SLP-XVIII:: Spring Basement LAN

[wingnut]

DATE: April 17, 2010 9AM-12MIDNIGHT
PLACE: Biomedical Physical Sciences Room 1400, MSU Campus
COST: $10 - Prepaid Non-SLP-Members | $8 Prepaid SLP Members | $12 At the door if not prepaid (Members or otherwise)
PROVIDED: FOOD, POP, POWER (2x110v outlets), NETWORK
BRING: Yourself, your computer, your peripherals, your network cable, your power cords
WHATS REQUIRED: Must be registered user on forum to attend, register for event on event site when registration opens.

Registration Currently OPEN
http://event.spartylanparty.com

It's time again for another great SLP Basement LAN! For those who have never been to a Basement LAN before, they are pretty simmilar to our bigger lans, the difference being that it is held in what is the console room of our big lans, the environment is kept dark (like a basement) and its pretty much free for all gaming the whole time.

We host two fully sponsored lans each year with official tournaments etc in September and February. However for most LANners that is a long time to wait, so a year and a half ago we decided to institute a smaller more cozy interim event that is easy, fun and different.

There will be no sponsors or prizes or official tournaments, its just a show up and play, visit with your fellow SLP'ers and enjoy some pizza on the house (with paid admission of course, which is cheaper than our other LANs if you didn't notice!) We usually have a Got2H (Game of the 2 Hours) at the basement LANs, which specifies in various 2 hour timeframes a particular game, and if you have it then you are encouraged to play it at that time with everyone else. But of course you can do or play whatever you want whenever you want.

So come and hang out with us all at these very fun and relaxed basement LANs! See you there!

[Boyne7]

Woop

[Prime]

YAHOO!!

[HasHasu]

Too bad Halo Reach beta won't be out by then.

[KCPowerHouse]

Too bad Halo Reach beta won't be out by then.

haha, you just can't be satisfied can you?

[Cink]

Too bad Halo Reach beta won't be out by then.

Implying the Starcraft 2 beta won't be enough to keep you satisfied?

On another note, WOOHOO basement LAN!

[HasHasu]

On a serious note, I'd totally be up for hosting an unofficial newby-only (I wouldn't play) SC2 beta tournament.

[Cink]

On a serious note, I'd totally be up for hosting an unofficial newby-only (I wouldn't play) SC2 beta tournament.

We could set up a skill progression system with you as the final boss

[HasHasu]

On a serious note, I'd totally be up for hosting an unofficial newby-only (I wouldn't play) SC2 beta tournament.

We could set up a skill progression system with you as the final boss

I actually just realized SC2 has a handicap system o.O I can make my units and buildings have half as much health as normal. 17 hp zerglings :s

Edit: sorry for mini-derail, no more here

[kittykittymeowmeow6]

OH MAN!!! my last LAN as a student here...better make it awesome!!

[Jorgisven]

Is this only 9Am-12PM? 3 hour lan? pfffft. (lol...I know this is incorrect, but I majored in education, so here goes:)

Per WIkipedia:

To avoid confusion, the correct designation for twelve o'clock is 12 noon or 12 midnight. Alternatively, the twenty-four-hour-clock system may be used. The abbreviation a.m. stands for ante-meridiem (before the Sun has crossed the line) and p.m. for post-meridiem (after the Sun has crossed the line). At 12 noon the Sun is at its highest point in the sky and directly over the meridian. It is therefore neither "ante-" nor "post-".[8]

However, as discussed elsewhere in the same reference, the Sun is highest at 12 noon local Solar time, not 12 noon civil time, the difference being given by the equation of time [9] plus the effect of time zones.

In the United States, noon is often called "12:00 p.m." and midnight "12:00 a.m." With this convention, thinking of "12" as "0" makes the system logical.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition, 2000) has a similar usage note on this topic: "Strictly speaking, 12 a.m. denotes midnight, and 12 p.m. denotes noon, but there is sufficient confusion over these uses to make it advisable to use 12 noon and 12 midnight where clarity is required."[10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock

[wingnut]

what a nerd

[Jorgisven]

On a serious note, I'd totally be up for hosting an unofficial newby-only (I wouldn't play) SC2 beta tournament.

lol. oh snap. somebody just threw down (passive-aggressively, of course).

[Alco]

Looking forward to it. Definitely gotta get some Left 4 Dead/2 going.

[Original GG]

what a nerd

You are an administrator for a computer/consel gaming group, Wingnut. Face it you and everyone who posts on here is a nerd, geek, or dork of some kind.

Doesn't matter how bushy your beard gets or how awesome the shades are deep down we are all nerds.
Despite these facts though... yeah the time thing (with links to sources) is pretty nerdy. So you win this forum's nerd award. *hands over trophy*

[Melissa]

I might make thiS!

[KCPowerHouse]

wooooooooooooooo! LAN PARTY! wooooooooooooo!!!

i'll be there
(finding-a-work-replacement permitting...)

[keK]

I'll see what I can do to make it! No guarantees though.

Hell, I'll probably be in the corner playing/watching demos for quakeLIVE and COD4 48hrs straight >.>

[Prime]

well seeing at this is only a lan that lasts from 9 am to midnight its gonna be pretty hard to play for 48 hours

[keK]

oh ewps, thinking of a different event, lmao...my b.

[mythlogic]

Maybe we can get a small LAN going here in A2 and then challenge your teams to some BC2 or L4D2 on our servers in Chicago. =)

[Jorgisven]

Maybe we can get a small LAN going here in A2 and then challenge your teams to some BC2 or L4D2 on our servers in Chicago. =)

Servers in Chicago? Where? I'm sitting in my office on Michigan Ave overlooking Lake Michigan...lol

[mythlogic]

We are racked with https://www.nfoservers.com ranking info here http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/ ... 233:19567/

[Prime]

yeah I play on your BC2 server a lot great server

[mythlogic]

Cool!! We are happy to see local LAN friends on there, feel free to donate $5 anytime

[Prime]

Cool!! We are happy to see local LAN friends on there, feel free to donate $5 anytime

haha

maybe

Im thinking about getting a server for SLP

bc2 has become my main game

[Boyne7]

So am I correct in assuming that there is no way to run your own bad company 2 server without "renting" one presently? Seems like a horrible idea imo, why would you castrate the dedicated server market by requiring people to rent them. The more servers the better for the gamers as I see it, you should be able to host your own for free if you've got the hardware and the pipe.

[KCPowerHouse]

So am I correct in assuming that there is no way to run your own bad company 2 server without "renting" one presently? Seems like a horrible idea imo, why would you castrate the dedicated server market by requiring people to rent them. The more servers the better for the gamers as I see it, you should be able to host your own for free if you've got the hardware and the pipe.

The only problem I see with having you host your own servers is that the Server Browser already takes a long long to find servers as is. Also, even back in the days of Battlefield 2, I don't even remember if there was an option for hosting a dedicated server.

I am a bit confused though by your comment about renting. When have servers ever been free for clans? For the longest time, i've always seen "donate to reserve your slot" on random clan servers and such, indicating that they are paying for the server.

[Cink]

So am I correct in assuming that there is no way to run your own bad company 2 server without "renting" one presently? Seems like a horrible idea imo, why would you castrate the dedicated server market by requiring people to rent them. The more servers the better for the gamers as I see it, you should be able to host your own for free if you've got the hardware and the pipe.

The only problem I see with having you host your own servers is that the Server Browser already takes a long long to find servers as is. Also, even back in the days of Battlefield 2, I don't even remember if there was an option for hosting a dedicated server.

I am a bit confused though by your comment about renting. When have servers ever been free for clans? For the longest time, i've always seen "donate to reserve your slot" on random clan servers and such, indicating that they are paying for the server.

Some groups (us for example) have their own dedicated servers to host game servers on. In that situation you wouldn't be paying for the server on a monthly basis like that, just the initial cost of the server.
What Boyne is saying is BFBC2 does not give you this option. You are required to rent the server on a monthly basis, and cannot host your own on your own server box.

[mythlogic]

A lot of the having to rent servers comes from people running slush boxes, cheat boxes and getting suckered on to non-ranked boxes. The mods are great for the old game but people lost a lot of interest because of that, no vehicle servers, non-ranked servers, hacked or cheat servers, etc. EA wanted to make sure you would get a "good" server each and every time and also if they want their cross platform stuff to work eventually they have to have control. Guys the ages of getting everything you want for free is wayyyyy over. If the servers farms go away the game gets a whole lot more expensive and thus ending PC gaming quickly, if everyone involved can keep to their specialty and make a little dough then everyone is happy! We need to support a voice and game server business as a small boutique gaming OEM ourselves in order to keep our memory guys happy and then nvidia happy and so on. It is all cyclical, sorry to be the voice of reality. =P