75: New Years LAN

Well we are going to be 1 day late for fireworks.

WHEN: 01/01/nextYear

WHERE:Wind Room (Ben's House).

WHAT: Same as last. Really should do more Track Mania & M&B:WF&S

WHAT TO BRING: I'll be making pizza this time.

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

74: Boxing day Beat-up

Description:
A boxing day LAN.
Things we will need to do:


On the 26th Day of December my LAN friends all came to play.
(Start from 7)
Connectors, that need plugging.
Routers, they be switching.
Gaaaaamesss, that need playyyying!!!
Food, to be eating.
Drinks, to drink.
Jokes, to be made.
And a great LAN aaafteeerrr Christmas Day!


WHEN: 2014, 12 December, 26th Friday.
Show up any time, Josh expects he will be there all day.

WHERE: Wind room (Ben's Place)

WHAT:
Looking to play some TF2 and LoL.
other games would include whatever we can get working on either Sam's tablet or Josh's Linux laptop

WHAT TO BRING:
Arrange food and drink here.
There is some soft drink in the fridge already, none of it is diet or pepsi max.
We should make Pizza.

WHO:
Josh, Sam, & Eddie are expected to be at the LAN.
Hopefully Tony & even his family too. Alice, Alex, & other Josh too if they aren't busy.

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

73: Late Lunch

Deo will have departed, so I may sort out something pre the 30th. Since we are not going to Supernova we will have saved a bit of cash and instead of ending November sporting a moustache I'll still be Bearded Ben. Rather than sequels I've scheduled games that we are familiar with but have not put much effort into lately.

Josh may want to shift the location to his house, so watch this space. Also Ben will be out of town from the 15th until the 30th of December and therefore will be unavailable to participate in any events. If you still want me to organise something in December then Tony or Josh will need to tell me the date and I'll come up with a theme. Otherwise you could organise yourselves?

Sometime this week I'll post my terraria server IP, the goal will be to enter the temple. I'll use a world where hardmode has been unlocked but not much else is happening.
toplessness.noip.me


WHEN: 30th November, Sunday lunch till late.

WHERE: Ben's Wind Room

WHAT: LoL, Terraria, Artemis

WHAT TO BRING:
Kyle brings soft drinks
Josh brings pizza maker with ingredients
Tony brings hard drinks
Ben brings internet and electricity
Any objections?

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

72: 28-31-28

Next Thursday I plan to start to plan to go to Supernova. If it’s on my lonesome then I’ll stay home but if anybody wants to carpool then I’m happy to drive down. Would you want to go for the full three days? Taking a little time off work or just the bare minimum? The crush should be finished by then but it is not always so I may not get another chance to go for a while.

If I do go then I’ll probably try to cosplay Van of the Dawn, mostly I’d need a big hat and a black coat with tails. I'd also do Movember, otherwise I'm more inclined to be bearded and kitesurfing.

But for today the plan is to have two Artemis ships running at the same time, or try a level 4 space station defence. Granted though not many of you like this game, So the backup will be … I don’t know, seems to me that every game over the last 6 months has been disliked by somebody. So, if nobody has a couple of xbox/PS3 controllers with which to trial my Naruto Shippuuden Ultimate Storm 3 Full Burst fighting game with then I suppose we go back to power ranger Terraria (or at least Hard Mode+).

 

Land voyage: Supernova #2 on the weekend of the 28th of November

If I can't get this off the ground then it will be a weekend of sequels

Josh, Busy

Marc, on call

Tony, Alice, Cam, Eddie, Sasha, Kyle Charli, Eddie, Sam?

WHEN: 4PM on 28/10/14

WHERE: Wind room

WHAT: Artemis, Naruto, Terraria

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

71: Artemis 2

Ever played SpaceTeam on your phone? It’s a shouting game where everybody talks at once. How about Mechwarrior Online or World of Tanks? Artemis the spaceship simulator is probably still on sale at the humble bundle and I think it looks cool. I tested is with Tony when he would have rather watched Bathurst and the game loads. But it seems to me the more people we cane controlling the ship the simpler (more efficient) it is to drive. I think I still have three copies of the captains program, but the game itself has no DRM and nominally each captain can give a temporary console to 5 people. So if somebody else actually wants to play this and run you own ship then ask. Otherwise I’ll set youse up with a clone console.

Other than that I’m game to give Dota2 and TF2 a go. And though this may be short notice again I’ve nothing else planned to do tomorrow and telling people a month out doesn’t seem to really make any difference in who turns up or how smoothly things run. Given all the above I have scheduled into my diary a Sojourn the same as this for next Tuesday the 21^st of October.

Other possible backup games this week include: Marvel Heroes, LoL, Power Rangers Terraria, Orion: prelude, Chivalry, Robocraft, Civ5, MWO. All of which I have current, updated and ready to go.

Supernova land voyage?

I’m still keen to make a weekend of this on the 28-30^th of November.
Anybody else want to carpool? Catch up in Bris? Know a good place to camp? Keen to cosplay?


WHEN: 14/10/14 @ 4PM till Late

WHERE: Ben is the host who needs to sweep the floor.

WHAT: Defence of the Alter 2, Team Forrest 2

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

70: Sojourn Royale With Cheese

Celebrating the queens birthday with a Battle Royale, Blue blooded scots and regal red royalists. Teamkills are a must, trollers welcome one and all.

WHEN: Monday 29 September, lunch till late, except its not actually a public holiday so I'll more likely get there at 4pm.

WHERE: Beach

WHAT: TF2, Dota2, at least one of each. Dino: Dude it's 99 cents. and if all else fails then a return to power rangers terraria (hardmode is unlocked). Possibly also a session of Marvel Heros?

WHAT TO BRING: Everybody bring their favourite cheese. Maybe wine. But definitely cheese.

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!




Debrief:

Well that didn’t start out as a particularly relaxing sojourn: With work ringing me a few times, running out of internet. Not having games installed or up to date. But in the end we had a decent run through Marvell Heroes and found an area where we were all gaining XP. Then there was the Camembert, Brie and Parmesan, Alice brought chocolate too, which is quite nioce with the gooey cheeses. Since Kyle and Eddie didn’t turn up we played a few games of League of legends instead of either TF2 or DOTA2.

From the issues we have had the last few times I wonder if it is not prudent to have an offline game available at all times? I have crisis wars, Killing floor and Sacred2 for this purpose. But just as I was about to hand out my HDD Tony was able to resurrect the internet. Terraria or Minecraft may be more fun as locally hosted alternatives but I believe they would still require internet authentication to launch.

69: No Tutorial

Recently been on a bit of a hobby horse about games that force me to do a tutorial and then subsequently so little diversity that I end up moving onto the next game where the learning might actually be a challenge. I’m a clever cookie and if the “Esc” button doesn’t help me figure out in 1.5 seconds weather I should use “w” or “up arrow” to more forward then the game probably uses “Ctrl+q” to quaff potions.

Oh yeah, so “Marvel Hero's 2015” appears to let you co-op as soon as your hero has been selected. And though you will have to guess which hero you will probably like its fine you can change later (and 25level in any champ can aid all subsequent heroes) assuming the game is remotely enjoyable. Play it like an ARAM is probably the best advice to start with, forget about the loot drops and forget about min/maxing. You can do that later if you find you like the game.

Other than that I wouldn’t mind having another look at Dino:Orion Prelude, or whatever its new name is. Apparently it’s changed from an arena FPS tower defence to an F2P MMO. But since I haven’t playtested it I don’t intend to try it this weekend. Too much install wars for me lately. I think I spent most of the last Sojourn watching gymnastics and drinking rum. Not bad in itself but not quite the fun that I set out to achieve, and I didn’t end up sharing my fun rum either.

 

Also I was going to make this on Sunday afternoon but then I got a better offer and Friday was empty so…

WHEN: Friday 29th 4pm till saturday

WHERE: Wind Room

WHAT: What games are planned as major events? Marvel Heros 2015...

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

68: Short notice shindig

Tomorrow afternoon,
Waw thats short notice
Well Ben's been busy
What whith work and
organising other shindigs.
Plus there was FFXIV
I recall why I gave up on
Pay per day games.
As a Side note Ben is
Running the 8k Sunday.




WHEN: Tomorrow 2nd august 10midday till 12 midnight

WHERE: Beach

WHAT: Dark Souls One, Power rangers Terraria, League of Legends

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

67 Pre-Crush

30th is the start date of the crush, it is also the final deadline for the RPGmaker competition. I dont really think it is worth playtesting my entry on sunday because I would have no time to impliment any gamebalancing. So ask me in another month how that went.

From now on I'll be on permenant call though that rarely interrupted sojourns it is mildly inconvenient to bail out on a game of LOL to run statistical analysis of the nir performance checks. Incidentally now I know why LOL has issues on connecting, its to do with the way QOS is run on this model of modem, but I have been too lazy record the settings and change over to a new one as yet.


WHEN: Sunday 29th July at 12am, Till midnight

WHERE: Wind room

WHAT: More Power Rangers Terrariah
Maybe Dark Souls if Tony is keen?

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

66: No Show without Punch

 15+ Sojourn sheduled for Wednesday Night
Possibly some hard drinks
Definatly some soft drinks
Frozen Pizzas + junkfood
Let me know if a game fits this bill better than amnesia and the Killing floor



Show day Public holiday
Possibly a trip to the beach
Definatly some Punch, in fancy alchemical flasks
Food will contain at least some vegetables, possibly quishe and soup.
Lego is setup in the spare room for sabaticals, assuming nobody sleeps over.



WHEN: 7PM Wed 28th till 7PM Thursday 29th

WHERE: Wind room

WHAT: What games are planned as major events?
No League of legends,buck the trend this time. (HON anyone?)
Thursday: Killing floor, Sacred gold campaign, Mechwarrior Online

Wednesday: Terraria, RotMG, Starbound (char reset)
Primary game will be Terraria:
New characters: power ranger theme
Will begin with an additional Platinum Pickaxe, the best one you can use withought  defeating a boss. Which will still require us to defeate the "Eye of Cthulhu" to get enough Demonite Ore with which to mine Hellstone an obtain the Molten Pickaxe. Then we shouldn't be too far from hardmode, and defeatign the "Eater of Worlds"



WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink her
Possibly this time somebody will actually bring food and drink other than me?

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

The Return of Ben, the full beard strikes back.

Ben shall be returning next week. And he said he would be all good for a Sojourn.


WHEN: Saturday, 4pm until midnight, however people can show up at any time.

WHERE: The Wind Room.

WHAT:Realm of the Mad God apparently has some changes.

• League of legends
• Realm of the Mad God

more games that are of interest?

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

64: Not A Fool... Just Yet.

Should be some new people to the Sojourn.


WHEN: 10am Saturday 29th - midnight
               and if we wanna keep going we can reconvene after church Sunday 30th March

WHERE: Sam's Home

WHAT:
               REALM OF THE MAD GOD!!!
               Killing  Floor
               League of Legends
               Nintendo

               other recommendations?

WHAT TO BRING: Pepsi max already here, We can arrange food here.

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

63: Valentine’s used surprise, Saturday Sojourn Flinched

Saturday lost 14HP, Saturday Fainted

This fifteenth of February will be the last Sojourn I can physically participate in for a while. For on the twenty eighth I’ll be going on holidays to Europe for two months. I haven’t been able to get SteamOS to run from a thumb drive, so I’ll be taking Lubuntu13.10 as my OSinPocket, The killing floor will run fine from it. So this sojourn that and other linux compatible cross platformers are on the cards. In addition it will be Valentine’s day today. MWO usually has an event for this and I’m keen to give mech battling another go. Another possibility is to follow Sam’s suggestion of War Thunder, a F2P sim that should have full Oculus compatibility, Also with the rift we could trial AAaaAAa, HAWKEN, DARK or TF2.

AGM
We have avoided this several times now. I think I’ve not got much more value to glean from the official incorporation than what I’ve already achieved. I was hoping to have been to a “Queensland Computers” sojourn by now and met some like minded technomancers but…
So rather than me paying for another year, I’m happy to let it lapse.
Or transfer ownership to ATW, letting them take care of the insurance and in turn we hold some events there (buying their food, using their internet). Inherently this opens it up for easier access to strangers/the public and will mean I have less ownership.
Either way I’m going to keep inviting you all over to my house for jolly Co-Op on a somewhat regular fortnightly basis. If somebody else wants to donate the dosh to keep being incorporated I can help out with that and I think we are still operating legally and have enough members to maintain the club.

Day after
Sunday 16th ~1am I’ll be leaving from my house to go to Utopia rock pools, somewhat south of Biggenden, for a hike. The first time I went there was a bit of a waterfall and a few rockpools 3xlarger than my bathtub. Last time I went there the water was a pretty green colour, not flowing and smelt atrocious. If we start walking up the creek at ~2:30pm then we should finish in the cool of the evening and (hopefully) may be able to go for a swim.


WHEN: Satuday 15th 10am till 12am

WHERE: Wind room

WHAT: MWO, LOL, Killing floor, War Thunder, Civ V

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

62: Sunday Sojourn used LoL, it’s super effective

Lots of lols: Highlight a reddit pic an a unique youtube video to bring and share. We always seem to do this anyway so I thought to put it in the plan. Lols for lol after lunch, later lamenting the lack of Australiana in computergames. Possibly some path of exile, potentially Baladours Gate? That new HD release.


As a side note: http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/woowoonga/about.html
saturday pre sojourn P.E.

WHEN: 26 Jan, 2pm or whenever Ben gets back from church

WHERE: Wind room, bring a friend (or a Fan)

WHAT: What games are planned as major events?

• League of Legends (AJ's fave)
• Just Cause 2 Multilayer Mod (total imhibition)
• E.Y.E Divine Cybermancey (we didnt actually get going last time)
• Guild Wars 2, (It's about time we do the next dungeon...then again, maybe not)
• Path of Exile (Rask still hasnt really co-opped this one)
• Realm of the Mad God (for during install wars and to test the internets)

WHAT TO BRING: Ben found chocolate coffee icecream behind the Sorbet, ther may be some left by then.

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

61 - Josh posted this.

Lan Description of some sort that Josh made up. Says something about a Sojourn on this weekend. It sounds interesting. Josh is really good at doing this kind of thing. Yay LAN.

WHEN: Saturday 18th January 4pm til midnight. then possibly follow up after church on Sunday 19th.

WHERE: Tony's place (Bargara) (he doesn't know yet (again))

WHAT: What games are planned as major events? None specifically.
However some games that look interesting are:

• Tribes Ascend (for the skiing :D)
• Just Cause 2 Multilayer Mod (for the Chaos :3)
• E.Y.E Divine Cybermancey (new characters and themes for them sound like fun (NO CHANGING ONCE STARTED!!!))
• Guild Wars 2, (It's about time we do the next dungeon...)
• League of Legends (always a good filler)

Other games (excluding GW2) we haven't gone too far in or haven't played in a while:

• Path of Exile
• Realm of the Mad God

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here, (wow this is in the template for Sojourns)
How bout we have some pasta instead :D. Without olives.
Alternatives could be Lasagne, Pies, Pizza.

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, All Hail Lelouch, All Hail Britannia!!!