Heaven forbid my (or anyone else's for that matter) entrance to the sport diminished your ability to play.
It's not the ability to play, but it's the quality of the play. You see, to put it simply, anybody can afford to get a Chinese clone and hit the fields. However, that's anybody, that means that now you end up with people who buy the gun before even knowing how anybody plays the sport (literally), and they go on to cause havoc at the games they attend because they don't call their hits or ignore rules. When you start to get the games filled with these people, there are some conflicts that arise, and the respectful fun turns into a bad day. I, personally, would like to see less of these instances, and I believe that the loss of new players who we'll appreciate is acceptable if the numbers of annoying new players drops. Most people who have been joining in the few years that I've been here have only lasted about a year, if not less.
Just my opinion...
So buying a more expensive AEG makes you a better more respectful player?
It shows the dedication and willingness to purchase a high quality AEG so that in the long run the AEG will pay for itself skirmish after skirmish after skirmish and still run as if it was purchased yesterday. It has nothing to do with the character of the owner who paid hard earned cash for a CA/ G&G/ TM/ or Inokatsu. what he and most members are trying to say here Is that when the clone boom happened many people (mostly kids) bought them and didn't bother to learn how long the hobby has existed and how to
properly play it, I remember in my old neighborhood a kid living across the street from my house had purchased a LPEG and was getting his friends to play in our neighborhood causing havoc and seeing cheap bb's all over people's yards and not cleaning them up, scaring the crap out of my neighbors and ruining peoples property. after maybe the first two days an Officer appeared at his parents house and told him he had to stop playing in the residential area, he asked the officer hoe is he suppose to play now, the officer didn't reply.
What they are saying is that ANYBODY can buy a clone because there are some people who wont motivate themselves to buy a high quality AEG. here is a story I want to share to help prove a certain point.
My cousin had bought a CYMa AK-47 and every time i went over there, he and his little "team" would get their AEG's and go play at a field within the residential area itself, which attracted A LOT of attention, after the first time he did when i was over there, I decided to chew out their a***s for being reckless, irresponsible and damaging the image of airsoft, I told him about organized airsoft like TAC, he said he would get his team to go....not one single skirmish yet, and it has been three years.
