It was at one point in time that we could accuse each other of ramping shots (adding) and everyone denied and accused and it went back and forth. Modifications to the rules have made this less of a subject.
Now we accuse each other of ramping velocity. Now I am sure there are velocity cheats out there, but they are not near as common or as easily attainable as shot ramping was before the rule change. It is not likely to find someone at a small "normal" field with it, at least in my opinion.
We are seeing threads pop up now without any indication that there was an actual problem found at the chrono accusing players of shooting hot. We just "know" they are shooting hot because of what we feel. This is despite our watching the chrono, telling the field staff, and the field staff failing to verify it. We cotinue to play with the same people even though they are overshooting us, the must be shooting hot, and the field staff will nto do anything about it. We ignore the safety factors of making this decision Now I'm not going to divide up what category I think some of these fall into, I'm sure some of those who have posted similar things above have valid complaints. but I simply do not beleive some/most of them and I know at least one recent story sounded more like the whining of a poor loser than anything else.
So now when we loose it is not because of lack of skill, a mistake on our part, brilliant play by the other team, or even luck. Its because the other player ramped (both velocity and shots), wiped hits, played on, and in any other way just cheated while we played perfectly clean... after all that superman slide into the snake was needed - it was not our responsibility to check for the ball that hit our chest first to see if it broke or not, despite what the rules say thats just not how it is done.
I guess what gets me, is those who loose seldom say we we're beat, the other team outplayed us. It instead goes into a tirade about how clean we played and how much they cheated and how it is the death of paintball. It was all there equipment and there spoiled because they have to use expensive gear to beat us, we would destroy every team if we had DM5's and cheated like they did and and... and the list goes on and on. I have one question. Does anyone actually beleive these tirades any more?
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Now we accuse each other of ramping velocity. Now I am sure there are velocity cheats out there, but they are not near as common or as easily attainable as shot ramping was before the rule change. It is not likely to find someone at a small "normal" field with it, at least in my opinion.
We are seeing threads pop up now without any indication that there was an actual problem found at the chrono accusing players of shooting hot. We just "know" they are shooting hot because of what we feel. This is despite our watching the chrono, telling the field staff, and the field staff failing to verify it. We cotinue to play with the same people even though they are overshooting us, the must be shooting hot, and the field staff will nto do anything about it. We ignore the safety factors of making this decision Now I'm not going to divide up what category I think some of these fall into, I'm sure some of those who have posted similar things above have valid complaints. but I simply do not beleive some/most of them and I know at least one recent story sounded more like the whining of a poor loser than anything else.
So now when we loose it is not because of lack of skill, a mistake on our part, brilliant play by the other team, or even luck. Its because the other player ramped (both velocity and shots), wiped hits, played on, and in any other way just cheated while we played perfectly clean... after all that superman slide into the snake was needed - it was not our responsibility to check for the ball that hit our chest first to see if it broke or not, despite what the rules say thats just not how it is done.
I guess what gets me, is those who loose seldom say we we're beat, the other team outplayed us. It instead goes into a tirade about how clean we played and how much they cheated and how it is the death of paintball. It was all there equipment and there spoiled because they have to use expensive gear to beat us, we would destroy every team if we had DM5's and cheated like they did and and... and the list goes on and on. I have one question. Does anyone actually beleive these tirades any more?
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I have honestly been accused of shooting hot. I handed it of to the ref & was shocked when he said that it didn't matter because it was only one ball. He checked it & I was -5 fps under the 270 field max. (small speedball fields)
Stock BKO (so far)
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