The future of paintball...

[D7Productions]

Where does everyone think paintball is going? I just wanted to hear opinions. It seems there is soo much technology in the industry today. There are ACE's, COPS', HALO's, E-Triggers, guns shooting 30bps+, Whats next?:puzzled:

[jasyn]

no more triggers. optical eye will sense movement in the "trigger area" allowing insane rates of fire. 30bps will be trivial.

what i'd like to know is when comps will master the paint manufacturing process. even the best paint out today still varies considerably.

[D7Productions]

Thats true. Possibly we will see more aerodynamic shells. Somewhat football shaped. I think the bolt will be eliminated, replaced by a dual stage air system. Low pressure air pushes ball into end of barrel, second high pressure burst ejects paintball. No more chops. A sealing feedneck door would seal off the chanber to allow this. Dont tell me this is like the Nova markers, its not.

[C.Carles-AOG]

Paint is lagging behind. We still need to really get better methods of testing equipment too. I want to know how many cfm a particular air tank pushes, I want to know the real operating range where a reg and lpr is within efficient operating limits, etc. I think we have a ways to go. Paint is the biggest problem though, aside from giving everyone a physics book so they understand that a cocker doesn't shoot straighter or farther lol

[gremlin75]

I would like to see a regulator/compressure....no more paing for air. but as of right now something like that would weight like 50 pounds

later
gremlin

[Jestersfollys]

paint with my face engraved on it so i can chase you down all day long and not have to move.

[Prophet]

I agree with Carles. Paint needs to improve, big time. Make it so its less affected by weather, more consistent in roundness, a uniform diameter (no more .689, .684, etc make it all one size), and make it last longer in storage.

I actually remember paint being much more consistent in roundness when I first started about 4 years ago. Odd shaped paintballs, or out-of-round, was rather rare. Same with it being dimpled, that was rare too, unless it was cold. Granted paint was also more expensive then, $75-80 per case for standard paint (but also was 2500 rnds per, and not 2000).

The other thing I think should (and probably will) happen, is make markers more air efficient. Find a way so that a marker (no matter the brand or style) could get at least 1000 to 1200 shots off of a 45/4500.

I don't think we need markers that shoot any faster, maybe more accurate and efficient, but not faster.

[pntbalmatt]

Originally posted by C.Carles-AOG
though, aside from giving everyone a physics book so they understand that a cocker doesn't shoot straighter or farther lol


Charles, you are my new best friend. Amen to your comment.

[wdp child]

Originally posted by D7Productions
Thats true. Possibly we will see more aerodynamic shells. Somewhat football shaped. I think the bolt will be eliminated, replaced by a dual stage air system. Low pressure air pushes ball into end of barrel, second high pressure burst ejects paintball. No more chops. A sealing feedneck door would seal off the chanber to allow this. Dont tell me this is like the Nova markers, its not.


Football shaped.......I can't make my self see a football shaped paintball going through a barrel without breaking. There is too many ways it can go in wrong and that would take more time to load into the feed neck if you have to wait for it to go in with the right end therefore decreasing the time to shoot and no one wants to go back down the bps ladder after they have gone up it already.

[SCM]

Having no trigger would actually slow down people ROF. The reason people get super high ROF is from trigger bounce. That is why at NPPL events you don't see anyone shooting super fast. They check for it.

But if you go to Pan Am events on small tourney series like that, you see people shooting insanely fast. Then when you shoot there guns you see why. They shoot 2-3 times per pull. The worst gun being the timmy, which is why it is so popular.

[D7Productions]

Maybe theyll make a dual sided trigger frame so you can pop back and forth between two hyper-sensitive triggers. I also think that the barrel and a breech sensor will be linkes so that a sleeve system like in the Aradus barrels will automatically adjust the barrel bore to the size of the paint, told to it by the same eye that will be eliminating chops.

[paintballguy990]

id like to see some much better bunker designs i want to see something outrageously cool and yet easy to put up. there needs to be better ways of paint being made so it is cheaper to the normal every day player. woodsball will be considered primitive. people will be tuning in for the "world cup finals" and people in the stands will be non-paintballer, die hard fans painting themselves in their favorite team's colors wearing beer hats and getting in fights because their team missed the flag pull. and later people wont know what a non-electronic marker is.

[captncrunch]

i have read several places about optical triggers and someone actually made one. Oh and BTW, Nppl rules state that the trigger must move:cry:

[D7Productions]

I guess it would be pretty easy to do if you knew what you were doing. Just an IR eye like ace systems use, that ahen tripped activates the sear in simple guns like spyders. In Angels it will be more difficult though because of all the board functions.