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Awesome timing: I am hosting a LAN party in two weeks, and I'd really love to hear as many tips and suggestion as you HNers can give me. Thanks in advance!
And Saturday night is pizza night. No exceptions. Rock band/console multiplayer highly encouraged.
Awesome timing: I am hosting a LAN party in two weeks, and I'd really love to hear as many tips and suggestion as you HNers can give me. Thanks in advance!
For a run-of-the-mill LAN you don't need much. Make sure there's
* enough chairs
* enough tables
* enough drinks, food
* enough power outlets (know where the fuse is)
* possibility to shade the windows
* somewhere to sit and chat without necessarily gaming
* possible sleeping quarters?
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That's awesome. What's your approach to internet connectivity and wifi? How much power are you budgeting for?
I can't speak much for the power setup since I'm on the networking/infrastructure side, but it's pretty hefty and accounted for with tons of wiggle room. The switch alone is a decent chunk of the power. Back when we were setting it up in winter, it was able to heat a full house while sitting idle :). For bandwidth, I'll be setting up an http cache server this weekend so that steam downloads (at least) can be retrieve…
Ubiquiti's routers are overrated.
Awesome timing: I am hosting a LAN party in two weeks, and I'd really love to hear as many tips and suggestion as you HNers can give me. Thanks in advance!
People will forget cables (power, network). Get people to bring extra joypads for the people who don't have them for when its time for a game of rocket league...
In-person gaming is still something special, but I don't blame people for not going to all the logistical effort when you can just sit down at home in the evening with zero pre-planning and get most of the same experience online.
It makes me sad that everyone is acting like they're no longer a thing. If you can get a few friends together then it's still great fun, possibly more so than it used to be. There's a big organised LAN party here that runs three-four times a year, with space about 80 people in a big school hall, and then some friends of mine get together now and again at each other's homes. With modern kit you can just turn up, plug…
My high school (graduated last year, but I doubt it's changed since) would host a LAN party 1-2 times per year, pulling probably 2/3 of the school.
My little brother still arranges ~10-man LAN-parties, and has now managed to get the municipality to arrange smaller LAN parties weekly.
And of course, the huge ones, like Dreamhack and The Gathering are still well and alive.
Thomas, kudos to you for being able to play 2 different Starcraft games at the same time on battle.net and win!
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Call me crazy but as I understand it from kids today it's pretty cool to be a "nerd" today
Nah. Maker, hacker, geek, sure. But nerd is still nerd. I may well go so far as to say that geek was "introduced" so as to allow people to be interested in computers (or more correctly, web/game design) without being boxed in with "the nerds" in the computer lab. Or it may be that it is cool to "nerd out" about fashion, sports, or anything not historically associated with the term nerd.
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Also, the advent of broadband and routers now mean networking is literally plug and play, not spending 2-3 hours trying to either set up a DHCP server, or assign static IPs and trying to figure out why it's not working, only to find out that someone mistyped it.
I remember buying a networking kit at Best Buy in the late 90s and then with 3 of my friends spending hours just trying to get the computers to ping each other. There was also always someone who would have to reformat and reinstall Windows.
Oh god that was me one time. It was at one of those larger LAN-parties with thousands of people. I remember bugging people on IRC (or whatever we used to chat) to see if anyone had an ISO of windows and a CD burner with him. Then looking around the crowd to see where exactly he was located.
Fun times.