Technalogical advancements In markers?

[CKY_Alliance]

I was sitting here thinking and wondering what will future advancements be for paintball guns? i mean there already are what i would consdier "super markers" soem can shoot over 30 bps wont chop have,are light,have good air efficiancy and the list goes on.

What does AO forsee for technilogical advancements in paintball markers?

What could make them better?Have they reached the peak of marker performance?
I mean what else could make them better.I can think of some guns that if i had them i would think what more do i need?I cant think of many except for not having to use compressed air (which i dont mind using)but majority of guns get very good efeciency anyways.

Where do you guys see marker designs and performance going?

[Automaggin2]

Kinda weird, I was just thinkin the same thing as I was logging on before I saw your post.

I don't think there is much we can do. I mean, maybe seeing self adjusting regulators on paintball guns with built in chronos? Probably will never happen, but it would be cool. Maybe we will see another type of digital airsystem thats a lot smatter and more advanced then the angel air.

[Target Practice]

How about markers that can lower the ego of their operators? That's what we really need.

[teufelhunden]

mind bullets.

[hitech]

I wanted one of these (with a rakeable trigger)...

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

[punkncat]

I honestly wonder why this "wonder marker" never was made.

AGD went out on a limb years ago for compressed air tanks wasn't it? If its possible to so revolutionize marker technology with this....in other words if it was as fast and as accurate as thought to be. A marked improvement over what is currently available, why not build it and see where it goes?

Honestly what has AGD got to lose at this point?

[teufelhunden]

Fantastic quote hitech!

Hard to believe that some folks think that AGD was at a technical standstill!

Yeah, I have an idea to make a super dooper 100 bps marker with laser targeting.







Just saying it doesn't mean it's getting done. It seems like AGD has been more interested in complaining about the current state of affairs in paintball instead of doing what they were known for in the early 90s.

[minimag03]

A marker that I can play Tetris on.

[gc82000]

AGD's post just made me feel dumb, but it is a good kind of dumb.

I want to see his backpack loader.

[mag-hatter]

i think china needs to drop an emp (electromagnetic pulse) bomb deal on us so that all these damn agg tourney guns stop working and we can revert back to maveric pumps and rt's

[magman007]

see, all that that would accomplish would be some new boards being purchased, and some new batteries.

quite an ignorant statement.

the spool valve is about as far as its going to go, you really cant take nelson style valves much further either

only thing we will see for a while is going to be smaller designs, "new technology" that is just re tweeking what we have to make it slightly better.

nothing big will happen till the evolt is highly worked on and in 20 years a feasable idea

[Automaggin2]

Bluetooth in a paintball gun. You can sink it up with your laptop and download speed charts and such.



watch this idea be takin and someone patent it and make millions.

[Maggot6]

I agree with Hitechs quote from Tom... Pretty well all of it

[Pacifist_Farmer]

Along the Blue-tooth lines..

you could add a reciever to your marker so you could scan for other markers with blue-tooth connections. Once you find their device you could send them a "virus" which stops their marker from firing. Now they need to reset their electronics before they can continue playing.

[Gunga]

How about markers that can lower the ego of their operators? That's what we really need.

You can do this yourself. Simply shoot a DM4/Timmy/supergun wielder with your pump gun during some games of hyper/speedball. Preferably more than one of em per game like I did last week.

Besides, it's more fun to lower their egos yourself rather than depending on a hypothetical gun to do it for them.