A relatively new feature on
high-end
paintball markers:
The player simply presses the trigger 5 times a second for the first second, then the marker
will speed up to a 15 balls per second rate of fire after the first second.
This has caused much controversy as it is being allowed in some professional paintball leagues, even though fully automatic fire is not, and ramping, at its core, is not a semi-automatic rate of fire, the only rate of fire previously allowed.
Ramping is generally considered a crutch of
weak players and cheaters who
don't have the skill or dexterity to shoot their markers at a fast rate of fire without having to rely on ramping or automatic fire.