I just got finished hosting a decent (8 people) sized LAN party in my basement. We stayed up all night playing computer games and having a great time. Now its 6:30 am and I'm starting to feel the missed night of sleep. Everyone's either gone home or crashed. Just wondering does anyone else here go to/host LAN parties? And if so, what games are generally played? For us its Counter Strike, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne (usually play a map called DotA Allstars), a Quake 3 mod called True Combat and Unreal Tournament (the original).
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
The last one I went to had Counterstrike, Outlaws (still my favorite FPS for team play - kill the fool with the chicken is just too much fun), and Quake: X-Men-Age of Apocolypse.
It was obviously a long time ago.
Dagonee
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Kill him with a CHICKEN!? *intrigued*
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
You don't kill him with the chicken. There's a chicken running around. Everybody tries to catch the chicken. Once someone does, everyone tries to shoot the guy holding the chicken. When they do, the chicken is released and it starts over. The computer tracks how many seconds each player holds the chicken, and the winner is the one with the most seconds when time expires.
Best mutliplayer game ever.
Dagonee
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
Basically kill the man with the ball... except its a chicken... thats awesome! I'm now cleaning up from last nights LAN party, after sleeping all day. The computers are all gone... but the little piles of soda cans, often neatly arranged, are still there to mark where the computers were. Posted by HRE (Member # 6263) on :
How would one organize a LAN party? What do you need?
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
A room with plenty of table space where computers may sit and chairs for people to occupy. Several ethernet hubs with which to network the computers and plenty of ethernet cables unless some people forget them, power ports for everyone to plug into, lots of friends with computers they can bring, and games to play (copyable versions so that if someone doesn't have one of the games being played they aren't left out). This is the first LAN party I've hosted, but I've been to tons. I have a group of friends who live in my town of about 8 - 10 people who regularly have and attend LAN parties. We've had so many that we have a routine for moving in and setting up. The first couple of times you do it there will be bugs to work out with setting the comps up and networking them together (or maybe you'll get lucky and there won't be).
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
It helps if you know one or more geeks and computers to spare - we used to set up in the school computer lab and have mass frag-fests.
Which is absurdly fun at 03:30 in the morning with the burn of caffiene roaring in your system and the muscle spasms in your fingers sending the keyboard scattering across the room.
-Trevor
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
I host 'em in my apartment, and even with 3 guests, it takes over the whole place. Vána's only solace is the bedroom.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I think I can get 4 people on my new desk (it's amazing what you can do with cabinet-grade plywood) and another 6 in the rec room. Both are in the basement, and there's a bathroom there, too.
Hmmmm.
Dagonee
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Ah, I see Dag, thank you for clarifying. I was rather curious as to how one would kill someone with a chicken.
Posted by Insanity Plea (Member # 2053) on :
Ah, LAN parties...I have some experience with those...in high school several friends and I got together and started hosting rather large ones (30-40 people) and small ones consisting of just us (about 8 of us), they'd usually go for 24 hours (plus setup), we usually played Quake2 (best FPS ever), CounterStike, Battlefield 1942, Starcraft, Natural Selection, etc. The large parties that we hosted had sponsers such as nVidia, Bawls, and TigerDirect (their coorperate service is just as bad as their residential service). We'd have a CS tourney usually with at least two cal-O teams, and a starcraft tournies.
I remember the last large party that I hosted went horribly, we had 55 people signed up, the previous place we hosted was smaller, and didn't have enough power, this place (a Marriot) supposidly had six circuits, in a huge room, it would be perfect for us. We get there to set up, first thing that happens was our main server (a dual-p3 900mhz system) didn't start up, the motherboard fried, curses the main host for our dhcp, as well as intranet server was dead. Luckily, our main admin had just built a dual xp2600+ system (this is when the 2600 was a brand new chip) for the local 911 center (where his father is sysadmin) for what was then the fledgling Amber Alert project (it hadn't been put into service yet), so we were able to go and borrow that system and throw up a server in an hour. As people started coming in and plugging in, suddenly two circuits blew at the same time. We glared at the hastily drawn blueprints that they had given us, why would these two circuits go at the same time? We flipped the circuit breaker back on starting to worry with the experience of our previous LAN, we pulled out our trusty 240v transformer and plugged it into one of the air conditioning circuits to give ourselves 40 more amps of power. Hour later, same two circuits went out. And then two more....uh oh.... we soon figured out that we did NOT have 6 seperate circuits, but three. As a note, a normal computer with a 17" CRT takes about 1.5amps of power. These were all top of the line gamer systems...which all took a minimum of 2amps, that's at least 100amps of power that we required, not including everything else we were running (two servers, our three 24-port switchs, TV with ps2 for DDR), instead of the 120amps we were promised, we had 60...not good at all. I think...all in all, I stayed up for 48 hours straight working non-stop, running back and forth fixing this and that...and got in about two rounds of minesweeper the entire time. Was it worth it? Yes. Satyagraha
Posted by dabbler (Member # 6443) on :
Hmm. The most we usually do is that 3-4 of us will get together and play Starcraft scenarios. Three of us have laptops, so it makes it much easier to go to someone's place and play.
This weekend, we're thinking of drafting Magic, though =)
Posted by ludosti (Member # 1772) on :
Every few months, slacker hosts a LAN party at our house (usually with guys he works with). Usually they're pretty small (since our house is tiny) - about 4-5 people besides he and I. Once we move into our new house, it'll be much easier to have larger parties since we'll have a lot more space (like another thousand square feet). Usually, we play UT2k and CS, but we always have several games to choose from (in addition to playing stuff on the gamecube, watching movies, eating my yummy food, etc.).
[ August 17, 2004, 01:59 PM: Message edited by: ludosti ]
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
So, how about a Hatrack Mid-West LAN party? Zevlag and I discussed it up and down at KamaCon and we're both working on putting something together. How many would be interested? We're thinking something on the order of 6 months from now, for as many people as will come, Fri-Sun console/PC/Mac/tabletop (if TomD has anything to say about it) gaming fest complete with food, and movies for when our fingers start to curl too badly.
Also, I'm entertaining the idea of a tournament of some sort, with prizes.
[ August 17, 2004, 05:20 PM: Message edited by: Lime ]
Posted by Insanity Plea (Member # 2053) on :
Whether or not I go, as long as someone comes by to pick it up, I have a managed 10/100 - 24 port switch that I can loan to the cause. Satyagraha
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