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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: Pride on February 14, 2006, 09:55:22 AM
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I have heard quite a few people mention doing a 36 hour event with a big chunk of "free play" in the middle so that people could sleep if they wanted to.
Doing this would likely double our room costs.
First off, is a 36 hour event something we should consider? And if so, would you be willing to pay more per seat to allow it to happen?
Rather than $15 VIP and $20 Regular, maybe $25 VIP and $30 Regular?
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No worries............sounds like a GREAT idea to me.........
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I wouldn't have a problem with it. A break is definitely needed at some point and if there's more gamers at the next one this would help cover the costs more.
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good deal when would this be in the summer
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I would definately be all for it. And I may actually be willing to split room costs with people so I have a place to CnC (Crash and Crap). I too, like Cloud, am wondering when this would be planned for.
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would 50hrs be the same price as 36?
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Would this UberLan be more than 100 people?
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I would be willing to pay the extra cost.
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36hrs would be great but I'm not sure if it would work out for the majority of people that attend your lans. I was shocked to see so many people leave so early during a 24hr lan. Especially with horrible weather that was only going to get a little better as the day went on. Anyway, I would not mind paying a little bit more for a 36hr lan but people would actually need to stay the whole time.
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I think people were leaving early due to exhaustion and the inability to play anymore. They didn't want to go to sleep on account of missing something but by the time early morning came they just didn't have the focus to play more. With 36hours and a period of just free play more people would be willing to stay since they'd be able to rest at some point, IMHO.
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Good point........even gamers need a little rest......
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I think people were leaving early due to exhaustion and the inability to play anymore. They didn't want to go to sleep on account of missing something but by the time early morning came they just didn't have the focus to play more.
That's exactly my point. Some people choose not to sleep and screw themselves because they can't handle the rest of the lan.
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Dare I say it... I think 24 hrs is too long. I know that around 5AM after the CS tourney I was really really hurtin for some sleep. I tried to stick it out for the end prize drawings but simply couldn't.
I didn't want to miss any of the LAN action!
Would maybe a longer event work out at a venue where rent wasn't a drawback? IE daycare?
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Well, also consider that even if the gamers wanted to go to sleep, they had to buy a room. There was absolutely no room to sleep in there. You would be blocking the rows, unless you were sleeping near the wall. Then you got lucky.
I would suggest getting a bigger room, if possible. I constantly kept bumping into the people in back of me. The rows were clogged. It was like 100 man sex ;[
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I thought that Pride kept grabbing my butt. weird.
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yes i would definitly be into a 2 day event. I would have loved to have been able to go to a room and sleep 4-6 hours. for those of you who don't want to spend a ton of money split a room with a few friends and alternate the sleep schedule between each person. 12hours of tourneys and then 10 hours of free play and then another 14 hours of tourneys would be awesome.
hell i would 25-$30 for a lan of that magnitude especially if we got the larger room and had a larger attendence.
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Totally love the idea of a 36 hour lan and would love a rest period of a few hours between tourneys considerin i had to play from bout 9 pm to 6 am due to the UT tourney and the CS tourney as a result i missed the mornin raffle and our team was to tired to participate in the 6v6 UT tourney, granted the lan was still awesome, props to the pride man, but i think that this is a legitamate idea and quite feasible.
P.S. Where is my recorded UT battle vs. Thefragile, thought u guys were gonna post so i could dl, sorry just want to see it for nostalgic value.
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I've got some FRAPS footage from TheFragile's P.O.V., I think Xan or Tekie was getting it from Bloodpainter's POV.
I need to re-encode it down to a more manageable size. Right now it's 2.80 GB for 6:15 of footage. It's not the whole match, I don't know why, cuzznkev did the recording on my machine, I was busy doing something else.
I'll get it to pride or tekie for posting shortly.
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I've got some FRAPS footage from TheFragile's P.O.V., I think Xan or Tekie was getting it from Bloodpainter's POV.
I need to re-encode it down to a more manageable size. Right now it's 2.80 GB for 6:15 of footage. It's not the whole match, I don't know why, cuzznkev did the recording on my machine, I was busy doing something else.
I'll get it to pride or tekie for posting shortly.
I could just host my demo ;]
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I've got some FRAPS footage from TheFragile's P.O.V., I think Xan or Tekie was getting it from Bloodpainter's POV.
I need to re-encode it down to a more manageable size. Right now it's 2.80 GB for 6:15 of footage. It's not the whole match, I don't know why, cuzznkev did the recording on my machine, I was busy doing something else.
I'll get it to pride or tekie for posting shortly.
I could just host my demo ;]
PM me and i'll host the demo. And i'm encoding my free view now (it's choppy, but works)
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For all your viewing pleasures, here's a little better version:
http://tekieb.fites.net/lan/UT%20Deathmatch%20Final.mp4
(22MB, Mpeg-4, 640x480)
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Nicely Done!
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ok, so a two day LAN sounds great, but when might it be?
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Still working that out.
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ack im guessing its an apple quicktime but it dont work in it what do i use to play it....thanks again
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http://videolan.org plays almost anything