LanFish 1


 * Post by Master Asmodeus Dragoyle on 03 Jun 2008 02:14 am

Yes, you read it right, there is a LANFISH 1 in the works scheduled for the weekend before the 4th of July, Saturday, June 28th. In this joint post by Zerm and I, we will lay out the bare bones of the event in a point by point synopsis that is subject to change.

Setting
We are scouting a location, the place will be set before the week is over, Techimo will be giving more information as it comes. The setting will be large enough to facilitate a projected 30 LAN go-ers, and able to supply power enough for everyone in the estimated 30 person range. We would like the event to begin around 4pm or so on the 28th, and continue into the next day, most likely noon.

Door charge and food
There will be a meager door charge of $10, yes, just $10 for a night of crazy LAN awesomeness. Food will be sold at the event, we are currently probing the idea of the Cheesery catering the event with reasonably priced foodstuffs for the gaming masses.

Equipment
Administrators and affiliates of the event will be providing the basic equipment we need to run the LAN. This does NOT mean we will be providing extra equipment everyone, though if people come up short we will try to help however we can. The equipment needed falls under the lines of switches capable of hosting 40+ people, high gauge, long length extention cords, lots of power strips, lots of ethernet cable, duct tape, at least two servers capable of hosting any game needed, various networking gear, and anything I can't think of right now. If you want to contribute, and help make LANFISH 1 happen, let me Zerm, or Techimo know.

Setup and breakdown
Administrators and affiliates will show up early, set the skeleton of the network, arrange tables/chairs, set up game files and utilities, and prepare to open the door. We're still figuring out how to handle door charge, it's likely a cashier will be nominated to handle it. From the door, an administrator or affiliate will ask you two questions: If the answer is no to either, a staff member will follow you to where you want to sit, help you set up, get games installed, and call you a noob. The same goes for breakdown if you need any assistance. The staff will be breaking everything down after the designated shut down time for the LAN.
 * 1) do you know how to set your computer up?
 * 2) do you know how to install a game from an image and crack it?

Troubleshooting
Staff will likely be on a shift system based on hour intervals, if someone needs help during said shift, red shirt A will help them, if red shirt A cannot fix the problem, they will get red shirt B, if both red shirt A and B cannot fix the problem, an administrator or affiliate will be called over.

Entertainment
We will be working with the community here on the forums to create a list of pre-approved games that will be hosted by the servers in the network. So far, the games we've come up are as follows:


 * CS 1.6
 * Age of Mythology
 * SWAT 4
 * Battlefield (various incarnations)
 * Quake 2 (mods)

We need feedback on this, so please, post suggestions! The way our gaming servers will work, is we will be running an interval server, and a fall back server. The interval server will be hosting team based long term games that require a start up population to play. RTSs specifically fall into this catagory, but large team based games such as SWAT 4 may also be hosted by the interval server. The fall back server will be constantly hosting a pick-up game, most likely an FPS of sorts like CS or battlefield. This way, if you want to just jump into a game you can, and if you want to wait for a team play or long term game to start up, you can.

There will also be a third server connected to a projector for playing various music/AMV's, and "teaser" anime episodes. Every couple of hours we will show an episode or part of an episode from an anime the server has, most likely we will also be hosting the anime so if you like what you see, you can watch the rest.

Staff
Anyone who knows how to set up a computer, and hook it into a network, is encouraged to be a staff member. The administrators and affiliates will be helping as much as we can, but we're there to game too, so we need people who are willing to sacrifice an hour of gaming to help people who run into problems. Even if you have limited knowledge, we need a barrier of people that make for sure small problems don't make the LAN grind to a halt, and big problems get the specific attention they need.

Everything above is an outline of *ideas* we have for LANFISH 1, if you have any ideas, feedback, or anything you'd like to comment on, please do not hesitate to post. We need a community effort to pull this off, the Rumfishian Knights want to pull the entire kingdom (and a few foreign parties) together for an event we can be proud of.