So we, the sciforums users, have to decide to play a game online, a strategy game preferrably, and we have to set a date. This is the second time I've had this idea, before I wanted to have a sciforums starcraft game but it didn't really catch on.

So, in any case, I vote for starcraft: broodwar online, on battle.net, sometime over this weekend or next weekend. For those of you who don't know Starcraft is a slightly old strategy game that is arguably the best ever made, and at the moment you could probably find it at your local wally world for under $10.

But I'm also game for maybe Diablo 2 (even if I have to install it again), Dungeon Siege, Jedi Knight 2, Tribes 2, that's all I can think of at the moment.

Yes! Brooooooood Waaaaaaaaar!!!

Good idea.

I am in for broodwar :D

Just post time and channel I'll be there

No maphack please :D

Great! Great! I'll post the time soon-I want to wait for stryder, I think he has the game.

Just be careful if he does. I get the eery feeling that he could kick all our arses at it.:D

Doesn't Stryder have every programme though? :p

This is just my luck, My Starcraft Cd is sitting in someones drawer about 100 miles away. Which is a real pain in the A**e since I have broodwar sitting here.

I did at one point move the game (and the pain stakingly created reg file) across to the machine I'm using, but this machine has had some changes since back then, it got wiped and my machine that had it on also got wiped for a different OS.
:(

It will probably take months to get Broodwar up, unless I'm able to convince someone to get hold of it for me.

AAAAAAAAAAGHRRRRRRRRR, my friend broke my Broodwar Cd last week:( (honest:mad: ) with all his CD-Drive:D

Anywayz I set Starcraft Broodwar in my download que (top priority) and when I get it, I'll send it to Stryder also.

So we could do it smtime this Saturtday or Sunday I suppose.
Depends of when Stryder will receive his free copy.

DEATH TO ALL WHO THREATEN HOMEWORLD:bugeye:

Excelleeeeeent. Who here has the fastest internet connection? I have dialup so I shouldn't host....

BTW I will kick all of your asses.:D

On b.net my name is god_emperor.

Actually, why don't we play Day of Defeat? I would imagine everyone here has Half Life (though if you don't have DoD you're looking at a 150MB download).

For strategy all I have is Heroes of Might & Magic 3 (I have both expansions as well).

Bah, diablo 2 = yuck I still have yet to finish Baldur's Gate 2, I'd be up for that, but it would a long thing over time.

I am on cable, but that's not to say maybe one of you doesn't have a faster connection than I.

Has hnyone here ever played diplomacy?

Quite possibly the greatest strategy game ever made.

three greatest strategy games ever + 1

Imperial Galactica II
Civilizattion
Age of Empires II

oh and maybe the one which Neutrino mentioned. haven't played tht

technicly diplomacy is a board game with a crap ass comp version made of it.

a WWI board game based on your ability to lie and backstab people.

Its Great Fun

my favourite board game is RISK, haven't played it for years:(:(

dip is alot better than risk.

no dice, all skill

Avatar and me have always seen eye to eye on IG2. It is an awsome game.

But I think we should do Brood War, the majority of us have it, and if you don't its a fairly cheap deal.

I just started playing, but hey I'll join the fight. You can count me in

So now we have to decide on what map to play on. Personally I'd like to do Island Hop or Primeval Islands, BGH, or maybe the Lost Temple.

Here are some ground rules:

-When one of us dies, we should all ally with that player, so that he doesn't get booted and so he can watch the rest of the game, assuming the player wants to.

-No rush for ~15 minutes, but that won't really matter if we do an Island map.

-Don't hack, if Blizzard finds out they'll kick your IP from b.net

-Have fun, and whoever wins gets to gloat :D

Hmm... What map... what map...

Whatever it is, it should be an islands one. Most certainly. And it would have to be fairly obviously named (the game name i mean) and password required. I think "Sciforums" would be a fairly obvious, simple, and appropriate one. :)

And protoss can kick butt anyday they want.:D

So now we have to figure out who'll host, and when, exactly. Avatar and Stryde, how's that dl coming??

This is what I propose:

Chat Room: sciforums (all underscores)

Game: Sciforums

Password: cheeze (all underscores

I propose Primeval Islands (under the Brood War section) because it has eight player capability and a huge amount of places to expand to.

I had problems with download. One file was corrupted ->BrooDat.mpq<- so now I have found and I'm downloading that exact file. I haven't been able to contact Stryder. He's off-line.

I hope tht our version will be playable over b.net, because it is a cracked one. Not so sure with what method though, it depends.

what map- any map- haven't played starcraft for 1.5 years, so I do not remember the names of thm.

cheerz

Originally posted by Pollux V
-No rush for ~15 minutes, but that won't really matter if we do an Island map.

Dude that is so newbish. Rushing is fair game, especially in team games.


-Don't hack, if Blizzard finds out they'll kick your IP from b.net

yeah don't hack. But if you have hack give me a copy too :D

I hate island maps because I like to attack nonstop from the beginning. I usually play money maps like BGH. I prefer team games like TVB. Speed in money map is important since you don't have to time to think :D

Rushing is not for newbs, its just to give people a chance, like in a protoss vs zerg game. Rushing-wise, if the zerg player is quick enough he will finish off the protoss player if he has ~6 zerglings.

One of my friends gave me a burned cd after my original copy broke so it'll probably be okay, Blizzard is usually pretty good about tracking IP's and stuff but I wouldn't worry too much. If not like I said it's a really cheap game and a hellofa lotta fun.

Joeman, we have to play sometime, outside of sciforums, on a TVB map, like 3v3 zero clutter or something with other people. I'm fairly good, so tell me your name. There's a feature on b.net that most people aren't aware of:

You can have a buddy list. To add someone, type /f add namehere and to view it type /f list. So everyone, add god_emperor, because thatsa meeya! The feature is really, really cool, it'll tell you exactly where someone is if they're online.

So far the people that will hopefully be playing:

Pollux V
Lesion42
Joeman
Stryde
Avatar
Azrael
Clarentavious, but I'm not sure. Claren if you see this confirm that you want to play with us okee?

finally I did it. I had to replace files, fix a registry problem, get a crack. pheew. didn't know starcraft broodwar was so hard to get. anywayz I have a working version now. 125mb all. I'll send it to stryder as soon as I contact him. I don't know if I can upload files to his server i.e. i don't know if he needs that space.

I'll send him an e-mail

Originally posted by Pollux V
Rushing is not for newbs, its just to give people a chance, like in a protoss vs zerg game. Rushing-wise, if the zerg player is quick enough he will finish off the protoss player if he has ~6 zerglings.

That is true for small maps like blood bath but not true for maps 128x128. In bloodbath I always do SCV rush against Zerg :D It works. In maps like BGH, zerg can decide to rush, but probability of success is low against good players, and he always gets tag teamed wiped out later if he rushes.


Joeman, we have to play sometime, outside of sciforums, on a TVB map, like 3v3 zero clutter or something with other people. I'm fairly good, so tell me your name. There's a feature on b.net that most people aren't aware of:


I haven't played for a year and half. When I played I disc a lot even though my connection is perfect. I called technical support and they told me win2000 is incompatible with bnet. Winsock returns some kind of error so I stopped playing it. I don't know if they fixed that problem or not.

Another thing that turns me off is people cheating. I think at least half of people have maphacks. Some people like to cheat, and some people only cheat because others cheat. They don't want to have a competitive disavantage so they feel like they have to cheat as well.

I am good only in money maps. I am not very good with strategy. I am good with speed of thought. I don't know too many maps besides a few money maps.

Avatar: dat's goooood.

Joeman, I am a lot better with money maps but I think it would be more interesting if we did it in a ffa, and that's impossible with ones like zero clutter islands (my personal favorite). I heard that you could actually run duel OS's on machine's, I have windows 98 and I only hardly get disconnected because of my machine. Look into it, Windows 98 is probably fairly cheap and I'm sure that stryder knows something about duel OS's.

Originally posted by Pollux V
Joeman, I am a lot better with money maps but I think it would be more interesting if we did it in a ffa, and that's impossible with ones like zero clutter islands (my personal favorite). I heard that you could actually run duel OS's on machine's, I have windows 98 and I only hardly get disconnected because of my machine. Look into it, Windows 98 is probably fairly cheap and I'm sure that stryder knows something about duel OS's.

Dood, FFA suck. What always happen is when one guy is about to win, everybody gangs up on the guy. I like doing a lot of really sneaky stuff. Usually people want me dead first :D Also in FFA people don't attack in the beginning and wait for something to happen. I always wait after people kill each other and then wipe them out :D Eventually people are afraid of attacking. In the end you always have a show down between BC's and carriers.

Team game like TVB is much better.

I don't think I have time to screw around with dual OS, but my game / drop ratio is about 10:1. That is a little high but if you can win with me, you can probably win without me also :D

Dude, post all your user name on bnet. :D

My name is ExpertLoserTWN

I am an expert in losing. Check out my stats :D Right now I am on.

I don't know how long it's going to take me to pull the files back from the server, I know I've sent word out that I'm after my disk back off the person who has it.

So hopefully I will have it back in a few weeks.

Sorry for being Offline, but I was playing Seven Kingdoms II: The Fryhtan Wars, it's AI's aren't too smart, but it can get you if you cant remember what to click and what does what. (Not to mention the tons of bugs like the cultures having the wrong seats of power etc. But that would only be understood by anyone who's played it.)

Hey, I just stumbled across a copy of Brood Wars, so count me in.

Oh this is too awsome-Porfiry do you know how to play? Has it been installed?

Get on those cd's everyone!!!

I haven't played any games in ages. My computer is too crappy, and can't play modern games. :(

Starcraft isn't really a modern game, I think it was released in '99. If you want just go find where it's sold and check out the system requirements, I think they're fairly low.

Hey! I'm still playing my good 'ol 1995-96 games on Zsnes. They're still good! :D Mmm... Chrono Trigger, Seiken Densetsu 3, Terranigma...

I'm still suffering to get hold of my disk, I can't get it off my server as my download's clock just about enough speed to cover 21mb's in 2 hours, and then the ISP bombs me out every 2 hours (1 1/2 hours in peak time)

Which means my time is limited.

I have however been looking at the multiplayer for Alpha Centuri which could be worth considering, although it's not as action packed as Brood war. Strategy is still important.

I have another problem. I CAN'T CONNECT TO B.NET:( :mad:
I duno what's wrong. Maybe the version is too old. I duno:confused:

So good online game. hmmmmmmmmmm
as I understand requirements must be below average. Hard hard hard.

If we could get ourselves better computers this Summer we could have a great time at Eve Online (http://www.eve-online.com/) . But for now. I really don't know.
btw Stryder. When you will receive your starcraft cd , please make the disk image file (.iso) and place it on your server. I can not connect to b.net with this one.
thanx and I really don't know what could we play:(

Although I doubt any of you have it:

JEDI KNIGHT 2

Hmm, a perplexing question, anyone here have Tribes 2? I have to get my claws on Unreal Tournament, but my parents won't let me buy any M rated games, they're so messed up it's a major pain in the ass. DAMNIT.

you are screwed man. My parents don't even know what I am playing or doing on my pc. It's my territory (MUHAHAHAAAA). I've been playing M and 18+ games since I can remember. To be true - I have never sorted thm.

Get older sooner, but enjoy your teens while you can.
cheers!

Yeah they didn't even do it as a punishment, they just did it because of all the school shootings! They're crazy, and puppets of mass media! Arrrrrrrr! I am screwed! My internet connection sucks so I can't illegally download anything. F*CK!!

Theres ratings on games????????:bugeye:

Yeah, there's E, for everyone, T, for teen, and M, for mature. Strangely enough the M titles are always the best.

I'm going to set a date, and we can argue about it once it's out there:

We meet in channel sciforums, at 10AM EST on this coming saturday, and work things out from there. Who can make it?

what is that in GMT, Pollux?

and exactly where that chat is located-> url

GMT-5 Hours.

And it's not on a URL, it's on battle.net (through broodwar).


Directions:

Look at the top left of the screen->click on channel->click on the window for typing->type sciforums.

damn , it's 3 AM here:D but anywayz I don't sleep at nights in summers. so I'll try. but there are some errors still in my broodwar version. I'll try to find the prob till saturtday.

Weeellllllllll the whole point of saying the time before we actually go is the ability to work it out. Maybe we could do it in the midafternoon EST, which would be midmorning for latvia?

no , 3AM is as good as any time. It's Saturtday, isn't it? . If it was a week day, then it would have been different.

Okay then, suit yourself. Hopefully other people will have seen this by the time saturday rolls around for us americanos.

Sounds ok to me. Should I be Protoss or Zerg, do you think? Protoss kick serious butt, but take a while to set up, and the zerg just generally piss everybody off... Hmm.

I am the master of terran :D

For me the protoss are just plain awsome-I set them up very, very quickly, building pylons and shit from the beginning. I've always been a Protoss guy but I have been partial to zerg because they're just so damn easy to play as.

Dude where were you guys this morning? I was there

I tried atleast for a dozen of times to connect the b.net, but with no success. It seems tht a cracked version isn't allowed to connect:( :mad:

I was there at 9:10 because I briefly forgot. Avatar maybe it would be easier to just buy it....it's your decision though. I have to download IG2 from kazaa damnit! They don't sell it anywhere anymore!

of course it would, but I can't get it anywhere. At one shop I was said (I checked 3 of thm) -> Why do you need that old junk, why not buy Civilization 3:mad: :D (btw, I have it already and it's great)

So who's really good here in Broodwar?

I used to play on the ladder a long time ago, joined several clans and constantly kicked ass.

I'll challenge the best person here! :D And kick your ass!

I accept your challenge and look forward to battle (or I am ready for battle, as the corsair says) however I am unable to fight, since I will be gone until the 8th. Afterwards I will enjoy playing you and maybe winning even though my record sucks.

My new name is Salax(TT).

What's yours chosen?

If I can get a computer adn a connection before then.

Plus: anyone got Descent1-3?