Ramping...

[jman511115]

While this thread is useless, and is a repeat of about ten million other threads... I feel I must add in my two cents.

Ramping isn't all it's cracked up to be, it does give an advantage to players with less skill, but not decisively so. Tournaments and games can be won by players with semi auto electros, mechs, or even pump markers.

Second the ability to supply your own "effective" cover fire when moving.

"effective" is a term of relativity. It depends on your ability to make your mirror or whoever has you pinned down duck behind their bunker. While ramping can help, it can also be a detriment for players who totally depend on ramping and forget that they have to actually point the marker in the right direction.

I personally play most tournaments with either my mech mag, or a pump cocker. I have never used ramping in a game, and it has never affected me negatively.

Edit: For those of you who scoff and laugh at me saying that I'm one of those guys who just doesn't understand because I don't shoot an electro...

Untill recently I owned a Smartparts Impulse, with a Wicked Air Sportz board in it. Coincidentially, that board posessed all forms of ramping and full auto... but my fingers could walk about 13 consistant bps on the trigger, so why bother using em? I now own an Alien Remains, with the same board, and likewise, I keep it on semi.

And RR... right on.

[BD_Paintball]

i dont mind playing against people who use ramping. i have the option on my proto to use ramping but i have never used it because i play in the NCPA (college league with semi only). when you play against people who ramp you play tigher and smarter and you have to play better since there is, in most cases more paint being shot at you. then when you go play a semi only tourney (college tourneys for me) its much easer to make moves and to gun fight. when you play semi you learn how to shoot your gun and not just pull the trigger 5 times a second and have 15 come out. i have always used semi and now i can shoot my gun very fast. just about everyone on my team can shoot 15 constantly with a legal gun.