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Originally Posted by ezmonet
When I played speed ball it was shoot and move. Has this changed as well with the high rate of fire?
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Its not the rate of fire, but the playing style. Teams will carry tons of paint, and fire accoss the field, between the bunkers (called lanes), in hopes of having another playing run into it. This style was impossible with large, woodsball tournaments, but was development as speedball fields became TINY, and you could easily shoot the length of the field creating "kill zones".
It makes for VERY BORING GAMES, but the sponsors, which are paint companies, make lots of money.
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How do you cheat with an electronic gun? I would be more worried about wiping, which has always been pretty widespread
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Trigger is just an electronic switch that sends a single to a computer chip. Then the computer chip tells the gun to fire. Simple?
Well, cheaters have reprogrammed chips to fire multiple-shots per trigger pull, but only when firing a certain speed, to make it hard to detect.
Also, some guns my RISE in FPS when rapid-firing. Again, hard to detect. There is a whole variety of cheat modes. It has become SO widespread that some tournaments use sophisticated ROBOTS to chrono in guns to try and find these hidden cheat modes.
That scariest thing of all, is many FACTORY GUNS now come with cheat modes. This fact alone might get electros banned from future tournaments one day.
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What pitfalls should I stay away from now?
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Well, most "garage" companies have folded from pressure from the new "mega-companies" like K2, SP, and TPI. The kills variety, but also means that most products are of decent quality these days.
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Got any good gun advice? Barrel suggestions?
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I personally don't think barrels make a different, but I'd buy a Lapco if you held a gun to my head. Good guns are cheap these days. A $350 BKO or TES will perform just as well as a $1500 "super gun". Even those $100 electro-spyder wonder-guns were VERY well out of the box.
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Does replacing the ram, reg, 3 way matter anymore? How about the bolt? What happened to the pnumatic covers on Autocockers?
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People took off the covers because they wanted to show off the aftermarket reg, ram and 3-way they purchased. In truth, the aftermarket parts are NO BETTER. They are mostly cosmetic, so the cover is usually the first thing to go.
If you like cockers, it seems the "big" upgrade is to convert it to electro. It means you can fire MUCH faster, and have an uber-light trigger, without all the timing/short-stroke headaches that plague the stock cocker.
-Nick