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Worst Part of Airsoft?
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Rogerborg
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BAN THEM ALL!
Good to see you back, I took a long hiatus as well.
Mmm, that. I'm not big into woodland, given the UK (and Scotch, and West Coast Scotch) weather, but I crumbled and went to book Section 8 last weekend - only find them booked solid then, and for next weekend too, with the first available day being September 13th. No more walk-ons for the foreseeable future.
Hammer 2 Operations still hasn't re-opened after being punted off their 2nd site in 2 years.
Everything else is over an hour away, which just adds to the problem of pre-booking and pre-paying for outdoors and then getting foul weather.
Indoors hasn't restarted and (unless it gets kicked down the road again) won't restart until next Monday the 31st, so we lose another weekend.
Biohazard indoor are re-opening after that, but no news about booking, and it'll be a mad scrabble for places.
No news from the Depot and their Facebook page has disappeared. Big gulps.
I'm beginning to feel like someone who used to play airsoft.
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Adolf Hamster
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i think it's a trap we've all fallen into, wether we like to admit it or not....
it's a sin i've committed for sure, although as a general rule i tend not to get annoyed unless i'm able to actually see the shots landing.
had to laugh yesterday, in a typical engagement i was called in by one of the team to take a crack at a supposed non-hit taker. first couple of rounds hop sent it flying over his head but close enough for him to twitch, team mate is exclaiming "see that was plainly a hit" and i'm like "nope i missed".
of course the curse of the long range player is straying into those legitimate no-feels, something that you do gotta accept happens although it does get trundled out by folk who think a bare-skin hit at close range can somehow not be felt.....
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While I am far more chilled now.
If someone is not taking their hits, I will generally slap in a new mag and empty it into them.
Then if they still are unable to register the hit, I will follow it up with an audible cue.
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Making them eat BBs on full auto ??While I am far more chilled now.
If someone is not taking their hits, I will generally slap in a new mag and empty it into them.
Then if they still are unable to register the hit, I will follow it up with an audible cue.
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I seem to be something of a unicorn. I've never seen any blatant cheating and on more than one occasion I've had people call hits I genuinely thought had missed. I've been called a cheater a couple of times though. Once was what I thought was a fun guy but the other guy insisted it but me in the back of the glove so I took the hit and immediately came back and got the drop on him. Another time I had done guy angrily shot that I can't outrun a BB after he'd full autoed at me through undergrowth as I ran perpendicular to him then hit him in two shots.
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While I am far more chilled now.
If someone is not taking their hits, I will generally slap in a new mag and empty it into them.
Then if they still are unable to register the hit, I will follow it up with an audible cue.
it's the policy i adopted for a while too, but i'm starting to come to the conclusion that it might just be easier to find a better quality of target......
its rare when it happens, but you get a game full of people who play like that and its amazing how much further your gun shoots but more importantly it's amazing how much fun it can be.
had the luxury of playing with a really solid group of guys before lock-down and just as you mention shots i'd have immediately forgiven as either close misses or long-range no-feels were being called regardless, best days airsofting i've ever had.
as for being called a cheater, i get it regularly, curse of a long-range play-style and absolute obsession for getting every scrap of range out of my kit as i can it's quite regular that someone's firing .2's back at me and dropping well short.
my record though is being accused of cheating whilst not even playing the game.....
Waking up early. I wish games started and finished couple of hours later.
As runners up; long briefings. Long lunch breaks (who really needs an hour to wolf down a hot dog and reload their mags?). Unfair teams that don't get balanced throughout the day (I don't mind losing but...when you team is practically playing out of your respawn the whole day, it's a little naff).
Aside from that, my inability to maintain equipment ?
As runners up; long briefings. Long lunch breaks (who really needs an hour to wolf down a hot dog and reload their mags?). Unfair teams that don't get balanced throughout the day (I don't mind losing but...when you team is practically playing out of your respawn the whole day, it's a little naff).
Aside from that, my inability to maintain equipment ?
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oh hell yes to this, especially if a site is a decent distance away you really don't want to have to be getting up at 6am on a sunday.
iirc there was mention of a fella in another thread had finally cured this issue, although not heard anything since.
if it was you then i respectfully request you please do the following:
Rescheduling the opening hours back a couple of hours delays the staff a couple of hours.
They have to clear up the safe zone, retrieve anything in the game zone, pack away equipment - which may include loading it into a van and driving to storage elsewhere.
If they have any prospects of a life at the weekend then add two hours at the end of a game day and it’s over.
If you delay the start there will be players at the gate waiting. (I’ve arrived at sites to set up and players are at the gate before the key holders turned up, an hour or more before it’s due to open)
There are people who take a whole hour for lunch, it also eases the situation for catering if the food has any cooking involved - a half hour lunch means everyone at once in a rush, an hour leaves people more relaxed and they will even out the queues. If everyone is loaded and fed you can suggest shorter timings to the staff - but they also need to eat.
Marshalls are shuffling players off the field, resetting games and setting up the afternoon games, eating, telling players they need to be ready for the restart, and shuffling players back out.
A standard game could just have local staff, but some may be travelling as far as you.
If it’s a particular event organisers and staff could be travelling a distance as well.
Events I’ve been involved in for recent years are up to 3 hours of driving time away. When running them I would drive up the morning before, picking up others along the way and setting up on arrival, and reverse that on the way back.
A 5pm end would include packing away, travel time with breaks, stopping to pickup / drop off and then I’m looking at being home by 9 or 10pm if lucky. Then the unloading, cleaning and storing is to follow another day
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oh hell yes to this, especially if a site is a decent distance away you really don't want to have to be getting up at 6am on a sunday.
iirc there was mention of a fella in another thread had finally cured this issue, although not heard anything since.
if it was you then i respectfully request you please do the following:
LOL, my goggles worked for some games but alas in the one a couple of weeks ago they failed to keep totally clear so not cracked it yet ?
Ended up going back to mesh for the afternoon ?
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Have known sites run a small area, less than serious, pistol/shotgun only game after a brief lunch. Quite a good idea, meant that if anyone wanted longer for lunch/gun repairs/ recover and rehydrate they could sit that one out and not really miss out. Plus the reduced game area meant less Marshalls needed so one could man the shop/sort burgers etc.
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Sites that don't follow up on the threat of buggering off fucktards.
Danny at Halo Mill had an excellent idea with this and the red stickers of shame.
No idea if they still implement it.
Danny at Halo Mill had an excellent idea with this and the red stickers of shame.
No idea if they still implement it.
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