Airsoft 2.0 (invite to join will be closed 19/10/18)

[Tiercel]

Are you on drugs? What is this pile of wordy shite, its text-diarrhoea. I dont think you've ever even played airsoft and this is some bizarre Nigerian prince scam.

 

[Seth_Erebor]

If it's 6mm TAG rounds I'm in.   It has to be exactly that though. Nothing else.

It’s not any one thing, product, technology, site or RIF, it’s a collection right across the board. Hence the scale of the project. 

Are you on drugs? What is this pile of wordy shite, its text-diarrhoea. I dont think you've ever even played airsoft and this is some bizarre Nigerian prince scam.

Is that a no?

 

[Immortal]

A World Cup?

 

[Druid799]

To be honest unless your willing to put some ‘meat on the bones’ then the whole pitch just comes across as some sad little fantasy from a grown man that still lives in his parents attic , and calls it his ‘command center’ to all the prepubescent kids he plays Fortnight with on-line .

Most members on here are ‘grownups’ , some of us are very grownup (that’s in age not behaviour) so the vague suggestion technique won’t work with most of us , it’s either tell the truth or just Frank Boff .

 

[Seth_Erebor]

To be honest unless your willing to put some ‘meat on the bones’ then the whole pitch just comes across as some sad little fantasy from a grown man that still lives in his parents attic , and calls it his ‘command center’ to all the prepubescent kids he plays Fortnight with on-line .

Most members on here are ‘grownups’ , some of us are very grownup (that’s in age not behaviour) so the vague suggestion technique won’t work with most of us , it’s either tell the truth or just Frank Boff .

Are you spying on me? 

I’ll need to look back at my original post, but I thought it was clear that I am looking for people with a particular set of skills then we’d move forward from there. 

This is not a pitch. 

So, are you able to assist?

A World Cup?

Eventually, at least the infrastructure will be there but that could be done now. 

How do you envision it?

 

[shortman]

Absolutely understandable, should you be convinced will you be able to assist?

Would i be able to? Possibly

Will i? No. Sorry its all far to vague to be interesting and a little strange that a first post/forum appearance is to pitch to people. A little bit baity really.

 

[Wo1f]

@Druid799

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[Seth_Erebor]

@Druid799

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I’m saving that!

 

[Immortal]

Eventually, at least the infrastructure will be there but that could be done now. 

How do you envision it?

Deep beath.....

"Independant and sponsored teams carrying a specified amount of players in each class battling it out in a combination of domination, conquest and objective games set in both day & night as either one on one team battles or 4 teams at a time at a purpose built arena."

Something like that...

 

[Druid799]

@Wo1f 

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[Seth_Erebor]

Would i be able to? Possibly

Will i? No. Sorry its all far to vague to be interesting and a little strange that a first post/forum appearance is to pitch to people. A little bit baity really.

Well that’s a shame, you know where I am. ??

Deep beath.....

"Independant and sponsored teams carrying a specified amount of players in each class battling it out in a combination of domination, conquest and objective games set in both day & night as either one on one team battles or 4 teams at a time at a purpose built arena."

Something like that...

Ok, we need to chat. 

 

[Druid799]

As soon as you introduce ANY kind of reward for winning in to Airsofting (bar speed ball where it’s in a small enclosed arena that everyone can see what’s going on) the gameplay standard plummets and the foul play rockets always has always will , as it’s an ‘honor’ based game and there’s no way of telling if you’ve hit the other player or not , it’s the nature of the beast .

 

[YorkieT17]

As soon as you introduce ANY kind of reward for winning in to Airsofting (bar speed ball where it’s in a small enclosed arena that everyone can see what’s going on) the gameplay standard plummets and the foul play rockets always has always will , as it’s an ‘honor’ based game and there’s no way of telling if you’ve hit the other player or not , it’s the nature of the beast .

I fear that @Druid799 is correct with this one. To be sure of honesty there would have to be some method of either confirming hits or monitoring fair play beyond what your average Marshall can do. Maybe something like laser quest but then you might as well play laser quest instead.

Don't get me wrong it would be nice to quit the day job and play Airsoft but I am not naive or dishonest enough to believe I would not to tempted to ‘ignore’ the inopportune hit when it was my mortgage on the line.

Genuinely hope you find a balance and make a success of this but I remain skeptical. 

Best of luck.

 

[Wo1f]

There is, in my eyes only one way of having a competitive Airsoft game. And that would be a time trial against a fixed home team who belongs to ‘the house’ and only has one life. You have an area and a fixed team that never changes. Competitive teams compete to complete a series of tasks/ objectives as quickly as possible. That way only one team needs to be marshalled. End of the year/ season times are put on a leaderboard to rank

 

[Seth_Erebor]

I fear that @Druid799 is correct with this one. To be sure of honesty there would have to be some method of either confirming hits or monitoring fair play beyond what your average Marshall can do. Maybe something like laser quest but then you might as well play laser quest instead.

Don't get me wrong it would be nice to quit the day job and play Airsoft but I am not naive or dishonest enough to believe I would not to tempted to ‘ignore’ the inopportune hit when it was my mortgage on the line.

Genuinely hope you find a balance and make a success of this but I remain skeptical. 

Best of luck.

That’s been solved to some degree, but I can see why it presents a problem. 

People will cheat in any sport, diving, doping, etc

Sometimes the best you can do is catch them afterwards. 

This isn’t what I’m working on but the idea is nice. 

And thanks, I appreciate that ??

 

[EDcase]

Theoretically it should be possible to detect a hit using a mic system on a player which only reacts to the particular sound wave of a BB strike.

It would have to 'learn' the various sounds of BB hits on various parts to get a kind of library.  Like face detection in cameras.

Some complex electronics but if they can analyse live video for facial features (and now pets) then sounds should be easier than that...

 

[Seth_Erebor]

Theoretically it might be possible to detect a hit using a mic system on a player which only reacts to the particular sound wave of a BB strike...

Interesting, we were exploring a different direction, capacitive sensors, but not to any great depth. 

Remember that second Batman film, with the 3D map of Gotham using smart phones, imagine one that refreshes so quickly it can “see” players and BBs all in real time. 

That would be impressive. 

I was approached a while back from a company that does optical tracking, but that only works in CQB. Yes, tracking a BB mid flight! I suggested we try something once the new bb design is finished, see what the limitations of the technology are and where it works best.  

The tech is developing but the customer has to be there, who is going to pay for it? No site will shell out 50k for that. 

Then again, build it and they will come, right?

 

[Wo1f]

Optical tracking isn’t too difficult until you apply it to something the size of a BB. There’s a few ways you can do it, but the only way I can see it being done in an Airsoft field is to have brightly coloured BB’s hand have pixel tracking set for that colour. You can design optical tracking based on a static background, but it’s impossible as far as I know to rule out a large object (a player) but detect a small object (the B.B.)

 

[L3wisD]

Me: "This thread is popular, let's go and take a loo..."

 

[Seth_Erebor]

Me: "This thread is popular, let's go and take a loo..."

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