Originally posted by TJ Lambini
I do think we need a Nascar style restriction though - why was tha old 14BPS agreed industry cap removed BTW?
Well, all the BS safety and fair play arguements aside, at the time there wasn't a loader that could do over 13 bps anyway (Halo came out later, Warp feed could do it but was bottlenecked by the hopper) so it was no loss, a gesture at best. If the Evo II and Halo had been around at the time, it never would have been brought up in the first place. The scrapheap is where the idea went, and it never should have left there in the first place.
Safety issue my arse. I've seen far more accidents with the inexperienced using mechanical guns (i.e. renters) than experts with electros. It's not the equipment, electro or otherwise, it's the twit tickling the trigger that does the deed. If you have to recite that fact in front of the mirror before you go to work every morning, then do it.
The limit in NASCAR is lame to begin with, and it's superflous in paintball IMNHO. Limits suck. Claiming that the lack thereof is stifling to the game or any for that matter is like wanting to take hot, scantily clad women out of advertising on the basis that it makes it cheap, degrading, and unimaginative: to the contrary: you have to be that much better to beat them! Hosing, bonus balling, etc.--you can do them too, so live with it! Granted I'm not out there to be a total barbarian nor are you nor should anyone, but come on, are we out their to knit sweaters or are we there to put a few nice bright splats on someone that scream "I just owned you punk!! Off the field NOW!" Just as someone is supposedly ineptly spraying away like a 3 year old sloshing water around in the bathtub at you and you grumble and curse at the amount of paint thwacking at your bunker, don't you just want to come out and put enough paint on the little turd to make his grandkids be born with welts? Thus with necessity being the mother of invention you find a way to gog this undeserving heathen and doesn't the realization come about that with additional challenge comes satisfaction? If in fact you did have to work harder for it, isn't it that much more of an accomplishment? Isn't accomplishment why we're in this sport to begin with?
Even with the volumes of paint, teamwork in implementing it, particularly in 7 and 10 man, IS the game. Oh, it's great to see one-shotting someone right in the lens and it does happen, but isn't seeing someone slide under a hailstorm of paint into a snake all the way to the 50 and shoot 3 people in the back just as good? That doesn't happen much without at least one back guy "hosing down the field" as either the devil's advocate or the guy who just got beat by it puts it.
Oh, and for those who are still in disbelief of my view on this, consult Robbo's many articles on the skill of and necessity for backs and their paint spewing evil machines. Ha! Paper...rock...scissors...Robbo.
