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that's very interesting to know about the console gaming. i ididn't really think much of the management of the consoles.

but as for the computer gaming. the thought of a loan would be absolutely ridiculous. not to mention how much you would have to pay to get a public license for every game that you purchase for the pc's. the way i was thinking was that we could get those that do have pc's gathered in a designated area to have them play games that other people might have. so basically just this LAN environment of which con won't have to get computers. it would only designate it to those who do have one or a laptop.

and just by thinking about it this way. hmmm.... it might not be much of a fanime if there is LAN gaming. it would just separate the pc gaming nerds with people devoted to fanime. i might have to re-think this

I have seen in the previous years, people with laptops that would hook them up or connect to an online server and play that way. Having a table for laptops would be a great idea though, but I have no idea what would be involved (legally or in terms of convention rules, etc.).

I wouldn't be worried about the licenses, because there are some games that allow you to enter in a 'dummy' CD Key that doesn't let you play online, but enables LAN play. But yes, having people loan us their thousand dollar computers wouldn't be a good idea. :P

Do realize, at least from the time I was a staffer myself, from 2002-2007, a good number of the staffers did loan our their personal gaming PC's for use at the 'Con and over the years, we slowly perfected the process. We understood what could happened and at the end, we got lucky (too lucky personally). We also did not hook up any PC, with the exception of a laptop for drivers/patches/emergencies, to the internet, as that can pose a security risk to the systems at the time and we wanted to keep it to a LAN game setup so people can play with/against each other with almost no lag.

I am under consideration to come back to E-Gaming staff to help rebuild a PC section, if my time allows it. I'm not laying any promises down, but its in my thoughts. I'll leave it at that and add more in a future post if need be.

Ya I'd like to see how that will work as well. :)

Working safety, it lacked the drama it had last year. Heh

::agrees::

you know i saw my fair share of drama this year. not like last year. not comparable.

where would i start a thread saying ideas for next year?

but if not. might i suggest saying implementing a LAN only setup at the next con? I noticed that there was just so much space in all the rooms to have more than enough computers to get something going.

The problem with PC gaming (vs console gaming) is that it's too expensive to keep up-to-date, not really the internet. With consoles, it's easier to purchase it and then just keep it stored up until con time and people are more willing to loan us their consoles than computers.

We're still looking at what we can do, but a computer network setup (without internet) is definitely do-able and we have enough networking professionals on-staff (that are more than qualified) to take care of it.

that's very interesting to know about the console gaming. i ididn't really think much of the management of the consoles.

but as for the computer gaming. the thought of a loan would be absolutely ridiculous. not to mention how much you would have to pay to get a public license for every game that you purchase for the pc's. the way i was thinking was that we could get those that do have pc's gathered in a designated area to have them play games that other people might have. so basically just this LAN environment of which con won't have to get computers. it would only designate it to those who do have one or a laptop.

and just by thinking about it this way. hmmm.... it might not be much of a fanime if there is LAN gaming. it would just separate the pc gaming nerds with people devoted to fanime. i might have to re-think this

That's her. I am forever in your debt.
:3

My only regret is not knowing her name. UGH

where would i start a thread saying ideas for next year?

but if not. might i suggest saying implementing a LAN only setup at the next con? I noticed that there was just so much space in all the rooms to have more than enough computers to get something going.

And yes I did say LAN only. the implementation of adding "internet" can cause nothing but a ruckus. maybe a few will cooperate but w/o the proper setup there will be nothing but abuse.

The LAN does put everyone at a disadvantage as well. you have to have the game. to play the game.

and if you LAN WOW. i've lost respect for you.

Sorry to say that I had wasted my efforts to participate in fanime this year. but next year I hope to leave my mark.

But one of the things that I had remembered most this weekend was a very attractive Gaara. Crossplay. So it was a girl dressed up as a guy.

I have a video of her but not really all that great. I don't have a camera either. So that is my fault. But what I'm asking for is a photo of her :3

(and I must apologize in advance since I'm not used to forum formats and critique. So I don't know where else to post this)

~TehGrandPa