>>223388There's two types of paintball, woodsball (can be played in arenas too, think of what you see people doing in airsoft) and speedball. Speedball is the competitive field you see in this photo. The sport aspect is unavoidably expensive and to an extent is pay to win. Paint is expensive, the lowest serviceable tier of equipment is expensive, and traveling is expensive. If you're willing to spend $1k or so on gear and well North $100 of paint per day, you are in the game and it's insanely fun. That said, you can bring one box of paint out to your local yokel woodsballer meetup and have a great time blasting children and their overweight fathers. If you bring an e-trigger speedball gun out to a bunch of yokel's with Tippmans, just throttle your trigger to like 1 shot per second and turn the fps down. Don't be that dildo who dumps a firehose of bruises into the back of a 10 year old's head, so he never wants to play again.
