NAF getting desperate, or just plain dumb?

[Enid_Puceflange]

A mate and I went last year

He was first to get chrono’d , I was third in the queue after being told to empty a mag loaded with .36’s and get loaded up with .2’s for the Chrono!!

Anyway, being chrono’d on the Friday morning and that was my only check for the entire 3 days

Nothing stopping anybody from going back to their camp area and tinkering with their gun.

Genuinely a stupid way to do things, but this latest plan of theirs is pure genius ?

 

[Shamal]

A mate and I went last year

He was first to get chrono’d , I was third in the queue after being told to empty a mag loaded with .36’s and get loaded up with .2’s for the Chrono!!

Anyway, being chrono’d on the Friday morning and that was my only check for the entire 3 days

Nothing stopping anybody from going back to their camp area and tinkering with their gun.

Genuinely a stupid way to do things, but this latest plan of theirs is pure genius ?

Yes I agree but that goes for any weekend game or milsim. If you have hundreds of people it's very difficult to keep checking players. 

 

[Tommikka]

It's all sorted now, they're equipping their highly trained extremely athletic marshaling team with mobile laser guided chronos, they'll be checking the fps of every bb as they cross the playing area, with offenders being warned "stop it, it's naughty", which will obviously scare the living shite out of them, ensuring they don't re-offend ?

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Been there, done that 

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When old Bert isn't weeding out dem cheetahs, you can usually find him cleaning out the shitters? or cooking the burgers & sausages.

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Old Bert, odd job man & delivery driver of Enola finally fully retired a couple of years before covid 

I do hope that he fulfilled his retirement plan as described to me with his overseas girlfriend …. whether that is a long or short lived retirement he would be a happy man

 

[Rogerborg]

They realised the mistake was publishing it, rather than just verbally telling their regulars not to bother chronoing along with the chumps and mugs.  But they can't unsay that quiet part out loud now.

 

[Shamal]

This is the reply from Ground Zero today regarding pre event chronoing.

"The results are recorded and if checked at the event and they differ from when the gun is tagged they are banned from the site and all our events for life. They also have the ability to alter their guns after they have been chronoed and the same rules apply!

You do not have to have your gun done before hand if you are worried,

Thanks and regards"

 

[Rogerborg]

The results are recorded

Hmm. Biohazard is doing that, they record the chrono figure against your name on the sign-in sheet. I'm guessing this is an insurance requirement, because I can't see any real purpose that's served over a simple pass/fail.

and if checked at the event

"If" is doing some Herculean lifting there.

and they differ from when the gun is tagged

Of course they're going to "differ", especially for gas guns.  But why would that matter if the field chrono isn't over the limit? Yet again, a site is spaffing out some words that (probably) don't represent what they actually mean.

they are banned from the site and all our events for life.

As we say in Jockshire to confirm that we really believe something: Aye, right.

They also have the ability to alter their guns after they have been chronoed and the same rules apply!

Everybody does. Which is exactly why pre-game chrono should be viewed as a service to help honest players determine that they won't get caught hot in game, rather than a process that has any chance of catching cheaters.

You do not have to have your gun done before hand if you are worried

Again I'd have to assume that they meant to say "You can chrono again at NAF if you are worried."  

The sloppy communication just highlights a site representative who doesn't take this at all seriously.

 

[Impulse]

Of course they're going to "differ", especially for gas guns.  But why would that matter if the field chrono isn't over the limit? Yet again, a site is spaffing out some words that (probably) don't represent what they actually mean.

This was my immediate reaction. I use gas guns and my most used main gun is a gas bolt action that I have to tweak that at the start of every game day since weather conditions affect the power. If I go to a game day and it's 18 celcius, then turn up to the NAF and it's 25 celcius, my gun will obviously be over the limit if I don't tweak it. It's also why I usually aim for about 2 - 2.1J at the morning chrono rather than 2.2 - 2.3J, because it gives me a bit of room as a buffer against temperature increases through the day.

 

[Fatboy40]

Give it a few years and possibly Shift Your Rift will be the better weekender, with all you have at NAF being YouTuber's and cheaters.

 

[Rogerborg]

with all you have at NAF being YouTuber's and cheaters.

I can see them having one entrance for peasants, and a VIP lane for "regulars, marshals' mates, and influencers".

 

[hunter511]

Banned from zero in and the NAF for life?

Don't you threaten me with a good time.....

 

[Cannonfodder]

Give it a few years and possibly Shift Your Rift will be the better weekender, with all you have at NAF being YouTuber's and cheaters.

Never been myself but from what I've heard it already is

 

[Shamal]

Banned from zero in and the NAF for life?

Don't you threaten me with a good time.....

Haha 

What was it you didn't like at the nae?

Give it a few years and possibly Shift Your Rift will be the better weekender, with all you have at NAF being YouTuber's and cheaters.

Oops where will that leave me. I'm neither!

 

[hunter511]

To be honest I dislike ground zero's inability to organise and police/control even a walk on day nevermind the NAE.

Went there for a walk on day a few years back and found the staff had forgotten the chrono's "but that's okay because no-one here is running a hot gun, right".

The NAE is an expensive way to get pissed and have some shit airsoft 

 

[TheFull9]

If we assume that the majority of players are at least decent and mostly honest (which I'd say is the case) then I'd reckon standard pre-game chrono makes the most sense to highlight any excessive energy shooting that people genuinely aren't aware of and will put lower level cheaters back on the straight and narrow.  The ones truly determined to gain some pathetic non-advantage and risk a greater chance of actually hurting people in the process will of course remain undeterred and can make use of the myriad workarounds out there; only diligent marshalling and good player reporting during the game has any chance vs those knobs.