The Wild World of TB!

Mil-Sim = Someone who will spend thousands of dollars to try an be someone/something they can't otherwise.

I dunno...those guys are pretty hard core! What's funny is, when the .mil uses paintball for training, we use OOOOOOOLD Spyders....

I always saw mil-sim as disrespectful to the folks that live/lived the real thing....just me I guess.

While I totally agree that 'mil simmers' are just trying to look the part, I'd say another good portion of it can be chalked up to buying the hype that different manufacturers put out about their products.

I can't tell you how many time I've seen someone that bought a 26" barrel because it said "sniper" on the package. ACOG sights because they're the same thing the military uses, and helmets because..... well every soldier wears a helmet, and BT offers ones for sale.

While the guys at MCarterBrown are fairly good at giving people logical advice that's backed up by real world studies when comparing new gizmos, the vast majority of new players (or even experienced players that have never thought about the actual physics of the game)have never been to the site, or don't know what questions to ask when they get there.

PBreview has just gotten populated by industry patsies, and I can't remember the last bad review I saw on there. Same goes for magazine reviews.


Reiterating my point, while there are some dumbasses that are trying to really look the part, there are a ton of other players that simply don't know better and are doing their best based on the garbage the advertising has thrown at them.

Wildcard,

Most people are buying into because of advertising is your premise.

The problem is, that advertising would not work if people did not want to embrace it to begin with.

The worst part is that no company actually simulates what makes the US military so powerful.

Can I buy encrypted comms from Tippman? No.

Can I buy a ready to work, out of the box force tracking setup from RAP4? No.

Can I even employ artillery on scenario fields? Only 1 that I know if, and if insurance saw what was actually used because there's no real, safe product out there, they'd lynch the promoter.

Not 1 company is interested in providing legit simulation gear. They are selling everybody barbie outfits.

It's shameful, and the players are just as much as fault as the companies, because they either have not bothered, or are too dumb, to ask for useful gear.

Who wants to face the US Machine? LMAO!!! Simulations are great as long as 'we' have them and 'you' don't! That's the opinion of 80% of people out there. The other 18% think that it would all have to involve some way to incorporate a paintball.

Because the only way to die in the real world is bullet.....right?

Indy,

People playing dressup.... absolutely. They want to be the badass they see in the movies or on the news. Many people are under the complete wrong assumption that gear makes the soldier (or player in this case). How is this different from any other sport, though? Lots of people think that looking like the pros makes them able to perform like the pros

The difference is, there's a ton of gear that either exists off the shelf, is easy to convert over, or is simply just easy to make... that's never done.

There's plenty of shit worth simulating that the US military does. Dressing the part... aint it =P

I still agree with what you said. With few exceptions, people never emulate the aspects of the pros that they should. Why shoot 500 free throws before practice, when you can just buy a pair of Air Jordans? Why practice ambush techniques and stalking prey when you can drop $1000 on a Tippmann A5 that looks kind of like a Barrett M82?

I'm just saying this mentality is not unique to scenario paintball.

Oh, that I agree with. Really, very, very little in scenario paintball is unique. Virtually every problem with it exists in every other gaming genre.