Paintball Customizable
#1
Posted 11 March 2004 - 11:56 PM
#2
Posted 12 March 2004 - 01:42 AM
The problem is that a lot of dickheads have misunderstood the whole `more customizable' argument and made posts just like yours.
Nobody is questioning the ability to purchase a whole bunch of shit to customize your marker. Actually rather the opposite. People who really dig Nerf modding love the fact that every new modification is a result of them finding a new material or method that can be adapted to work in a gun.
Customizing a marker is about 60/40 money/skill. Obviously you need to be smart enough to get parts that work together and make basic adjustments but the fact remains that most competitive PBerz have $1k plus invested. You look through a magazine or go to your local shop and decide which upgrade you want to buy next.
Modding Nerf is about 95/5 skill/money. You have to uncover a gun's weakness, devise a solution, find a suitable material or method, and fabricate parts yourself. Most of the time it will cost less than a burger and fries but require the mentality of a hacker/engineer/physicist.
#3
Posted 12 March 2004 - 01:57 AM
#4
Posted 12 March 2004 - 01:31 PM
And that is the fun of Nerf!Modding Nerf is about 95/5 skill/money. You have to uncover a gun's weakness, devise a solution, find a suitable material or method, and fabricate parts yourself. Most of the time it will cost less than a burger and fries but require the mentality of a hacker/engineer/physicist.
Nerf on!
#5
Posted 12 March 2004 - 02:39 PM
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#6
Posted 12 March 2004 - 03:07 PM
THIRST
#7
Posted 12 March 2004 - 03:22 PM
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#8
Posted 12 March 2004 - 06:52 PM
#9
Posted 12 March 2004 - 07:14 PM
Integrations is the ultimate modification... which cannot be done with PB markers. Unless of course, someone found away to join two PB markers together... and keep them working nicely.
Not in the game anymore, but it was great while it lasted. Thanks for the great years of fun, NH!
--
Resident "Spawn of Talio"
#10
Posted 13 March 2004 - 02:08 PM
Edited by DoubleLnL, 13 March 2004 - 02:09 PM.
#11
Posted 13 March 2004 - 02:10 PM
THIRST
#12
Posted 13 March 2004 - 06:16 PM
I agree that both Nerf and Paintball can be modified to the same degrees, and I actually have a bit more respect for Paintball and Airsoft mods; They're often much more complex. Tape/Stickers aren't a mod... I could take a bite out of my gun, and call the teeth marks a mod, too: Doesn't mean it does anything to improve the gun's functionality.
If you count integrations as "joining" two firing systems together (casings or not): We don't see as much of that in Paintball because with semi-automatic firing systems, you don't need it. There are examples of grenade launchers and shotguns on some Paintball guns, which by the same token would count as "integrations." The whole integration trend was just born of annoyance with single-shot, flint-lock-style firing systems in Nerf. Or so I'd assume... I'm not sure if that was Vacc's reasoning, but it was certainly mine.
Biggest difference between modifications in Nerf and modifications in Paintball and Airsoft is that in Nerf you generally need to, in order to pose any kind of threat to your opponents. Nerf guns are made to be weak. Paintball markers and Airsoft... Whatever they're called rather than "guns"... are built to fire long distances, with a nice hefty safety factor.
Paintball has max FPS rules: Nerf's plastic tanks just explode.
- Death
#13
Posted 14 March 2004 - 09:33 AM
Not quite that sick, Thirst.
It was made out of mostly pvc...Pretty impressive if you ask me.
THIRST
#14
Posted 14 March 2004 - 04:16 PM
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- Death
#15
Posted 15 March 2004 - 01:00 PM
#16
Posted 22 March 2004 - 07:10 PM
Edited by thiskid13, 22 March 2004 - 07:13 PM.
#17
Posted 22 March 2004 - 08:10 PM
DoubleLnL, I was much like you back in "the day"... When I was a newbie, I'd ask [myself] these same questions, especially the dispute in Pb vs Nerf. Essentially, it all goes down to price. I don't have thousands of dollars free to spend on paintball guns. I do, however, have $100 to spend on my entire arsenal of Nerf guns.
What also makes Nerf better, in my opinion, is the ability to customize... This has been brought up several times. Take a cheap Wal-Mart gun, raise its velocity, barrel-mod it, make a new case for it, slap a scope on it, and take it to your nearest paintball field.
Oh, and if I may ask, what is your age?
~Mystic~
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