Originally posted by Myth
Christan, i agree with you.
The fields are to cluttered and the reason why there are certains fields one way and then another field TOTALY diffrent is because there done by 2/3 diffrent people each time by the mill commite.
Also what i dont understand is that Nick says that the MS want the fields like this when the players are not happy with them.. why do MS want to make there customers unhappy?
Myth, the 'cluttered' fields as you call them are an attempt to encourage aggressive paintball by introducing more bunkers, the theory is simple.
If you have fewer bunkers it allows teams who just lane-shoot as a working philosophy to have the advantage, if you have more bunkers then lane shooting is obviously more difficult to do thus allowing more movement.
The teams with the more aggressive philosophies then have the advantage and therefore the game is more exciting to play and just as importantly to spectate.
In these times of trying to sell the sport to the mainstream, the last thing we need is to watch two teams run out and indulge themselves in boring-ass, lane shooting fests for ten minutes all sitting behind their primaries.
There is obviously a limit to this cluttering but I don't think that line was crossed in any of the fields I saw in Paris, far from it.
As to the degree of difference between field designs, that is subjective and open to all sorts of interpretation depending upon criterion and thus deems this point pretty much baseless.
They all had roughly the same number of bunkers and were all playabale to varying degrees, the main determinant in their 'playabliity' was the amount of you work put in in trying to understand them.
I don't think the MS set out to make their customers unhappy at all, they seem to do it by default but it is preventable, they just have to consult the teams a lot more instead of just going ahead with some half assed idea with no real warning.
They really need to listen to this otherwise they run a real risk of pissing off their customer base too much and allowing competitor leagues to gain a foothold in 2006.
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