Paintball Thread !

[maynard]

B/c paintball is supposed to be scenario play also as the econ is down the more devoted players make up a larger population of the customer base and those people are interested in real paintball.

Paintball was created by Vietnam vets who wanted the game to simulate conditions in Vietnam. Over time as the sport grew a common problem emerged, people hate to lose to people better than themselves. You see people really hated being killed by people they could not see (snipers) even back in the day when the range was only a few feet! So the following changes where made to solve this problem over time:
Time limit: reduce the time available for the sniper to hide and for you to walk past him.
Field size: reduce field size so we know where he is
Hiding places: reduce hiding places for sniper so we know where he is
Starting locations: make it so we can see people when we start so we know where they go.

Over time these changes mounted and you ended up with speed ball. A lot of people like this today b/c of the fast nature of the game however the real purpose of speed ball is actually to equalize player skill levels down to movement speed because people do not like being killed by snipers.

To prevent snipers in speed ball the game is on a small map where the players can see everyone and with too little time to lose track of anyone. Unfortunately this is not how real combat works. In real combat you do not know where your enemies are and the game is won from intelligence and not from who shoots and runs the fastest. This is the lesson that the vets were trying to teach when they created the sport to being with.

not 2 mention speedball is really exspensive. your gear that you'll need if you want 2 play speedball seriously, is not cheap. and you will go through more paint playing speedball than anything. Speedball is for ppl who have time, dedication and money. without those things, you can't play speedball seriously... unless you get a sponsor.

as for the history of paintball I'm gonna have 2 disagree. paintball didn't surface till the 80's and it was thx 2 Hayes Noel and Charles Gaines

you can find all the info about them here.
http://www.warpig.com/paintball/arti...es/index.shtml
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_invent..._paintball_gun

and the existance of the paintball gun was simply for marking forestry sections, and cattle... until hayes had the brain fart, "who would do better in a survival sittuation? a country boy? or city boy" which lead 2 the first organized paintball game ever.


here's the Nelspot 007 first ever made paintball marker.