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At first glance what you say seems reasonable... However, this is a game. Lets face it. Any non-threat that is still next to a threat target two seconds after the first shot is fired is either deaf, chained to the threat, or is in fact actually a threat target hiding in plain sight...

As to changing the value of the penalty for hitting a non-threat... The simple act of adding 5 seconds to a novice is inconsequential. That same five seconds to a master would make the difference in the match. With the exception of some of the Uber Gods of shooting like Scott Warren, Jerry Miculek, Bones etc... a single hit on a non threat would drop them several positions... For example this Weekend at the Carolina Cup. The SSP division was won by Gordon Carroll with an overall time of 197.2 (Zero hits on a non-threat.) If he had hit one non-threat and the next several had not. That simple hit would have dropped him from first to fourth.

With that said I think the current system is fine... If we were trying to get closer to "real" life then by all means we need to raise the value. Then we would also want to require that all non-threats be on some form of moving system so that it would be more realistic... Now that gives me an evil idea for Ken's monorail...

Dave

That was one of the options I considered and eventually discarded. Hard cover only targets just don't get you that aw sh!@ moment. So what I eventually decided to do was turn the non-threats horizontal and place them just below the neck line of the threat targets so that they covered as much of the combined torso has possible. Basically imagine five threat targets with hard cover to simulate body armor and pushed together the two non-threats are placed horizontal so that they hang just below the neck line covering all the targets at that level. (or as much as possible.) That way if you jerk the shot down you get a present from the SO.

Dave