OFFICIAL v14 Commnts thread!, For positive and negatives! and everything in between! Options

[Tank]

Hey everyone!

well, i really hoped you enjoyed v14!

The team really thrive on knowing what we did well, and it's important for us to also seek feedback about what you thought didn't happen so well!

So this is the official thread for all your thoughts, comments, criticism, questions, etcetc!

Please keep all posts civil and if detail is needed, please go right ahead

thanks very much everyone!

xoTank

[Sideh]

Great event guys and girls! This was my first Respawn LAN. Me and 2 other mates road tripped from Warrnambool were i (along with about 6 others run a LAN here called MorB (Move or Bleed)). When i saw the event on a friends computer and looked at how many the past events had, i was quite impressed and excited, the huge amount of gamers and varities were fantastic and the venue was awesome.

What i liked about the event:

- Big player range, alot of competitors and different types of people, from people that raged when sound was played in game to people that did not care what the out come was, all they wanted was some hardcore gaming.

- Hourly comps FTW! But i missed all of them as i did not hear but the idea and the comps were great

- Ping's was so awesome to have next door! Did you guys organise a deal with them at all?

- A very nice layout of equipment and power was distributed effiently, only one power outage from what i knew and it only affected 6 - 8 players? and was back and up in no time!

- BBQ was a Brilliant idea and i did not see to much smoke, great BBQ from the sounds of it, i missed out lol.

- Football game cast was a fantastic idea!

Things i was not use to/not impressed by:

- Activity of the admins, from what i saw, not many admins were activly walking around looking at gamers and making sure nothing bad is going down, or even to just chat and encourage the players.

- I was not aware that an Admin won a comp. From my experiance as being an Admin, you are there to enjoy the LAN out of passion for games and networking. We let admins in the games and such but they will never win an event as if they wanted a prize, they would be a player, not an Admin. Your here because you want to let people come, and conquer. Who wants to come to a LAN to be beat by the people who run it? No one! Does not encourage people at all.. Though i can see your idea in the person having enough skills to win is a point, it does not make it right. If you want to prove you are th best, fine, i would to, but dont win the prize..

- As i mentioned, the Game coverage was fantastic, but in way a bit to good, there were so many comps that people signed up for multiple and that delayed the other comps.. would have been great to have a focus game so that there would be one big prize and a big ladder system in which players keep challenging other teams for a certain time length and then tally the points.. Thats one of the ways we do it and it ends up with a full 6 hour comp with everyone playing.. We even force teams to play rather than sit on DC.

- After walking 3 KMs lol, for a ATM i found out there is an ATM just arounf the corner from Pings.. The lady working there showed me. >.<

Overall i liked the venue, it was a bigger experiance and the road trip was fun! The LAN was fun and the people made it very interesting.

I would like to see some Respawn Admins at one of our events www.morblans.com

[Vortex Vandel]

Hi sideh,

While not an admin (just a lowly comp gopher , I run war 3 1v1 ). I do try and walk around the venu and have chats with players and generally spread a happy vibe. You may or may not realize but a lot of setup work happens on the friday. Your lan starts at 10am sat. Our setup happens 9 or 10am friday. A lot of time is spent setting up and refining Your next lan experence.

I'm not having a go at you. Just explaining that not all the admin or team leaders or gophers will be in a mood to go wondering around if they have spent a good 12 or so hrs (some times more) in setting up for the lan the day before and then several hrs after the lan finishes to pack up. As dead man said. A lot of us do things during the lan that you will actively notice (dead_man,oohms,r4n,sirsquid,tank,jeffy etc) and Alot you may not notice.

My point is that we do care about the players and I am not the only one who will wander around to see what is happening.. you just may not know we know

What is your lans web address? (too lazy to google)

We also strongly encourage you to come to us if you think there is somthing illegal/wrong going on that needs our attention. Our event is quite large and unfortunately we can't be every where all the time to see what may be happening that you have an issue with. again. please tell us if there are any issues! Posters of the admin and team leaders are usually posted in appropriate places throughout the venue!

I do like your suggestion about diffrent types of games running at the same time, I'll ask dead_man about this!

[brocky]

What is your lans web address? (too lazy to google)

Either www.morblans.com or www.morb.ath.cx

Would be great to see some Melbourne gamers at our next LAN