raining of paint coming at me. I use a 68 classic automag with a 40 round hopper, and when I feel trigger happy, I take out the BIG hopper, the 50 round pocket hopper! OOOO insane madness! My pod pack? One pod. Total paintballs used for a tournament, a bag of 500 for the whole day, ah the good ol days. Sides, it's more fun to actually have to aim, than just lay streams of paint out there. What a waste of good money.

[Dover]

Read my ReTro valve review at www.pbreview.com

I brought out four markers, DM4 and two electro Cockers later, the only the worked was a mechanical ReTro valve AutoMag.

And the good old reliable mechanical Mag didn't break a single ball ALL DAY.

[Pneumagger]

I remember saying I'll never go electro. Yeah, I got an E cannon nowadays and LOVE electros.

I remember though when someone would show up with a cocker or minimag, and everyone got scared.

[viper-mayhem]

I started with electro's and went thru a few. Now I just bought my first Mech Marker, ULE RT Pro and getting an old Bob Long Autococker to build a pump.
Is it me or has Speedball using Mech's and Pumps gotten harder and faster? Seems to me that the Pump Players are now playing as hard and fast as the electro players if not faster.

[skife]

I started with electro's and went thru a few. Now I just bought my first Mech Marker, ULE RT Pro and getting an old Bob Long Autococker to build a pump.
Is it me or has Speedball using Mech's and Pumps gotten harder and faster? Seems to me that the Pump Players are now playing as hard and fast as the electro players if not faster.

when pump players get on the field i watch out for them. usually they are good.
I usually find myself playing better after i play a few games of pump.

[FromTheBack]

Read my ReTro valve review at www.pbreview.com

I brought out four markers, DM4 and two electro Cockers later, the only the worked was a mechanical ReTro valve AutoMag.

And the good old reliable mechanical Mag didn't break a single ball ALL DAY.

There is a steep learning curve with electros and you have to fully understand them by educating yourself before you expect them to work all the time.

They are tempermental but when things get high performance that's almost always how it is eh?

Show me a perfect paintball gun and I'll call you Jesus
(Although the mini is getting very close to it...)

[Empyreal Rogue]

I remember though when someone would show up with a cocker or minimag, and everyone got scared.

haha I was one of those Mag users in my earliest paintball days.

Simpler times, simpler times...

[Desega]

I remember though when someone would show up with a cocker or minimag, and everyone got scared.

LOL I remeber that too. I started with a tigershark, and when my older brother (bryceeden) got a semi-auto stingray, I felt horribly out gunned. Then the jerk got his mag right after I worked my way up to a Bruizer Bandit. Ahh, the memories.