Lowering of BPS limits - what say you?

[bryan]

what formula did u use to calculate the gap between balls in flight?? i am no mathimatician just curious.

 

[Madcowman]

if you assume a paintball travels at 300fps ( and that it hits that velocity as soon as it exits the barrel for simplicity's sake.

at 10 balls per second , each ball is 0.1 seconds ahead of the last one , in which time it would have travelled 30 feet.

at 15 bps the balls are only 0.06 seconds apart so only 20 feet apart

and at 12 bps they'll be 25 feet apart

 

[Kevin]

or if you take the number of feet traveled in a second (300)
and divide it by the amount of balls fired in a second, then you will get the distance between them as well.

so as the other guy says,
300/15 = 20
300/12 = 25

 

[bryan]

i feel dumb all of a sudden

thx makes perfect sense

 

[Devrij]

I did my calculations for 280fps which, as I found out the hard way (ref checked it at the 1 min call) is what the Uni league play at. So if you're shooting 300fps that actually gives a 0.02333 sec gap difference (between 15bps and 12bps) not the previously stated 0.018sec.

Obsessive, you say? Anal-retentive, I hear? Perhaps, but at least I can do this! *licks nose*

 

[Biscuit]

why don,t a couple of teams get together and try a few games at the suggested lower bps.then come and tell everybody there findings, wether they found it better or worse ,before we all make our minds up if we like it or not before any of use have tried it at 12 bps and 10 bps

 

[Lucky]

why don,t a couple of teams get together and try a few games at the suggested lower bps.then come and tell everybody there findings, wether they found it better or worse ,before we all make our minds up if we like it or not before any of use have tried it at 12 bps and 10 bps

I seem to remember a story that Nicky T in his cocker days used to turn the eyes off which capped the gun at 12bps, so he'd have a longer sustained barrage of fire off the break and that he thought playing at 12bps made no difference what so ever?

I could be drunk as well tho, so it could've been the tooth fairy instead

 

[Sherman]

10bps + bigger fields = better paintall. Like it was in the beginning of 2000s. Traincrashpaintball today is..boring to watch.

 

[PEBBLE]

still illegal in the uk in any shape or form according to a copper mate of mine.

however a PSP type 3 shot burst would be interesting. I say drop the kick in rate as well, teams are doing it anyway, and what difference does it really make??

I think it will be a positive move, and bring the focus back to a players ability.

airsoft is allowed full auto and they are replicas of the real thing so it shudnt be that much of a beef convertin paintball to full auto 12 bps

 

[CAMDENELECTRIC]

10bps + bigger fields = better paintall. Like it was in the beginning of 2000s. Traincrashpaintball today is..boring to watch.

Its really not boring whatching Ollie Lang dive over a stream of paint and then run up the middle of the field taking out most of their team