Introversion

Hiya,

Earlier today a friend of mine was travelling across the country and I was at home - I suggested we fire up a game of Defcon. Now, on the train he's using the wifi which - probably for technical reasons - means that he's actually connected from a host in .se, despite travelling on the main line down from York toward London. Now this might seem a quite cool thing to do - be sitting on a train and playing against someone else in the world - only it's a little too lagged to play, it seems. Before we reached Defcon 2 the connection was dropped.

But it got me thinking... where's the coolest place you can play your network games from ? (and suggestions of 'the freezer' should probably be ignored ). Obviously the coolest would be to play from a proper bunker, but... there must be people actually trying to play this from fun places...

York to London eh? I live very near York <.<

Coolest place. Aeroplane? Air Force One =p or maybe in an actual submarine... the coolest actual place I can think of is in the pond in he garden, which isn't really cool at all. My house is boring

I played a game in my boss's office (with my boss there) during a teleconference earlier this week. Unfortunately, it made my laptop too sluggish to alt-tab to check mail and catch PowerPoint up on the slides, and it also turned it into a frying pan for my crotch, so I had to exit early (I was only playing 1 AI opponent).

Go to normandy... Bunkers enough There are still bunkers left in Belgium too (I live there, so), there is one nearby, 2-3 km from here...

Or something like a big room with the game on a really, really big screen...(and some nerds with a computer in front of them as background figures ) Like you are fighting a real war.

Can`t think of anywhere better but here in the house right now... Girfriend has borrowed the work`s projector and I now have a huge-ass wargames style display on the wall for the weekend.

Sweet.

unseen wrote:Can`t think of anywhere better but here in the house right now... Girfriend has borrowed the work`s projector and I now have a huge-ass wargames style display on the wall for the weekend.

Sweet.

Grr. Hate you

A friend of mine pointed me to this earlier, which would be rather nice.

VANGUARD wrote:York to London eh? I live very near York <.<

Coolest place. Aeroplane? Air Force One =p or maybe in an actual submarine

Not so cool for us millons of civilians...

best place ill probably manage is the laundry room in my apartment building

best place ever would be ina dark room with an ultra-big touchscreen flat on a table... destruction of all human life at the touch of a finger!

A. Smith wrote:best place ever would be ina dark room with an ultra-big touchscreen flat on a table... destruction of all human life at the touch of a finger!

Hmm... I have a touch panel... and I have a TFT monitor... all I have to do is lie the monitor down and place the touch panel on top. It's so easy it probably ought to be done

How about slap bang in the middle of White Sands Missile Range, the site of the original Trinity Test and birthplace of the Atomic Age? There's even a handy marker you can perch yourself next to.

gerph wrote:

A. Smith wrote:best place ever would be ina dark room with an ultra-big touchscreen flat on a table... destruction of all human life at the touch of a finger!

Hmm... I have a touch panel... and I have a TFT monitor... all I have to do is lie the monitor down and place the touch panel on top. It's so easy it probably ought to be done

do it, and tell us what the results are! its absolutely worth a try.

A. Smith wrote:

gerph wrote:

A. Smith wrote:best place ever would be ina dark room with an ultra-big touchscreen flat on a table... destruction of all human life at the touch of a finger!

Hmm... I have a touch panel... and I have a TFT monitor... all I have to do is lie the monitor down and place the touch panel on top. It's so easy it probably ought to be done

do it, and tell us what the results are! its absolutely worth a try.

I've just had a quick play around with it. Making the TFT lie flat is tricky 'cos the back's all rounded. I might go and stick it on a bean-bag or something so it doesn't wobble over the desk. I'll dig out the touchscreen tomorrow some time. If I can I'll try to get some photos but my camera does suck. Hey, it's good for a laugh if nothing else!

Haha. That's great.

Playing in the cabinate war rooms at the Launch Party was pretty cool!