Of the people I expected would vote, only Solemn hasn't voted. I believe she's away at the moment but I think we can start to draw some conclusions from the poll now.
[i40] Games, the poll
- Thread starter Ronin Storm
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Might be a little early to call it but I think it's safe enough to make some preliminary assessments now. Numbers in square brackets are approximate numbers the game will support.
The Big Three:
Not surprised at 1 or 3, but 2 was a bit of an eye opener. TF2 and BC2 are both team games and can easily support the 12 or more of us who'd like to play. Borderlands is a bit more tricky in that it's 4-player coop, but with the numbers involved that should mean there's good scope for up to 3 parallel games.
Most of everyone voted for TF2; makes it a good game to have a big session on.
Other Serious Contenders:
Discounting EVE Online for being not a LAN-oriented game, the rest in this list are the smaller coop or team games. These would seem to be ready fallbacks anytime someone is looking for a game and there's a lesser number of people around. Worth noting that at least 7 people expressed an interest in all the above.
Best of the Rest:
Of the rest, Civ4 is the clear winner and with 6 interested parties there is scope for a good sized game. Out of the rest, there's enough for some pickup games (Trackmania, CoD4, BF2142) and even enough to make me think it's worth bringing my X360 along for a day or two for Blur. Again, Guild Wars doesn't strike me as LAN-oriented, though the smaller group sizes do seem to make it more appropriate (and, besides, someone might be able to show me why I should be interested).
Clearly, other games could be played from the rest; Halo 3, for example, is perfectly playable with 3, and AvP in 3 player survival works fine too. Don't doubt other stuff will turn up too.
Happy for other interpretations too...
[edit]Adjusted player numbers for a few games based on feedback.[/edit]
The Big Three:
- Team Fortress [32]
- Borderlands [4]
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 [32]
Not surprised at 1 or 3, but 2 was a bit of an eye opener. TF2 and BC2 are both team games and can easily support the 12 or more of us who'd like to play. Borderlands is a bit more tricky in that it's 4-player coop, but with the numbers involved that should mean there's good scope for up to 3 parallel games.
Most of everyone voted for TF2; makes it a good game to have a big session on.
Other Serious Contenders:
- Rock Band 2 [4]
- EVE Online [all]
- Left 4 Dead 2 [4]
- Alien Swarm [4]
- Dawn of War 2 [3/6]
Discounting EVE Online for being not a LAN-oriented game, the rest in this list are the smaller coop or team games. These would seem to be ready fallbacks anytime someone is looking for a game and there's a lesser number of people around. Worth noting that at least 7 people expressed an interest in all the above.
Best of the Rest:
- Civilization 4: Beyond the Sword [18]
- Call of Duty 4 [16]
- Trackmania [all]
- Teeworlds [16]
- Battlefield 2142 [32?]
- Total Annihilation [8?]
- Guild Wars [4?]
- Blur [16]
Of the rest, Civ4 is the clear winner and with 6 interested parties there is scope for a good sized game. Out of the rest, there's enough for some pickup games (Trackmania, CoD4, BF2142) and even enough to make me think it's worth bringing my X360 along for a day or two for Blur. Again, Guild Wars doesn't strike me as LAN-oriented, though the smaller group sizes do seem to make it more appropriate (and, besides, someone might be able to show me why I should be interested).
Clearly, other games could be played from the rest; Halo 3, for example, is perfectly playable with 3, and AvP in 3 player survival works fine too. Don't doubt other stuff will turn up too.
Happy for other interpretations too...
[edit]Adjusted player numbers for a few games based on feedback.[/edit]
TF2 definitely supports 32 people
Yep, sure, but doesn't it also get really cramped on a bunch of the maps with 32? Or am I thinking of something else...
thatbloke
Junior Administrator
Trackmania can go up to a couple of hundred if needed
Civ4 can also support up to 18 players in a single game (I just checked)
In addition, might be worth getting the TF2 server(s) updated and running on prom for the LAN, in case they aren't running? Will give us a base to work from if there are no appropriate LAN servers around...
Civ4 can also support up to 18 players in a single game (I just checked)
In addition, might be worth getting the TF2 server(s) updated and running on prom for the LAN, in case they aren't running? Will give us a base to work from if there are no appropriate LAN servers around...
If another server admin doesn't get there first, I can do an update on the Thursday of EAS.
G
Gombol
Guest
It's also better with 24 people, 32 and it gets rather manic, IMO.
Wol
In Cryo Sleep
G
Gombol
Guest
if someone wants to fly a logistics and fancies some low-sec i'd be happy to get some lvl5s to have a play with (i have 4 or 5 agents i can use! )
otherwise i have a stack of frigs, dessies and cruisers all yearning to be TIIified or destroyed, whichever comes first! oh and that disco phoon!
also Guild Wars is 4-8 players, in most non prophecies it's 8 with a few high end factions areas being 12. prophecies gets up to 6 players fairly early on then up to 8 towards the end
as for other things. I have OS X\XP on my laptop and afaik we have a free seat. i'm thinking i'll get freelancer server set up on the windows partition. are there any other windows based servers that people fancy and i can take a look into it. linux ones should also be doable under OS X i think only limitation is that there is currently about 10GB free under windows
laptop is a dual 2.4GH core 2 with 2GB ram so shouldn't have too many issues running most servers
(i have 4 or 5 agents i can use! )otherwise i have a stack of frigs, dessies and cruisers all yearning to be TIIified or destroyed, whichever comes first! oh and that disco phoon!
also Guild Wars is 4-8 players, in most non prophecies it's 8 with a few high end factions areas being 12. prophecies gets up to 6 players fairly early on then up to 8 towards the end
as for other things. I have OS X\XP on my laptop and afaik we have a free seat. i'm thinking i'll get freelancer server set up on the windows partition. are there any other windows based servers that people fancy and i can take a look into it. linux ones should also be doable under OS X i think only limitation is that there is currently about 10GB free under windows
laptop is a dual 2.4GH core 2 with 2GB ram so shouldn't have too many issues running most servers
Spicypixel
New Member
EVE is terrible, shouldn't be allowed to be played at i40.
Spicypixel
New Member
EVE isn't played.... it's watched
*runs*
He's right, its also best talked about.
I have the trial, courtesy of DocBot, but I've really only peeked at it so far. I think most of the rest of us don't actually have the game as yet. I think we're waiting for it to come down in price.