By Shiningone (Shiningone) on Sunday, February 4, 2001 - 01:44 am:
Anybody know of a site that lists local LAN parties? They sound like a lot of fun from reading Shoot Club but on my $100 a year buget its a wonder ive got a 56k modem.
I hope there is one cause there really should be, id make one myself if i had ever gotten around to craking open my SQL book...
May Peace Favor Your Sword
Shining One
By Mark Asher on Sunday, February 4, 2001 - 02:25 am:
Here are few places to try for LAN parties:
http://www.lanparty.com/
http://www.bangg.org/lanring/
http://www.lanpartycoalition.com/news.htm
and of course Tom Chick's Swinging LA Bachelor Scene, second only to Hef's parties at the Playboy mansion.
By TomChick on Sunday, February 4, 2001 - 06:33 am:
"and of course Tom Chick's Swinging LA Bachelor Scene, second only to Hef's parties at the Playboy mansion."
With the important caveat that we don't have Playboy bunnies at Shoot Club. They would just be too much of a distraction, so we don't let them in.
Also Shining One, there's a "LAN Party" button on the left side of Blue's News that links to a list of LAN parties.
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/lanparties.pl
I think for a lot of those, people haul their own computers along. Which I can imagine could be an utter nightmare. I have enough problems with just these four computers here. If people were bringing their own to plug into the LAN... egad, I can imagine a million and one things that could go wrong...
-Tom
By Mark Asher on Sunday, February 4, 2001 - 12:59 pm:
And if you bring your own, don't you need to drop in a network card? I could see it taking a couple of hours just to get set up. For a weekend long party that might be ok, but for a single evening it would be tough.
We'll probably see more places like The Stomping Grounds, permanent LAN centers.
By wumpus on Sunday, February 4, 2001 - 04:04 pm:
"We'll probably see more places like The Stomping Grounds, permanent LAN centers. "
Actually I think exactly the opposite is true. With the advent of cheap broadband, you can get the same LAN gaming experience from home. These kinds of commercial LAN sites are doomed.
One of my friends used to run exactly this kind of PC pay-for-play site, and it was tough to make money, even in 1996 when cheap home broadband was merely a dream. You can see a historical entry at Stomped here:
http://redwood.stomped.com/896.html
Near the bottom of the page (annihilation gaming).
"for fun" LAN parties will always live on, but it definitely takes some technical competence to arrive with a pre-configured stable gaming machine.. not to mention everyone having the games installed, etc.
wumpus http://www.gamebasement.com
By Freon on Friday, February 9, 2001 - 03:20 am:
I help with a local LAN event myself (www.fwgg.org), and I must agree. Putting on a LAN party, is not cheap nor easy.
Our last event we used about 3 miles of CAT5, one 32 port 100mbit 6 gbit backbone main switch to about 30 12 port 10mbit switches, about 1800 amps of power, 75 or so 25 or 50 ft. 12 ga power cords, plus all the posters (hundreds) we put up, dealing with all the prizes, tournaments, etc.. Luckily the location dropped the 220v mains down for us. The team of approximately 20 'tech junkies' and 'core' members were busy almost the entire event. It is completely nuts. It is like putting up an entire corporate network in 8 hours, using it for 30, and tearing it down in another 6.
Playing games with subzero pings and yelling smack talk at the guy next to you is too much fun, though. :)
By Michael Murphy (Murph) on Friday, February 9, 2001 - 09:14 am:
Well, in tribute to Shoot Club, perhaps, a couple of my buddies are brining their computers over this evening, and we're gonna get their two plus my two (which are alrady networked) all hooked up, and have a little LAN party, ourselves. My buddies are all big Warcraft 2 fans, so I expect that to be the primary -- if not the only -- game played, but that's fine by me.
"Playing games with subzero pings and yelling smack talk at the guy next to you is too much fun, though. :)"
Heh. Ain't that the truth? I hope to soon have a couple more computers networked at my house permanently, so tha Shoot Club may live on at the Murphy house...
By Shiningone (Shiningone) on Friday, February 9, 2001 - 11:34 pm:
Heh i wish i could go to Shoot Club but its quite a long walk between Cali and Conn. Id probaly get all the chips on the way then woudln't be able to get in :)
Well my comp club at shool set up 3 puters for the science fair networked and StarCraft installed. Guess where my free time is spent? so that will quenceh my thirst atleast untill the fiar is over :)
Feron that must have been a hell of a trunny 3 miles of Cat5? WOW! if i got all my freinds together and lined up thier ocmputers side by side we couldnt reach a hlaf a mile. That would be sweet but i wasnt thinking of anytinhg on so grand a scale(or budget)
En Taro Adun!
ShiningOne
By Michael Murphy (Murph) on Tuesday, February 13, 2001 - 09:36 am:
Heh. My best friend is about to move into the same town that I live in, and we're trying to figure out how we can get cat5 cable run from my house to his. If he moves at least to the same block, that would sure make this easier.
Once we get this worked out, we just have to figure out how to get all this past our wives...