What do you think about using RC cars in paintball?

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

Operation: Moving Bomb
RC Paintball Shooter
RC Paintball Super Tank

You will notice these threads in the workshop forum.
I just want to know what everyone thinks about using these in an actual game.

In my opinion i think that trying to hook up a marker to a RC car will be very difficult and will be a waste of time. You would need to drive it up to a bunker, somehow aim the gun, and fire (which i doubt would get to the bunker without getting shot first).

[LaW]

a stupid idea....

why bring it up even

[edweird]

Eigh... keep paintball and RC seperate!

just like we are at Tx Throwdown... I have it on good knowledge that there will be some 1/10th scale RC racing on the side during the whole weekend of fun

[Big_Chops]

like law said its a stupid idea

[ScatterPlot]

Aww, come on, attaching a marker wouln't be hard to do at all, I'm planning on an electronic Spyder. Plus it's just for fun, using it anywhere but a scenario would be stupid. Bunkers, speedball, etc. it would be stupid to use a marker on a tank. You don't use gokarts except in scenarios, this is like a RC go-kart.

[Methylphenidate]

ya... um... NO
just let it go man dont fight it
its just a bad idea

[MrWallen]

The owner at my local field is going to buy a gyrocoptor (read: really small, personal helicopter), and shoot people during scenarios with that. Not RC related, but vehicle related and a much cooler, better idea than RC car.

[Jaasper]

Actually its cooler than you would think playing against them in a scenario game. I've come across a couple of them in my time. They usually have a kill switch wired into them you can hit with a paintball to turn them off other wise they keep on truckin. Last one I saw was as the killer rabbit at the Quest game in Houston. Is was about 3 feet long and about a foot and a half wide. Had a angel strapped to it with a rubber maid container holding about 2000 rounds of paint. With the offroad tires it had on it, it could get just about anywhere, it was also gas powered thou. It was a nasty little rabbit when you ran into it on the field.

The other one I ran into was at the Camp blanding game in Florida. A guy had one of them remote control paintball land mines attached to a RC car and would drive it around the MOUT site. Fast little sucker. It had a kill switch you had to hit to disable it.

[JT2002]

Originally posted by edweird
Eigh... keep paintball and RC seperate!

just like we are at Tx Throwdown... I have it on good knowledge that there will be some 1/10th scale RC racing on the side during the whole weekend of fun

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! !!!11

someone needs to get me cheap tix to tx throwdown!!! (is it an AO Day event or something? )
omg id love to shoot u all with my 2k4 timmy, then run u all over with my rustler

[elpimpo]

dude that would be funnier than hell. your playing some speedball and you get shot then afterwards your buddies ask you who shot you and you tell them a remote control car. that would be the most intresting way ive ever gotten out

[Sparq]

Being in a robotics course, earning an elecromechanical technician's certificate...I've thought on and off about stuff like this. I think the only practical application would be sone sort of remotely controlled sentry gun. essentially you'd just need one or more markers, a mounting system, servos to aim the device on 2 axes, and a video camera. Run a long cable (or use radios...) back to a bunker (or the staging area, I like that idea )

Perhaps a voice link and a megaphone on the sentry...yell at your targets

Anyway, someone would have to come up with some sort of scenario rules to disable it...ahit on a certain target...perhaps a switch somewhere in it's field of fire that disables the firing mechanism.

As far as an RC car...I don't think anything that small would be mobile or precise enough to be effectively armed. Maybe a paint mine, but not a marker.

[kosmo]

A little RC car with a mine on it would be awesome. And so would sentry towers. But I cant quite see an rc car with a gun on it working too well.

[JT2002]

actually i could see that working. a gas or electric rc car with one of those 36 round mines on it definitely sounds feisable (sp?)

[Sparq]

Hmmmm...might be something to think about. A claymore mine that can be remotely deployed...or perhaps driven directly into a group of players and 'detonated' in the confusion.

[JT2002]

i could see fairly easily mounting one of those mines onto an rc car, then using a servo to pull the cord to set it off