The skillset of paintball, should trigger speed be one?

[tae]

I dont have the time right now so I may be repeating statements already made.

My personal opinion is that you can shoot as fast as you want. It make no difference if you cant aim. I can compare it to a fist fight. You can throw as many punches as you want. If you cant hit anything then what will it do? Faster rates of fire allow for more guesses to hit the person moving incorrectly. You cant run across a stream of paint going 280 fps with 16bps between you and where your going. If they have one thing and you have another, use strategy.

[M98Punk]

guilty of taking things out of context but you can see where Glenn Palmer stands on the issue...


"ROF may be driving the industry but I believe it is killing the game and I won't be a part of that.

Any gun that PPS offers requires that the shooter actively participates in and be conciously responsible for evey ball that leaves the barrel. ANYTHING else, is not SEMI-auto.
When the insurance companies figure that out, much is going to change anyway."

[Lohman446]

guilty of taking things out of context but you can see where Glenn Palmer stands on the issue...


"ROF may be driving the industry but I believe it is killing the game and I won't be a part of that.

Any gun that PPS offers requires that the shooter actively participates in and be conciously responsible for evey ball that leaves the barrel. ANYTHING else, is not SEMI-auto.
When the insurance companies figure that out, much is going to change anyway."

The insurance companies already know. You know the scarey thing is - PSP does to. Read there rules closely, show me where it says ramping is allowed. Don't bother, they never do. The simply state the first three must be semi and the marker must never exceed 15BPS. Nowhere do they state that ramping is legal. Who do you think that leaves in a bind? Hint - its not PSP, its the player

[M98Punk]

On a side note I wasn't using that to boost my argument...I don't really have a argument anymore I just thougt it would be cool add what Glenn thinks about it.

Now what your saying is that PSP is leaving our safety up to the good conscience of other paintball players .... We're Doomed!

[Lohman446]

On a side note I wasn't using that to boost my argument...I don't really have a argument anymore I just thougt it would be cool add what Glenn thinks about it.

Now what your saying is that PSP is leaving our safety up to the good conscience of other paintball players .... We're Doomed!

I'm saying that the PSP, in the event of a civil suit (or criminal issue), would try to push the liability towards the player using ramping

[M98Punk]

Are my jokes really that bad that no one gets them?

[nippinout]

Cheating is becoming a skillset of recreational paintball. It is disgusting. The last two times that I have played (at two different commercial fields), every player with a semi that was capable of enhanced firing modes was using them. Any idiot can hold a trigger back.

They weren't even being discrete about it. They would show off their 'mad skillz' in terms of dollars/second coming out of the barrel. They would do the same before each game. Even after the owner told us semi-only, they kept using them.

This is what paintball skills have devolved into: Get away with as much as you can.

For me, the next big thing in paintball? Private games.

Then, the only proper skillset required would be trash-talking amongst friends. No BS cheaters. No whiners. No idiot refs/owners that cannot handle their customers.