But still both of you havent answered the main question of why they are changing the rule when there is nothing wrong with the current one ?
Pinky if you only set your marker up with a 5fps margin for error you will come unstuck one day for three reasons:
1) even a change in temperature can affect the size of the paint enough to change velocity more than that.
2) You will surely pot up from more than one box in a days paintballing meaning you will be using balls that vary ever so slightly in size which could also take you over that limit
3) You could be unlucky and get chronoed with a ball in your hopper which is slightly larger than the rest (yes this does happen - even with hellfire !! )
The reason we do not set our markers within a 5fps error margin is simple - there are too many variables to take a marker into the red, and personally i would rather have all markers allowed on field all the time and not risk playing a man down or picking up any penalties after the game which would seriously effect us "competing at the level we are" as you put it.
Pinky if you only set your marker up with a 5fps margin for error you will come unstuck one day for three reasons:
1) even a change in temperature can affect the size of the paint enough to change velocity more than that.
2) You will surely pot up from more than one box in a days paintballing meaning you will be using balls that vary ever so slightly in size which could also take you over that limit
3) You could be unlucky and get chronoed with a ball in your hopper which is slightly larger than the rest (yes this does happen - even with hellfire !! )
The reason we do not set our markers within a 5fps error margin is simple - there are too many variables to take a marker into the red, and personally i would rather have all markers allowed on field all the time and not risk playing a man down or picking up any penalties after the game which would seriously effect us "competing at the level we are" as you put it.
