I have to agree with that last comment. Even most of the admins were silent on the forum.

The thing i found most annoying was ppl who wanted to play cs but went into other games and tried to convert them into cs.

eg i set up a call of duty server (ironically called "not ww2 cs") and 5mins into the game i'd get a vote to change it to that crappy cs mode and when i changed it back and tell ppl if they want cs then they should leave coz i play team dm said ppl would vote to kick me from my own server.

While annoying a quick server kill did the trick and i don't believe any game could really be solely to blame for lanning going out. I think what happened was we got too big and then hit major problems with pli and other things also there was the whole big legal spiel u had to agree to to sign up and other things like shorter time limits (remember when it used to go from 9am to 6pm the next day??). all of a sudden the lan wasn't mates getting together to game it was an "event" and when broadband and things combined with it it just suddenly wasn't worth the effort anymore

The biggest factor for me not attending as many events was having broadband. I can still remember the lans at the ANU - Nothing like laning if 50 degrees temperatures it was better in winter i guess. In those days i had a dial up connections where we any online gaming was slooooow. So lanfest was a chance for to round up the guys and head out to an event where we can play games until our eyes hurt. Other factors included girlfriend, not knowing about events and work. I dont real think it was just CS.

Anyways you cant do much about it now thanks again to the admins for so great gaming.

Gday to kato long time no chat ill install icq again so we can catch up.

Quote from the Simpsons:
Homer: There's your giraffe, little girl.
Ralph Wiggum: I'm a boy.
Homer: That's the spirit. Never give up.

Echo, sif CS held em together. It caused huge fighting amongst the competing teams (I remember a cancon where there was heaps of drama over a CS tourny), it was a complete waste of time for a new player, and it was overall an anti-social game. Its worth noting, I view CS as the downfall of gaming everywhere in general.

Until CS, the mod game to play was Team fortress. Which meant people had worked together.
And for the record, I played CS from Beta04. I wasnt exactly a newb. I remember the first night CS headed to hell. A player named 'Vengabus' was being obnoxious on CS_Alley. Karade might recall this too. That was the first time I came across a player who trash talked and crippled his own team (wasnt my team) for the sake of doing it.

WEll. BL

i had fun. only went to about 5 of them, but i have some good memories. like the time the power went out at epic, and the one where the network was f***ed for about 3 hours and i couldnt do anything.


apart from that it was fun.

<3

...

HAHAHAH!!!!!!!

I Remember that!!

I was an admin at the time too. What day that turned out to be.


I think i used my PA for that event too. Lol maybe it was the PA that caused the outage. HAHA

(Darth Vader Voice) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (/Darth Vader Voice)

Hehe sorry if anyone already did that, *sigh* I can't believe ACTGN is already gone, I only had the chance to go to two of them. It was my reason to live...

Well if anyone knows of any other good LANs in Canberra where I can get my fix I'd be appreciating to know them. Good luck ACTGN leaders/owners/GMs, thank you for the best LAN in Canberra. Ye shall be remembered always.

last edited by Skutty at 20:03:03 02/Aug/05

I think you mean:

Darth Vader Voice - "DO NOT WANT!"

Well, it was good while it lasted, and maybe one day, it'll rise from the dead.

Damn good times.

Thinking: Maybe we should start a ACT LAN mailing list, and keep ppl informed of other LANs, etc.

Got some Gigabit Switches, and I can always get some more Gigabit Switches :). Mobsta (NACTLAN) used one of ours at a NACTLAN as part of the backbone awhile ago (the same one where the water leak made part of the roof cave in).
Was at a TezzaLAN (some OFP, racing games, sound-vests, etc) with a few ppl awhile back too..... good memories.

The same NACTLAN where 10 ppl powered on at once, several times, and tripped the circuit breakers several times :P

Also got some deals going on Ati Radeon X800 XL cards (shade over $400 if anyone is interested - Great for Half-Life 2 / Source based games, also pretty good in Doom 3 engine for the price).... For those that don't know, I try to bulk order stuff for (small-medium LAN) groups of people so everyone gets something better for a decent price.

I'll be at the Old Bus Depo Computer Markets tomorrow, checking prices, & trying to undercut them (he he he)... Well today actually, it is SAT NOW, only a few hours to go.

Doubt many will remember me / us: (liked, Half-Life Orig + Most Mods, inc TFC, Quake(GL), Doom 1 & 2, www.FireArmsMod.com, Operation Flashpoint: MFCTI mod, and early CS Betas around 6.5, Jedi Knight 2 & 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein).

Some of the old GarageLAN, ACT group:
- Tabris / DarkPeace / QuadCore McSars
- Harvy.K / Anuuoooo(Smash)
- Armistal / Ecylpse
- Ethereal Guy / Quack Sawbones / Ramiel the Endarkened
(Used to play in South Canberra during high-school - college, group is still 'partially' alive, looking for other groups with similar tastes)

We would be happy to help out / merge with other LAN groups, but we play various games that some people may dislike. Mostly FPS though.

Still think 10/100/1000 Mbps LANs beat ADSL / TransACT cable, from a community perspective. (and even with max leechers can arrange for all to get sub 3 ms).

If such a mailing list does start, I can be contacted at:

Tabris.DarkPeace (Gaming Alias)
darkpeace@internode.on.net
http://users.on.net/~darkpeace (My not so dodgy webspace)

And no, with Internodes spam filter, I don't fear posting my é-mail address.

if only spam filters could filter everything... *sigh*

We dont bother telling customers that we have a spam filter because then they complain when they do get spam... WE CANT STOP EVERYTHING YOU f***ING IDIOTS!Y W*(EZ%&z

Well having moved down from the Gold Coast in mid 2001 where I used to run my own LANs (where a single 24-port switch would cover the lot). I quickly signed up with ACTGN and have attended the vast majority of events (I can remember missing only 2).

And as I write this it dawns on me, I haven't played a game in months! My XBOX is a media centre, my PC (with dual DTV cards) keeps me entertained, and my server once having a permanent Q3A server on it, now edumactes me on the finer points of Solaris 10 x86, Windows 2K3, and Fedora 4. I'm sure glad VMWare doesn't charge per VM.

Oh no, I've grown up :(

Spelling....
That should be edumacAtes me.






Sorry... couldn't help myself.

"Spelling...."
Shouldn't that have been "Spelling..." or "Spelling…"?

Stop pointing out MY misteaks.

stop making them!

Somebody has to keep the board alive... and pathetic as this thread is I prefer it to the man-love thread (not that there's anything wrong with that).

lol, its all about personal preference in this day and age isnt it?

aw - that sucks.


at least you guys got a farewell.


here in Qld some actually think a lan is still gonna happen