[TriLUG] OT Holiday game fest

[Jason Tower]

it's not "discriminating", it's a LAN party.  the L stands for Local.  
if you're out of town then you might not be able to participate, it's 
no different than any other group event, trilug or otherwise.  using a 
non-local server has negative effects on everyone else who is on the 
LAN.  why do you think people pack up their equipment, drive out to 
some site, hook it all back up, play all day, the tear it all down and 
go back home?  they do it (among other reasons) so that the server will 
be local with plenty of bandwidth and virtually no lag, which results 
in better gameplay.

jason

On Tuesday 21 December 2004 15:54, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> Yeah, but it also discriminates against those of us who will be out
> of town. :-(
>
> Tanner
>
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:47:25 -0500, Jason Tower <jason at cerient.net> 
wrote:
> > > Will you be using the TriLUG BZFlag server so that others can
> > > join it too? O:-)
> >
> > using a remote public server would tend to defeat the purpose of
> > hosting a LAN party (no lag, no jitter, can easily switch server
> > settings and maps, etc).  there are opportunites to play bzflag on
> > the trilug server the other 364 days of the year.
> >
> > jason
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