What? i just made a number up, hopefully now he'll believe me and stop asking stupid questions.......ohWhy don't you just spoil everyones fun of teasing him!
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- Thread starter Bryan leaver
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Bit of a Magic Circle question.
..... unless it's Delta force, who use the cheapest, worst grade floor sweepings around!!! Basically balls made of ping pong ball plastic full of nasty fill.....
Wow! What a claim! you really don't mind making a total twat of yourself on public forums do you??
FYI I personally test every pallet of paint that DF use, every week of the year. Have done so for 2-3 years now. That's a lot of pallets of paint.
We never buy 'seconds'. We use Draxxus, Zap, Powerball and RPS. Hardly 'floor sweepings', sweetie! We also don't take the cheapest paint around. If it's not up to Guppy standards, it ain't getting thru our gates!
I examine and test each pallet for shape (dimples/flat spots/ roundness), size(.678 to.684), fill (must leave a clear mark on impact but not be so thick that it stains or leaves a solid residue - we do have 8,000++ sets of kit to wash each week after all !!), fragility (maximum of 30 breaks from 100 on a 5'6'' drop test and if i get 0/10 on drop tests then i test for how hard (bouncy) it is. The criteria for bouncyness is no less than 5 breaks from 10 on a moderate slam test)
If a batch fails on ANY of these criteria, then i don't accept it.
Ask PJ at Phoenix, Big John at NPS (Kee), Errol at Powerball and Scott at Manic how many pallets of paint we have rejected this year for any of the above reasons, then retract your statement. TOLD.
So your saying you check every pallets of paint that every single df place use's ???
what a crock of ****
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what a crock of ****
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Its called rainbow mix and yes I have seen alot of DF places use it but also I have seen them use some good brands.
Bryan, for one you probably wont get a straight answer from any site.
Different sites get different prices, and obviously use different paint. i know how much my site gets it for but that is no-ones business.
If you need a figure use what Dark Stranger said, they won't have a clue anyway.
Rich
Different sites get different prices, and obviously use different paint. i know how much my site gets it for but that is no-ones business.
If you need a figure use what Dark Stranger said, they won't have a clue anyway.
Rich
Does that make you feel big? I don't lie, Markie. Yes, i test every single pallet before it is allowed to come thru a DF gate. Not only that but our centre managers test the batches AGAIN on delivery to the centres and submit their paint test results to me to compare to my original results. Our 4 suppliers submit a sample of between 100 and 500 balls to me from every batch before we accept it.
Today i tested 27 pallets of paint from Manic, earlier in the week 3 pallets from Powerball and 9 pallets from Phoenix. Ask the people i have listed, they know the criteria we require. By all means PM me and make arrangements to come to the DF head office and see a record of every pallet of paint we have used from the last 3 years, drop tests, slam tests pole and seam measurements etc etc. I sense this surprises you? You think that strange or extreme? We don't. We think that's an acceptable standard. So, here we go blowing myths about DF out of the water again. Wake up and smell the roses. Rental paintball in the UK has changed. Time for other operators to play catch up.
DF have not bought a 'rainbow' mix in the 3 years that i have been testing paint. FACT. We have been offered it, but as it is a mix of batch ends it is impossible to get a true test result as it could be made up of 5-10 batches of paint. We just don't bother with cheap paint like that. What you may have seen is a mix of paint that the centre managers themselves have mixed, after we have accepted the individual batches. This is only done when we have say 5 boxes of one colour and another 20 boxes of something else etc. Rather than give some players yellow and other players green we mix them so everyone has the same. As soon as someone has something different to you, people draw conclusions that one is better than the other, so we mix to avoid this sort of psyche.
We gave our punters Inferno once.
They loved it.
We gave them blaze in the morning, and they were "satisfied" with the paint, get the usual complaints of "oh I shot him 3 times and they bounced off!", etc.
Switched to Inferno in the afternoon, and every customer I asked said the balls flew straight, broke on target, and they were really impressed with it.
I've been fed up playing as a punter myself, when given Heat at prices above our own for the Inferno, all you get is balls swerving all over the place, and when they do hit, they bounce.
They loved it.
We gave them blaze in the morning, and they were "satisfied" with the paint, get the usual complaints of "oh I shot him 3 times and they bounced off!", etc.
Switched to Inferno in the afternoon, and every customer I asked said the balls flew straight, broke on target, and they were really impressed with it.
I've been fed up playing as a punter myself, when given Heat at prices above our own for the Inferno, all you get is balls swerving all over the place, and when they do hit, they bounce.