I have an idea...

[Hops]

This will require the hiring of a pyrotechnic. There will be two teams, one is the US and the other are some sort terrorists (maybe evil Russians like in CoD4 or BF:BC). There would be no weapon or gear prerequisites but i don't know what to do about camo requirements (there's so much to choose from). The bad guys are defending a surface-to-air missile device or something and after the US turns off or destroys a nearby power source, the US has to plant a targeting beacon type thing so (here's the pyrotechnic part) an A-10 would do a flyby and destroy the SAM with it's powerful gatling gun. How that would works is after the US plants the device, they would have to run to a safe place then some hidden speaker near the SAM would play the sound of a jet coming and then dirt clouds would start shooting up around the SAM to replicate bullets hitting the ground and some device on the SAM would shoot sparks like as if bullets were hitting. after a second (give or take half) a firework or a special affects explosion would conclude the mach. Oh and one more thing, the US has a time limit.

[Biscuit-Boy]

How would you go about making SURE everyone is out of the way? Like refs or radios?

[Jun Wen]

The game concept could easily be done without the additional effects, if that's what you wanted to go with. Chances are, though, that you'd need a few more objectives to turn it into a "complete" day's game.

[Hops]

Maybe a couple refs would make sure that you get to safety and this could be an objective to some larger event.

[applegonebad]

Instead of all these fancy effects i can cook up some of my potassium nitrate and sugar smoke bombs. :)

[Rattler]

Instead of all these fancy effects i can cook up some of my potassium nitrate and sugar smoke bombs. :)


I can't think of any public fields where that is allowed. It is huge safety and fire hazard.

You can ask anyone (anyone being field owners), maybe some do allow it but it would have to be tightly supervised if it was allowed.

[Texx]

Kinda useless to put a man on the ground just to plant a beacon. Might be easier for him to plant explosives.

More likely they would use a laser designator and drop a bomb on the sight.

[Maple]

Any and all explosives, no matter what they are made of, should only be detonated by a trained and licensed explosives handler. I assisted Andy (from TFD) with the pyro setup at Breedland and having witnessed what he did to insure that the demo/pyro was setup correctly and detonated with little to no risk to the players, I'll tell you this "Don't try using pyro unless you know what the hell you are doing". It is not a matter of making sure people aren't close to the "boom", it is a matter of knowing what the "boom" is going to do before it is ever set off.
I'll tell you all this, if I ever hear of somebody setting off pyro at a event and they are not properly trained in demo handling, I will report them to the local (and perhaps federal) authorities. I'd rather be viewed as an asshole then to hear or read about somebody losing their life at an airsoft event.

[blitz]

count me in on the US side. can i be in the special forces team?

[Specter]

Sounds like the game only has two objectives, and both are littered with some type of special effects. Or at least it seemed that way to me, I skimmed through kind of fast.
I agree with Maple though. Unless you know what the hell you're doing, there ain't no way in hell I'd play in a game where the pyro was set up by a pyro, rather than a trained individual. If it was something simple though, like some firecrackers being lit off in a can with water around it, that's a different story...

Or perhaps you could throw some confetti into the air to simulate the explosion?

My opinions...

[Chief135]

I'm with Maple. If it's got a fuse, I'd rather not see it on the field. I'm all about milsim, but we don't need pyro to do it.

[Ghostbear]

As for the pyro...

Think of it this way, it doesnt matter if you KNOW what your doing. It matters if you have the TRAINING to do it.

See, I dont care if you have been doing it your whole life and are intimate with the inner workings of the carbon molecules of the black powder you are using in the boom. It matters to me that you have had professional certification at some point for what you do, or at the very least have had membership and PARTICIPATED in professional pyrotechnical displays and organizations there of.

I am not going to be the nay-sayer and poo poo everyone that wants to have some form of pyro in the field. Honestly it does boost the realism to very high levels, but it is not due to the fear that as a player someone might have that the next boom may be my leg, arm or face being blasted with rock and dirt at a hundred miles an hour.

Pyro is not your friend !

to borrow a phrase from Andy,

Pyro can KILL YOU !

If you doubt the skills of the pyro technician at an event, dont play. Leave, demand your money back and get the hell out of there. Convice your friends to leave as well. Convince as many people that are there to leave as well.

While I love this game, it isnt worth my eyesight for the years I have left in this world.

But, please keep the commentary on topic, and dont make far reaching assumptions as to what is being said. His comment in the first line should have given you all a bit of realism...


This will require the hiring of a pyrotechnic.

This is not him doing it, but someone like we have discussed. Not a noob, but someone that is going to do it right. So, please dont make the assumption that he is talking of himself doing the pyro. If he is going to do it himself, and makes it openly plain that is what he is saying, then let him know that it is wrong. And while I know some of you are saying this for the noobs that dont have the common sense to know it takes more than lighting a fuse to be a pyro tech, for them it isnt going to be heard anyway. They will continue to believe that they are the best thing since sliced bread in the pyro world, and probably will hurt someone. The best way to let them know you dont approve is to say so, and not attend their games. Eventually, they will go bankrupt with nobody supporting their games and should have gotten the point long before that anyway.

But, this is like preaching to the choir, you already know that it is silly to believe that you know enough about pyro to make a suitable display shell just because you watched the fireworks at the lake for the last 5 years. And you know you should be playing with 'boom' supplies without having the professional background to be doing so as well. But, I dont have to tell you that, do I ?

Neither should someone be following the recipes from the internet on things like smoke and pyro because you dont know who made them. You dont know if they are valid, and anyone can make a recipe for Chlorine Gas and tell you it will make wicked smoke and end up killing someone because it is Toxic to humans to inhale the gas, as it will literally combine into Hydrochloric Acid in your lungs and burn you from the inside out. But, hey, someone had a U-Tube video of how big the smoke cloud is from it, I am sure. Just dont be stupid, please.

I believe that it has been addressed by enough people to let them know that they are probably going to get someone hurt bad or even hurt for life, let alone possibly kill someone.

I believe it has been addressed.

Thanks and back to the topic.