A NS LAN during christmas or march break would be perfect. Preferably Vancouver proper or north shore

i'd be up for it , lemme see if i can point more vancouverites at this thread.

/me waves to Niteowl

Sure, I'd be up for it... and a few more OldF guys would too I'm sure.

I'd be up for some lannage

Yeah, I would be into it. It's certainly been a while since my last LAN partay.

Give me a date and I'll see if I can make it.

Only problem is I dont drive, but if I can hitch a ride with someone that would be cool, and i'll bring doughnuts.

I was wondering if someone else would be able to organize it, I'm kinda very busy (just moved in) and won't have the time. I'll help to organize it, but I can't do it all myself

How many people should we aim for? I was thinking kinda smallish, but I'm good with anything really. And anyone know of a good place to host it in?

We could organize a few tourneys, but it would mostly be just playing around, I hope.

Bump!


Lan possibly during Winter-een-mas? (when I have new PC built?)

Depending on the date, i'd love to.

so where would this be held?

Too bad I live in Edmonton.

Canada or Washington?

Should be Vancouver, Canada... right guys?

(Guess we forgot to clarify this earlier)

Canada, and jesus, this thread is still here? i completely forgot about it....

The location would depend on how many ppl we have. Large would mean a gym or other large gathering place, small could possibly be someones largish house...

Any idea on the number of people who would show up? i have maybe 2 friends to bring, so add 3 to the total.

Just say where and when...

/me waves back to florp

uhm, yeah, I'd guess around 10-20 ppl you could rustle up. I know a LAN downtown that would be game to hosting it for us. I think it's like, 2 bucks an hour?

With solid numbers I'm sure we could get a discount.

Hey that would be cool!

I presume we would be using there computers? or can we bring our own?

There is a new chick at work that likes to LAN with her bf and others....if i get in touch with them, we could bring some others.


It would be best if this could be done on a saturday(Poss. sunday).

Sweet. Bump. Let's get more people involved...

$2/hour sounds not bad at all. I'm still in.

Yeah, If we LAN downtown, it would be much easier to not to bring my PC. That and its so craptacular anyway... I would probably bring my mx510 though.

I might come from victoria over some weekend anyways, depending on the timing of this I'll hop on.

Wow, I was just chatting with someone on irc about the apparent lack of vancouverites that NS. I had no idea OldF was a vancouver based dealio. anyways, I have no idea weather I could actually come to a lan in the area, but it's still neat to see all you guys from around.

Yeah, there are a few OldF members in the BC area. Some are in Washington State, 1-2 in Oregan, and a fair amount more in California(and other nearby states). I would definitly have to say that Oldf is a very West Coast Clan.

Which makes since, because clans start by people playing with eachother a server, and people are attracted to servers mainly for latency, and latency has many factors, but one of the main factors is distance from the server... and OldF's most popular server is located in Seattle, WA, in the almight nuclear fallout cluster.

it's funny to see that this topic has been kicked around for like 4 months now, damn we vancouverites are a lazy bunch eh? can't even bring ourselves to organize a lan party

well, add me to the list of people who live in the lower mainland, man i love trees. you guys like trees too? yeah, trees are awesome. rivers too. we have lots of rivers.

on a slightly more insane topic, are any of you vancouverites planning on going to paX? (penny arcade expo, http://www.pennyarcadeexpo.com/ ) because i'm going... if i can get a ride... and that's where you guys come in!

also, a lan would be awesome, if we could ever organize the damn thing. so far the internet cafe sounds like a good idea, 2 bucks an hour is a good price anyway, not even thinking about group rates here.

just throwing ideas out here but i wonder if you guys have the commitment for an "ultimate lan"? an all night long blow-your-brain-out lan-fest, nothin' but NS (or dawn of war or something, dawn of war lan would be AWESOME gotta say... Dow ain't much in the singleplayer department but godamn... what a Lan game. anyway, yeah! lan-fest05 man! i hope none of you have work saturday morning because i suggest we find out a way to have the best lan.. ever. i'll get into contact with a few of you's via IRC if i see you, or just plain old fashioned email. cause it's the only way to actually get a LAN to happen man... gotta keep on the ball.

also there will be pizza, lots of pizza. and depending how many people there are, the pizza theoretically should get cheaper. because, as everyone knows... LAN = pizza,

also, (L + P) * (H / C) = E

(where L = Lan, P = pizza, H being hours spent, and C being cost. E of course being enjoyment, or ecstacy... your choice)

yes.... so... this lan will happen, i will help make it happen... a vancouver LAN must occur! first we need a rought estimate of how many people are coming. it looks around this point like 10-15? correct me if i'm wrong, i'm assuming that about half of you are bringing friends... hmm... well anyway, Niteowl do you know if that internet cafe operator would be willing to spend the night LANing it up? cause if not then the all-night LAN-Tastic thing is.. going to need... alteration... yes.

well, before you can get an estimate of # you might need an aproximate date... I know I can't say definitively yes or no at this point in time unless I know when...

Spring break?

And we should start think about what stuff we want on the server. AMXx, any plugins? etc. I'm fine as long as mp_bs is 0. I really don't care about the rest, although lerk lift rules.

Where downtown? And what are the specs on their comps?

As for cost, I would suggest everyone pays their $2/hr fee, plus $5 addmission, to go for prizes (amounts depending on how many people). Pizza, pop, that stuff would be extra. We can just pool.

And numbers, I have 1 friend who would want to come, and another as a maybe.

Contact me at:
XFire: rekcv
IRC: CV|ReK_ on gamesurge

If this becomes serious, we should get together irl.

Sounds like a plan.

I'm not too familiar with lanshops in Vancouver, could some of you vancouverites do some scouting?

I would be interested to know the specs of the PC's at a proposed lanshop, as well as if we can bring our own PC, and at what cost/deduction.

I'm hoping by spring break I will have my uber new PC .

Being downtown, I would think most people would want the computers provided. And I'm not sure if you can choose to bring your own, they may want you to use theirs.

I do know a really cheap place, but they only have 8-10 computers and the network doesn't have the best stability. It is the cheapest place I've found. 2.5 blocks south of Georgia and Denman, rather small, has a yellow sign that says "All day $10" and is right next to a dominoes. $10 for 13 hours, can't beat that.

I can set up the server package. My preferred plugins would be:

Lerklift (less functional, but more stable than superlift)
Teamres (Allows aliens to see the class and res total of their teammates)
3 hive health (Displays the health % of all three hives in classic ns)
CC/Hive Health (Displays the CC, armoury and hive health to the respective teams in co)
Res Tower Info (Displays number of nodes owned/total number of nodes on map in classic ns)
Parasite Buttons (Allows skulks to trigger switches with parasite, like the gorge can with spit)
Parasite glow (Gives parasited marines a yellow glow, similar to the blue elec glow)
Combat buildings (Allows you to spend level points to build buildings in combat, brings some more teamplay and strategy to combat)
Infinite Levels (Just what the title says, does NOT have /menu, I like to have the extra points for the buildings)
Colimit (Limits the number of oni and gls in combat, so you dont get endless uberoni and gl spam with the infinite levels)
Map Manager (The map vote system almost all servers use)

Any you don't like or have ones you want to add? Let me know. This list is just my preferences, anything is removable, nothing is final.

Ok, I guess we can discuss some of the games we want to play.

Has anyone played Giants: Citezen Kabuto ? single player was lame, but multi rocked!

Half life mods are definitly in, HL2 DM and cs:s would be cool...but thats going to depend on the system specs!

Maybe some War3?

Hey Rek/Nite owl and other vancouverites interested in going... know of any other lan shops that would have more pc's, stable network, and beefy pc's? other options are good. Need to know prices too.

Games I would suggest:

Mostly NS, and that mostly classic (combat = teh sux)
UT 2004 (Onslaught pwns all)
ARC:HL, for when we get hyper enough to like it.
Scientist Hunt, for a while at least
Warcraft 3, I predict hour-long DOTA games
HL2DM

And, just had a sweet thought, how about a Garry's mod contest? Keep it clean though, way too much alyx pr0n on those forums.

I can't believe I'm hearing people talk about server plugins when we haven't even begun to organize the actual party yet. You guys seriously need to get grounded.

Ok, so I'm sure we could rustle up ~5 or so OldF community folks. A LAN cafe on transit is probably best. Does anyone know of a good LAN cafe by the skytrain?

Ditto... I am a transit user myself, so a lanshop close to a skytrain would be quite handy.

Though in retrospect, transit routes through vancouver are quite exceptional compared to Slurrey.

Pretty much anywhere downtown is easily accesible by transit, from anywhere. I'll probably be busing too, from the north shore.

I have no suggestions for a cafe though, we need some scouts.

/me smacks his forehead

I do know a place, it's only a few blocks south from the one I mentioned before. They have 30+ comps, and they're pretty good quality. They don't have steam installed, but it's an easy matter to dl and install steam, and I can bring a few cdr's with NS on it. I'm not sure what other games they have.
Anyone feel like checking it out? I'm pretty busy right now.

i would like to go cause i live right on the north shore.

i can attend as well but it seems like this thread has been going on for 2 months with no progress...

Main Problem... Where do we play?

Talking on IRC last night with some fellow vancouverite gaming friends, I decided to call up some internet cafe's that seemed to play games. My results: One guy couldnt speak english very well at all, and the other two cafe's phone numbers were out of service!

I'm a wee discouraged here.

Yes, which is what caused me to completely forget about this thread after the downtime, until I was browsing around and saw it as the newest post in this forum

Current Priority: Location

20-30 computers (or room and equipment to support). That's pretty much the only requirement. We can install Steam and NS if need be, and LAN is a given in any place like that.

there are tons of lan cafes in richmond, and there is one at UBC student union building basement arcade. i don't often visit the north shore, so i don't know any lan cafes there. the richmond ones are mostly asian though; its like a trip to china

i work at ubc, so i could find out what their rates are for a party, if we want to host it there

It would be best if it was located downtown or close to it, as that would be central to most people.

North Shore cafes = nonexistent/sucky

i doubt you'll find lan cafes downtown. and even if, the prices are probably pretty expensive, not to mention parking is expensive and traffic is bad. if someone knows a good lan cafe near a skytrain station or within walking distance of a bus station, that would do wonders. again, the only one i know of is at UBC

...not to mention some of us are bums and dont drive.

Being transit-accessible is a must.

UBC wouldn't be too bad, pretty central, kinda...

Another issue: How long it will be. Some cafes might not want to reserver large amounts of computers for most of the day...

Lets just find a place first.

I would say the longest of 8-10 hours?

That sounds about right.

I did a quick search and found this:

Out of that list, I had phoned 2. Cyber space was the one where the guy couldn't speak english very well at all, if you can visit them and get our point accross better, then good luck.

I phoned warzone, and that was one the few whose number was out of service... feel free to stop by and investigate futhur....

there is a Offical-steam cafe in richmond,


Richmond

# Netaholics Cafe ( 604-233-0236
101 4411 No.3Rd.
Richmond, BC
V6X 2C3

found it on the steam site.

http://www.steampowered.com/?area=cafe_dir...Canada&state=BC

Richmond is kind of far for some people, especially north shore guys. I'll check out the ones on my list, and kill4thrills will check out the UBC one (can you?). All of them are much more central.

Just to let you know, I won't be doing much until I get a new hard drive, the motor burned out...

So are you guys planning on doing this 'spring/march break'? Unfortunately, the same break doesn't apply to us university students and would be a bad time (I wouldn't be able to go).