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The Thursday Poll: NPPL Gun Rule Changes

Which of the following if the best approach for the NPPL to take

  • Give refs a mandate to pull blatant gun cheats without proof

    Votes: 21 17.9%

  • No changes until the technology exists to catch cheat guns beyond reasonable doubt

    Votes: 8 6.8%

  • Cap ROF and use the same technology as the PSP

    Votes: 43 36.8%

  • All players must use NPPL issue boards - but you have to pay $100 for them

    Votes: 4 3.4%

  • All players must use NPPL boards, which come as part of your entry fee

    Votes: 35 29.9%

  • Don't care

    Votes: 6 5.1%
  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
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Hey, i never said it will happen overnight. Neither am i saying the NPPL isn't doing a great job of pushing paintball further...

I was stating my opinion of an ideal situation to resolve the constant BS regarding equipment cheats that is going on at the moment. The problem is that at the moment we have no unified INDEPENDENT industry body to control the sport and set the boundaries. Instead we have the catch 22 stalemate that exists where manufactures and company seniors are calling the shots.
 
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With a standard chip installed, surely it would still be possible to run the gun's functionality from another concealed chip, so that it appears to using the approved chip but actually its bypassing it and using a concealed illiegal one. There might be ways for the authorities to counter this, but then the cheats will find ways to counter the counters etc, etc...
 
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Originally posted by Steve Hancock
With a standard chip installed, surely it would still be possible to run the gun's functionality from another concealed chip, so that it appears to using the approved chip but actually its bypassing it and using a concealed illiegal one. There might be ways for the authorities to counter this, but then the cheats will find ways to counter the counters etc, etc...
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It would be possible to have another chip control the gun, but it would also be pretty obvious if you popped the grip frame and had a tool as trivial as a multimeter. A reasonable comparison would be a corked bat in baseball. It's not always obvious, but there isn't a rampant corked bat problem in baseball because you can definitively tell if someone has one and the penalty for it is severe.

So, a year or three year ban for having a cheater chip is enforcable, because you can prove if someone is doing it or not. The problem we have with cheater chips now is it is absolutely not possible to know if someone has them or not. (To continue the baseball analogy, they're like designer steroids, which are a problem.)
 
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