Chicago said:
Naming names impedes my conspiracy to take over the world.
Ok. So you won't say who you have consulted with, and you have no experience yourself in this field.
On the other hand, we have someone with experience in this field, and who speaks quite regularly to two of the top people in this field, and on a friendly basis with the other top two, and then knows well, but would never consider myself friends with the 5th person at the top of this field. I can name every name, probably call most of them from my cell phone.
I also work for one of the largest manufacturers of paintball guns and equipment, and one of the big sponsors of these events.
Agreed?
Just so we are straight on where we are coming from.
At this point, can you please stop saying that the IP involved and skill level involved with making electronic control boards is negligable. It's not. No manufacturer will agree with you. No one who works in the field will agree with you. No one you can find to do the work will agree with you. You won't get it done for cheap.
There is significant work and IP and $$$ involved to make a control board that works and allows you to tune in a gun to run at it's best even for pure 'semi auto' as allowed under the rules, and that will work for every gun, and for you to have enough boards and chips for all the different guns that might turn up at an event. There just is.
Until you have real proof that there isn't, we are going to have to agree to disagree on this.
Also can you also please stop implying that it will be a simple thing to get these manufacturers to give up their source code. We won't, and I don't believe anyone else would. Why? because even for semi auto, that IP is VERY valuable to us. It is. You can't argue that we feel it is valuable. You are not us. You haven't put the years of work into it that we have.
Also if for instance the real reason as you suggest is that there is built in cheating. Why would a manufacturer give you the code that lets you see that? Obviously if they give you any different code and the gun's don't work well, something is up right? Surely most will just plead the fifth and never give you the code. Or tell you to make your own, and then complain you aren't doing it right when your code is crap and doesn't run their guns well...
OK, so now, speaking as someone who works on this stuff, who makes these guns, and who works for one of the companies who sponsors these events.
You're not going to get what you want.
Now tell me how you can force me to do it. Or lets work towards another idea.
Please don't tell me it's cheaper to risk losing the sponsorship and teams and trying to enforce such a system, than it is to look at other technology that can catch the cheats, that won't need gun inspection, that won't need specific chips, that can be used to name and shame people, and that may actually knock a few of the biggest cheats onto their butts as they actually get caught cheating, rather than trying to persuade those huge cheats to give you their valuable IP...
Again, what's so crazy about simply videoing people? You could even play it back on a huge jumbotron screen... not as if that's ever been used to shut up cheats before.
With a decent video system you could catch everyone adding shots. You could catch guns over a certain rof. And then with a decent radar system you can catch the velocity cheats.
So now instead of all this chip crap and infrastructure and inspections, and hiding extra chips, and swapping guns depending on the game etc, you just have a guy with a radar gun, and another with a video camera. The same system you use to catch the cheats also lets you name and shame them.
