Originally posted by Frackture
awww how quaint, how amusing, how delightfully spiffing that players had the '15 bps grin'...we can now all return to the shires basking in the knowledge that the PA league have produced the '15 bps smile'...Ahhhhhhh…….it warms me to my very core.
Come to think of it pet, let's get all our children playing this game because all the players walk around all day with that smile, it truly must be a family game with all that happiness just ooozing from the players.
FFS, anybody thought about just why these grinning idiots might be so smug, could be because they were firing a marker at a rate they couldn’t ever have hoped to achieve before and has now been artificially handed to them on a plate...yeh good move guys, what next ?
A device that does away with actually aiming the gun and automatically eliminates your opponent?
And while we are at it, why not go the whole hog and rule out all the skills required to play this game and let's play virtual paintball with a joystick, I mean, I'm pretty sure you could get that on Sky on any Saturday morning with the rest of the cartoons and dross especially when you pay them to air the show like you already do.
In fact, let's also get rid of all the rules together, that's got to be easier to police surely?
If there are no rules there's no policing necessary, this is the same rationale is it not?
Just because ramping is hard to catch, let's shift the problem to where we think we can catch it easier but in reality all we’ve done is trade one set of problems for another and ended up nullifying one of paintball’s skills and upping the chances of some grinning idiot getting hurt or getting into a fight.
We've really cracked it now, wooo hoo, more power to the PA.
wow... what was intended as a light hearted comment seems to have really boiled someone's blood... I didn't come up with the phrase... just something I heard that I thought was kind of amusing... sheesh... and I get accused of being up tight... If this guy eats coal I bet he can crap diamonds....
I'll concede there were teething problems the same as any rational person will understand there is when trying anything new... but hell, someone has to try it first or we'll never know if it works... and no one is being forced to do anything they don't want to...
So far the majority of people I have spoken with personally liked what happened on Sunday and the people who have offered rational and supportive comments on how we can improve things we listen to and we're working bloody hard to keep improving things.
Insane rantings in a public forum from a disturbed individual don't really help matters and actually cloud the truth of what really happened... but everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Interestingly, the majority of feed back I've had from players reckoned that because it made the "running and gunning" thing easier they were more inclined to move than sit back... and as paint consumtion didn't actually increase as dramatically as some people predicted I guess there wasn't any more sitting back and dumping box after box of paint downfield than there has been previously.
I must admit I still don't get why some people feel the need to attack the PA so vehemently... no we're not perfect but alot of people are working very hard and these things do take time.... it would take a damn site less time if more people got actively involved...
...and if you really hate it so much why not just get on and do something else? Really? Put your energies into something productive instead of spending your days trying to pull down what someone else is doing? You know you could actually surprise yourself and do something good.
Arrogant? Me? hardly... but sometimes decisions have to be made and I get to be the one who makes them for the PA. It sucks. I hate dissapointing people but "omlettes and eggs" and I always did say that some of things the PA was going to do were going to be painful.
The PA as an organisation always has and always will continue to develop in a direction that it feels will move paintball into the realms of an established sport with a strong, stable structure and that means moving away from the wobbly framework it's been clinging to for 20 years. If you consider that arrogant then yes, I guess it is.
