toobladink wrote:Well, here are some rules for the field I work with, if you're interested. We would like to have snipers go highr, but field insurance does not allow it.
If you set a restriction for rate of fire for HPA, you can BET that I will show up to a game with an electric gun shooting 60 RPS. And I won't be the only one.
25 RPS is a good limit, but 30 is probably best. I say this because a lot of people will just buy an SHS high speed motor and an 11.1, have no idea how fast their gun shoots, and then be told they can't use it because the ROF is too high.
Also, measuring RPS adds a lot of time to chrono.
And that is totally cool if you show up with some crazy overtuned AEG, 60 RPS with a midcap is just unwieldy IMO, running out of ammo all the time but that's your prerogative. I don't mind being lit up by an electric gat shooting 60 RPS, because I've never seen an electric gat shoot
hot enough to shatter a car window with one burst. HPA's just have that weird ability to go from fine to out of control at the drop of a hat simply because of the potential power of them. I've been lit up for a decade now by every green gas, CO2 and AEG out there, and I've NEVER seen the level of raw damage to people and property that HPA's do, and it's by a WIDE margin. Frankly they are just dangerous with the current rules around them (I get we are shooting each other but you know what I mean.) DRAT started wearing helmets and full face before the blanket rules started popping up solely because of those death machines. I am now bandannaless because of them. Enforcing stricter mag restrictions may help out, I dunno about standard caps for HPA's but maybe ensuring they are using midcaps/non-drums could help.
I don't think that people showing up with their gun shooting crazy high RPM and being turned down is a good argument though, same thing happens when someone's gat shoots 5 FPS too high. It's just a matter of safety and personal responsibility of knowing your equipment before coming out there with something that could decently harm someone.
Bolts going hotter than 550 would just be silly with a well built bolt with all the bells and whistles, those things already shazaam people up with someone that knows how to use the thing. Once you pop a black BB out of your face like a zit, you'll know what I mean
EDIT: WHAT THE shazaam IS WITH "SHAAZAM" WHERE IS MY PROFANITY?!