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Press Release
Every now and then, rarely in fact, a wind of change blows across the face of paintball and we are witness to a new horizon, now is just such a time.
Richmond Italia has once again cranked the wheels of evolution around one more time, and focussed his attention on one of our sport’s prevailing problems.
He knew a lot of players were being deterred from continuing in our sport because of the cost, and more importantly, the life-blood of our sport, new tournament players migrating from the rec-ball and scenario scenes, were not even beginning to play for the same reason.
The enduring expense for all players is paint; it’s a consumable, and its prolific use means we have a prolific requirement as players, and this expense was becoming a real problem for our sport.
Richmond soon realised his next evolution was going to have to tick not only the expected boxes of innovation but he also needed to tick the box of cheaper paintball .... and that is exactly what he has achieved ...... engineered a cheaper paintball.
But it’s a bit more sophisticated than just charging less for paintballs; he has engineered a new paintball with an improved flight trajectory that means they fly farther and more accurately.
The historic problem with 50 calibre paintballs was getting them to break consistently; Richmond was obviously aware of this problem and set about engineering a ball that not only broke convention but also broke consistently.
How did he do this?
He headed up a think tank that’s brief was, ‘Engineer a paintball that’s inexpensive, accurate, flies further and breaks on contact’.
His team spent many months tackling their brief and after extensive testing and prototyping, they have produced a ball that finally satisfied the entire spectrum of Richmond’s vision.
The results are an evolutionary step forward; A new 50 caliber paintball has been born, and that paintball is now being shot right into the heart of our sport.
Richmond has long since believed you need the right people around you to succeed in anything and if there’s one thing he excels at, it’s recognising intelligent and motivated people.
Joanne Wheeler has long since been a believer, her loyalty and hard working ethos has already served Richmond well over the years and she was the first to be recruited.
In the past he has worked closely with Billy and Adam Gardner at Smart Parts and within a few short hours of explaining his new vision to them, they were signed up and had agreed to adapt a selected range of their own markers to be engineered so they can fire this new caliber ball.
After all, this is the first time the paintball was dictating how the markers should be designed instead of the other way around.
It was imperative Richmond aligned himself with marker manufacturers who could do the job and who better than the people who bought us the Shocker and Ion and so many more of our sport’s great markers, Billy and Adam Gardner of Smart Parts stepped up to the 50 caliber plate with no hesitation whatsoever.
With those guys on board, Richmond then turned his attention to headhunting a few people who he could trust and would help his cause, Robbo was approached, and as soon as he understood what Richmond was trying to do, he jumped on board faster than a jack-rabbit with its ass on fire.
Robbo hasn’t really been anybody’s man other than his own but when asked to comment on Richmond’s request to join the team, he said, ‘Richmond made me an offer I just couldn’t refuse, my acceptance had nothing to do with money and everything to do with what he was trying to do; Richmond is one of our sport’s true visionaries, I’d have been a mug to turn this opportunity down of working with him and I ain’t no mug’.
The new era of 50 calibre paintball means cheaper paint for the paintballer, it means hundreds more paintballs in the loader, it means thousands more balls in your pots, it means a more accurate flight path, it means it shoots further and all this with the same marking characteristics as the original 68 caliber balls.
Never before in the history of our sport have so many of its problems been so positively affected; after all, you ask any baller what he wants and they would answer, ‘I want a cheaper and a more accurate paintball’, it seems in one fell swoop Richmond has revolutionised our sport once again.
He did it with XBall, and he’s done it again with his new 50 caliber ball.
The wind of change is upon us all and will sweep right across the face of paintball, ignore it at your peril !
More news will become available as time goes by but rest assured people, this revolution is here to stay, and it’s here to play.
Last edited by Robbo; 10-06-2009 at 03:47 PM.
50 Caliber Paintball - it's here, it's the future.
Wow.
Is there a link to the original press release?
so what dose this mean for our markers? are they all useless now?
Yep.Originally Posted by joe6969
Ill buy all your playing gear for 2 quid.
Hurry though, if someone offers me their gear for 1 quid you might lose the sale.
lol
UCZ - PaintballWarehouse
Exactly. What is this supposed to mean? How does that effect us?
http://www.p8ntballer-forums.com/vb/...d.php?t=121101
There's been a discussion about this before
How much cheaper? Whats a box of 2000 or possibly 3000 balls going to cost?
Never look down on someone unless your helping them up
so is this going to be done by procaps seeing as richmond used to have something to do with them.
Cost wise, will we not essentially buy the same ammount of paint, 3000 vs 2000 for example, so unless theyve found a way to massively reduce the overheads on production dont we all end up getting essentially what we had before just on a smaller scale?
Problem with your Timmy? Drop me a PM.If Brute Force doesnt work, then your not using enough.
BANG! f**king c**t
But whos going to own the patent?
www.goodcopybadcopy.net
smart parts owned it 20 years ago duh
Problem with your Timmy? Drop me a PM.If Brute Force doesnt work, then your not using enough.
and about 5 years ago
NSPL and Pr0to KotH
New markers, new loaders, new barrels... the list goes on. I wouldn't worry about it too much right now guys. If this ever happens, it will happen over quite a period of time and will be led by consumer demand, nothing more.
I'd say it is quite categorically stated it will happen. Whether or not people embrace it is a different story but I'm looking forward to it personally. Different doesn't mean bad I say.
Read the rules. All of them. Or we'll set Buddha on you.#3 GWAG BOARDMEMBERWant an avatar like mine? Pm Jonny03 and tell him i sent you
This is the original press release-we got the exclusive.
..and I can't believe what some of you guys in this thread concern yourselves with, it's truly amazing.
One of this site’s rules is we have to limit the number of lines our sig takes up;And so, I have to make damned sure that what I write here is exactly what I need to say the most.It is therefore incumbent upon me to let everybody know that jeff abbott is a thief, a liar and a scumbag.I apologise to everybody for the nature of such a revelation but it’s the absolute truth.
anyone got pics to compare the size difference of the 2 balls (haha) ?
could current loaders accept them ?
barrels i would imagine not but then again inserts (like the freak inserts) could be introduced. Same goes for the breech i suppose, each company makes a .5 breech sleeve for any pre 2011 markers say and from then on they make them .5
OVER THE LINE !!!!!!!!!
Dont know if this would be good business sense but maybe marker manufacturers could just design a new main body for there particular marker and it would just a case of removing the old and fitting the new sized main body....
Personally i'm in favour of the change,its about time the paintballs got smaller and more accurate
Last edited by outkastmike; 09-06-2009 at 05:10 PM.
GWC Member #32
Sounds expensive, unless there is some kind of breech sleeve idea to fix the markers, otherwise its new kit time
Another wow.
This is good news.
Naughty Paintball God
And so the cram-down begins.
http://thefordreport.com/2009/05/27/...es-small-balls my opinion, if anyone cares.
Probably the most insightful thing I've seen you say. No doubt an accident...
.50 Caliber Revolution.. errr no thanks.
Lets think of the costs to change to the new 50 caliber paintballs? New marker, new barrels, new hoppers... .68 caliber will always be around because everyone will have the markers ect. Why would a site want to change if they have to replace 100+ markers.
is it a way of kickstarting the gear market again?
What if the paint costed (for arguments sake) 30% less? Then the cost of re-equipping would quickly be offset.
Guns etc. need replacing every couple of years or so on a lot of sites anyway, and this would just mean the change is gradual.
Funniest thing is - this company aren't even launching until late Q4, yet people are acting like it will kill paintball in 2 weeks!
I for one welcome our new, smaller calibre, overlords.
I take it you're not in business then?
I think you might need to ponder the difference between paint and hardware when it comes to owning a site and when you finally discern the significance I am referring to, the penny might drop for you ... I won't hold my breath
One of this site’s rules is we have to limit the number of lines our sig takes up;And so, I have to make damned sure that what I write here is exactly what I need to say the most.It is therefore incumbent upon me to let everybody know that jeff abbott is a thief, a liar and a scumbag.I apologise to everybody for the nature of such a revelation but it’s the absolute truth.
so your saying that they would just use their old markers rather than replacing them? Fair enough i can see that happening in some sites. But then they just prove how much they care about their customers... Unless there is no difference between shooting a 50 through a marker designed to fire 68, if this is the case then I would see the new size in a new light.
I follow the whole 'making it cheaper' argument, and it has some legs. problem is, 50cal hurts like fxck and bounces like crazy, and I don't think anyone has fixed that problem yet.
How so? Surely for existing players the biggest issue is going to be whether or not they have to replace their kit? What if it goes belly up? will there be conversion its? etc etc...
I'll help you out. Markers are not the biggest outlay of money for a site, paint is and by a long way. If paint was alot cheaper, the money saved would easily offset the cost of buying 100 new guns.
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