Do you NEED ramping for tournies??

[PaintNoob]

What is ramping?

[ntn4502]

its when you jump your bike off a ramp

[blykins]

its when you jump your bike off a ramp

Napoleon Dynamite ramps

[JoshK]

What is ramping?

Ramping is when an electronic marker is programed to shoot more than one shot per a trigger pull after you get up to a certain BPS (balls per second)...this is usually to gain an un-fair advantage on the competition.

And you two (ntn4502 and blykins) just acted like complete biggets. I know that you truely arn't, but you did. He asked a serious question and you made a joke of it.

[blykins]

Ramping is when an electronic marker is programed to shoot more than one shot per a trigger pull after you get up to a certain BPS (balls per second)...this is usually to gain an un-fair advantage on the competition.

And you two (ntn4502 and blykins) just acted like complete biggets. I know that you truely arn't, but you did. He asked a serious question and you made a joke of it.

Having a sense of humor must be a bad thing.

[JoshK]

Not when he is asking a serious question. Sorry if I was harsh or anything. It's just been a long day for me.

[blykins]

Not when he is asking a serious question. Sorry if I was harsh or anything. It's just been a long day for me.

*hands you a coke and a smile*

[68magOwner]

umm, not necessarily, my team played a tournament that followed psp ruled, and, we just capped our markers at 14bps semi rather than ramp, and, we ended up taking first (then we got bumped from first to third, AFTER we already got first, because one of our players chronoed hot (which, was done wrong, suppossed to be the average of 3 shots, and be under 300, he shot 285, 287, 306, and got the penalty, the ref didnt average the shots (later on, the ref was told that he had done it wrong by the guy who owned the field (who, happens to be the captian of baultamore trauma))) ANYWAY, yeah, can do fine with semi, but, if you can use ramping, its convient (i prefer playing uncapped semi, but, for PSP style events, use ramping)

[usmc8892]

I was a serious threat with my Minimag recently that has minimal ups...

[VFX_Fenix]

Ramping in its own way helps to level the playing field, I know this isn't much of a "help" to most but it's the way things are.

Actually the biggest advantage to something like Ramping is seen in a limited PBS format (such as the PSP/NXL/ABCDEFG/you get the idea). Because of the way software works it is practically impossible for anyone, no matter how fast they may actually be, to achieve 15bps with the MROF of the gun set at 15bps. This is the inherent fault of the limited bps system. The only way to achieve MROF is through either shot buffering or ramping.

So in a serries which is a limited ROF, Ramping/Buffering are certainly going to be employed to see players reaching the MROF that serries allows.

Besides, you have 3.2 software, don't you have some shot buffering/debounce settings you can monkey with to help you "get up to speed" as it were if they think you aren't fast enough? Granted, using debounce/filter settings to achieve higher ROF's is a more dangerous route as it can lead to a runaway gun which no one wants.

All in all, it's easier to lane/put down paint with ramping but it isn't "required" to win tournaments which allow such an enhanced firing mode.

Also, you could just Morlock/Pred your X-Mag and save yourself some $$$ possibly by going that route since it isn't like X-Mags are exactly in production atm.

Stick to your guns, if you need the extra firepower, drop the cash on a chip or a flash or something, personally I'd keep the X-Mag... but that's the gun whore in me.

[BigEvil]

Get the Predator Emag board from TAG. It should will be out soon.

https://www.tagsportz.com

[tony3]

Cfoa uses the 15bps cap with no ramping, so if you can cap it at that you are all good. I'd get a predator 2 for your xmag though to upgrade it, much better programming.

[JoshK]

*hands you a coke and a smile*

Thanks.

[mcdkid]

alright, we are getting more GA guys.

[-=Squid=-]

8 years of experience doesnt usually mean much in the tourney scene.

Can anyone say why?