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A big problem in paintball is that it can be hard to tell when someone is hit. We need a remedy to this solution of "Was that guy hit?" It can be hard to tell sometimes, and, quite frankly, people lie alot, too. So we need a solution.
If you just want to get to the exploding, (or your name is AfroAssault)
skip to Part 2.
Part 1
It is not just a regular vest. It is a special vest. With paint/pressure sensitive pads. Upon inpact with a paintball, sensing the impact, and the release of paint, it lets out a piercing wail.
Part 2
There exist numerous pressure sensitive chemicals, that make a nice bang if sudden pressure is placed upon them. Things like nitroglycerin. A less powerful one is ammonium tri-iodide; you can paint it on the floor, and when someone walks on it, it will make loud pops every time someone steps on it. Coat a vest in this stuff. A paintball would make a very loud pop. Unfortunately, ammonium tri-iodide is too unstable for our purposes, it is way too sensitive. A less sensitive, less smelly chemical is needed; alas I don't know any technical names of any chemicals (or non-technical names) that would suit my purpose.
Fleshound Vest
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Inspiration [DesertFox, Mar 23 2006]
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I play with one or two trigger-happy fucktards who concentrate more on trying to make their electronic-actuated markers shoot as fast as humanly possible rather than listen for you to call "OUT" when you're hit. As a consequence, you usually get hit about nine or ten times before they stop shooting and you want to go kick them in the nuts. |
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I'd rather see an invention that would use a wireless network to sense the timing of shots fired from individual markers and the corresponding hits on other players. So if Mister fucktard hits one person more than, say - three times in as many seconds, his marker electrocutes him. |
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<pop> OUT! <pop> I said OUT!! <pop> You mother- <sizzle!> |
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Wouldn't your vest screambangandexplode every time you dived for cover/ran up against a tree/banged your chest during a victory dance? |
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That's part of the fun! Actually, paintballs hit at a high velocity and smaller area. Meaning much higer initial pressure. Its the difference between getting hit with a thrown baseball and a pneumatically fired marble. |
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Put in on headgear and it gives a new meaning to the phrase, 'bust a cap in his head'! |
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What about the stuff they put in those little throw-downs or fun-snaps or whatever silly name they have? You know, the ones wrapped in little twists of paper with sawdust in them. |
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Those are a flint/gunpowder mix. |
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I thought that the thing about those paintballs was that they left a mark of paint, thus showing a person had been hit. If it were not for that, one could play the game with thrown rocks as our ancestors did for millenia. |
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/you usually get hit about nine or ten times before they stop/ - isn't this part of the whole shooting people fun deal? Plus, unless you are re-enacting the Crimean war, are not multiple hits more representative of modern warfare? Also the prospect of multiple painful oozing welts would dissuade wusses from coming out to play. |
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Last and least, the invention. Throwing yourself down on irregular terrain (sticks, rocks) likely produces pressures comparable to those made by a paintball. One could have garments which produce an electronic signal when wetted by the paint. It would also produce a signal when a player became so fearful of multiple oozing welts that he wet his pants. |
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//and the release of paint,// |
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Relies on the release of paint, not just impact. |
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[bungston] Some people will just wipe the paint off. I've seen them do it. |
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I hope you shot him again. |
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Or was he on your team? <conspiratorial wink> |
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Short story: We were plaing paintball CTF on a big field, and I was providing covering fire, when I got hit with a far-ranged shot, and it bounced off. The ref came to check me over to make sure I wasn't out, and I showed. He didn't believe me, so he made me stand OUT IN THE OPEN, where, of course, I was immediately shot. In the neck. He knew I was hit because of him, and he declared me out anyways. |
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So next match, I shot him about 15 times. |
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Seems like they should be able to do the same sort of deal as the laser tag vests, doesn't it? I like bungston's idea with electroweave-type clothing - if it gets wet, it lights up the vest, sounds a horn, sends a signal, or whatever. |
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My personal solution for the jerks who refuse to play fair? Load up a full hopper, walk over to 'em, and just unload point blank until they get the point. Never had anyone cheat a second time! >:) |
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Your search for the magic material is over: |
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Maybe a combination of laser-tag and paintball. paintball for the obvious reasons, and laser-tag things to make the noises |
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