Help me with my field.

[QuiksilverMV]

As of right now I have $1500 in my bank account with intrest, and 100 shares of stock that are worth about $30 a share and my friend has about $1500 plus intrest in his bank account. So in 4 years when we graduate from high school we are going to combine our money which will make it about $30,000 and start our own paintball field and eventually a proshop. I have a paintball invention that might make us about $100,000 a year or more but I can't tell you because there are companies every where. We are planning on making a huge sort of field/park, we are going to have 2 sup air ball fields, one 5 man and 1 10 man, an X-Ball field (Not inflatable), a woodsball field, and a junkyard field made out of cars. But back on topic, what should we name our field? And what tips and hints and suggestions do you have that could help me? Thank you for any advice.

[paintballer42o]

Just make sure each bunker has advantages and disadvantages.

[wanabe TOSA]

hmmmm how about Fantasy Land

[SinfulCindy]

I've seen a lot of paintball fields just named after their location or their owners, like Mike's Paintball or Navarre Paintball Adventurre. You could name your field like that.

[QuiksilverMV]

Originally posted by SinfulCindy
I've seen a lot of paintball fields just named after their location or their owners, like Mike's Paintball or Navarre Paintball Adventurre. You could name your field like that.

well that's the problem me and my friend are going to own the field. I was thinking something like Scorpion Paintball or something like that.

[SinfulCindy]

Scorpion Paintball sounds nice. I have a slight obsession with scorpions.

That's not a bad idea to choose a dangerous animal and name it that way. Or you can pick something in mythology, they always have interesting names.

[snap shoot]

Think of a cool name like Cindy sed a animal , or something. Or you could put both of your names together like for example my name is Kenny and my freinds name is Chris , you could put the name something like KC's paintball. For the intails of both of you. Get good air fields and have pretty good prices. Dont put your field within 15 miles of another field because you will lose bussiness. Make sure there is good parking to because alot of people like places where they can lay out there stuff. Before going in. O yea try your BEST to get air conditoning because it get's hot as heck when alot of people come. Hope this helps.


EDIT: Dont worry about air conditing if your not planning to have a indoor field. But if you want more bussiness get an indoor field so people can play ran or shine. And maybe in the back of the indoor fields have a woods ball field . Also try to have food to sell cause kids get hella hungry when paintballin , or atleast I do.

[Downfall08]

Originally posted by QuiksilverMV
I have a paintball invention that might make us about $100,000 a year or more but I can't tell you because there are companies every where.
:laugh:

unless its really good nobody will buy it. post the idea here and we promise not to steal it.

[LAMANTEthePBguy]

Originally posted by QuiksilverMV
As of right now I have $1500 in my bank account with intrest, and 100 shares of stock that are worth about $30 a share and my friend has about $1500 plus intrest in his bank account. So in 4 years when we graduate from high school we are going to combine our money which will make it about $30,000 and start our own paintball field and eventually a proshop. I have a paintball invention that might make us about $100,000 a year or more but I can't tell you because there are companies every where. We are planning on making a huge sort of field/park, we are going to have 2 sup air ball fields, one 5 man and 1 10 man, an X-Ball field (Not inflatable), a woodsball field, and a junkyard field made out of cars. But back on topic, what should we name our field? And what tips and hints and suggestions do you have that could help me? Thank you for any advice. Bwahaha

But seriousely

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You won't have 30,000 with just that. $3000 with extremely good interest, like 3%, will get you about $300 a year if you are lucky. The stock market is iffy, and you could lose all of that. I hope you know how to play it. Doubtful your invention will get anywhere. Unless you put up the funds to produce it yourself, it won't make you much.

But on the positive side. For ideas, play at every feild you possible can. Write a list of things you did like, and did not like. If you want a feild that you can play in rain or shine, put up a pavilion roof over one of your speedball feilds. That way you will have the best terrain (natural earth), it won't matter if its raining, and you can put up lights to play in the dark.

[thunderpig]

how about..... robbaft paintball? It's something unique. ;)

Combine both of your last names or something. Say your last name is....pinnington; and your friend's is.... falco. You could call it Falpin Paintball or something clever of that sort. ;)

[Cuervo]

With those math skills, I'm sure you're going far in the Business world.

Trust me, if I had a way to magically transform $6,000 into $30,000 every 4 years by doing nothing but sitting on my butt, I would've quit school a long time ago.

[QuiksilverMV]

well my proshop pays $8.00 an hour and I will figure out the hours. But I might do something like Scorpion Paintball, or Bobcat Paintball. If I combine me and my friends name then my field would be named Bi Paintball, what straight person would even enter the shop.

But this is my invention idea. It's a barrel kit that you can can keep adding on to. Like lets say you have a 12" barrel and you can buy an 8" extension to make it a 20". Also you can change the barrel colors and buy differnt tips so it's like a customizable barrel.

[Downfall08]

Originally posted by QuiksilverMV

But this is my invention idea. It's a barrel kit that you can can keep adding on to. Like lets say you have a 12" barrel and you can buy an 8" extension to make it a 20". Also you can change the barrel colors and buy differnt tips so it's like a customizable barrel.
yea...umm...yea

[|GB|]

Originally posted by QuiksilverMV
But this is my invention idea. It's a barrel kit that you can can keep adding on to. Like lets say you have a 12" barrel and you can buy an 8" extension to make it a 20". Also you can change the barrel colors and buy differnt tips so it's like a customizable barrel.


I've always wanted to be a sniperer. Will it come in camo?

[QuiksilverMV]

it will come in camo and almosy any color we can make it but that won't be for 4 years.

[Downfall08]

i really hope some sarcasm has come into play.

[PeYToN-SS]

I sure hope your kidding about your invention.

[Cuervo]

I sure hope we cancel welfare before you end up on it.

[teufelhunden]

Expect zero dollars from that invention. If I wanted that, I'd use duct tape.

And for the love of God, why would your feature field not be Sup'Air? Xball-Sup'Air=CRAP.

Oh, and unless you live in the middle of nowhere, 30k is NOT going to buy you all that stuff. Land is expensive, insurance is expensive, buying all the rentals/etc. is expensive..

[wanabe TOSA]

god bless u man

i still like Fantasy Land tho ...... ohhhh the irony lol

[QuiksilverMV]

My friend's cousin who will be working with me is sponsored by empire and can get really good deals on stuff. But heres how I will setup shop

Proshop at entrance
One 5 man Sup Air
One 10 man Sup Air
One 5 man X-Ball
One 10 man X-Ball
One Junkyard Field with Cars
One Woodsball field

Prices:

Entrance Fee: $10
Gun Rental: $30 Pacage includes Tippmann A5, Mask, 20 OZ CO2, Hopper, 100 Rounds, and All Day Air.
Paint: (We will start out with Zap) $40 a case
Air Refils: Nitro: $2.00 a fill $10 all day
CO2: $4.00 a fill $10 all day
Comp Air: $5.00 a fill $10 all day

Our hours will be 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM Weekdays
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Weekends

And we can get 10 A5's with everything needed to play, 10,000 Rounds a fill kit, ref gear, a chorno, masks for $2500 which is a really good deal.

[PeYToN-SS]

You have no concept of money.

[p8ntfreak98]

roflcopter

[teufelhunden]

Um, you have a lot to learn... 10 man X-Ball? wtf mate..

[LAMANTEthePBguy]

Originally posted by QuiksilverMV
Air Refils: Nitro: $2.00 a fill $10 all day
CO2: $4.00 a fill $10 all day
Comp Air: $5.00 a fill $10 all da yFirst off not only is your invention bad, but its already been done before. I hope you know that Compressed air is a lot cheaper than Nitrogen fills. Next, Nitro and CA fills? Who is going to want to get a more expensive air when you can get one that will work just as well for less. Also, about the $30,000. That might be enough to get your proshop up and running including overhead. I mean an air compressor can be 3-4 thousand dollars. I'm sorry we have to shoot your dream down, but its just a dream that will never happen.

[QuiksilverMV]

I based this mostly on my local field and I saw on a web site that they sold tenman X Ball fields. Also The proshop would be way later after the field brought in a loy of money.

[wanabe TOSA]

how much profit do u think this feild will bring in?

[snap shoot]

Originally posted by teufelhunden
Um, you have a lot to learn... 10 man X-Ball? wtf mate..

[QuiksilverMV]

Originally posted by wanabe TOSA
how much profit do u think this feild will bring in?

Once the entire thing is setup and running probably atleast $100,000 a year

[PeYToN-SS]

Originally posted by QuiksilverMV


Once the entire thing is setup and running probably atleast $100,000 a year

:laugh:
We have another contender for the Darwin award!

[wanabe TOSA]

Originally posted by QuiksilverMV


Once the entire thing is setup and running probably atleast $100,000 a year

lol i said profit

[Empyreal Rogue]

I think we've found someone dumber than ArtShark.

[wanabe TOSA]

or wordsworth

[teufelhunden]

Originally posted by Doc Nickel at AO

Ran a field for nearly three years. Learned a few things.

A) Give up playing. Completely. You can play in a game or you can run the field, but not both. If you're running the field as a serious business, and not just a "hope it lasts the summer" fly-by-night, then you will not have time to play. Period, end of conversation.

B) You will not make money. If you're lucky, you'll break even, and if you have a day job that leaves you tine to run the field on the weekends, you probably won't starve.

C) If there's three fields in the area already, then you have competition. Unless you have 100K to a quarter-million in population within a 30 to 45 minute drive, another field will just dilute the player base.

D) Unless you can offer something the rest don't have- IE, an Airball field while the rest have woods, or real plumbing, or noticibly better prices (which, of course, means lower profits and that brings us back to the "won't make any money" part.)

E) You'd better have a big chunk of money to start with. Depending on how many players on average you think you'll see, you'll need rental guns, rental masks, tanks, bulk CO2 cylinders, bulk N2 cylinders or a bunch of SCUBA tanks (or a compressor and/or booster.)

You'll also need tools, repair parts, extra lenses, boxes to store it all, a truck or van to haul it all to and fdrom the field, you'll need property, and chances are you'll have to fight with the local city planning office over the use of it.

F) You'll also need insurance, a cell phone, a complete, well-prepared first-aid kit, and other safety measures.

G) You'll then need something to work as barricades, whether you buy a used airball kit ($1500) or a new one ($4500) or you pile up old wood, tires, plywood or crates. You'll also need boundary tape, possibly netting, a chronograph, ref's vests, and oh yeah, some people who'll ref for you.

H) Plan carefully for the inevitable SNAFU: What will you do if you run out of paint? Air? What will happen if a group decides they want a bachelor's party for fifty people and you only have fifteen goggles and twelve functioning rental guns? Better yet, they call and reserve on Thursday afternoon for a Saturday game?

The list goes on. I ran into all sorts of difficulties, and I was also rather naive about the whole thing. I made a lot of poor choices, not the least of which was the choice of business partner (get everything in writing!) but after it was all said and done, I actually had some fun doing it.

Doc.

[LAMANTEthePBguy]

Originally posted by QuiksilverMV
Once the entire thing is setup and running probably atleast $100,000 a year I think i heard from my feild owner that after 5 years of being open, they had made $50,000 profit. That is pretty good for the first 5 years. His dad also helps him out by working there, and a lot of his freinds ref there for paint. He also has a day job of being a nurse.

[QuiksilverMV]

we'll make 100,000 a year because we will hold up other proshops for their Timmies and Angels and sell them for half price at our shop and we will rent them.

[Empyreal Rogue]

None of your numbers make sense!

Recalculate and reformat your plan. If you try and make a business with this plan you'll fail and fail quickly. You can't predict how much money you'll make a year because some days you'll have really low attendance and other days it'll be high. And what about the weather? Any form of precipitation pushes people away from playing.

But if you want to blow a couple thousands dollars on a failed business, be my guest.

[QuiksilverMV]

Originally posted by Empyreal Rogue
None of your numbers make sense!

Recalculate and reformat your plan. If you try and make a business with this plan you'll fail and fail quickly. You can't predict how much money you'll make a year because some days you'll have really low attendance and other days it'll be high. And what about the weather? Any form of precipitation pushes people away from playing.

But if you want to blow a couple thousands dollars on a failed business, be my guest.

God ****itt. You people gotta go and shatter a 14 year olds dreams before they even happen. Now I will go cry myself to sleep :cry: :cry: :cry: wait a minute I just woke up 5 minutes ago, **** jet lag it's only 10 AM.

[Empyreal Rogue]

Welcome to reality kid. It hurts but it's life.

[Cuervo]

I'd rather he failed because then I could laugh at him.

[PeYToN-SS]

Originally posted by Cuervo
I'd rather he failed because then I could laugh at him.

I'm laughing at him anyways

[LAMANTEthePBguy]

Well, I just talked to this guy that wants to open a feild up near me. For two 5 man air feilds, an air compressor, netting, and a few other things, (no proshop) it was $23,000.

Sorry for shattering your dream, but it was fun doing it.

[snap shoot]

Originally posted by LAMANTEthePBguy
Well, I just talked to this guy that wants to open a feild up near me. For two 5 man air feilds, an air compressor, netting, and a few other things, (no proshop) it was $23,000.

Sorry for shattering your dream, but it was fun doing it.

As you can see if you want anything near a decent field people will come to often you will need alot more money.

[Six Feet Under]

It won't happen with $30,000. A Bauer compressor system is over $8,000 for the Shop Series (I think), and the land will probably cost more than $30,000 for 2 or 3 acres. If you want to pull in any money at all, you'll need more than 2 or 3 acres.

[Downfall08]

Originally posted by QuiksilverMV
we'll make 100,000 a year because we will hold up other proshops for their Timmies and Angels and sell them for half price at our shop and we will rent them.
there's your best plan yet.

[Rowdie]

Originally posted by wanabe TOSA
hmmmm how about Fantasy Land

Cold. :cool:

[Rowdie]

Originally posted by Six Feet Under
It won't happen with $30,000. A Bauer compressor system is over $8,000 for the Shop Series (I think), and the land will probably cost more than $30,000 for 2 or 3 acres. If you want to pull in any money at all, you'll need more than 2 or 3 acres.

Hello Bussiness loan!

[LAMANTEthePBguy]

Originally posted by Rowdie
Hello Bussiness loan! That he will never pay off because he is selling timmies and angels for half price.