Non-community members?

Sn00ks · August 20, 2009, 08:49:07 AM

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:

Armitage · August 20, 2009, 08:58:03 AM

I thought the same. If we are short for space community members must have 1st choice.

Penfold · August 20, 2009, 09:42:58 AM

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.

sheepy · August 20, 2009, 10:13:22 AM

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.

Sn00ks · August 20, 2009, 11:17:33 AM

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.

Benny · August 20, 2009, 11:29:44 AM

I assume they play the games we have.

/cynic.

lionheart · August 20, 2009, 11:34:58 AM

I think we need to put them on their own table away from us grumpy old sods, possiibly in the car park?

BrotherTobious · August 20, 2009, 01:16:40 PM

Quote from: Benny;286796I assume they play the games we have.

/cynic.

This is a very good point.

Sn00ks · August 20, 2009, 01:40:22 PM

Quote from: Benny;286796I assume they play the games we have.

/cynic.

I bet they only play Peggle and Mah-Jong.:narnar:

Penfold · August 20, 2009, 01:45:06 PM

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.

BrotherTobious · August 20, 2009, 02:07:25 PM

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!!

Benny · August 20, 2009, 02:45:23 PM

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..

Penfold · August 20, 2009, 02:55:59 PM

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:

Benny · August 20, 2009, 05:09:00 PM

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.

Penfold · August 20, 2009, 05:19:35 PM

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: