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The gameserver idea would be fun occasionally but we really would need to find a game that runs on unix/windows and is relatively free/open source so we could distribute it to the users here.

I believe theres a game, Lineage 2?, that might offer us a bit of flexability there. Otherwise we might look at other options.

Tim wrote:The gameserver idea would be fun occasionally but we really would need to find a game that runs on unix/windows and is relatively free/open source so we could distribute it to the users here.

I believe theres a game, Lineage 2?, that might offer us a bit of flexability there. Otherwise we might look at other options.

I used to play Lineage 2..Played it for like 2 times. I quit because it got boring (less users, quests are icky etc). Don't know if we can organize a "contest" for this game. It's a mmorpg. I was thinking more about (first person) shooters, strategy games, race games etc.

FPS, Strategy games, race games... AND maybe some games like tetris (tetrifast or tetrinet), frozen bubble, bomber-man... What do you think?

Yup... and how about Scorched 3D? http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
It's nice ^^

Lineage 2 is a payd game. A private Lineage 2 server could be considered more or less illegal =/ I'll think of some more games... Too bad Super Robot Taisen doesn't have multiplayer -.-

I believe the company who develops Lineage 2 also provides a server package, I know a few ISPs over here were running them but they seem to have slowly died out over the last year.

MMORPGS aren't nice with only @10 players online. If we make a Lineage 2 private server, it should be a big one, not only for Phoenix Members. i hate it when I get on a server and you can't see anyone =/

slashfoo wrote:FPS, Strategy games, race games... AND maybe some games like tetris (tetrifast or tetrinet), frozen bubble, bomber-man... What do you think?

Bomberman?!?
Is there a multiplayer PC version of it somewhere? Love that game! I've played a Japanese (multiplayer online) version of it. But...that was in Japanese, so I didn't understand anything of it.

I am pretty confident that there is some guy out there that has developed a multi-player version of bomberman, now... if there is none, there could be a team contest on developing one, what do you think?

slashfoo wrote:I am pretty confident that there is some guy out there that has developed a multi-player version of bomberman, now... if there is none, there could be a team contest on developing one, what do you think?

There is one...for the Dreamcast. It's old and it's a consolegame, so it doesn't work in this contest. Developing one sounds nice, but will take time.

Tim wrote:I believe the company who develops Lineage 2 also provides a server package, I know a few ISPs over here were running them but they seem to have slowly died out over the last year.

No! NCsoft (Lineage 2 developer) does not provide any server files. There are 2 ways to create your own Lineage 2 server. First way is to use the L2J server emulator. It's written in java and it's not very popular, due to it's instability, bugs and low player capacity. The second way, is to use the newest leaked (and illegal) server files. They aren't 100% complete, so every server has to add and fix some things on their own. Those files are from "Chronicle 4" which isn't the newest one. The latest Chronicle on the retail servers is Chronicle 5.



To create a Lineage 2 server you need at least 1000 players. Only with this amount of players you're not all "alone" on the server and you can experience some PvP or PvE in 9 man parties or other cool things - if you know what I mean.

But you can always try. As far as I know, creating a Lineage 2 server consumes a lot of time. I mean a lot! Not mentioning, that private servers crash quite often so there has to be a person 24/7 which is able to restart it.

We were talking on IRC and tashi told me about E.T. Nono, not Extra Terrestrial, but (Wolfenstein) Enemy Territory. It's free to download and according to tashi the server software is also free and legal to get. So this might be something to look into and create a nice contest for the Phoenix users.

I think that the idea of playing ET is good. Before a few weeks we tried with tashi and ultra and one more guy, but we were only four and it wasnt interesting, so if we are about 5-5 i think it wll be a nice world war 2 battle!
Greetings!

Alongside the contests, which sounds like a good idea, how about letting users do jobs for each other for points, ie. if someone needs some help with his website or something he could offer points to someone to help them with the coding? It was pretty popular on another forum once.

As for the gameserver, sounds like fun as long as the userbase is willing to play.. An empty server gathering dust on the other hand is no fun at all


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possibly somewhere you can't see though :/

That would probably explain it.

I'm pretty sure I've already approved point donating elsewhere...possibly somewhere you can't see though :/