How exactly is the thread for the event the wrong place to ask questions or voice concerns about the event? I don't understand. Like I said, I'm not trying to bash your event; I had a safety concern that I respectfully asked to be explained. So, stop whining about people asking legitimate questions about your event, and unwad your panties. I am not going to withhold my comments because you call your event "milsim" (whatever the hell that means anyway) or because it's free. I want to come to this game, and I thought I would suggest a lower FPS limit. In the end, the way you want to run your game is up to you, and I thank you and your team for rethinking that power limit. However, don't subliminally call out myself or whoever else agrees with me with some childish response concerning "people who complain about anything if they find a reason." I live and play airsoft in the same terrain that this event is going to be held in, and I actually haven't ever played speedball (unless you were talking about CQC, in which case, my last time playing that game type was in 2010). Bringing zombie games up made no sense in the first place, so I won't even go there. Where we play up here, 400fps w/.2g BBs has seemed to work for my team every weekend for the past 2 years, and I thought flags were hard enough to take without people camping them from 100 feet away. So to really end this discussion (because I'm pretty sure I will decide when to stop giving input) do what you want. It's your event. I see my constructive criticism was taken poorly, and now that I know that I wasn't allowed to give my input about a free game anyway because it's free and says milsim in the OP
, I will shut up now.
For cereal though, in response to your earlier comment, no one complains about sniper power limits being set where they are because they have a fairly long MED, and they can't rip a burst of full auto at 550fps
w/.2g BBs. I guess if someone wanted to use .2g BBs, they could, but I wouldn't be too worried about them hitting me outside 50 feet. In reality, the operational muzzle velocity of an airsoft sniper rifle is a lot slower than that because they are using considerably heavier BBs than those players with AEGs. To hit a respectable speed and range with something like a .43g pellet (a weight commonly used by airsoft marksmen), you have to bump up that power limit to 550 with .2s (a weight that is all but useless for sniping). So, I'm getting hit with a heavier round going slower than everyone else's; definitely don't have a problem with that. I also totally understand the need to plunk a guy with authority beyond 100 feet so that person knows they're dead; nothing more frustrating than getting that great sniper kill that the "dead guy" didn't know to call.
I will be attending with 2 teammates for Tan so far. Some members were waiting to see if the FPS limits would come down, though, so we may have more.
