Does anyone have anything that they may want to see in the future? or want to do differently? or have any concerns, questions, comments?

Like all Lans trying to get groups together for RTS or LOL type games is hard, wish everyone was in vent so we could use that to find people. What about making a vent channel that was put over the loud speaker so that someone could hop on and make an announcement or ask for players since some people started games without asking for more players...

The main set-back with Vent was that it was only a 10-person capacity, which was hit several times even with BFBC2. We purchased an upgrade to 25, but it had yet to go into affect during the LAN. It will be better, to have everyone at the LAN in Vent (which would be not only nice for organizing games but also general announcements), we would have to buy quite a bit more. Which if I could take the opportunity, we do take donations towards the Vent server, and any are appreciated.

clanpay.darkstarllc.com/donate.php?NjMyMDk=

As mentioned, we would be able to make global broadcasts for those in-game to hear, which has been an issue in the past, and we could even set-up tournament channels so gameplay wasn't interrupted.

why not set up a local vent server? It's not that hard.

local vent server software is hard coded to 8 people limit, I run one myself.

vent is a cool idea but costly for a once after 6 mos event. If it would be possible to upgrade size for the event and then downgrade the month after that might be worth it. I have never paid for a vent server, so I don't know what the price is like for that.

Overall good LAN, Internet was an issue when people are playing games like MW2 and LOL.

There is a version out there of Vent that is unlimited for local.

How many slots can you do with a local Mumble server? Don't know how many of you have tried it so far, but Mumble pretty much blows Ventrilo and Teamspeak out of the water in terms of voice clarity. It also has a really nice (but unintrusive) ingame overlay that always lets you know who is talking.

If anyone would like to try it out, you can download it free from:

mumble.sourceforge.net/

And connect to my server at

dreyvas.kicks-ass.net port 64738 password ffhlawl

You won't be disappointed.

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We should all use the Control Panel more.

Also Vent shouldn't be an option. We have to use it. It's the easiest thing to download and setup.

We always have people on the LanOC vent. Jump on and let us know what you want to play.

I agree with Dreyvas Mumble is far superior to Vent or Teamspeak. Also mumble is open source and free. You can run it on the net or local with any # of slots.

I have one running 24/7 for NeXus LAN now.

Address : mumble.p3computers.net
Port: Default port

With Mumble you can take the server to the LAN with you open the slots to what ever # you have at the LAN and your set for everyone at the LAN to be in the same voice server.

As for running it on a X/1m connection you can manage 15 ish in it with no issues at all.

I was running a vent but its only up now to tell people we have switched over to Mumble.

Mumble also very configurable. It takes a few min to setup where vent is quicker on the setup, but Mumble far better. It auto balances all sounds so you dont have the junk like in vent someone too loud an you have to lower them manual or too low an have to manual raise them so you can hear them, overlays in games so you can see who is talking, fully skinable, change sounds to make it sound like vent or any app you want etc.

We will be running it at the next NeXus LAN with 100 slots so everyone attending can be in chat to talk, teams to talk you name it. Should really help organizing games etc.

renegade wrote: I think they both have their up's and down's. So far Vent has worked great for us, so its not something we mind supporting.