I notice that someone has arranged for five of his friends to come to the LAN.
I am not sure I agree with that as they are not community members, or if they are then they are not active.
Should we be allowing then to take places at the cost of other more active members?
Or am I just urinating into the wind?
What about accomodation, have they booked or are they going to be kipping on someones floor? Should we care? :g:
I thought the same. If we are short for space community members must have 1st choice.
A couple of them are members I believe.
Equally, however the same could be said of several others coming to the LAN: Thebhoy has signed up and he has never posted on the forums - He joined the forum in June. Razor Rees (friend of Albert) is coming and has never posted although being a member since 2006. What about some old school members who come along? JB hadn't posted for almost a year before signing up to the LAN - and you would certainly deny people like Stryker a place on forum attendance grounds/activity
I totally understand where you're coming from but I hope you see my point.
What I don't want is people to be (tbc). Either make the commitment or don't - so either way I wouldn't accept those. And if they accept and don't show then they ain't coming again for a long while or only last thing when everyone else has had a chance to book.
Should we deny them? I think it would be unfair. They've come several times before and have never caused a problem (except for being the 'sweet' crew). We've been grateful for their attendance before when numbers have been down. It just seems a little harsh to back track now we're filling up.
Let's hear from the others - particularly Sheepy as SH - then we can make a call.
As pen says they have been along before and have never caused any issues.
its a tough one - do we have the space? Do we want to cover ourselfs for drop outs?
with these 5 as well that will take us to 44 gamers booked.
at the end of the day i think its down to can we fit them in without squeezing the space to much? if we think we can then i say let them in if we cant then its to bad as they are very late in booking.
OK, thanks for the responses.
I don't want too exclude anyone from the LAN and new blood is good, but I also don't want other members to feel excluded. I guess we have rarely had such a good response and as a result someone will be dissappinted. Can't please all the people all the time.
As long as they don't 'sweet' too much and sit too close to me, I get grumpy when my head hurts. :rolleyes:
I assume they play the games we have.
/cynic.
I think we need to put them on their own table away from us grumpy old sods, possiibly in the car park?
Quote from: Benny;286796I assume they play the games we have.
/cynic.
This is a very good point.
Quote from: Benny;286796I assume they play the games we have.
/cynic.
I bet they only play Peggle and Mah-Jong.:narnar:
Quote from: BrotherTobious;286812This is a very good point.
Again, playing Devil's Advocate here - we've never enforced that before and it's never been a requirement. Historically the [BIG] Crew play their own games for most of the weekend (C&C for whatever). Hell some people just watch pr0n/movies all weekend.
We've never dictated that people need to play our games.
Sorry if I sound whiney, I just think it is better when we get more people playing.
But your right it not stated that we need to have the games, and it is everyone weekend.
Also you just like picking my posts to picecs Pen!!
It's all very nice here innit.
Shame to get 40 people together to find out that only 8 play l4d, 7 play CoD and 5 have CS installed though.
But as long as we have pron, right?
I am old, cynical and bitter and will welcome them with open arms. Would be nice if they contributed though. Let's hope after the fact they become converts and swell our numbers and become active in the community....<----Look, I can look on the bright side :)
BIG used to play the big games of BF so it's kinda moot that they played other things aswell. It would be a shame for people to driev a long way to simply play games with 2 or 3 people they already know..
I agree with you but what can we do? we can't tell people what to play, when to play it and who to play it with. All we can do is publish the officially-supported games list and hope people will join in. It's never been a problem before and it all works out so I'm not sure why it's suddenly an issue?
We wouldn't tell LameDuck and the LFS'ers that they need to play CoD anymore than we'd expect the CS:S'ers to go out and buy LFS.
I agree that we do have more of a potential split this time though in that there's going to be a swathe of WoW'ers who I doubt will have or play anything else.
And don't play the pr0n card Benny - for years you were the worst offender (and I loved you for it). :naughty: :wink:
I bet you have rosy apples for cheeks and strangers are just friends you haven't met yet.
I am open minded and have no leg to stand on having missed enough LANs. I just like the status quo.
I'm sure they'll be fine so move along.
Thankfully it's not my decision so I'm happily passing the buck to Sheepy whilst I go on holiday :lmfao:.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not overly keen to entertain the 'sweet crew' again and I God alone knows where we'll seat them. I just want it to be fair to everyone.
I dunno.... part of me feels that if we were talking about someone different bringing some friends then we wouldn't even be discussing it :wink:
The thing that Stood out was the fact is was 5 people.
If everyone shows it is going to be a little tight now the average monitor size seems about 24"
hey hey hey whats the beeting on wow'ers for????
Ive told them all to get CS/L4D working and used to playing it as well as wow.
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back to issue at hand, I have nothing bad to say about those guys they were all really good attendees last time they came - and i am simply concerned about the logistics, that is the only issue, DO WE HAVE SPACE? that is the only thing i want opinions on.
I'm not Sheep.
We've already had a discussion about the WoW'ers and the internet connection.
I was just using them - as indeed the LFS'ers - to illustrate the point that we have people playing a diverser range of games than previously:)
ahh i miss read,
so logistically can we do it???
We can accommodate 6 per side on the long tables. With 4 per side on the server table, that gives us 44 places.
We may be able to push the sever table to 5 per side but it'd be tight.
With that addition, 46 is the absolute max.
Working on the premise that we always get a couple of dropouts then I would work to 46. That way if we lose a couple en route we're back to our 44 (6x6 and 2x4). And, if no one drops, then we can just about squeeze everyone in (6x6, 2x5). Any more than that and I think we'll be struggling.
/edit. Oldie is only coming for Friday and Friday night so his spot can be used be someone else - even if we have to do a bit of hotdesking on the Friday for a bit.
/edit2. We also have a few social members coming to whom we haven't allocated seating so whatever we do it will be rammed!
Server table can be pushed to 6 per side too, so we can get 46 in.
We can also revert to plan B and use smaller tables pushing to 8 per side and a narrower walkway iirc from our earlier reccies of the room. If we only do that for a couple of tables we'll cover the attendee list even if nobody drops out. 8 is a squeeze though and I'd prefer to avoid it if we can.
TL.
so can we add them and then close siqnups for the lan plx i would do it but ive gotta shoot out to an apointment (already running late)
Np I'll do it.
I'll only add the confirmed people and tell Ghosty as such.
Yep agreed.