24/36/48 hour paintball game

[johnjacobjingleheimerschmidt]

ok this is going to start out as a sort of stream of conscious sort of thing.

I found myself considering the possibility of a longer than one day paintball game, encompassing night fighting, camp fires, and raucous behavior, because that sounds like fun.

anyway, my initial thought is this. a 48 hour game is a little too long, it would be too hard to get that many people out tehre for that long without having someone die. however, a 36 hour game, for example, starting at 9am on a saturday, ending at 9pm on sunday, would seem to have a reasonable chance of success, and will give everyone involved a chance to recover( read: go home, crash and die), before their respective job requires their presence on monday morning bright and bushy tailed.

beyond that there are some other complications we have to over come as well. We have to figure out how to keep people fueled and active throughout the 36 hour period, perhaps running a series of games with breaks in the middle, work out time periods in which the game is evectively paused(more during the night, or longer ones, but the night would remain open during some points.)

we also have to consider a way to keep the game rolling for 36 hours. we've seen that respawning does not suffice, despite my initial impression that it would. we instead need to find a way to maintain the action for a longer time. so we need longer ranged objectives. even setting up the idea of MORE objectives is not necessarily a good idea, the game could still be over-run relatively quickly.

so those are my really basic first impressions of a longer-period paintball game requirements. now, on to what I expect a 36 hour paintball game would look like(remember, off the top of my head, subject to suggestions and discussion.)

rules/objectives:
-each team's base will act doubly as a resting area/respawn/deadbox area. no attacks will be allowed to happen on this area, there will be canopies for shade, water, food, coolers, tents for sleeping, perhaps even a couple camp fires for cooking. this place is off limits to the enemy team. NO exceptions. if you wander into this area you are automatically considered hit out and must return to your own dead-box. this area will be a paintball safe zone. NO shooting what-so-ever.

-the objective of the game I think can most simply be compared to taht of, say, bf1942, Day of Defeat, or Global Conquest. simply have a number of objectives that are counted at regular intervals(in the absence of refs, which is a possibility, we could count on the team captains/leadership to establish who owns what. more on this later). the team who held the most objectives by the end of the 36 hour period will be considered the winners.

-there will have to be regular breaks. this has to happen. so I propose we work them into the game itself, I will now outline a sort of schedule of events for a 36 hour period.

--Saturday 7am: arrival on-field, briefing of rules, explanation fo the game for those taht don't understand, other preliminaries(getting chronoed, etc.)

--Saturday 9am: GAME START!

--Saturday Noon: 1st GAME BREAK, no more paintball for an hour for lunch. before players leave their positions, captains roam field for initial score tally of positions.

--Saturday 1pm: GAME RESTARTS, each team starts in their base again, forced to recapture the points they had.(we could also have the team start in their choice of strategic point they held prior to the break, this would have neat implications during the night time.)

--Saturday 4pm: 2nd GAME BREAK, tally more points, dismiss for dinner. 2 hour break. don't forget to make sure you have enough of all that you need, paint air, etc.

--Saturday 6pm: GAME RESTARTS, same as last time.

--Saturday 10pm: GAME BREAK, tally score again, break for snacks/rest.

--Sunday 2am: NIGHT BATTLES, game resumes with night raids and other possibilities, this can be fun, this could also be dangerous. be careful.

--Sunday 5am: GAME BREAK, tally score again, get some sleep bitches!

--Sunday 9am: GAME RESTART, shoot some peoples bitches!

--Sunday Noon: GAME BREAK, lunch! tally!

--Sunday 1pm: GAME RESTART, shoot again!

--Sunday 4pm: GAME BREAK, dinner, tally!

--Sunday 6pm: GAME RESTART, shoot some more!

--Sunday 9pm: GAME END. there. 36 hours of paintball, ridiculous for anyone who stayed the entire time, but a blast I think. at this point there will be a quick rewards ceremony, perhaps MVP for both teams, winning team, best ref(if we have 'em), and others, whatever we want, and we'd need lots, 36 hours of paintball is a lot of money, and we want both winning and losing teams to be glad they came. there'd have to be a registration fee in order for us to buy us some prizes.

now, please add to these ideas, this is by no means a comprehensive game plan, simply my initial idea.

[PoeticInjustice]

Let's figure out details, and try it on a smaller scale first, 6-8 hours

How are we gonna go to the bathroom after that long? Anyone know how much it is to rent a porta potty?

[LordEpathus]

$75 dollars per porta potty

[PoeticInjustice]

Per day? that's really not bad at all. Is that including delivery?

[Kodiac]

I'd be up for it, but I'd be concerned about the bathroom bit as well. Aside from that, I could stay for the whole 36 hours, given about 2 weeks notice, and I'd be out kicking ass the whole time.

As far as objectives and such go, I bet you could get more refs if you had them on a rotating schedule- say, 10 refs per session, but you have them rotating- one session reffing, 2 sessions playing/relaxing etc. That way nobody has to ref the whole time (unless they want to).

Erm.......Also, where would we do this? I wouldn't want to do this with jackasses- even nice people would be hard to deal with after 36 hours of on-the-edge twitchtastic paintball. So, who are we doing this with, and where? If we could get our team back together from last year, we could run it where each platoon starts in a 'base'(one of the objectives ben was talking about) and they have to decide how to split their forces to both hold and attack.

On deadboxes/safe area:

What if we used one place for the whole thing? It would mean we wouldn't have to section off three places from the game, and the larger you make it, the harder it is to lose it and stumble into accidentally. Especially if you tarp it off from the rest of the game, so as to make it harder to just walk in.

Thoughts? Or are you people still zombies?

[johnjacobjingleheimerschmidt]

in response to poet and epathus:
--porta potties would be a must if we were to do it at the holly field. and 75 is attainable for a one night thing. if not that, we would have to do something like have a taxi-driver type deal on call at all times during hte sessions in order to make sure there's a way to get to cars/bathrooms(public ones are available in the area.)

to kodiac:
--first of all, this would probably be do-able simply among our team, split up the team into two sides like we did after the war, or something like that. or do it platoon based as you suggest. I have a feeling we can trust the people on our team to obey the rules. they're good peoples. so we wouldn't need that many refs...or we could do something like this: each platoon takes a turn at refereeing a session, so only two platoons are playing at any one time, the other one is reffing. we'd make it so each platoon gets equal playing time, or hell not even keep score and each time a session ends the platoons switch sides, one rotates out, one takes the other team's place, and the ref's take over the last place. so no team has to always be in the same spot. and they have to recover from their enemy's mistakes, in a sense. that might be interesting.

--you're right 36 hours of people is a long time, that's why there are so many breaks, and a bunch of long ones, time to get away, or leave the game altogether, or even join it halfway through, it doesn't matter. staying for the entire time would not be mandatory. I have a feeling the night game would be smallish. but we should at least make sure there's accomodation for everyone that wants to stay the night.

--the reason I wanted one base for each team to be safe is so that we would not have a problem with the game actually ENDING. you fight over objectives separate from the bases, the bases remain neutral ground(hell we could even make it so anyone can go to the base and rest, you just have to go to YOURs to respawn? wonder how we'd do that?)

good feedback so far, lots of stuff I haven't thought of...again, my responses are not set in stone either, ARGUE WITH ME!

[Kodiac]

Ben- "the reason I wanted one base for each team to be safe is so that we would not have a problem with the game actually ENDING. you fight over objectives separate from the bases, the bases remain neutral ground(hell we could even make it so anyone can go to the base and rest, you just have to go to YOURs to respawn? wonder how we'd do that?)"

Well, as long as all you're worried about is the game ending, here's a fix:

If you make a single, neutral area for rest/food/reload, with a marked path leading to each team's base. That way, the base can act as a deadbox as well, and you get to keep the teams spawning in at separate locations. Just be sure that the path is clearly marked, and anyone on it, going either direction, is untouchable. (This allows dead people to have a safe haven to run to in firefights- rather than try and run through or around, they can stick to the path and not have to worry tooooo much)

Thoughts?

[johnjacobjingleheimerschmidt]

I'm starting to like more and more the idea of rotating platoons as refs over the weekend. a possible solution could be simply doing one base and walking streams of refugees out of the dead box when it's time to respawn with a ref, global conquest/hell survivor's style. I wonder if this would be too much of a blatant rip off. our separate dead boxes thing seemed to work rather well last time, if I remember correctly.

[LordEpathus]

except for when i stumbled across the enemy the deadbox with my whole squad and wiped people out when they respawned...maybe thats why they don't like me

[johnjacobjingleheimerschmidt]

that's a possibility.

spawn camping = not fun for those getting camped :-(

oh well, we kicked their asses. that's all good.

here's something for ya'll to think about, how do we ensure that people don't get spawn camped?

[LordEpathus]

I'm just saying, having seperate dead boxes from the base allowed me to just guard the entrance of the enemy base they returned at. And as they walk into their base they get hit with a wall of balls.

Any who...having a ref who escorts the dead people to respawn within their base might be a good idea.

But come to think of it, this happen in the 4th war as well. There was one collection spot for both teams and every 15 minutes people were let out. That didn't work too well