Cheater Boards?

[Bob]

I've been reading the "Has XSV changed the face of tournament Paintball forever?" Thread in the MLT section with some interest especialy with the descussion about cheater boards and who (romour has) uses them.

http://www.p8ntballer-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=66001

I was just interested in what is a cheater board? I am assuming it is not any board with a choice of ramping modes i.e. stock ego, DM6 board. I also son't think it is limited to aftermarkert boards, the Blackheard board boasts it has not Cheater modes on it.

I do think that some boards do have cheat modes, i've got a Angel force tadao board with 36 gangsta and breakout modes for my cheating pleasure

Basicaly my question is what is a cheater board?

a) using a mode on a board not designed for the tourny (i.e PSP ramp at a millenium)

b) Modes widely avaliable on aftermarker boards such as gangsta and breakout modes which are not used in any tournament

c) custom cheater modes (i differ these from B due to breakout and gansta modes can be fun and ramp your marker in a variety of amzing and pant wetting ways, where are custom cheat modes are designed to add shots and not be found out by a ref.)

Opinions, views and experiences welcome. The guys (Robbo, Baca, Nick B, TJ Lambini, duffistuta etc) who have been discussing has XSV changed the game in MLT your views would be great.

 

[domo247]

I think what makes a cheater board is when you have combination of buttons to turn on a mode i.e. ramping in a semi only tournament - but then by pressing one button the gun totally reverts to semi.

This means that the marshals or whoever have a very hard job to find cheats an almost impossible job actually…

 

[Rabies]

Simply put, a cheater board is one with functions that are not allowed in the event you are playing. Proper "cheats" will have some way of hiding themselves so that the gun will pass a chrono ref, but then be activated on the field. Full auto breakout modes, increasing rate of fire over the allowed limit, ramping modes when only semi is allowed, and velocity ramping (electronically increasing the velocity of shots when firing rapidly - dangerous, but you can see why people might want to do it.)

Remember that ramping itself was illegal once, until the tournaments effectively gave up trying to enforce the rules (which was basically impossible if the cheat was able to hide ramping from the judges.) A 15bps limit is slightly easier to enforce, but not completely, because often a gun shooting over 15bps can be detected while the player is using it. Thus it levels the playing field somewhat, so that cheats don't have an unfair advantage.

These days, most of the breakout modes on aftermarket boards aren't much use for real cheats because they are too easy to detect/too hard to activate on the field. But determined cheats will always find a way to get around the rules.

 

[Dskize]

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