i have an idea for an inflatable bunker.

nice....

a good idea... but it is like colored co2 it is a waste of time and you probally get hit before it got blow up.

It could always inflate the same way those emergency life rafts inflate.

I'm visualizing a speedball game of the future based on this concept:

• A larger field where the teams are not within range of each other at the beginning
• Only three permanent features
• A starting bunker at each end
• and a center structure for the flag
• Each player carries one bunker which must be left where used
• Do they play it safe and deploy it early near their own base
• or do they take a chance and set up deep in enemy territory (remember, if they are eliminated before using their bunker, it leaves the field with them)

Hmmmm.

Mack wrote: It could always inflate the same way those emergency life rafts inflate. I'm visualizing a speedball game of the future based on this concept: A larger field where the teams are not within range of each other at the beginning Only three permanent features A starting bunker at each end and a center structure for the flag Each player carries one bunker which must be left where used Do they play it safe and deploy it early near their own base or do they take a chance and set up deep in enemy territory (remember, if they are eliminated before using their bunker, it leaves the field with them) Hmmmm.

Thats totaly crazy but.......crazy enought that it could work!!!

usafpilot07 wrote: thats actually a pretty cool idea mack, but you have to remember that its not perfectly safe...the canisters on the life rafts are specially designed for a downed aircraft team.  if a canister ever flew off during a game and killed someone....another strike on the wall for paintball

I didn't say I wanted to do it, I just enjoy taking impractical but intriguing ideas and modifying them.  It gets other folks thinking, and sometimes something brilliant comes out at the end.

Edited Note:  And sometimes (like with farm animals) something else comes out at the end.

usafpilot07 wrote: MT. Vigilante wrote: usafpilot07 wrote: thats actually a pretty cool idea mack, but you have to remember that its not perfectly safe...the canisters on the life rafts are specially designed for a downed aircraft team.  if a canister ever flew off during a game and killed someone....another strike on the wall for paintball Have you ever heard of that happening? The idea behind the life raft is to save people from a disaster, so they make these things to be as safe as possible so it doesn’t create more problems for the survivors, and so that even the most untrained ignorant boob can operate the thing, so in other words; I don’t think it is going to fly off, I mean when was the last time you saw a Co2 tank fly off a paintball gun while you were using it. well, during water survival last year(i go to a camp run by the Navy) they told us to watch out if one of the canisters was banged up my CO2 tank has never flown off, course maybe thats because its never gone down with a helicopter

That’s right, only the real damaged tanks are capable of flying off, and since there have not been any reports of Co2 tanks flying off during tournaments, I doubt that any paintball player is going to accidentally cause that kind of damage to a tank and still be stupid enough to go and use it. I think the inflatable bunker idea, using the quick inflatable technology off of life rafts, is perfectly safe, or at least just as safe as a paintball marker. Now whether it is practical or not is everyone’s own opinion.