Your Longest Break and How You Came Back

[gnarlynick]

[RPP]

18 years... and counting. Still active here, still keep an eye on the industry, but it's over a decade since I played at all (I think I managed one time in that year), and 8 more since I was regular.

There is nowhere left to play here. To get back into it properly I'd need to find land and do it myself... might as well light a few million dollars on fire while I'm at it.

I wonder how many of us have that same dream of lighting millions on fire just to start a field...

[vijil]

If I won mega millions (I don't buy tickets so it seems unlikely) I'd light a few million for sure. Start a league with the rules I like, start a small factory experimenting with ideas, and keep it going for a few years until it inevitably went bankrupt.

[RPP]

vijil Sounds like we have the exact same dream. If i ever win, ill bring you on board. lol.

[un2xs]

Good thing I checked this channel. I was going to start a new thread "Am I the only one?"

To the best of my knowledge I have not actually played since before the turn of the century. Life has a habit of getting in the way. Does posting on MCB count as coming back to paintball? (Long time posters may remember that I have a dozen or two or three guns in various stages of gathering dust.

On the plus side, most of the used guns have held or increased in value. But I feel guilty hoarding the "good stuff... Air Power, ICD, FASTech, Paintball Stuff, AGD, Palmer, Sheridan, etc. Oddly I have never owned a Cocker... does that disqualify me from honorary player status?

[Carp]

[dutchcommando]

From about 2008 till 2023. I lost interest and sold off pretty much all of my gear to build gaming PC. I was still active on some of the forums/chats till about 2010. I played once around 2018 with a college friend and intended on getting back into it, so I bought some gear. College ended up getting in the way of that. Ended up keeping everything that I had bought.

In 2023, I went to visit a friend down in LA. He had never played before, so I convinced him to. He was unsure about it but then I told him "I want to shoot you and I know damn well you want to shoot me." We ended up going out to SC Village, and even though my weak PNW blood couldn't take the heat, it was just as fun as I remember it being. I was hooked again. While he doesn't play often, he now comes up for Supergame every year.

[Anodos]

Longest break was 3-4 years while in college. And currently languishing in a break presently for about year and a half. After starting flight training and a family, my paintball activities dropped off pretty dramatically. Only got around to playing one or two days at Supergame each year. Life is good, but I miss paintball. I'm hoping to get back into it, perhaps a walk-on game once every two months or so. If I can help my sons spark an interest in the game I think I have a fighting chance of playing on a regular basis again.