February Gaming Competition - Starcraft: Brood War

[Bubba]

OK. I've never owned a PC and therefore have never heard of this game. I do own a Macbook though and have just ordered a copy of this to see what the fuss is about. I'm happy to give it a go if only to consolidate my position at the top of the leaderboard!

My only problem is the 9.30pm EST start. I'll be up for it but it will be 2.30am on Sunday morning in the UK I may just be rolling in from a Sat night out anyway so bring it on! So is it like a Command and Conquer kind of game?

I reckon Sonic 2 next month would be a good choice. It might be an idea to alternate between multiplayer one month then one-player high-score fests the next. What do we think?

[Pike]

OK. I've never owned a PC and therefore have never heard of this game. I do own a Macbook though and have just ordered a copy of this to see what the fuss is about. I'm happy to give it a go if only to consolidate my position at the top of the leaderboard!

My only problem is the 9.30pm EST start. I'll be up for it but it will be 2.30am on Sunday morning in the UK I may just be rolling in from a Sat night out anyway so bring it on! So is it like a Command and Conquer kind of game?

I reckon Sonic 2 next month would be a good choice. It might be an idea to alternate between multiplayer one month then one-player high-score fests the next. What do we think?

It's an RTS so yeah, it's C&C-esque. As for the start time, if 9:30pm EST doesn't work for people let me know and I can find a night where I'm not working so late.

[Pike]

Bumping this-- I hate to be a party pooper, but work went and changed my schedule on me so I won't be back until even later that night. At this point moving it to another night might work better unless everyone's okay with a late Saturday. I'm off all day Friday if we want to do that instead.

[Slothy]

Friday is probably a good option. Is everyone good with shifting it to 8 EST that Friday instead?

[Bubba]

Not the best for me as it's 1am Sat morning and I work 9-5pm every Sat. But if that suits everyone else then I can just set my alarm for it. My copy of Starcraft arrived yesterday morning!

[edczxcvbnm]

It would probably work better for me to change the date at this point. I have the opportunity to go see a show on the 18th now and I would really like to lose in 5 minutes and still make the drive to the show =D

But don't count on me. I will probably forget no matter what anyway. My memory becomes more and more shot as time goes on XP

[Pike]

So what's a good day for everyone? I'm available pretty much every night that week except Saturday. I'm not sure about Sunday yet.

[Slothy]

I can probably make any other day in the week. Do we want to try Wednesday or Thursday?

[Freya]

OH OH I think I can do this! gotta find my SC: Broodwar but I may be able too...

[Pike]

I can't find my discs either, but honestly I wouldn't mind paying for a second copy because this game is that good.

I haven't "seriously" played in years but I feel confident enough in my abilities that I'm fine with snagging a copy at the last minute and going in blind and sans-practice. ...Which... of course means someone is going to swoop in and steal it all in a big upset, so maybe on second thought...

[Freya]

If you have it registered on your battle.net I think you can just dl it.

[Madonna]

Fifty-six percent downloaded. I have not played for years; anyone else needing to see how dull their skills are? We can work something out this week.

I may not be able to confirm availability if you guys are settling this late on a day. My work schedule varies weekly and it is too late to put in for time off next week. Here is to hoping.

[Slothy]

If you have it registered on your battle.net I think you can just dl it.

Yep. I don't know if you have the CD cases or the keys written down somewhere Pike, but if you do you can register them and download the game files. If you already registered them before though you can simply download them.

I was having trouble with my downloaded copies not connecting to battle.net to update properly last night. I'm going to have to take a good look at it soon and get this sorted out so I can actually play when the time comes.

[Pike]

So here's the deal with my schedule guys: there is a mass exodus going on at my workplace at the moment; in the last week we've had two people fired and one quit in my department alone (aka about half of us). I have this terrible feeling that management is going to come begging to me to pick up a bunch of extra shifts next week so basically my schedule for a little while is really up in the air. So you're all probably going to have to pick a day/time that works for most people and just hope I can show up. If I can't, no biggie; there's always next time!

[Slothy]

That's unfortunate Pike. Maybe if I get off my ass and get my copies working (planning to work on it tomorrow) I can get a practice game in with you sometime for fun.

So I'm thinking we have two real options here since planning the game for a weekday is kind of tough for those of us who work, especially those in those strange made up time zones on other sides of the planet. Either we can stick to the original date of Saturday the 18th, which we know doesn't really work for Pike and edczxcvbnm, or we can postpone until the following Saturday and hope people's schedules are a bit better. I would suggest next Friday, but that's a bit harder for Bubba and my wife might smack me for committing to a game on a Friday night, though I can swing Fridays if need be.

I'd like to get people's thoughts on it, but if I don't hear from anyone I may just decide to postpone a week since I think we'll only have enough people to warrant a single game anyway.