My First Lan

[Silly]

Hi guys, just popped to in to wave and say hi and thanks for a top weekend.

I've written an article about it for the Battle-fields webbie entitled "My First Lan".

[BF]Silly
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[Dr Sadako]

Thanks for all the kind words.  

[Anonymous]

You deserve 'em mate, I wouldn't have done what you did!

[Silly]

And once more now I've remembered to log in.

You deserve 'em mate, I wouldn't have done what you did:)

[albert]

Nice article Silly, good to meet you and debate over the trials and tribulations of life, work and counter strike awm useage.

You're server ip has now been installed on HLSW and shall be visited this weekend I would imagine.

Some strong comments in your article but in retrospect some things to work on and I agree with much of the stuff about the cs configs etc. I think for the next LAN we need to organise the CS servers or other gaming servers to reflect our stringent map/ rule selection criteria on MH (minus PCS or mixed rules) since we don't play crap maps normally, we allowed a few to slip in and FF to be off a lot at our LAN.

[OldBloke]

Yep. All points taken onboard Silly. The next LAN will be better structured.

That's a promise.:thumbsup:

[smite]

Does that mean we can stay up a bit later aswell next time DAD  

[OldBloke]

I know the 1am curfew didn't go down well but I think everyone should remember that the room contained thousands of pounds worth of kit and the responsibility for making sure that the room was secure was not one to be taken lightly. 'Last one out lock the door' was not an option.

In any case ... if you lot wanted to play longer why did you all bugger off at 2pm on the Sunday? Eh? Eh?  :wink:

[smite]

I think i may have been the last person (apart from Albert) who turned his PC off due to everyone leaving  :evil:

Albert how did your PC like being turned off in mid DL??  

[Silly]

Strong comments maybe but not unfair I feel. I have an opinion and I aint afraid to use it;).

With regards to the 1am curfew, I don't think anyone held anyone other than themselves responsible for their own equipment, I certainly didn't, and personally I thought the kit safer with at least one of us in their instead of locked up and us in bed with the hotel staff having access to the room. I saw at least one woman coming out of there at about 8am Sunday morning.

TBH it wouldn't have smarted so much if I'd have known it was going to happen (Bob I think it was had said that we had the room as long as we wanted) or if we'd been treated like adults when it did.

At the time I was :x :x :x but overall I enjoyed it and that was point after all. I've learnt much for our own upcoming LAN, I'm already sorting getting dedicated CS servers, and we are also having a proper 2v2 CS Tourney on proper maps with proper guns and proper 2 man teams . There is even some Novalogic stuff as prizes coming I believe.

[albert]

Personally for a lot of us dMw folks I think the main even was meeting the lads. It was for me to be honest and the gaming we got I enjoyed immensely and the drinking even more. I think the whole aim of our LAN was to allow everyone the chance to play and from reading the BF forum it seems you guys will have a load of organisers who will do very little in the way of playing, our guys all like to play whenever they like and not have to organise raffles or stuff like that. So it was a compromise and we all took turns to do our bit to keep the ship afloat.

So whose up for a book of tickets, £1 and a chance to win a bottle of voddy?    :lol:  

[Doorman]

I think i may have been the last person (apart from Albert) who turned his PC off due to everyone leaving :evil:

Albert how did your PC like being turned off in mid DL??

Alright, alright! I said I was sorry. In fact I was mortified. I wouldn't mind but I did it to someone else in mid-game, a little earlier to.  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:
and once more for luck  :oops:

[Doorman]

Hi guys, just popped to in to wave and say hi and thanks for a top weekend.

I've written an article about it for the Battle-fields webbie entitled "My First Lan".

[BF]Silly
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All-in-all pretty fair comment. It was good to meet you at last Chris. We live too close for you Arm and myself not to meet up for a bevvy

[TeaLeaf]

TL's Safety Tip No.112: If someone drunkenly wanders over to you at a LAN and slurs 'I am going to take Stryker to a nightclub, you look after the key and lock up', tell them to piss off.  I didn't and it got me called the Fun Police and slagged off.  

Ah what the heck, I think I'm going to go and load deagle5 and scout alley into the MHPCS rotation just to get my own back........

TL.  

[Zok]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
this was also my first lan

i'm really glad that we did'nt get into "serious" 2 on 2 competition, and enjoyed the "fun" nature of the maps played

to echo what albert said the most important thing for myself was meeting the people i regularly play with online, to have a few beers and a good laugh, i think that a competive attitude towards playing would have perhaps have dampened the fun aspect

as far as the room being locked at 1am, myself and brass were staying at another hotel down the road, after just finishing a rebuild on my machine i felt a sense of security in the fact the the room (and my computer) were safe for the night.

so this was my first lan

i had a really good time

and i will be back for the next one
and any others after (as long as they remain the fun event that lanIII was)

again my congratulation to the organizers