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#354453 [CT] Connecticut Nerf Out - Norwalk - Saturday, July 2nd
Posted by DX-Robert on 22 June 2016 - 12:26 AM in Nerf Wars
Several people may be able to attend, but only for a few hours. You know what that means, right?
"ROUNDS PER MINUTE!"
We need to step it up so everyone can have fun, no matter how long they are able to stay. Downtime needs to be kept to a minimum. This is still a week and a half away, so there's plenty of time to make more darts and tune up primaries. Bring your A game, lots of darts, lots of friends, and be ready to play hard!
#354303 [CT] Connecticut Nerf Out - Norwalk - Saturday, July 2nd
Posted by DX-Robert on 17 June 2016 - 03:36 AM in Nerf Wars
Connecticut Nerf Out - Saturday, July 2nd 2016
[Insert awesome sub-optimal image and teaser video here]
This war replaces the NENO that we were unable to do. Note the new location. If you live in the city, on LI, in Jersey, in eastern PA, this is a bit closer to you than usual. We'd love to see you there if you are able to attend! Check back here for updates, I like to update stuff the same way I vote - early and often.
Play Times:
10 AM to at least 5 PM. (That's 1 to 5 in Langley time)
Venue:
West Rocks Middle School
81 West Rocks Rd, Norwalk, CT 06851
Parking: 41.133884, -73.414676
Backup:
Cranbury Elementary School
10 Knowalot Ln, Norwalk, CT 06851
Parking: 41.156607, -73.402940
Playing: TBA
Lunch:
Bring your own, or bring $$$ for group pizza. Bring one for DX, too. Feed the wildlife.
Rules:
Eye protection is mandatory, regardless of age.
Barrel taps ARE allowed (with the SIDE of your barrel or by hand tag).
Blaster hits count and hits to anything you are carrying count.
Shields and melee are not allowed.
FPS limit: Try to keep your average at or under 300 FPS.
Allowed Darts:
- #6 Slugs
- #8 Slugs
- Silicone Domes
- Stock Darts of any variety other than FVJs
Check List:
- Lunch, for DX.
- Water. Sugar water for DX.
- Money, for DX. Somehow, I am still alive.
- Blaster for a raffle. (NIB Maximizer, System 2000, 1500 Arrow Shooter, etc)
- Darts. This one is kind of important. Bring at least a couple hundred.
- At least 2 primaries. There's no guarantee that we'll have enough loaners for everyone, especially if you're a Yankees fan.
- Pistol, maybe. I keep bringing one and we never end up doing pistol rounds.
- Sunscreen, if you burn easily. Google, broadband, and Van James didn't exist the last time I got burned, but hey, not everyone can be this fabulous.
Game Types:
I'll make a rough playlist to avoid wasting time. Make your requests if you want to play something and it's not listed.
Current Playlist:
- 3-15 Warmup x2
- VIP x2
- Uma Thurman x2
- Lunch / Maybe speed rounds
- 3-15 x2
- Freeze Tag x2
- 5/0 x2
- 3-15 Cooldowns
Raffle:
If you want to participate, bring a $10-20 blaster to toss in. We'll assign everyone a number and pick from a random number program. In addition to the raffle, I will be bringing stuff to give away. It may not be useful...stuff...but it could be interesting and maybe you'll think of a use for it? Whatever you don't take will be thrown away 100% guaranteed. Last NENO I ended up throwing away about 8 blasters that were not claimed.
Confirmed Attendees (14):
A wild DX +1
Van James
Blitz
Aeromech
Jlego
CA99
Zach +1
Edmund
Jonathan +1
Lucy! +1
Maybe:
Langley
Miguel
#357681 [CT] Connecticut Nerf Out - Sunday, January 29th 2017
Posted by DX-Robert on 24 January 2017 - 09:09 PM in Nerf Wars
Connecticut Nerf Out - Sunday, January 29th 2017
This war allows us to stack 2 events on the same weekend (NYCNO is the day before!) Mix of DIY and Superstock with mobstacles for cover. We will be nerfing regardless of the weather, so dress warm.
Play Times:
10 AM to around 4 PM.
Venue:
West Rocks Middle School
81 West Rocks Rd, Norwalk, CT 06851
Parking: 41.133884, -73.414676
Backup:
Cranbury Elementary School
10 Knowalot Ln, Norwalk, CT 06851
Parking: 41.156607, -73.402940
Lunch:
Bring your own. Due to the forecast for mid 30s, I don't plan on having much downtime. There will still be rounds to play during lunch.
Rules:
Eye protection is mandatory, regardless of age.
Barrel taps ARE allowed (TAG WITH YOUR HAND, not your barrel)
Blaster hits count and hits to anything you are carrying count.
Shields and melee are not allowed.
FPS limit:
For DIY rounds, try to keep your average at or under 300 FPS.
For SS rounds, try to keep your average at or under 150 FPS.
Allowed Darts:
- #6 Slugs
- #8 Slugs
- Suction Cup Slugs (SCS)
- Silicone Domes
- Stock Darts of any variety and any length
Check List:
- Winter jacket
- Gloves
- Hat/scarf/etc.
- Lunch
- Water
- Money
- Blaster for a raffle. (NIB Maximizer, System 2000, 1500 Arrow Shooter, etc)
- Darts. This one is kind of important. Bring at least a couple hundred.
- At least 2 primaries. We will have loaners available.
- Pistol, maybe. I keep bringing one and we never end up doing pistol rounds.
Game Types:
- 3-15
- 5-0
- VIP
- Uma Thurman if I remember to bring the soda bottles
- 2 Flag CTF
- Speed rounds
Raffle:
If you want to participate, bring a $10-20 blaster to toss in. We'll assign everyone a number and pick from a random number program.
Confirmed Attendees (8):
A wild DX
Jaxon
Van James
CA99
Zach
Zack
Joe Med
David
Maybe:
Ron
Ethan
#353123 [CT] NENO 15 May 1st
Posted by DX-Robert on 28 April 2016 - 03:48 PM in Nerf Wars
For the raffle, we typically put in a $10-20 item (or combo of items, or Nerf blaster book, or Nerfstrong wristband, or big box of junk, or...Jaxon's left glove...). Each person gets a number and numbers are drawn randomly, you pick in the order that the numbers come up.
#353119 [CT] NENO 15 May 1st
Posted by DX-Robert on 28 April 2016 - 12:08 PM in Nerf Wars
NENO is this Sunday! There is a chance of rain, so pack a jacket.
Like last time, I will be bringing a bunch of things I don't want. The better ones will go into the raffle, the rest anyone can just take. Whatever is left will go straight into the trash.
#326297 The QUICK way to reload the RoughCut
Posted by DX-Robert on 04 February 2013 - 09:14 AM in General Nerf
#320271 The Remedy Metal SS Boltsled, a working and produced part
Posted by DX-Robert on 10 August 2012 - 12:25 AM in General Nerf
NH isn't really for advertising "Nerf businesses" either...doesn't the commercialization of this hobby ever bother you at all? It's already expensive enough pumping out darts and driving up and down the eastern seaboard for wars. Selling off my entire arsenal probably wouldn't match the cost of a full kit in metal. One of the things I've noticed in the past couple years is that the NIC has become more and more expensive. This used to be a much cheaper hobby when you could run around with 100 darts and primaries below $30. The businesses really bother me...it's one thing to be selling 3 dollar wyes...but look at what these places are charging for parts and kits...those prices are absurd. All this for fun...
And you said you got the boltsled provided for the review? Did you have to actually pay the 80 bucks to have that thing sent to you? A review where the subject was free and has no downsides is a red flag. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is, and for that amount of money, you'd better be 100% on top of your game before some poor kids throw away good money for something they aren't likely to need the power of.
#354590 Town and PD sanctioning nerf wars, etc.
Posted by DX-Robert on 26 June 2016 - 11:42 PM in Nerf Wars
In this specific case, the venue has been very carefully picked, using past experience to minimize interactions with police, local property owners, and various passer-bys. It is a field behind a public school, surrounded by bushes/trees and on a terrace below the level of the school itself and its main sports fields. Therefore, it is completely out of view of anyone on the rest of the school grounds, and almost completely out of sight from nearby houses. The field is not visible from the street. It is not marked for baseball, football, or soccer. It is extremely unlikely that anyone else will even pass by during the course of the day.
In the very unlikely event that a sports team or local group has reserved the field, we can move to a portion of the upper fields that are also unmarked for sports. In the unlikely event of a kick out, we have a backup venue about 5 minutes away. Police in our region have historically been a non-factor in our public parks and on public school grounds outside of school session.
Additionally, Sam, Van, and I will be making and setting up "mobstacles", cover made out of tarp and PVC. The big, blue tarps on grassy fields tend to make Nerf look more like a sports game when viewed from far away. People can't really tell what it is, but it looks like some sport or another, so they think nothing of it.
The activity itself is very safe, other than the risk of hits to the eye, which is why eye protection is mandatory. That said, no one is to be held liable for any injury or harm that does occur. You agree to assume all risk when you attend these events. If you do not agree to that, do not come. The ability to continue playing on public property is contingent upon players taking responsibility for themselves.
#68486 Traps.
Posted by DX-Robert on 27 November 2005 - 06:16 PM in General Nerf
@drumsrock92: The COC also mentions the use of proper capitalization and punctuation. Your post was marginally better than Sponge_Nerfer's in terms of following the COC.
Now to get back on topic, which is what one should do after it has gone off in some other random direction. To sum up my earlier views on Traps: Certain traps are effective in certain locations and in certain types of wars. One kind of trap may be a waste of time in one game type while scoring multiple kills in another. Depends on the situation. Don't build traps for the sake of building traps; make them only if you know they have a chance of helping to swing the balance of a nerf fight in your favor.
#68134 Traps.
Posted by DX-Robert on 22 November 2005 - 10:54 PM in General Nerf
#68138 Traps.
Posted by DX-Robert on 22 November 2005 - 11:37 PM in General Nerf
#335754 Tristate Nerf War
Posted by DX-Robert on 02 December 2013 - 01:50 AM in Nerf Wars
Date: Saturday, December 14th, 2013
Time: 10 AM to ~4 PM
Where: Saxon Woods Park
Across the street from
550 Mamaroneck Avenue
Harrison, NY 10528
Playing Area: Forest around a series of large boulders and small cliffs. Walk south from the parking lot and you can't miss it.
203-615-4914 if you get lost.
Map Link
Directions:
-Take the Hutchinson Parkway to Exit 23S
-Turn right on Mamaroneck Ave
-Park entrance is your next right at the intersection
or
-Take I-95 to Exit 16B
-Left on Mamaroneck Ave
-Go around the bend, pass 3 office buildings
-Park entrance is on your left at the first intersection where you can turn left
Typical MANL/East Coast style rules
-Eye protection is mandatory for under 18, over 18 strongly recommended
-Gun hits count
-No shields
-No singled Titans/Cobras/etc. If it's legal at NJ/PA wars, it's legal here.
-Barrel taps are allowed, but not with your barrel. You must tag the player with your hand.
Dart restrictions:
-Slugs and Silicone domes only
Lunch:
-Strongly recommended to bring a lunch with you. The playing area is not very close to the parking lot.
Other notes:
-If the gate is closed, park in front of it. Hopefully this doesn't happen, but if it does, we can shuttle people from the lot at West St Park.
-Don't bring a ton of gear unless you want to lug it in.
What to bring:
-At least two primaries
-Stefans (bring more than usual and plan on losing a bunch)
-Water (there is none at the park)
-Lunch
-Winter jacket and gloves. It could be pretty cold.
-Your "A" game. If it's cold, I don't plan on standing around for very long in between rounds.
Attendance:
Confirmed:
Duxburian
CA99
SEAL
Chief
SlightlySane
Kidame tomanaka
Donquixote +1
andtheherois +1
Maybe:
Ambush
Thailyer (sorry don't know your username)
Mangonerf
Griever 2112
Nick
Jaxon
Scott
Marauder
#248598 What Are We Allowed To Post?
Posted by DX-Robert on 25 August 2009 - 10:06 PM in Off Topic
#248634 What Are We Allowed To Post?
Posted by DX-Robert on 26 August 2009 - 10:06 AM in Off Topic
Oh and:
Nerf Wars
Advertise or review your local wars
Topics 1123 Posts 29649
Off Topic
Anything unrelated to wargames.
Topics 2164 Posts 32243
It's kinda sad that off topic is bigger than wars, by like double the topics.
#115629 What Is Your Style Of Play?
Posted by DX-Robert on 12 July 2007 - 10:40 PM in General Nerf
While skilled players can overcome this style, I've found that several nerfers didn't know exactly how to counter it since it's not a style of play they'd otherwise face. In the few major wars I've attended, I've found it rare not to survive to the end of each round. There were a few rounds at the first BCNO that I finished with all 3 lives.
I typically use my Longshot for the ROF and the range which is good enough to hold my own in middle-range stand-offs. My recently modded nitefiner will see action in two days as a light sidearm. Regardless of the game type [3:15, CTF, deathmatch, whatever] I'd use the same guns.
#215050 What... The... Fuck...
Posted by DX-Robert on 25 February 2009 - 11:30 PM in Site Feedback
It always looks different after taking a break. The topics and members change, but much of the same continues on.
#215038 What... The... Fuck...
Posted by DX-Robert on 25 February 2009 - 10:39 PM in Site Feedback
Look, I want to make something clear. I am not backseat moderating, saying that anything needs to be done, or complaining for kicks. There has just been such a HUGE, and very sudden influx of noobishness recently. I am just wondering, did I miss something?
What the hell happened?
I tend to avoid these topics, but I think one thing needs to made clear. Nothing new has happened in regard to macro posting behavior. I'd like to add to JSB's point that things are no different than they were a few weeks ago, a few months ago, or even a few years ago. It has been this way for as long as I can remember, though with a bit less volume, as there were obviously less members. New members have tended to be validated in waves - there would be an influx of bad posting, arguments, bans, but eventually the quality members would emerge from the fray and survive to go on and contribute to the hobby. That cycle has produced many good members whom have stayed with us for many years. It is worth the hassle of having less-than-superior quality posters running around.
The admins deal with them anyway. It should be of no concern to the rest of us. It is actually rather easy to ignore the n00bishness entirely. Just don't read what you don't want to see. I skim the topic lists in General, Off Topic, etc., usually see things that aren't worth reading or replying to, and then move on. Been doing that since months before even obtaining membership. Personally, I'm in a sort of bubble where conversing with good members is the only type and the rest of the membership doesn't exist. That's why I've never even heard of some people who have been here for months or sometimes a year. If you just shut out the trash, all you see is the treasure. Kinda corny way to put it, but it is the simplest way to picture that viewpoint. And of course, membership length does not necessarily correspond to member value, but time does influence members in some ways that other things cannot.
Basically, bad posting and annoying members will always be present on a popular forum, and here they always have been, at least since I started reading NH in '04. There are two good ways to deal with it: Let the admins do their thing and ignore the junk so completely that you don't even know it exists, or use PMs to inform problem members of what they could be doing to improve their posting quality, along with PMs to admins when someone really needs a boot.
Either way, this kind of stuff should not be an over-arching issue. Nerfhaven is a resource first, community second. All forums share these concerns, regardless of their subject. It's more worthwhile to just discuss nerf and forget forum-related things.
#74986 Who Are You?
Posted by DX-Robert on 02 March 2006 - 08:57 PM in General Nerf
Option #11- Hybrid
One who spends most of his Nerf time on modifications and Nerfs in one season of the year.
Option #11 1/2 -More Hybrid
One who is a mix of 3 or more of the categories.
I have elements from nerfer, toy soldier, and assassin. Odd mix, but that's what I am. I fight, mod, build homemades, normal stuff. But I also paint my guns, buy them to get used extensively, and use tactics, but nothing over the top and no camo. Due to a competition at school requiring elimination of other teams at any point in the day other than school and work, assassin tactics will be needed and ambushes set up. I also split the year between my hobbies: Nerf = Spring and Winter, Water Wars = Summer and Fall. Although if this Spring is warm I might juggle the two.
In addition, veteran experience in water wars and on those forums helps me here in Nerf. Tech, posting habits, and wars are areas where this comes out quite a bit. I've nerfed on and off for the past 8 or so years, but it took a while before I found the NIC and went several years with no interest in picking up the hobby again. Until this year that is, I am back into it and this time with hopes of larger team wars.
#262179 Winter Bcno
Posted by DX-Robert on 17 January 2010 - 05:53 PM in Nerf Wars
#72945 Worst Gun/series
Posted by DX-Robert on 12 February 2006 - 04:29 PM in General Nerf
But jokes aside, there can never be a "best" or "worst" gun. I'm sure countless members have stated this over time, so here's another reinforcing blast of logic: such absolutes can never exist unless every user in the world possessed perfectly equal skill, preferences, athleticism, size, strength, age, and if every gun in the world had perfectly identical range, power, weight, size, pumps/springs, modding potential, etc. Every person and every gun would have to have perfectly identical attributes, which is impossible.
Therefore, this topic is completely pointless, as anyone with an once of logic and a few seconds of thought time can figure out why there is no worst gun, and why there will never be one.
#88596 Worst Weather Experience
Posted by DX-Robert on 30 August 2006 - 03:04 PM in Off Topic
I have quite a few weather-related stories, including about a dozen close misses with tornadoes. I used to live west of Chicago, so it was not surprising to see the sky turn green and to hear sirens go off. In fact, before I was born, a twister roared right down the middle of my future street.
However, tornadoes have touched down near where I've stayed/lived three times in the Northeast, which is rare. Eastern MA, eastern Long Island, and here in northern NJ. The most recent hit Bergenfield, about a mile and a half from my house.
For hurricanes, Floyd was the worst in this area, not due to wind, but to two feet of rain in 4 days. That caused flooding at the 25 year mark. Hurricanes are rare here, but we usually get the leftovers of systems that make landfall down south.
The worst storm I've seen was an extremely violent thunderstorm that stalled over the county for nearly 2 hours. When a microburst sits over you for that long, trees go down in just about every other yard.
#88644 Worst Weather Experience
Posted by DX-Robert on 31 August 2006 - 10:56 AM in Off Topic
#326673 Wyes on mcmaster!
Posted by DX-Robert on 11 February 2013 - 01:34 PM in General Nerf
McMaster would be a better deal if you're a northeastern nerfer. I usually get things in 1 day. If you're going to pay marginally more in base price and about the same for shipping, take the closer shipping origin.
#344495 Your Dart Preference
Posted by DX-Robert on 22 January 2015 - 12:28 AM in General Nerf
#342133 Your first NIC war and your first blaster
Posted by DX-Robert on 23 September 2014 - 11:41 PM in Site Feedback
NIC Nerf took some getting used to, as the playing style was (still is?) quite different from water wars, my native game at the time. Once I got a Maxshot ($20) of my own, and then a Maximizer ($28), shit got real. I never really gave up trying to use water war playing styles in Nerf and that gave me a fairly distinctive physical and psychological edge. It's been a pretty wild ride, from "Parkway" to "orange tape" to "BEES!" to "Faddle Battle!" to "freight elevator" to "WATCH OUT FOR DX". In 2006, I was being run into the trees. Now, I literally run other people into trees.
Currently, I use reshelled and unshelled 4B contraptions, and sometimes bring out aging springer homemades built by others. Nerf for me has always been about fighting first and modding a distant second, so never got into the building craze, and have neither the tools nor the patience to do better than a 10 year old would on a basic SNAP. The fun for me is on the battlefield and that's where I influence the NIC. I would *like to think* *hope* that years of flanking people, rushing them, and pushing them around the field has made a lot of NE and Mid-Atlantic nerfers better and stronger opponents.
#85545 Zoom
Posted by DX-Robert on 23 July 2006 - 12:49 PM in Off Topic
I don't see why everyone hates this show so much.
Bandwagoning. It is in human nature to jump on the bandwagon to make yourself sound cooler. Some in this topic probably only posted that they hate Zoom for that reason. Few genuinely hate the show enough to post about that without having the bandwagon effect in mind. As for myself, I couldn't care less about that show.
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