What would you change about paintball?

[d12pncakethief]

1. at some fields dont charge over 50 dollars for 2000 paintballs
2.befor a little kid plays shoot him once from 3-4 feet away to see if he takes the pain.(under parental consent of course)

[bigred76]

From 3-4 feet? You sir, are a **** if you want them to go through that. A little kid should not have to deal with that, even on the field. If you are one of the ones bunkering them, think about yourself and think about what little sadistic pleasure you get out of hurting littler people. Grow up.

[VicReschke0626]

Yeah, bunkering new players, OF ANY AGE. Is terrible for the sport. On the private field my friends and I play on, we have an unwritten "girlfriend rule". Named that because it was first thought up to keep from having girlfriends get over shot and then hate the sport we all love. The rule simple states, anybody who doesn't, or has never performed a bunkering move themselves (new players, young players, inexperienced players, timid female players, basically anybody that's doesn't own their own gun) can not be shot more than twice on a bunkering move or the bunker-er??'s team automatically loses and the bunkeree's team is awarded the win. Twice. No exceptions. We don't play ramping, we play semi only. 3 or more shots are not needed, many times these players do not see the bunkering coming, so it should take no more than 2 shots to mark them once.

That being said, we also have the allowance that if it me and my best friend who have both been playing for a number of years, are bunkering each other, the gloves are off. If the bunkeree returns fire on the bunkerer there is no 2 shot over shoot rule, it's all on the two people in the firefight. Once an elimination is called, the shootout is over with. Anybody who shoots a player after calling hit (aside from accidentally popping a few shots towards somebody walking off the feild, that happens, it's just a reaction sometimes) is eliminated also. If they game was down to 1 on 1, the game ends in a draw.
99% of the time the bunkeree marks the bunkerer anyways (unless they don't see it coming at all), in which case marked players are eliminated, we don't bother arguing who shot who first, we don't care. You are both shot, you are both out. It's a 1 for 1 trade out.

Our basic standpoint is that nobody wins when they over shoot. And our rules reflect that very literally. All of our games are amongst friends and we have no ambitions of hurting each other, or pushing somebody away from the sport.

[spyderfan4271]

I wish more players had a girlfriend rule. I know this guy who considers himself a tournament level player. He always shoots in ramping mode 3 pods and a hopper a game even against new players. When I play new players I'm in semi-auto mode or shooting a old mechanical. I try to get close enough to aim for just there hoppers.