This is something that really pi55es me off, moreso at scenario games, where the opportunity to adjust your gun onfield, whilst hidden away in a bush somewhere, is available.
It happens at every game, the opposition are 10 metres out of reach of your paint and yet their paint is whizzing past your head. (For arguments sake, there is no wind and no hills, and they aren't using flatlines.)
At big games, there are rarely enough refs to go round to adequately chrony check all players once they are spread out on the field of play and if you call a chrony check on someone they have invariably legged it by the time the ref gets over there, because they KNOW they are cheating.
Now, this has always been speculation on my part..i assumed these players are pushing the boundaries of both the rules and safety (and the law come to think of it). This is because i generally play in the games and don't ref them.
But yesterday at Campaign's Time Wars game (which was absolutely flawless from an organisation point of view, btw) i had my suspicions confirmed. In the morningi helped out as a chrony judge on the entrance to one field. I was using a big reg chrony, not a hand held. The players all had opportunity to chrony in the gun zone as they came through to the fields. Niall emphasised the fact that the limit was 280 in the morning briefing. It was in the printed handout, so IMO, NO EXCUSES to be over the limit. If you are it's deliberate and if you don't know HOW to chrony your gun then you shouldn't be on the field.
In one game, I sent at least 5 players back to basecamp for hot guns. Some were shooting (very consistently) as high as 320, and most around the 300-310 mark. And ALL of these guys had the big scenario guns and were in camo. (i'm not stereotyping here - it's a fact). I chronied angels, egos, DMs and various other tourney type guns and ALL of these guys were playing within the rules - 260-280fps I even had to tell a couple to turn their velocity UP as they were shooting 220's.
So is this some kind of ramboesque mentality, or penis envy type thing? They just HAVE to have the meanest gun AND the extra range? Or is this really a fear of actually getting into a firefight - if they can eliminate you before your paint can touch them then in theory they are going to play from the back all day and not get welted???
I think scenario games should have an extra chrony check added. For guns over the limit, the offending player should be stood a few metres away (and take off all those silly layers of camo) and be shot about 10 times with their own gun... I think it'd put quite a few of them off, don't you?
It happens at every game, the opposition are 10 metres out of reach of your paint and yet their paint is whizzing past your head. (For arguments sake, there is no wind and no hills, and they aren't using flatlines.)
At big games, there are rarely enough refs to go round to adequately chrony check all players once they are spread out on the field of play and if you call a chrony check on someone they have invariably legged it by the time the ref gets over there, because they KNOW they are cheating.
Now, this has always been speculation on my part..i assumed these players are pushing the boundaries of both the rules and safety (and the law come to think of it). This is because i generally play in the games and don't ref them.
But yesterday at Campaign's Time Wars game (which was absolutely flawless from an organisation point of view, btw) i had my suspicions confirmed. In the morningi helped out as a chrony judge on the entrance to one field. I was using a big reg chrony, not a hand held. The players all had opportunity to chrony in the gun zone as they came through to the fields. Niall emphasised the fact that the limit was 280 in the morning briefing. It was in the printed handout, so IMO, NO EXCUSES to be over the limit. If you are it's deliberate and if you don't know HOW to chrony your gun then you shouldn't be on the field.
In one game, I sent at least 5 players back to basecamp for hot guns. Some were shooting (very consistently) as high as 320, and most around the 300-310 mark. And ALL of these guys had the big scenario guns and were in camo. (i'm not stereotyping here - it's a fact). I chronied angels, egos, DMs and various other tourney type guns and ALL of these guys were playing within the rules - 260-280fps I even had to tell a couple to turn their velocity UP as they were shooting 220's.
So is this some kind of ramboesque mentality, or penis envy type thing? They just HAVE to have the meanest gun AND the extra range? Or is this really a fear of actually getting into a firefight - if they can eliminate you before your paint can touch them then in theory they are going to play from the back all day and not get welted???
I think scenario games should have an extra chrony check added. For guns over the limit, the offending player should be stood a few metres away (and take off all those silly layers of camo) and be shot about 10 times with their own gun... I think it'd put quite a few of them off, don't you?
