Laclede's LAN VII: St. Louis June 11th
-
- Legit Enthusiast
- Posts: 28
- Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:00 pm
- Location: st louis mo
- Contact:
Laclede's LAN VII: St. Louis June 11th
hey all...
in case you didnt know, Lacledes Lan is back online and is having a lan party on June 11...if you are in the St Louis area and would like to go to a great lan, stop on by http://www.lacledeslan.com and check us out...
btw we were at warfactoy's last lan...
in case you didnt know, Lacledes Lan is back online and is having a lan party on June 11...if you are in the St Louis area and would like to go to a great lan, stop on by http://www.lacledeslan.com and check us out...
btw we were at warfactoy's last lan...
lacledeslan.com staff
- Apoptosis
- Site Admin
- Posts: 33941
- Joined: Sun Oct 05, 2003 8:45 pm
- Location: St. Louis, Missouri
- Contact:
Why are you guys running CS 1.6? That makes no sense... A large number of the "elite" players in the community have changed over to CS:S, which is the real money game. I'd be highly interested in going if it was CS:S as that is what I have been playing since all the players migrated over months ago.
-
- Legit Extremist
- Posts: 1426
- Joined: Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:16 pm
- Location: st. louis, mo
- Contact:
exactlyApoptosis wrote:Why are you guys running CS 1.6? That makes no sense... A large number of the "elite" players in the community have changed over to CS:S, which is the real money game. I'd be highly interested in going if it was CS:S as that is what I have been playing since all the players migrated over months ago.
-
- Legit Enthusiast
- Posts: 28
- Joined: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:00 pm
- Location: st louis mo
- Contact:
ok thanks for switching that..
we are looking at right now 26 people have signed up, max of 55 or so....will update the closer we get to lan date
first up, the CS thing...
we decided to do a 1.6 tourny by haing a poll on our site and (to qoute ace) "...we will have plenty of people playing CS:S, including myself... ;) so don't feel it will be missing from the LAN, we simply are not able to get the CS:S tournament setup well in the time we have with what we have..."
it was a tie between 1.6 and having both 1.6 and a CS:S tourinies, but we decided to just do 1.6 for now
its not like we hate CS:S...in fact, thats all ive got by way of CS...(hl2 bronze account...)
we are looking at right now 26 people have signed up, max of 55 or so....will update the closer we get to lan date
first up, the CS thing...
we decided to do a 1.6 tourny by haing a poll on our site and (to qoute ace) "...we will have plenty of people playing CS:S, including myself... ;) so don't feel it will be missing from the LAN, we simply are not able to get the CS:S tournament setup well in the time we have with what we have..."
it was a tie between 1.6 and having both 1.6 and a CS:S tourinies, but we decided to just do 1.6 for now
its not like we hate CS:S...in fact, thats all ive got by way of CS...(hl2 bronze account...)
lacledeslan.com staff
-
- Legit Extremist
- Posts: 1426
- Joined: Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:16 pm
- Location: st. louis, mo
- Contact:
it's just kinda sad that you're going with 1.6, regardless of what the little high schoolers think. 1.6 attracts immature crowds and does away with furthering the caliber of a lan community. it's kinda like everyone getting rid of their athlon64 and picking up athlon xp just because it's what some other people like using.
it's newbish, in my opinion.
it's newbish, in my opinion.
-
- Legit User
- Posts: 14
- Joined: Sun May 01, 2005 9:06 pm
- Location: St. Louis
- Contact:
- Apoptosis
- Site Admin
- Posts: 33941
- Joined: Sun Oct 05, 2003 8:45 pm
- Location: St. Louis, Missouri
- Contact:
I beg to differ with you on that. I've seen nVIDIA TI-4200 graphics cards run CS:S with the quality level reduced just fine. If the LAN has no internet then I agree 100% that 1.6 is the way to go, but if a connection is available then CS:S is the way to go.
From a gamers point of view
I've been to dozens of LAN parties around the world and never seen one get large that didn't play recent popular titles. I'm a gamer and I used to play in CAL-I and when the money games move over to new versions the rest of the gamers should follow. One of the best gamers in the world lives right here in missouri -- Fatal1ty. Would he drive over to STL to win a few hundred to play CS 1.6? Nope, he's not played that in months. He might, if it was CS:S though.
From a corporate point of view:
How can you run a LAN party running older games and expect to get sponsors? Sponsors are trying to market new hardware and software to consumers... If you are playing games not using their hardware and everyone at the LAN party is running 3-5 year old PC's then their is no need to sponsor the events because the companies wont see any return on their investment.
From a gamers point of view
I've been to dozens of LAN parties around the world and never seen one get large that didn't play recent popular titles. I'm a gamer and I used to play in CAL-I and when the money games move over to new versions the rest of the gamers should follow. One of the best gamers in the world lives right here in missouri -- Fatal1ty. Would he drive over to STL to win a few hundred to play CS 1.6? Nope, he's not played that in months. He might, if it was CS:S though.
From a corporate point of view:
How can you run a LAN party running older games and expect to get sponsors? Sponsors are trying to market new hardware and software to consumers... If you are playing games not using their hardware and everyone at the LAN party is running 3-5 year old PC's then their is no need to sponsor the events because the companies wont see any return on their investment.
- infinitevalence
- Legit Extremist
- Posts: 2841
- Joined: Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:40 pm
- Location: Nashville, TN
- Contact:
-
- Legit User
- Posts: 14
- Joined: Sun May 01, 2005 9:06 pm
- Location: St. Louis
- Contact:
I completely agree with you, however.... I counted at least 5 geforce 2 or equivalent cards at the LAN we just held. No way is that gonna run HL2 at its worst level. - Thats where my comment was originating from.Apoptosis wrote:I beg to differ with you on that. I've seen nVIDIA TI-4200 graphics cards run CS:S with the quality level reduced just fine. If the LAN has no internet then I agree 100% that 1.6 is the way to go, but if a connection is available then CS:S is the way to go.
From a gamers point of view
I've been to dozens of LAN parties around the world and never seen one get large that didn't play recent popular titles. I'm a gamer and I used to play in CAL-I and when the money games move over to new versions the rest of the gamers should follow. One of the best gamers in the world lives right here in missouri -- Fatal1ty. Would he drive over to STL to win a few hundred to play CS 1.6? Nope, he's not played that in months. He might, if it was CS:S though.
From a corporate point of view:
How can you run a LAN party running older games and expect to get sponsors? Sponsors are trying to market new hardware and software to consumers... If you are playing games not using their hardware and everyone at the LAN party is running 3-5 year old PC's then their is no need to sponsor the events because the companies wont see any return on their investment.
I hate CS either way, WF has moved on to CS:S already for the next event. The trouble is finding a site big enough that isnt gonna take us for a ride on price that has an internet connection. Wee....
Also on a side note - this LL LAN is being coordinated by all LL staff only. Warfactory is just donating the use of the hardware to run the network. Games, Servers, and Tech Support is all LL.
Warfactory LAN admin
As I see it, at a lan party I always enjoyed playing the latest games. I wouldn't mind playing some old-school titles like quake2, C&C (original), and GTA 1 (its free on the net). I don't see anything wrong with a mix of the old and the new. Just for the hell of it lets have a GTA1 tourney at the next lan.Apoptosis wrote:I beg to differ with you on that. I've seen nVIDIA TI-4200 graphics cards run CS:S with the quality level reduced just fine. If the LAN has no internet then I agree 100% that 1.6 is the way to go, but if a connection is available then CS:S is the way to go.
From a gamers point of view
I've been to dozens of LAN parties around the world and never seen one get large that didn't play recent popular titles. I'm a gamer and I used to play in CAL-I and when the money games move over to new versions the rest of the gamers should follow. One of the best gamers in the world lives right here in missouri -- Fatal1ty. Would he drive over to STL to win a few hundred to play CS 1.6? Nope, he's not played that in months. He might, if it was CS:S though.
From a corporate point of view:
How can you run a LAN party running older games and expect to get sponsors? Sponsors are trying to market new hardware and software to consumers... If you are playing games not using their hardware and everyone at the LAN party is running 3-5 year old PC's then their is no need to sponsor the events because the companies wont see any return on their investment.
-
- Legit Little One
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Fri May 27, 2005 1:16 pm
- Apoptosis
- Site Admin
- Posts: 33941
- Joined: Sun Oct 05, 2003 8:45 pm
- Location: St. Louis, Missouri
- Contact:
If you read this article we did a hardware poll 2 LAN's ago at the WF LAN and this is what we turned up...completely agree with you, however.... I counted at least 5 geforce 2 or equivalent cards at the LAN we just held.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article.php?aid=158&pid=2
The majority of users are using newer video cards