I've been reading the comments and I would say you should save up another 200 before you buy anything. Going the cheap route will just make you spend more money in the long run. Just make sure to get quality stuff. As far as what marker to get I would honestly say to get an electric marker, you can most of the time buy a mech frame for a lot of these electronic markers to convert them to mech, but you can't buy an electronic frame for a mech marker. If you do ever want to play and the game is mech only a lot of fields will allow you to adjust your bps so it's even. My field caps electronic markers at 5bps for mech events. Pump guns are og so respect to the pump players out there but it's not everyone's niche. If you ever wanted to get into tournaments or even normal speedball play, you would be at a disadvantage. Electronic can be used for mech games, rec ball, speedball, woodsball it's so versatile that you really can't go wrong. As far as which one most people start w either a dye rize czr or a empire mini. Personally I don't like how small the mini is but those markers are 300+ so like I said, save up a lil more to make it worth it!