Team Reputations

Teams Encountered and have a really bad reputation of cheating. I should put a 2 Polls up for known teams known for their Good and Bad Rep. Ideally first hand and with comments (and exceptions or notes how to deal with them).

Strangely the most competitive teams have the most bad reputations, its not because of envy because the teams that comment are Non-competitive teams (so they didn't lose in any head to head competition).

Teams who play for Simulation and for Fun, and not to show up someone else, are those who are more inclined for fair play. There are several Cognitive Biases making Competitive Mindset more likely to Cheat, especially since Bragging Rights are more imporant than meeting people and making good friends... Is like the Social Aspect of Golf.

You just need to be good enough to keep up, but good people just want other good people to play with, losing is no real loss to them, compared to competitive players.

Publish Post

Hope to have a trip to Lito's

Lito's has one of the best prices for the cost of a long trip to Quiapo and Php40 parking.

Planning to get the Following. Have to call Lito if he's open on friday.

• 2-3 Khaki or OD Shorts for Php300 ($6.67) each. Durable enough for games and cheaper than Department store crap!
• SP120 (1.48J) Spring for Php300 each for the CM028
• 6mm Bushings (I have 2x 7mm ;_; ) for the CM028
• probably a tactical belt for php350

Small Type Tamiya, Projects for the Year, Wife's Xmass Gift

I will be using small type tamiya.

1. Because most of my guns use small type tamiya
2. my batteries are mostly small type tamiya
3. its smaller and does the job equally well.
4. Maximize compatibility.

Why not Deans Plug. It is a matter of situation than effectiveness. I've read that its surface area that makes electrical conduction effective. Thats why if you look closely at the trigger switch designs inside the Gearboxes they are made up of very wide copper wedges. By this principle the deans plug should be the better plug, but my circumstance I ended up with a lot of small tamiya type terminals, so its cheaper for me to go with the flow.

AK bullpup update. Part of the reason I decided to dismantle my working AK tactical is that it has a broken selector. so it only has Safety and Full Auto. So I decided to make a safety switch, a switch that prevents the trigger from working when Off or DC (disconnected).

So while the trigger is a switch that is only ON when its pressed, this switch will prevent the trigger from working even when pressed.

Note about this switch. Using the cheap ass multi-volt tester selling for $5 or php250, the working connectors are the Middle and the opposite side of the DC. I don't know what the third one, under the DC, is used for.

Current Armory

what is missing is my dismantled AK tactical.

I have to modify the AK CM028 to metal bushings and while I'm at it upgrade it to a SP120 (366 settled fps) spring, which can be pushed by a 8.4V battery, use my old 460mm systema tight barrel and a stock type-0 cylinder.

2 Sig556, its everything as advertised so far. Buying it for $77, I won't ask how the got it. All metal insides, I don't plan to mod it and given its durable frame and body I think it will be a very good beginners gun. Using a V3 gearbox it and G3 hop up, I think it has great potential when upgraded in the future.

The G3 will be moded to use a small type tamiya. it will save in space. Anyway my large type tamiya 8.4 batteries can't pull that spring. Although I will be making these plugs modular with PTT terminal.

Wife's Gift

I'm into the military Aesthetic! Of course its has its origins in the rugged and practical. In a world of such great variety of tastes, its only natural I go to one that has its roots in organization, discipline, risk and meritocracy.

Suffice to say, this is the same aesthetic I'll be dressing my future boy up, who is 7.5 weeks along.

JP SIG556 Php3.5k Filipino Airsoft (FAS) - Forum

For Sale: XMAS SALE!! JP SIG556 3.5k FREE SHIP! - Filipino Airsoft (FAS) - Forum

here is the review. Which has all the relevant data. I plan to sell my M4s after buying this.

The Psychology of Shooters

The Psychology of Shooters
Why shooting feels so good.
by Jamie Madigan November 26, 2010 05:00 AM PT

thanks to The Psychology of Video Games

Behavioral Economics in Action - Overpriced 2nd Hand

The China Products - Filipino Airsoft (FAS) - Forum is a great place to see irrationalities in action. I'm still marveling at the bias where people over price the value of the product their selling. There is a 2nd hand metal JG stubby being sold for 8000!

A brand new stubby can cost as much as 5,000. it may not be metal but people who buy a stubby are buying it for the light weight, buying the heavier metal one makes very little sense since if one wanted simulation at 8000 ($177!) you might as well buy an AnK all metal M4 and reinforced internals for 6k.

Anyway going back to Irrationalities, in Chapter 7 the High Prices of ownership Illustrates this. Based on Ziv Carmon and Dan Ariely, "Focusing on the Forgone; How Value Can Appear So Different to Buyers and Sellers". Journal of Consumer research (2000).

My wife asks me why I look at the forums when I've promised myself that I'll never buy 2nd hand guns from strangers (unless they are vouched by a friend). One has to really look at these sales and all the things people do to pitch the sale.

The Deals in the Forum are crap, I've come to conclude. What really influenced me is the unprofessional and unaccountable people you will be dealing with. I've tried and at the cost is too great, basically even attempting further negotiations is a sunk cost effect. I've learned my lesson and its FAR cheaper to ask my Gunsmith, Shadow, for the deals or to call all the Shops for what they have at a certain budget than to even get a 2nd hand piece of crap.

The people who sell at a very good price have hidden defects, not damaging but still defects that really would be cost leveraging. I don't have the heart nor the effort to negotiate and I don't know anyone who wants to negotiate in what should be a "guard down" hobby. Heck the only move a buyer has is "Walking away" in a deal that is very difficult and expensive (opportunity cost wise vs a shop) to set up. Heck if you count walking away from a deal to leverage it, then by statistics you'll be losing money over all.

I admit there is some edge to my self promise but I'm the curious type to try things for myself. Some others might be luckier or better at spotting deals, those are beyond my abilities.

One certain advantage I have over any of these deals is my research and amateur handyman skills in fixing my own stuff... thats pretty much the only cost cutting advantage I have :(

Airsoft is more Expensive in 2010, will it Get Cheaper?

What Happened to the $50-80 Guns? I've been checking the prices and those in the Philippines, as well as forums around the web. It seems that no one is commenting regarding the increase in Airsoft Prices.

The CM028 series from A to U (check out Google Image Search There really are CM028A, B, C, D, M, U, S, T) they were $60-$90 now they're $90-$150.

Army Armament's $75 AK is the closest to what was the airsoft prices just last year. What happened? Is it Market Normalization? When new producers flooded the market and drove down the price at their expense, and we are just feeling the market adjust itself?

I'm not sure but those low prices were a risk for those new producers back then? I think in the coming year prices we will be seeing are will be the norm, until someone makes a cheaper gun production.

I can see where Army Armament's AK got cheaper. The battery and the mag is different. Any producer might consider. (If I could produce airsoft here in the Philippines I'd implement this)

• A short inner Aluminum Barrels (like the Cheap Plastic Gearbox Types)
• Less Iron Alloys more Zinc-Aluminum Alloys or Polycarbonate (cheaper)
• Use Plastic Low to Midcaps Magazines
• Slower Smaller Charger or no Charger at all.
• No more slings
• Packaging The most basic Art and Picture (This will save a lot)
• Find Alternative packing material

My current forecast is that airsoft prices as they are will not go down unless manufacturers make some changes, particularly legal changes that allow the mainland to compete with the more expensive overhead of HK. Right now, almost all mainland business have been thoroughly squashed, the cost of moving product from the mainland to the greater market exceeds their cost advantage they had.

So just get used to the prices or just buy 2nd hand guns during the supply glut of 2008 and 2009. Too bad these guns do have a work life, so by next year all the mainland ACMs supplies will be dried up and HK will determine ACM prices.