Mafiascum Multiplayer Night

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This Sunday will be our first game night. Join the MS Steam group if you haven't already so we can find each other easily. Would also help if you switched your Steam name to your MS name.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/mafiascum

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Both have multiplayer and single player afaik~

yeah but the AI sucks, and it's easy to get lost if you're not sure where to go, I recommend starting with MP

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So it seems like Civ and TF2 are the top contenders, with L4D close behind. I'm thinking it might pay to have both games, as most of us seem to be experienced in one or the other. I'm fairly good at TF2, but have barely touched Civ.

Looks like we've settled on Sunday night as well. What I'm thinking is: let's run sign-ups for both games and get a headcount. If there're enough people to fill both, we can run them at the same time and you pick your favourite. If we're short on people, or enough want to do both, we'll do them at separate times. 'K?

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I got really confused for a second until I realized I read 'probably not work' as 'probably work'. Ugh. How does Saturday work for everyone then?

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if we're doing TF2 I can see about getting my old dedicated server running again, so we won't have to pub-hop

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Yeah but I suck at FPS games. >_>

then play medic

ftfy

you have to have at least a general knowledge of the map to play engie decently

I would suggest if we play civ, we break it into smaller games - an 8 person game takes far too long. 4 each game would probably be ideal.

We could do this. Whoever isn't playing goes on TF2.

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We could do this. Whoever isn't playing goes on TF2.

Or, y'know, another game of their choosing.

BUT THAT'S CHAOS

What I would suggest is that we decide on a time, and then have the people interested in playing assemble in Scumchat to decide what they want to play that week.

the way I see it, that comes down to whether the main point of this is hanging out with friends or playing fun games.

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EST, all my evenings are currently free, I'll have to check but I think my evenings will be free once school starts as well.

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alternate idea: every week someone new selects 2 or 3 games to play, maybe keeping TF2 as a back-up

or am I overthinking this now?

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That's not such a good idea, for example I currently have both TF2 and Civ uninstalled. Plus I would like some time to play Civ beforehand so I'm not a total deadweight.

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ok fuck it someone's got to take charge or this isn't happening

SATURDAY NIGHT AT 7:00 EST I WILL BE HOSTING A TF2 MATCH ON A PRIVATE SERVER

FIND ME VIA 'UMBRAGE' ON STEAM

PASSWORD IS: MAFIA

ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN

CAPSLOCK IS ENCOURAGED

IF YOU WANT TO PLAY CIV ASK RECK OR SOMEONE CUZ IDK HOW THAT WORKS

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WHERE WERE YOU TWO PAGES AGO?

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Apparently my server is no longer supported. I'm setting up SteamCMD now. It won't be as simple as hitting the on switch, but I think I'll have it ready by 7 tonight if we're still doing this.

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Can someone try and join my game via Steam to test it out? Password is mith.

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Hm... OK, slight problem. I'm not able to change maps. Going to try and fix it.

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it's going on and off while I try to figure out this rcon mess

try it now

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YES problem solved

apparently you have to write 'rcon' in front of commands now...

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Hmph.

OK, sv_lan is set to 0 and map changed. Any luck?

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Alright, looks like I'm going to have to fiddle with the ports a bit.

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OK, try it now.

If it doesn't work, try typing this into your console:

connect 192.168.2.12; password mith

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ok now I'm pissed off

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alright it looks like the problem isn't with the server, it's with either with my router or network settings, which means I'm probably going to need a hell of a lot more time to figure it out.

I fiddled with my firewall a bit, and changed a couple minor things - it's a shot in the dark, but if it still doesn't work I'm out of ideas

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OK, good news! I am now getting a completely different error message when I try to run the server! Progress has been made!

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yeah I don't think I'm getting this up tonight, sorry.

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If we're recruit for diverse games, I'd love to try and get a Mass Effect 3 multiplayer team together.

I'm definitely /in for that. (PC)

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My Origin ID is ASpieboy, hit me up whenever. I can play Platinum and solo Gold semi-reliably.