Electric gun that can be set to 1bps or less?

[pablo4429]

Are there are guns/boards that would allow setting the rate of fire to 1bps or less? It could be nice when playing private party or beginner walk ons to increase the challenge level.

yes, of course, I can show some discipline but there is something valuable to have a limitation imposed.

[MrKittyCatMeowFace]

I remember the blackheart board in my Gog Extcy had a mode called Billy Ball that would cap at like 5bps. Can't remember if it did anything else. You could also buy a 50 round Gen X Global pocket hopper to slow yourself down by A LOT! Another option is do what kevin qmto did with his Viewloader Quantum. .

[jetenginekyle]

use a pump??

[JeeperCreeper]

Too fast, you can easily hit 2 or 3 bps with a pump. The real answer is a single shot setup

[scottieb]

I have an IT board in one of my Spyders. It will do 1 bps all the way up to 99 bps.

[pdogg77]

I'll quote Jonnydread and say "Stick feed Angel FTW". Just play limited paint, small hopper, stick feed. Modern mechs (emek, 3m etc) or electro and stick feed / small hopper is a blast. Load with 10 round tubes and you're really only going to be able to shoot a few BPS because you're not carrying that much paint. Gravity feed also cuts down the sustained fire. My Angel with a small gravity hopper and 10 round tubes makes for a lot fun. You need to conserve paint and you can really only fire fast 3 round bursts or so because the hopper just won't feed much more than that.

[Riot]

Thanks Jonnydread - I forgot about it, honestly. I’m going to go see if we can fine tune the prints a little, but the butthole hopper actually worked out really well, and, everyone loved that it was a little butthole.

[Cdn_Cuda]

This is going directly on my list of regrets… but photos of Riot’s butthole feeder?

[cougar20th]

And for having the smallest hopper on the field Riot was gifted being shot in the hopper on the first game of the day.

[Seajay]

Pocket Ball... just use your sack. 1 ball at a time. No hopper or stick feed. Only shoot as fast as you can finger a ball.

[JeeperCreeper]

This is the way!

[dano_____]

Old APE boards had a musket mode. You had to hold the trigger down to charge the gun and if you let up early it would lower the dwell so your shot would just ploop out. It made for fun and exciting play when you had to sit out for so long.

[JeepDVLZ45]

That’s pretty cool!

[SignOfZeta]

This seems like a profoundly top level solution to a primitive issue. Why is the gun electro at all if you want bolt action PGP level performance? “What’s the lightest trailer home I can pull behind my Freightliner diesel semi?” Everyone is going to answer that question with “Why are you hauling 2000 lbs with 20,000 lbs? ” Why play an ace when a deuce will do?

It’s an interesting idea but more interesting if you maybe make one shot per minute. You shoot once and then have to wait 59 more seconds before the gun unlocks itself. That would actually justify the thing taking batteries and it would really get the team strategizing. “On the count on three, everyone shoot at the same time. He can’t dodge them all!”

[Chappy]

This one ball a minute setting is one of your better ideas.

[JeepDVLZ45]

Gotta agree with Chappy….I think you’re on to something! 1bpm could make for an interesting game…especially if we allow barrel tags too

[Trbo323]

“What's the lightest trailer home I can pull behind my Freightliner diesel semi?” Everyone is going to answer that question with “Why are you hauling 2000 lbs with 20,000 lbs? ”

Wrong! Because the real answer is, Freightliners suck!

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[Levi]

It’s an interesting idea but more interesting if you maybe make one shot per minute. You shoot once and then have to wait 59 more seconds before the gun unlocks itself.

This would be so much fun! I would think a Morlock board should be able to accommodate this. It's open source so even if the 'factory' firmware won't do it, shouldn't be too hard to add a delay in the firing cycle code at the right spot.

[scottieb]

That is an interesting dynamic to the game. Once you heard a shot, you'd know you had a minute to do something. A very coordinated firing and maneuvering would need to happen. It sounds fascinating!

[Magmoormaster]

You people are weird

[Jonnydread]

*spiderman meme*

[pablo4429]

Wow, well this took an odd turn to a whole new game!! The main point was along the lines of an analogy to a laptop: you can use the same machine to do something very simple like write a word document or with minimal reconfiguration have it do something far more complex. Sam machine, same layout, just new purpose. It would allow you to change game play styles game to game for fun with the ability to still play full speed as desired.

I think the minimal hopper idea is a good one though, though not sure if I’m ready to 10 rd tubes yet! That hadn’t clicked yet and more looking at the gun side of the equation.

I will say, the musket mode sounds awesome

[Jonnydread]

10 rounds are addictive, hoppers feel weird to me now.