Stealthbomber

TBH, I think the reverse is true. I often found it takes longer to browse through the pages of Arnies sales threads if they are filled with page after page of m16 replicas for sale. Surely there aren't many people who think "I have £200 to spend now let's see what's out there!?"? Most people MUST think "I need a new vest" or "I need a shotty for CQB", right? Beyond that, I really can't see how splitting up the forums makes browsing slower. Looking at 200 items on 3 forums takes as long as on one forum. The only difference is the 2 page refreshes it takes to move from 1 secti

As far as we know, we now have such a server. However, the settings were all ported from the other server. Kinda like fitting the fuel-injection system off a Nissan Micra to a Lamborghini V12. As a result, Arnies IT elves have been tinkering with things to allow the forums to run optimally on the new server. As for Matt, stop being such a balloon. You are in no position to criticise the attitude of any other forum user.

Fixed.

I have one idea but, erm, it would require some level of competence by the existing members... Here's how it'd work:- - You post a "Hello" thread and sticky it in the newbs section. - In the T&C you make it clear that a person MUST make a post to the "Hello" thread before they can post in the rest of the forums. - You set accounts so that a newb cannot post until they RECEIVE their first PM. So, our newb posts to say "Hi!" in the Hello thread and an existing member sends them a PM which unblocks their account and allows them to begin posting properly. I know this is co

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What''s with the buttons? Every clickable button on the site is appearing as a dollop of HTML to me. Something is afoot, I suspect.

Must admit, I'm taking a flyer in assuming we don't have it. I can't remember either, TBH. I thought we just had that thing where you sign up and an email gets sent to your email addy which you have to reply to so your account is activated. Obviously they've discovered a way to allow a bot to do that.

I deliberately left the "E" uncapitalised in the word "english" because the word is generic, with reference to the written language, rather than nationalistic. I dunno if this is the proper way to do it but it seems sensible to be. Besides that, as is often said, I don't think anybody's going to persecute a user for the odd spelling or grammatical error but that's hardly the same as posting in txtspk. Thanks for caring though.

Recently we've seen a number of spam-bots sign up to Arnies and post nonsense. I think it's time we got ourselves one of those verification things where a bunch of letters are displayed in a wobbly picture and you have to type them into a box before you can register. Excuse the technical jargon. I'm sure you know the sort of thing I mean.

I thought the main reason to use good english was to make yourself understood and avoid appearing foolish. I do both of those things for my own benefit. Not for anybody elses.

You have misunderstood the question. The earliest ICS gearboxes were a bit unreliable. ICS had a couple of different attempts to fix the problem and the gun, eventually, became reliable. ICS have never officially labelled the guns as ver1, ver2 and ver3 etc but one american importer did so as to convince their customers that the gun they were buying was reliable. Basically, look at the date of that review. It's at least 2 years old. The ONLY guns retailers have on the shelves these days are the latest, reliable, versions of the ICS guns. Having said that, the ICS MP5 has pr

Hi, my name is Stealthbomber and I'm a HK-aholic. Oh, and the MSG90 is now powered by a Madbull 470 gas gearbox.

Ok, you took that well. I really just wanted to raise the issue so that people could read your answers. FWIW, you've been very honest to respond in the way you have. I'm still waiting for my MP7 to arrive. I will definately cobble together a bit of a write-up of it when it arrives. I definately won't be attempting to upgrade it though. I think AEPs, in general, are too fiddly and highly stressed to mess with a great deal and I think clone AEPs, in particular, are probably too near the limit of their reliability to safely add many upgrades.

I don't mean to sound argumentative but anyway... You say you don't own a TM MP7 for reference but the R4 feels lighter and less well constructed. How do you know this if you don't own a TM one for comparison? You say you replaced the bushes with bearing-bushes and THEN noticed problems with the gears. Also, you say you replaced the barrel and modified the hop-up and THEN found the FPS had dropped. Excuse me for saying so but it seems as though your handiwork might be the problem rather than the gun.

Must admit, I'm in 2 minds about the usefulness of magnifying scopes in airsoft. On an assault rifle, at normal distances, I tend to just point my gun in the general direction of the target, fire 1 BB and see where it goes then shoot another couple on the basis of where the first one goes. In this situation a zoom scope is no use to you cos you look through a scope, hold the crosshair on a target and have no clue where your BBs are actually being blown by the wind or hop-up or whatever. On the other hand, more and more I find that a zoom scope is handy for sussing out enemy posi

Just that the big slow-downs seem to be getting much less frequent. Sometimes when a page refreshes I get a "page not found" error but it cures itself as soon as I refresh again. The MySQL errors are getting rare too. Used to be that seeing a MySQL error meant I could forget using Arnies for at least a day. Not they get cleared within, ummm, well, before I try again. Just thought it was worth noting. Dunno what, if anything, is getting jiggled but it's working.

Also, smart people make thread titles descriptive. It makes it easier for people who can offer advice to find your thread.

Or so I thought, at least. The right-hand menu seems to be sitting right at the bottom of the news page rather than at the top. I tried refreshing the page, clearing my cache etc, but the menu stays at the bottom. Only seems to have done it since the latest news item went up. Dunno if it's supposed to be that way to make people read the news but, ummm, it seems a little strange.

S'funny cos, whether you're for or against the 1J rule, any relaxation of it would still only allow discussion of AEGs and GBBs up to 1.35J anyway. In either case, the difference is hardly worth the amount of discussion that's already taken place.

Cos, according to the "1J rule" you're not allowed to shoot at another person with an air rifle.

It would be if I was. Ah, yes. I did try that before but there were, uhhh, "other" problems. Sorted now.

When I try to log in, the java doo-dah runs so far then stops. Any ideas? This is all I get.

That just happened when they saw you arrive.

Dare I ask, what would I find if I went to irc.bondage.com?