Anyone feel the same way?

[Maggot6]

First, I started out buying an e spyder, so I could outgun my friends and have a fake advantage. Then I nearly got good, and figured, what's the point, I keep just well, "owning" as the people say, so I got a mech mag, then I started getting better and beating nearly everyone. So then I went into a tournament style of playing ( basically going to the feilds when it's a no renters night...) and then I started getting beaten quite a bit. So I figured technology was on my side and I should get an emag. So I got the emag and I started beating everyone, so I entered a tourny or two, and then got beaten so now I choose the anti-technology. I play with a phantom, and I have just as much fun as I did when I was renting. I suggest you try stock class if your not having as much fun, because if you go back to renting, then well, you'll just complain to yourself how bad the gun is........

[Aslan]

My two cents...

I have to say I agree with dolphin. Certain fields I've played at have dealt with the problem of "super guns" showing up and ruining the day for players using standard equipment...but other fields have not.

I'm not saying that all you have to do is buy an Angel and all of the sudden you're a good paintball player...but like someone else said in a previous post...paintball is one of the few sports where some newb can show up with a $1200 gun and increase his game to a point where he's very competitive. That being said, I have seen players with experience do some really good things on the field with standard equipment...no doubt...especially in woodsball where it's less about "plays" and more about "strategy".

What really bugs me is when a person with a "super gun" is confronted and they say, "I don't need this gun...I could take on a team of players with a Talon if I wanted to...I just like this gun and had the money so I got it." As if to say that a more expensive gun has no real value whatsoever...he just bought it because it matched his socks. Come on people...can we at least agree that DM5s, vikings, timmys, angels, etc... cost the money they do because there is a guaranteed advantage to using them over a gun you can pick up at Wal-Mart for $25-$250? Can we at least just agree on that?

[BeaverEater]

i used to be really big in the tourny scene around me but ive decided to quit tourny ball because i feel that i dont need to ramp but i dont like playing again people that only ramp. Ive decided to sell my tourny setup and go back to playing woodsball with a pump for a while.

[phantomhitman]

ive honestly seen more bad things happen in the woods because a pretty large number of woodsball players consider themselves to be big tough guys when they are really jerks

dolphin, this is directed at you.

This quote has summed up about %80 of the rec/woodsball only/scenario guys I have ever played/reffed with. Alot are military/police that cannot handle the speed or different tactics of airball. Other woodsballers are newer players that are afraid to step onto the field with other rec/tourney players. They say it takes no skill, but they cannot shoot anyone out. They say its too easy with big inflatable ballons and 15 bps ramping guns, yet they hide behind one bunker the entire game and get shot out. Then they have the balls to say they got overshoot when they step out into a stream of paint, or try to walk out after being hit WITHOUT signaling first. They get so pissed off for getting lit up but they are not using common sense to begin with. I have seen these macho guys almost fight in the woods for being overshot by their own friends. They are the hardcore magical pump elf snipers, usually trying to show off in front of their friends/co-workers. When they get lit up by a friend or even another rec player they lose it. Just because you have played since the invention of the nelspot DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING, you can still suck just as much as anyone else.
I gave up woodsball long ago because they games drag on forever. I dont like hiding in the woods, camping out at a base, or sneaking around 1 mile to their flank to take out 2 guys are doing the same thing. The big scenario events are different, lot more people to shoot at with a lot more action. But woodsball in general is so slow. They are A TON of idiots in airball too, go to your nearest field to see. Kids with $2000 setups, tourney players destroying a field of noobs, guys using low debounce and ramping. I will admit it, that is the fields fault for not enforcing the rules. I do my best to stop uneven games, and rarely let the tourney guys play with rec players.
It is different strokes for different folks. You cannot point fingers or name names, because there are tools on both sides of this arguement. The hardcore old school people think the new fast game is ruining paintball, that it takes no skill to play. The new people say the old game is too slow and outdated. That leaves the normal people that just want to have fun in the middle. The do not want to play tourney ball, but they are tired of playing with noobs in the woods. the situation sucks, just like life..............get over it

[((AGD PRIDE))]

yeah i hate this ramping crap and bounce...

thats why im selling my ebladed autococker for a plain automag

im going to play old school for now on

[Thunder Bunny]

Last time i went to the field It wasnt enjoyable at all. The young refs were being "cool" and letting ONLY their friends use ramping. But then when Im gettin outgunned and cant even stick my head out the door because I have 100 balls streamin by the door. But then when I use slight ramping (didnt really want to) just to hopefully be able to keep up. But then the refs decide im the ONLY one cheating and start callin me out about it.

I don't play at *those* fields. I like to play with smaller groups. Sometimes I want to leave my marker in the staging area and run with the noobs, helping them to play better.


I've read many threads like this. the only thing you can do to change it is to play with honor and integrity, show others that you have class, and hopefully others will follow.