What exactly does "Ramping" mean??
ive read some guns have a ramping firing mode..
What does Ramping do??
ive read some guns have a ramping firing mode..
What does Ramping do??
might be a silly question.. Ramping??
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no question is stupid m8, apart from why we voted blair back in! but thats another story.
ramping as i understand it means, when you reach a preset rate of fire in semi auto mode ie 6 balls per second the marker will then go to the capped ramped rate of fire ie 15 bps. Once the marker is in ramping mode normally one trigger press per second will keep the marker firing at the ramped rate.
hope this helps
ramping as i understand it means, when you reach a preset rate of fire in semi auto mode ie 6 balls per second the marker will then go to the capped ramped rate of fire ie 15 bps. Once the marker is in ramping mode normally one trigger press per second will keep the marker firing at the ramped rate.
hope this helps
It vary's slightly between guns and rules as to what it takes to start them ramping and then to keep them going, but basically the term just means shot multiplication, basically it's a form of cheating for people with spastic fingers that can't pull a trigger quickly
If your going to get a ramping board, then do it quickly before the whole thing gets banned, probably for insurance reasons rather than legal reasons, because as you can imagine 14 players firing at 15bps, someone's going to get hurt soon?
Currently the legal definition of semi-automatic is one shot to one trigger pull, quite how the home office allows a gun to be legal that fires 4 shots per trigger pull is beyond me
What we are using would be termed by the police as an class 2 automatic weapon which by it's very definition is illegal as all automatic weapons are banned.
If anyone would like to explain that loophole, i'd be interested?
If your going to get a ramping board, then do it quickly before the whole thing gets banned, probably for insurance reasons rather than legal reasons, because as you can imagine 14 players firing at 15bps, someone's going to get hurt soon?
Currently the legal definition of semi-automatic is one shot to one trigger pull, quite how the home office allows a gun to be legal that fires 4 shots per trigger pull is beyond me
What we are using would be termed by the police as an class 2 automatic weapon which by it's very definition is illegal as all automatic weapons are banned.
If anyone would like to explain that loophole, i'd be interested?
well, let me just sey before we start that i dont agree with ramping.
but there is the theory that capping @15bps will stop people using trigger bounce, because they'd stand out so much they'd be pulled immediatly for shooting @25 bps or somthing insane like that. this apparently makes the game safer (cough).
I also cant see how it counts as semi-automatic...
hope it helps though, cheers
but there is the theory that capping @15bps will stop people using trigger bounce, because they'd stand out so much they'd be pulled immediatly for shooting @25 bps or somthing insane like that. this apparently makes the game safer (cough).
I also cant see how it counts as semi-automatic...
hope it helps though, cheers
Why bother with ramping when i can tap out over 15bps anyway. All the hours spent practising walking the trigger would go to waste. All ramping does is remove the need for technique and allow the people who cannot be bothered to learn/practise shoot quicker than they can manage.
ramping is such a dodgy subject and personally think it should be removed from use.
ramping is such a dodgy subject and personally think it should be removed from use.
Ramping was basically just a hashed up backlash attempt to try and tame the cheats out there !
Some gifted people can genuinly exceed 15-20+bps, but in the real world most people have a normal game speed of 8-10bps (i'm talking "actual speed" without the bull-s##t factor), but if you set a gun to bounce or fit a cheat board then the slow people can match and exceed the gifted players and thus close the playing advantage.
The problem now for organisers is insurance, as the companys are closing down availability of cover for events, or charging premium rates which in turn have to be passed on to the player,
Ramping is genuinly bad for paintball and really needs to be stopped, don't get me wrong i run a ramped gun and enjoy it, but i only use ramping because it's available, if they stop it then so shall i, but for the future of the sport we need to go back to semi and change peoples attitudes away from "acceptable cheating" !
Some gifted people can genuinly exceed 15-20+bps, but in the real world most people have a normal game speed of 8-10bps (i'm talking "actual speed" without the bull-s##t factor), but if you set a gun to bounce or fit a cheat board then the slow people can match and exceed the gifted players and thus close the playing advantage.
The problem now for organisers is insurance, as the companys are closing down availability of cover for events, or charging premium rates which in turn have to be passed on to the player,
Ramping is genuinly bad for paintball and really needs to be stopped, don't get me wrong i run a ramped gun and enjoy it, but i only use ramping because it's available, if they stop it then so shall i, but for the future of the sport we need to go back to semi and change peoples attitudes away from "acceptable cheating" !
As far as Im concerned there isn't an issue with ramping. People who dont like ramping can play in a series which doesnt allow it. People who do like ramping can play in a series that does allow it.
As for making the game safer; well concentrate on the players that think rolling your JT face plate up looks good whilst in a game.
Equinox; as dan said nothing wrong with asking questions... But there is everything wrong with not using the search button.
P.S. >>> Bring on an 18bps cap!!!!
As for making the game safer; well concentrate on the players that think rolling your JT face plate up looks good whilst in a game.
Equinox; as dan said nothing wrong with asking questions... But there is everything wrong with not using the search button
.P.S. >>> Bring on an 18bps cap!!!!