For a while this summer, the forums were bustling with new guys, and what they mostly had on their mind was the K-mod... but they either didn't get it, posting a legitimate question, or they made a new "landmark" or a "revolutionary number of balloons." By that I mean, they went overboard.
Simply put, the K-mod originally never was meant to be what some do today. People have gone overboard. Some say that XN only used 45 balloons on his K-mod, just like I did on my 2700. At the time of writing the first K-mod article, most people who have K-modded (the elite few who did), had used around 60 balloons. Then they were known as "very skilled" not because the modification was hard. No, anyone can K-mod. This is proven by the large number of people who have. K-modding, check valve freezing, and the like, were only "hard" modifications because they were not very well documented at all. That's right, it took until SSCentral came around to document those mods well, with pictures. It really was quite a secret. Nothing had come close in the amount of skill required. Today we are beyond that, with well documented guides on those modifications, however there still are only 3 on check valve freezing and 2 on K-modding at the time of this writing.
When I released my K-modding and check valve freezing articles, it was winter so no one really started doing anything just yet. However the summer after was when everyone starting going overboard. Thinking they could be better than others, and wanting the best and most powerful soakers, people starting raising the number of balloons used during K-modding. I even remember a topic about a 100 balloon K-mod, and I was furious. K-modding has been idiotized. It never was meant to be what it is now.
When you increase the thickness of your CPS chamber, you also are decreasing the capacity of it. It's true, all that rubber takes up space. You with your 70 or 80 balloon K-mod have a much smaller PC. Some will say this is an advantage, increasing the number of shots per tank, but that is an incomplete assement if you ask me. Yes, it will increase your number of shots per tank, but you also have to remember that this is CPS. You don't need a full shot to get full range. You could have a million 2 pump shots, and they all would have about the same range, but extremely short shot time.
What I am proposing in this article is a new "landmark" or "revolution." Unlike the "revolutionaries" of the past, I propose different methods. We must improve the K-mod. It has it's big plus (and it's big), but what about the problem? Smaller PC size is not a good thing in a CPS gun. The large the PC the better here. To do this, we have 2 options:
- Do PC expansion mods
- Make new methods that take up less space
My other idea is the hard way... but it should be the next revolution in modding. We must find balloons with more resistance, that are thinner. That would be truly important in our mission for a better K-mod. Another idea I had was some kind of "chemical bath" for our CPS PCs and balloons, there must be a chemical that makes rubber more resistant.
Whenever these theories become reality, this article will be updated, or more likely removed. Our mission for better soakers will never end, there always are improvements even in a seemingly perfect system. Keep thinking, and the next revolution will come soon.