The "What do you want to see for V17?" poll! Options

[wolfmother]

commander and conquerer comps

R4N and myself would love a CnC comp. The problem is, you get two half smart players and the game can drag on for 8 hours without even trying. Thus making it not very feasable.

While that's entirely true for Generals, the design of CnC 3 and 4 mean these games have a practical match length limit of not much more than an hour, and in competitive play it would be even lower. In CnC3 once the tiberium runs out on a map (it regenerates extremely slowly) the match is pretty much destined to be decided by the remaining units in play, resulting in the game being called fairly quickly. Generals does not have this economic depletion, so players' economies and unit counts can just keep growing and growing.

There is absolutely no reason we couldn't have a CnC3 comp except for simple lack of interest and the fact that the game is cumbersome and slow to install, and the match structure can be complex for tournaments. CnC4 does not feature LAN play.

[Glasseater]

have dc blackout times take away the leech at certain times try and get people a bit more involved

[R4N]

the prob with cnc is netcode

If i run a kanes wrath 3v3, i can almost GUARANTEE one game in three will drop out before the game ends.
This would make the comp last forever essentially

RA3 is far more stable, but no one seems to play it anymore

and don't even get me started on CNC4, the day that crap pile becomes a comp is the day i set fire to my own eyebrows.

[R4N]

have dc blackout times take away the leech at certain times try and get people a bit more involved

Policed how?

Any form of port based limiting will affect game performance.
We dont have enough gophers to check everyones PC
and shutting down one DChub will only spawn several more.

[Glasseater]

have dc blackout times take away the leech at certain times try and get people a bit more involved

Policed how?

Any form of port based limiting will affect game performance.
We dont have enough gophers to check everyones PC
and shutting down one DChub will only spawn several more.

i dont know how much policing would be required i mean ppl are always goin to leech but when ya take down a main dc hub it would at least reduce it. Its not goin to stop it but it at least might get a few more ppl gaming

[GerrySly]

have dc blackout times take away the leech at certain times try and get people a bit more involved

Policed how?

Any form of port based limiting will affect game performance.
We dont have enough gophers to check everyones PC
and shutting down one DChub will only spawn several more.

i dont know how much policing would be required i mean ppl are always goin to leech but when ya take down a main dc hub it would at least reduce it. Its not goin to stop it but it at least might get a few more ppl gaming

Or a lot more people leaving...

I know if there were scheduled downtimes someone big would just put a dchub and say screw it to the main one. Why does everyone want people playing games? It would encourage more crap in the games as well, I know if I got kicked off DC when I didn't want to I'd probably just join the game and just screw up my own team, sabotage whatever I can till DC comes back on. Bit of fun when I can't leech

[Glasseater]

its a gaming lan the idea is for ppl to play games there is nothing wrong with leeching but goin to a lan just to leech i think takes away from the lan

[SirSquidness]

its a gaming lan the idea is for ppl to play games there is nothing wrong with leeching but goin to a lan just to leech i think takes away from the lan

Relevant

[Deka]

but what if we were getting things by leaching that weren't illegal like fan made movies or free games

[R4N]

Which is fine, and another reason why it is hard to police file sharing.
Alot of it is legitimate trading of patches etc...

[wolfmother]

i dont know how much policing would be required i mean ppl are always goin to leech but when ya take down a main dc hub it would at least reduce it. Its not goin to stop it but it at least might get a few more ppl gaming

It's been tried at more than one other big lan. Things instantly went from bad to much, much worse, every time.

[Niven666]

More porn, more starcraft, more comps (Run them consistantly all day, perhaps), more arm space, more fun comps/fun game downloads on the respawn intranet

[wolfmother]

more starcraft

Not really popular enough imo Shame, cos I like it too.

more comps (Run them consistantly all day, perhaps)

That's the idea of the hourly funcomps, but those are hard to coordinate.

more arm space

That means less people. 10cm extra space per person probably means a few dozen less attendees.

more fun comps/fun game downloads on the respawn intranet

That's definitely a priority.

[Niven666]

Last lan was arm to arm, yet (from what I saw) there were still a lot of seats empty.

[GerrySly]

Last lan was arm to arm, yet (from what I saw) there were still a lot of seats empty.

But you can't just go around and rearrange all the tables because there are empty seats. The LAN before that was almost full (like 40 spare seats or something) so they were planning for that again.

[+++]

Kkz, just had an idea...

New fun comp: Blue screening

To win: Be the first person to blue screen for the whole LAN >=D
Start time: From when it begins
End time: As soon as someone blue screens

[GIARUS]

Kkz, just had an idea...

New fun comp: Blue screening

To win: Be the first person to blue screen for the whole LAN >=D
Start time: From when it begins
End time: As soon as someone blue screens

lol this is a comp zardos can't enter

[Niven666]

Last lan was arm to arm, yet (from what I saw) there were still a lot of seats empty.

But you can't just go around and rearrange all the tables because there are empty seats. The LAN before that was almost full (like 40 spare seats or something) so they were planning for that again.

I haven't put much thought into it, was just a fast reply opinion.

[TeamSlayer]

Last lan was arm to arm, yet (from what I saw) there were still a lot of seats empty.

But you can't just go around and rearrange all the tables because there are empty seats. The LAN before that was almost full (like 40 spare seats or something) so they were planning for that again.

I haven't put much thought into it, was just a fast reply opinion.

and a lot of those spare seats are there cause they were pushed aside for personal chairs...afterall those plastic chairs HURT...hate them

[GIARUS]

Last lan was arm to arm, yet (from what I saw) there were still a lot of seats empty.

But you can't just go around and rearrange all the tables because there are empty seats. The LAN before that was almost full (like 40 spare seats or something) so they were planning for that again.

I haven't put much thought into it, was just a fast reply opinion.

and a lot of those spare seats are there cause they were pushed aside for personal chairs...afterall those plastic chairs HURT...hate them

they never where comfertable to sit in