Speedball

Tippmann has made markers for speedball.

Enter the A-5 and 98c, with a little work they are excellent markers for speedball.

If you want them to start making spyder clones, dont count on it.  Tippmann is doing things in their own way, they are pretty much the only company focusing on woodsball guns. 

I personnally would not welcome ANY spyder clone or similar gun from Tippmann.

Remember, Tippmann's huge base and success prmiarily is from woodsball type guns. If they start researching and marketing a new product which they have no experience in, it may flop, causing one heck of a loss in revenue, time, and overall customer satisfaction and happiness. Remember when Coca-Cola decided to make "New Coke" (I think back in the 80s)? It failed miserably because it changed the consumers expectations and they eventually threw out New Coke and went back to the original recipe, now known as Coca-Cola Classic. It costed Coke millions and tons of time wasted and the orignal goal, make people drink Coke over Pepsi, was actually the opposite of what really happened; more people began drinking Pepsi. I say stick with what they're doing now, they do a great job, don't fix it if it ain't broke.

Tippmann does it's best with woodball, but they can still give it a shot, after all it isnt to hard to a make a marker which will be alittle more tuned for speedball. But i do see what both of ya are saying. I just don't understand why not give it a shot. Almost anything, and everything is worth a try.

Tippmann is probably extremely happy with what they're making now, after all the majority of the market is in woodsball/recball/scenario, not speedball. They will not make a speedball oriented marker, at least right off the production line. You can, however upgrade one to make it speedball oriented, but at your own cost. Tippmann will not risk their business to make a speedball marker. Just like Darur stated above, 2-3 years and millions of dollars on one gun model. And it'll be a good one. Imagine if they spent that time and money developing a (speedball) marker they have no experience in making, and it flops?

Darur, I lost track of how many Spyder models there are out there, I think it's somthing like 600.

I heard a Tippmann pistol/sidearm discussed here a loooooong time ago... Didn't really end well I recall.

They should make smaller guns, they should perfect the Flatline Barrel System, they should focus on paintball ergonomics instead of firearm cosmetics, make CO2-guns run smoother, and make it all cheap enough so that more people will want to play.

Edited by Brainless_Fool

Brainless_Fool wrote: They should make smaller guns, they should perfect the Flatline Barrel System, they should focus on paintball ergonomics instead of firearm cosmetics, make CO2-guns run smoother, and make it all cheap enough so that more people will want to play.

Tippmann has already done this, its called every Marker they have maid so far! With the proper upgrades, any tippmann marker ( especially the A-5 ) can shoot fast, reliably, and accurately, and do it just as well as any speedball marker and still be cheaper and just as short. And as for Tippmann focusing on cosmetics, that’s ridiculous, most speedballers I know think that tippman’s are boring looking compared to most other markers. Tippmann focuses on reliability.

 

ps.

Please do not mistake this for flaming, I am only stating my opinion and I respect yours.

I hate flamers! They have ruined the Paintball Ideas forum!

 

Edited by MT. Vigilante

all tippmann has to do is make the 98c a little shorter and have a stock double trigger the e grip should also be an option. they could also pay more attention to the trigger system

Darur wrote:    I personnally would not welcome ANY spyder clone or similar gun from Tippmann.

ya me neither

MT. Vigilante wrote:  as for Tippmann focusing on cosmetics, that’s ridiculous, most speedballers I know think that tippman’s are boring looking compared to most other markers. Tippmann focuses on reliability.

even though tippmann doesnt focus on reliability i think their markers look really cool how does an a-5 look boring next to a dm5 those are ugly guns IMO maybe its because i own real firearms unlike a lot of paintball players. i dont want my gun to look like a water pistol i want it to look realistic-ish.