Whats up with Highest BPS?
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Topic: Whats up with Highest BPS?
Posted By: ump107
Subject: Whats up with Highest BPS?
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 1:02am
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What is the fascination with achieving the absolute highest BPS out of a marker? I have been playing paintball for a few years off and on and I still don’t get it. I Wouldn’t trying to become a better marksman with your marker be the ideal goal? If you hit your target when you shoot at it; it saves paint and propellant. If you can shoot 30 BPS yet can’t hit the broad side of a barn all your doing is wasting paint, propellant, and money. My 98 Custom can shoot about 11 BPS out of the box, I haven’t upgraded it yet, but if I practice with it I can shoot at the target and hit it without wasting paint, propellant and money. Now granted I’ve mostly played woods and outlaw, conservation of ammo and hitting the target the first time are important to me the more I hit the target and get the opponent out with less paint means the less I have to carry with me. Or when playing a scenario where I am limited in the amount of ammo I can carry accuracy is paramount not who can spray the most paint. Besides in some of the scenario games I have played once you’re out of paint your as good as dead unless you find an ammo cache. ------------- Tippman 98 Custom 14" J&J Ceramic Barrel BT-16 Barrel kit BT-Folding stock JT USA Spectra ProShield "If you must runaway do so quietly; Screaming looks bad on the news.” (unknown) |
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Posted By: WGP guy
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 4:50am
| fascination is an understatement |
Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 7:09am
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It's for speedball. It's to keep the other people in their bunker
so that you can move. Sometimes it can take 20 BPS to keep
someone in a bunker. I can move when at least 10 BPS is coming at
me.
------------- Something unknown is doing we don't know what. That is what our knowledge amounts to. - Sir Arthur Eddington |
Posted By: roadrunner0535
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 7:18am
people use it for woodzball...but that 4 games like citadel ------------- 98c seclusion 14" dye ultralite rufus dawg 2x stick trigg remote full-auto mod http://roadrunnerpaintball.mypicgallery.com/mpg/Route.asp - My 98C 100% smart parts |
Trogdor2 wrote:Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 7:26am
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It's all about people trying to show the size... of their wallet.
I just can't afford to shoot like that. Pump? Yes, please. ------------- 
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Posted By: roadrunner0535
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 7:35am
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pumps r awesome 4 woodzball...accurate and powerfull
------------- 98c seclusion 14" dye ultralite rufus dawg 2x stick trigg remote full-auto mod http://roadrunnerpaintball.mypicgallery.com/mpg/Route.asp - My 98C 100% smart parts |
Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 7:39am
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I love playing speedball with my phantom or PGP2K. It's mostly walk-ons so I can often get away with just the pistol. If it gets rough I get out the phantom. And if I'm just having a rough day all around, out comes the 98c. -------------
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Posted By: roadrunner0535
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 7:41am
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98c 4 speedball...u must have a lotta upgrades 4 that 2 b good
------------- 98c seclusion 14" dye ultralite rufus dawg 2x stick trigg remote full-auto mod http://roadrunnerpaintball.mypicgallery.com/mpg/Route.asp - My 98C 100% smart parts |
Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 8:00am
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Nope. I put an expansion chamber on it because I liked the grip of it. I also got a LapCo Bigshot barrel. I often play at the cave field so the terrain is a bit different than typical speedball. More room, larger teams. Outside at that field is more like speedball, and I end up playing with the 98 a bit more there when the other team starts camping the back corners. -------------
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Posted By: gogged_86
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 8:08am
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intimidation factor..... ------------- Gogged_86 |
Posted By: -The Unknown-
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 8:24am
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Posted By: pimptastik
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 9:06am
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accurcay(sp?) by volume. ------------- <no ginormous sigs please> |
Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 9:10am
Exactly. You're almost guarenteed a hit if you're shooting 20 BPS in the general direction of something that you can see. ------------- Something unknown is doing we don't know what. That is what our knowledge amounts to. - Sir Arthur Eddington |
Posted By: S\/\/4T-L()G4N
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 9:17am
Right, so being effective would be shooting slow but accurate... Think about if you can shoot fast and accurate. The advantage is yours. ------------- 
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Posted By: Ruff Neck - 32
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 9:52am
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all talk, i play speedball with my 98c and i have a flatline, thats it, i take one shot, you see you have to shoot the person when it counts and not hte bunker.. ------------- Tippmann A-5 -E-Grip -Unimount -32* Remote -Blade Trigger -Redz Harness -Flatline Barrel -Palmers Stabalizer Fund: 118/680 |
Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 10:15am
Then you don't play against people who know what they are doing. My local field hosts teams like Bad Company and the All Americans. They are pro. When you're playing against them, one shot is definetly not one kill. You can dodge paintballs. When you lean out of your bunker, yo can see them coming and have just enough time to get back in again. If you move fast enough, you can make it to another bunker unless someone is playing really good angles. ------------- Something unknown is doing we don't know what. That is what our knowledge amounts to. - Sir Arthur Eddington |
Posted By: :ShockeR_ratm:
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 10:27am
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I like being able to shoot a lot of paint and I'm still very accurate
with one shot...If you've ever been in tournaments bps really does
matter IMO...It's all personal preference, there's an argument from
both sides with a good reason behind it and no one will ever win this
fight...So how aboot everyone just drop it now before it turns into a
3535350 page flame fest ------------- 
Nobody ever suspects the fun police! 
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Posted By: Suthe12
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 10:28am
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yes i hav seen pros dodge paintballs and i myself hav dodge sum (lol just in time i got outta the way of about 50 balls comin from a shocker) also a guy at my field can hit 30 bps with his angel and trust me....he aint missing |
Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 10:39am
| i see the point in shooting alot of bps....but i soubt i will ever do it...to me it seems like wa waste.... |
Posted By: roadrunner0535
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 10:43am
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ya...if u wanna shoot like that form a 98c...do i have an upgrade 4
u...they sell gatling gun cranks that fit the 98c...700bpm...trust
me...u wont miss
------------- 98c seclusion 14" dye ultralite rufus dawg 2x stick trigg remote full-auto mod http://roadrunnerpaintball.mypicgallery.com/mpg/Route.asp - My 98C 100% smart parts |
Posted By: 98God
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 10:47am
| that crank sucks...its called the firestorm crank |
Posted By: TRAVELER
Date Posted: 31 August 2004 at 11:29am
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I've found high bps to come in handy when you are up against people that are hard to hit, that is, if you hit them just once, they tend to wipe. In one of my first tournies, I was trading fire with a guy who had me pinned down. No matter what, I couldn't move. I would find gaps in which I could send a few balls his way, but I was stuck. Eventually, he finally hit me, which began our team's downward slide and loss. After the game was over, a few of the spectators said they saw me hit this guy in the goggles, but he quickly wiped off the paint and kept firing at me. Unfortunately the ref was paying more attention to me than to the other guy. Since then, I try to back up my shots, to hit whoever I'm shooting at as many times as I can. ------------- For I will wander to and fro, I'll go where I no one do know, |