Markers-end of the line??

[Just Curious]

With the release of the new 'Nexus' Ego, it got me thinking. The 'top-of-the-range' markers available, Cockers. Timmies, Egos etc have all been improved, IMO, to the max!

What significant future changes can you guys think of that can be made to the top end Markers? I don't mean cosmetic changes but changes that will have an impact on the performance of the Marker.

As I say, I'm no gun tech but with the top end Markers I cannot see where any major improvements can be made except in the cosmetic depts.

Tell me I'm wrong.

 

[speedbird_666]

I can't see the guns themselves getting more advanced, perhaps slightly more efficient and a little smaller.

I'm not too sure what they can really improve on working within current tourney rules.

Perhaps not the guns themselves, but how about the paint?

Imagine balls that maintain there shape and size irrespective of their storage conditions, be it heat, humidity etc? Perhaps use of plastics as opposed to gelatin or something, allowing for the ultimate in consistancy, box after box, batch after batch, with barely a thousenth of a MM differance?

Now that would be cool.....

 

[Gyroscope]

Um... efficiency?

As more engineers apply their knowledge to paintball gun technology, we should be seeing improvements in air consumption. There are limits for how much air is needed to provide the energy to propell a paintball, but the days of low pressure uber alles should be put behind us.

In mining, shock-loss contributes to inefficient air ventilation. Surely the cross section of air passages in paintguns is not so different in scale that such matters don't... um... matter.

Most new products don't offer much in terms of real improvement. The guns you cite as being maxed are largely maxed in terms of use, rate of fire, and weight. Asthetics change over time as tastes change, but since anti-chop eyes, there hasn't been much that has been a genuine improvement. Weight savings is incremental, and although things have gotten better there, with a 3 lb tank on the back end, and a 2 lb hopper on top, there is a point of diminishing returns.

If we all could go through a case on a 45/45 (.8 liter I think?) we would have a real improvement, and the knowledge exists to achieve it, I believe. For all the goofy looks and lack of professional player endorsement, Vikings are super efficient guns. Nothing in production comes close.

 

[Lucky]

Speedbirds about right really, the answer is quite simply "not a lot"
You can't improve velocity only increase consistancy
You can't improve rate of fire as it's generally capped anyway and realistically 54bps etc is rubbish anyway as a loader won't go that fast
Increased efficiency can be improved but in a 10 minute game why bother?
Accuracy will never be improved until you make a better ball
Weight will probably be the biggest improvement as people start to compete against the ION, with better production processes
And i supose the biggest improvement that we'd all like to see is total reliability and no breaks

 

[Scars]

As technology outside the sport improves - ie Valves, PCB's etc etc
im adamant it will take an Effect on paintball.

I have a friend who is into Airsoft (yes we argue like cat and dog). and their recent development is a self compressed firearm, ie the marker doesnt use 12g canisters now, but has a mini compessor inside which runs off the battery - i know BBs take alot less air to propell but with a few years of development - we might start seeing the same technology in paintball

 

[speedbird_666]

You mean something like NPS's gun in development? (e-volt? can quite remember the name). Uses a battery to drive a mechanism to produce the gas to fire the ball.....

 

[Scars]

............... well i rest my case

 

[Tom Allen]

Guys, you know something is out there being tested and perfected.
Just wait and see..........................

 

[speedbird_666]

well, it's not viable yet as a tourney gun.

Currently all they can get is 600 shots from quite a large gun that look very much like a military rifle.

But perhaps in say, 5-7 years when battery technology improves we may see something radical, until then, I don't think we will have to give up our gas bottles!

 

[speedbird_666]

Originally posted by Tom Allen
Guys, you know something is out there being tested and perfected.
Just wait and see..........................

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