Empire Resurrection Thoughts

• Appears to have best- or near-best-in-class components
• Excellent sliding single-trigger design
• clamping feedneck
• halfblock
• on/off t-rail ASA
• Couple of design niceties thrown in which make it more modern and easier to work on (some of this stuff is strongly overlooked by people in lieu of complaining about other shit)
• ram comes off without removing it
• 3-way piston comes out the back (I think)
• ego detents
• no tool needed to remove valve
• (Spyder) valve still has to ride over IVG threads when removing/installing
• Barrel kit is overkill and is an attempt to prop up the apparent value of the marker

So here's the argument:

The Empire Resurrection, just looking at the parts involved, is easily a more expensive marker to produce than many electros.  So from that perspective, it's easy to justify the price of the Resurrection.

HOWEVER, this assumes that the sum is greater than or equal to the total of the parts, which in most cases you hope to be true.

If you take all these parts, add them up to form one sum, what do you have?

You still have a mech autococker.  It might be the nicest mech autococker in the world, but it's still just a mech autococker.

Here's where the whole thing gets ugly:  in my opinion, they should have released it as an upgrade to the Sniper.  The thing just shares way too many parts with the Sniper to justify a completely separate gun.  Having two products that are so similar in price and parts seems like a bad idea.

A player who is thinking about mech play has to start thinking, "Well, do I buy a Sniper, or do I buy a Resurrection?"  The first obvious thought is:  "Well, for just a little more, I can have a semi-auto."  Which leads the user to think, "Well, if I'm going to drop that much coin for a semi-auto, I might as well just go for an electro."  BOOM, neither product sells.  The products just do not look very good stacked right next to each other in a product line.

Another way to look at it:  pretend I actually want both.  I want a Sniper (and at one time I was looking at buying one), and I want a Resurrection as well.  But not both at the same time.  For pump days, I run the Sniper, and for normal days, maybe I'll run a Resurrection.

What happens if I want both?

I HAVE TO BUY NEARLY THE ENTIRE FUCKING GUN TWICE.  LITERALLY.

So I've got to plonk down on two bodies, two feed necks, literally 6 extra barrel backs that I probably won't be using, an extra front, two regulators, two grip frames, two ASA's, two valves, two bolts, two hammers, and an assortment of other parts just so I can basically have the front pneumatics.

Yeah, about that?  Not so much.  Again, the end result in my case -- neither product sells.

We'll see how the market reacts.