Originally posted by Pump'n'Splat
1--I do. I'm not an experienced baller. my experience is from what I read and how I perceive things when I watch experienced ballers. If i played under this ruling and experienced it differently, I might change my mind. I've made a deduction based on what I know through the experience of others and my resultant feelings are quite strong.
2--It's not that i'm not taking on board collier's (or your) comments, they are validly made, well argued and probably coming from a higher level of experience to me and I like to think that I try to see a subject from all angles. The argument i'll make is that if you say control, not volume, is the issue, how can a cheat board...which is a board designed to fire shots you haven't dialled in yourself, improve control?
3--I just don't think i'm the only person that will have these feelings on the areas i've outlined.
3a--And i'm sure there's people out there with oodles more experience than me that will be able to argue the point from a more hands-on viewpoint.
1--the issue isn't whether you (or I or Russ, etc.) like it. The issue is how best to move forward as a Sport. I realize you don't like this rule change idea and I also note that you're down now to arguing some factor of safety--which I'm about to dismiss. At which point you will only be left with how you feel about it and while valid to you not the best basis for making rules or changes to rules.
2--because, unlike stored shots or bouncing guns, ramped guns stop shooting when the user stops firing. In the instance of various bouncing situations as well as stored shots guns fire even after the user chooses to stop. In the proposed rule change Russ has been discussing it will even be necessary for players to actively pull the trigger at all times if they want the marker to fire. (Unlike the NXL which goes F/A after 3 shots and simply must be held down. NXL boarded guns also stop the instant you let off the trigger.)
So the safety question is one of control over the marker not how many paintballs are capable of coming out of it in a given space of time. In that respect the ramped gun limited to 15 bps is the safer marker compared to the current uncontrolled crop of markers and players predilections towards hair-trigger debounce 1 type set-ups.
3--I'm sure you're not, but again, feelings aren't reasons and while you've made a good effort to come up with reasons mostly they are predicated on a failure to grasp the full situation.
3a--they have been.
Now, how 'bout an answer to my question about shouldn't all guns be set-up the same if firing fast is such an important skill?
And another, do you play the P/A? (The answer doesn't invalidate your opinions but I'm curious. The P/A could as easily invite last year's participants to vote on a) change the rule or b) continue to muddle thru best we can; and if players chose b they'd have little room for complaints and the P/A wouldn't have to bother at all.)
EDIT ADDED: Damn! I see I'm too long-winded--once again--for my own good and have been beaten to it, over and over, already.
