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Rumpel Felt · August 13th, 2009, 02:05

I agree with the whole "standards" thing going here from the experienced players.

Safety rules and general participation guidelines need to be addressed more thoroughly in general. I haven't attended a lot of games recently or consistantly, but when comapiring my recent events to those of my first days structure has been a bit lost; in certain styles that is, I've still been to certain themed games that were awesome and had great co-ordination.

In general though, it's the clearsoft stuff and highcaps I think we should draw the line at. Why bother playing airsoft if we are using something that is less than a 1:1 replica and something that sounds like a hopper when running around with it? Some will say it's for the love of the game.... But what game? The act of shooting at each other in a force-on-force environment? If you want to do that, there is a far more readily accesible hobby called paintball to do so.

So really, to anyone who wants to play and wants to come out with a clear gun and/or highcap to spary around, why not just play paintball? At that point it's just the same thing basically except better in that it's harder for your targets to cheat.

August 13th, 2009, 02:05	#363
Rumpel Felt Trader rating Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Kitchener, Ontario	I agree with the whole "standards" thing going here from the experienced players. Safety rules and general participation guidelines need to be addressed more thoroughly in general. I haven't attended a lot of games recently or consistantly, but when comapiring my recent events to those of my first days structure has been a bit lost; in certain styles that is, I've still been to certain themed games that were awesome and had great co-ordination. In general though, it's the clearsoft stuff and highcaps I think we should draw the line at. Why bother playing airsoft if we are using something that is less than a 1:1 replica and something that sounds like a hopper when running around with it? Some will say it's for the love of the game.... But what game? The act of shooting at each other in a force-on-force environment? If you want to do that, there is a far more readily accesible hobby called paintball to do so. So really, to anyone who wants to play and wants to come out with a clear gun and/or highcap to spary around, why not just play paintball? At that point it's just the same thing basically except better in that it's harder for your targets to cheat.