Travelling, Oh hai! Options

[SirSquidness]

z0mg! First post! lolololol! HAI!

*ahem*

I'm just curious, how many people does Respawn get travelling from more than, say, half an hour away? Do you get many from regional cities (eg, Bendigo!) Perhaps any bus loads, or people using public transport to carry their PCs there?

If you were to travel two hours to a LAN, any advice? I have car. Will drive if I have someone to share petrol money with

I myself live in Bendigo. I'm an admin for a 40+ person LAN up here [invite only, sorry folks ]. I'm wanting to head down to Melbourne with a few mates for a nice big LAN, so far Respawn looks like the best option. Your answers wont have a bearing on my choices I'm just curious.

[R4N]

they drove

pretty big trip for a lan

[tacticus]

they drove

pretty big trip for a lan

I'm going to play my 2600km each way trip to melbourne for 2 lans 4ish years ago(hit shafted and another one then drove back 2 days later)
(don't live in Alice Springs(also don't do Alice to Melbourne in 2 days))

We (the crazy Alice Springs people) also did 3 group trips up to the DGA anzac day lan in Darwin though that was only 1500kms each way

So much happier now i only have to travel from Footscray

[SirSquidness]

I'm going to play my 2600km each

... Epic.

That's all I need to say.

Also when we talk player limits, size is only one of the variables. There are other issues like Power and safety and such things

Power... Bring more people. I'll bring my UPS. Problem solved (for me)!
Hell, I'll be generous. I'll bring an extension lead and run my PC from the toilets!

And safety... Hell, it's a LAN. There's enough biohazards in there to kill a small african nation. 'sif we need to worry about safety

(On a more serious note, I do completely realise why there's limits =) )

[bAKER]

And safety... Hell, it's a LAN. There's enough biohazards in there to kill a small african nation. 'sif we need to worry about safety

this made me lol.

me and 2 mates trying to squeezin in my bros cordia, 4 people inc driver. mega funz.
hour drive with pit stop at maccas.

[dead_man]

And safety... Hell, it's a LAN. There's enough biohazards in there to kill a small african nation. 'sif we need to worry about safety

this made me lol.

me and 2 mates trying to squeezin in my bros cordia, 4 people inc driver. mega funz.
hour drive with pit stop at maccas.

i remember early respawn and XL lan, 5 ppl with CRTs and 4 stackers and a centurion 5

[SirSquidness]

And safety... Hell, it's a LAN. There's enough biohazards in there to kill a small african nation. 'sif we need to worry about safety

this made me lol.

me and 2 mates trying to squeezin in my bros cordia, 4 people inc driver. mega funz.
hour drive with pit stop at maccas.

i remember early respawn and XL lan, 5 ppl with CRTs and 4 stackers and a centurion 5

Wow. Just wow.

I shall not complain at all about driving a bluebird station wagon down from Bendigo with [possibly] four people, who all use LCDs and average sized cases (except for my Antec P182 - that seems to dwarf most standard ATX cases. Maybe it's just 'cos it's so freaking heavy that it becomes a psych thing...)

Said car gets filled when I got to teh LAN I run, but that's cos I take like... everything in my room. Four PCs (three servers - one of em's a freaking huge old HP storage server), three monitors, craploads of cables, prizes, projector screen, etc. Should hopefully be fine with the LAN gear for this LAN.

[Shady]

I remember we went to a Shafted with 5 guys in 1 sedan, everyones PCs in that sedan and this was in the days of CRTs (with a couple of 21" behemoths) and I tell ya what, I was in the front passenger seat luckily enough, but it was no advantage to sitting in the back, had monitor under my feet, case in lap, seat all the way forward (so lucky I was so much younger back then) lol... and yeah fun times, we spent like 2-3 days lanning it up at mates house prior to the lan (hardcore CS comps back then..) SoG among others need you to be in the zone on the day

But yeah remember its the long school holidays guys, so there'll be plenty of sore ears during and afterwards and probably why the cap might be reached and passed!

Hope theres enough room, just something about last respawn that was annoying. The space between tables was too little in some areas, even sitting in as close to the desk as possible people couldnt get through behind you and the guy sitting behind ya, without at least one of yous having to move quite a bit (which is very disturbing during game) not all of us are pencil thin nerds. Some of us have the extra padding required to not have to bring a pillow lol..