Next advancement

[Chris42050]

I would like to see improvements in the paint and loaders. Develop a loader that uses paint bullets instead of paintballs.

[Mosfet]

I was thinking of making a 6 shot paintball revolver just for kicks

Then we can start the Old West Paintball Days!

[ZyperioN]

I hope that now that we've passed the speed and efficency revolutions, we will begin a reliablity revolution. I swear everytime i play somebody has a problem with their gun and with all the money we spend on markers these days a reliablity arms-race would be great for the sport.

[BlackWeenie]

I would like to see improvements in the paint and loaders. Develop a loader that uses paint bullets instead of paintballs.

how the hell would that work? you think theres a lot of cheating now? if they used these no one would ever go out and tourneys would be a waste of everyones time.

[Duzzy]

I hope that now that we've passed the speed and efficency revolutions, we will begin a reliablity revolution. I swear everytime i play somebody has a problem with their gun and with all the money we spend on markers these days a reliablity arms-race would be great for the sport.

Get a Phantom, a Mag, or a Tippmann. (preferably the Phantom)

[Fred]

I think the insurance companies will figure out that in order to cover their own butts, they won't insure any event that has markers shooting over 1 shot per trigger pull... we'll be back to mechanical, or sealed boards like the IR3 had a few years back.

But, I think a few kids will lose eyes, or maybe even get killed, by an uber-ramping-boucing whatever marker in a tournament where rules aren't being enforced before the insurance companies realize what kind of time bomb they have in their laps.

It's gonna happen sooner or later.

---Fred

[Lohman446]

I am so sick of the whining in this thread...

The next improvement in this game will be a solid slide from tournament to rec style play - even rec tournaments. What I mean by this is pretty sudden paintball is going to grow up in the age of its participants. Its expensive for instance.

I want to see a clubhouse, like golf courses. Where after playing for a few hours the players go relax, have a beer, a drink, etc. Paintball is going to calm down from this push towards TV to be more in the realm of what recreational golf is. It is going to become as much about comradarie (sp) as competition for 90% of the players (as if it isnt already). The industry and fields are going to learn that and the ones that do first are going to make a lot of money because of it.

[WenULiVeUdiE]

[QUOTE=Lohman446]I want to see a clubhouse, like golf courses. Where after playing for a few hours the players go relax, have a beer, a drink, etc. QUOTE]

Honestly, the day I see beer being sold at the field is the day I stop playing.

[Lohman446]

Honestly, the day I see beer being sold at the field is the day I stop playing.

Theres a point in there I understand. However when I get done in with a day its not uncommon for us to all go out for dinner and a few.... I normally pass on the few. But still you get the idea

[Rokudon]

rotating mag breech that has heat sensing targetting for the barrel to find those pesky "snipers" in woodsball lol, that would be fun, but i agree with ZyperioN, reliability and durability would be a next step for some manufacturers, or maybe a battery that would last longer in the case of loaders and some guns. or, they could work on gun electricity efficiency. or a fully mechanical gun design that has a built in mechanical warp feed. the variants are too great, and there has been much in the development of PB technology. the only time where i think a new development would arise is by having the sport grow to the level where companies begin seeing it as a market, and they begin designing more and more thingd for the comunity. look at the auto industry, there are so many companies out there, but only certain vehicles are popular because of how well they do what they're supposed to do, and have a reputable background.

[NukeGoose]

I imagine that guns will get smaller, and more efficient, which will allow us to use even smaller tanks and get a decent amount of shots per fill. Also, I can imagine seeing the rise of the defensively dominant teams, instead of the in-your-face 50 teams. Why? With faster guns, why send 2 bodies to the fifty where they'll likely get shot if you can lock down every lane by doubling up all of the back bunkers and dropping pod upon pod, and moving only when you have a good chance of making it?

[hardr0ck68]

If players can evolve then maybe this....

Well if everyone were to suddenly give up their preconcieved notions of what is good and bad about a paintgun then this is what we could do NOW.

Run guns at much HIGHER pressures so you could make all the internal components smaller and more compact. This would lead to overall smaller guns with better efficiency.

Better efficiency means smaller tanks making the guns lighter and smaller overall.

Built in crono's that maintain your velocity at exactly what you set it to even when your tank starts running below your working pressure. This would mean that even though you we shooting a "high pressure" marker you would use it to the bottom of the tank. In order to do this you would have to have a fixed barrel but since everyone has to waist money on replacable barrels this thinking would have to change.

Trigger systems that would accomodate ALL of your fingers for "4 finger walking" pushing the fire power into the 30 BPS range.

Pre-load bolt systems that chamber the next round while you are firing the first elliminating ball feed lag.

Pressure feeding loaders that feed balls from anywhere into your flamethrower. OOPS we already have that, Warp Feeds....

Electronically timed millisecond on/off valves that would completely eliminate regulators. Lets see, we can take off the tank reg, then the vert reg and oh yea the LPR too. You would have to be ready to put all those manufacturers out of business.

Very high speed two shot bursts where the 2nd ball would draft close behind the first ball for greater accuracy. The first ball would disrupt the air column and leave behind a turbulent wake. The turbulence would disrupt the laminar flow that leads to vortex shedding on the 2nd ball. Disrupt the vortex and improve the accuracy.

No real gun with any state of the art firepower shoots from a clip. Clips are so 1900's. Real guns in all the worlds militaries use a belt feed from a huge magazine. We still love our cute little pods and hoppers and fashion matched pod belts so we look good when we are posing on the field. Maybe someday we will get with the program and use a backpack that could shoot a case of paint non stop. Oh yea, we have that right now too but no one wants it.

And last but not lease an electronically timed, high pressure marker without regulators could plug into a laptop, test itself and tell you exactly what's wrong with it.

This is just one possible reality, most likely not to be part of any of your futures. Have fun with your pods.

AGD

[Miscue]

The next great paintball innovation: Aiming.

[B.A.M.]

i would also like to see price drop and a advancement in no wipe technology for paintballs

[Mosfet]

The next great paintball innovation: Aiming.

HAHAHA!



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