Entropy Nights?

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:14 pm

Has anyone heard anything from Solo over the past several months? A while back, he hosted a few Entropy nights to try to get some interest back into Entropy. I was able to make it to one, and it was a total blast, especially with using Teamspeak.

I was just wondering if anyone's had any contact with Solo recently, or if anyone would be interested in trying another Entropy Night.

Edit: Here's the original topic about it.

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 6:20 pm

I would play in a heartbeat

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 6:42 pm

Same, if I have time the night it's on. We need more of this type of thing to promote diversity (rather than anarchy, TA, or CTF).

*Javed* · Post by ***Javed*** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 12:34 am

Even if Solo isn't around, we can still find a night to play entropy. I havent played some in a while myself. Anyone else up for it?

KompresZor · Post by **KompresZor** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:47 am

I'd be up for it

SQN has a Team Speak server that I'm prety sure they would let us use.

iten · Post by **iten** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 3:41 pm

I'd play, Entropy sounds really cool.

Hattrick · Post by **Hattrick** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:27 pm

KompresZor wrote:I'd be up for it
SQN has a Team Speak server that I'm prety sure they would let us use.

Only if y'all teach me entropy!

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:59 pm

Wow, looks like we might get something going here.

Last time this went on, we used the #300baud Entropy set, which has some very good levels in it. Of course, there's always the classic Steel Vapor, as well.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:06 pm

I might show up for one, would be fun.

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:47 am

Top Gun wrote:Wow, looks like we might get something going here. Last time this went on, we used the #300baud Entropy set, which has some very good levels in it. Of course, there's always the classic Steel Vapor, as well.

Right on. The #300baud levels are great. But I can clearly remember my first game of entropy in Steel Vapor.

All someone needs to do is set up a server and I'd camp out in it.

*Javed* · Post by ***Javed*** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:38 pm

We always have Esa. All we really need is more players

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:29 pm

I've been running an entropy game on one of my servers for a long time. The only problem is my server in Seattle is having 'issues' with the game trackers. If any one is VERY good with the inner workings (heartbeat and status stuff) of the gamespy trackers I could use some help.

RC

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 6:45 pm

I'd be willing to donate a TS server with places for red and blue teams seperately @ full codec bandwidth if you guys get a schedule going.

*Javed* · Post by ***Javed*** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:23 pm

Awsome Stress. I'll hold on to yah on that one.

So when is a good day/time for people? I was thinking the night before Veterans Day maybe?

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:05 pm

Javed, I was talking with Psion last night on the TS server.

Well, I think we can get some pretty good support for this. But lets make a new thread (you) called Forsaken Revival.

Today I made a new OPT file (GFX driver file) for nVidia cards in Forsaken that uses triliniar filtering, will go to 1024x768, allows for up to 128 megs texture memory and it all runs on a vanilla gforce 5700 @ 1024 @ 520 FPS with no tweaks.

It's 54k and you just drop it in the Acclaim\forsaken]opt folder. Then you chose it at launch.

Dedicated servers. This is where you come in. Do you have any info about how/server tools/CFGs? I'd like to learn that part now

*Javed* · Post by ***Javed*** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:29 pm

Double post..please ignore

*Javed* · Post by ***Javed*** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:30 pm

Dedicated servers. This is where you come in. Do you have any info about how/server tools/CFGs? I'd like to learn that part now

I'm a complete newb with this stuff.

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:52 pm

Tell you what Stress, you get me the software and I'll set it up and figure it out for you.

RC

*Javed* · Post by ***Javed*** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 9:45 pm

hmm. the whole idea of 'entropy night' just died =/

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 10:06 pm

No it didn't; we all still want to play.

Let's try to figure out a good night for everyone. What's best, weeknights, weekends? If it were me, I would say a weekend, since I have schoolwork during the week, but I could cram some Entropy in too.

iten · Post by **iten** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 10:18 pm

I would also vote for a weekend. I just played some Entropy with Stryker and other people, and it was rather fun, though I can't ever get enough kills to do much.

So as long as we had enough people so that I wouldn't matter, it'd be fun.

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 11:40 am

GG iten. I think the majority of D3ers like entropy, we just never see any games up. If you see an entropy game up, jump in! there's a high probability that someone'll join up too.

*Javed* · Post by ***Javed*** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:46 pm

sweet. I see RC already has a server up. Come on people, we needa agree on a day. If this thread falls down again, I'm just gonna let it go. So how bout next Friday night?

SkyNet · Post by **SkyNet** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 11:38 pm

I'm up for Entropy. You'll just have to specify a time, and day. I can then let you know if I'll be able to make it.

It would probably be nice to perhaps have some mailing list to let those of us who want to know about Descent 3 events such as these known so we could make the time to attend.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:23 am

Next Friday night, as in November 12, sounds good to me. What's everyone else's opinion? As for time, we need to have something that's late enough for West Coasters but not too late for East Coasters (my apologies to any foreign players, but you can't do too much about a 12-hour time difference

). 9:30 EST seems to work well for the D2 Revivals; how does that sound?

P.S. Could we possibly get this thread stickied?

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:23 am

Pocket is total fun in a 2v2 ! Go play some !

iten · Post by **iten** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:06 pm

Friday night sounds good for me Top Gun.

Blah, now I'll actually have to learn how to play well .

*Javed* · Post by ***Javed*** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:50 pm

Sorry guys. I might have a killzone match on friday night. how bout saturday night?

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:32 pm

Depending on everyone else's opinion, that would still work for me. We still need a lot more feedback, though.

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:22 pm

fri or sat, doesn't matter to me.

SkyNet · Post by **SkyNet** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:19 am

I doubt I'm going to be able to play this Friday-Sun. I'll be leaving town. I will have my laptop with me, but I don't have a viable Joystick to play with.

The laptop only has USB ports, and my joystick is a gameport. I've been meaning to upgrade it, but haven't yet got the money.

DigiJo · Post by **DigiJo** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:46 am

the idea of an entropy night sounds good. we have some kind of ctf-sunday from the descentforum.de forum and that is going quite successfull. some sundays up to 18 players showing up in the evening.

here is how we do the organizing:

we have 2 teamcaptains for red and blue, during the week one is posting a poll for the level that should be played.
on sunday evening the poll is done, 3 irc-channels are prepared (1 for team selection, 1 for team red and one for team blue) the server is running (on hidden port) and a ts-server is up.

now a time is given for team selections, the captains choose players from the people in general chat 1 by 1. the teams are usually well balanced cause of the selection. once the teams are done both teams go into the teamchannels and talk about game tactics, positions /roles for the players and so on. if that is finished captians give the server ip/port to the players and player join.

this usually takes 30 mins to 1 hour , then the game starts. after the game is played stats are posted in a special thread and the we start posting fun stuff at each other hehe.

all this works good and provides lots of fun, more and more player coming in for the sunday-ctf. btw it turned out that most time that team losses whos players have a lack of disciplin and dont do what the captain says

so probabyl it would be possible to establish such a procedure for an sunday entropy match? that would rock.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:04 am

DigiJo, that sounds like a very good system. However, for this idea to really take off, we need a few people to step up and take over, particularly those who are on the better side at Entropy. I'm not much more than an Entropy n00b myself. So, who wants the job of Entropy Demigod?

KompresZor · Post by **KompresZor** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:04 pm

Stryker wrote:fri or sat, doesn't matter to me.

x2

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 1:20 am

So...are we going to do this, or is there just not enough interest?

*Javed* · Post by ***Javed*** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 1:38 pm

I'm waiting for more people to say something. seems we only have about 5-6 people.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 1:44 pm

Yeah, that's not enough for a good game. I'm surprised; last time about 9 or 10 people showed immediate interest. Anyway, if we were to do anything, it definitely wouldn't be tonight; some people a few threads away are organizing a massive 30-person Anarchy game, and I'm definitely there.

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 2:19 pm

Looks like sat. only or very late fri. for me guys, sry.