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So, I've recently revived my gaming streak, and for as long as I've gamed, I've always enjoyed interacting with others. As such, I'm curious what games SN folks play. I've been strongly tempted to setup a Minecraft server for SoylentNews, but I don't really want to put in the effort if no one else is interested in playing. So, here's my simple question for the community; what games do you play, and would you want to play on an SN hosted server?
I'm tempted to make any gaming-related things be a subscriber perk, as an attempt to both increase subscriber benefits, and make such a target harder to grief. Not sure if it's a great idea, so I'd love to get feedback below.
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(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Monday August 10 2015, @11:52AM
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory [splashdamage.com] - I would LOVE LOVE LOVE it if we had an active server for this classic..
Smokin guns [smokin-guns.org] - ditto (although probably never had enough players to consider it a classic for most people, it is to me.. )
Our own chess site [phpchess.com]. I ran similar for years when I was coaching our elementary's club..
Battle for Wesnoth server [wesnoth.org]
Earth Empires [earthempires.com] - successor to Earth:2025 [earthempires.com] - one of the classics of the early web. We could have a clan..
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @12:22PM
My former clan's Enemy Territory server just went away from lack of use. 8-(
It is a great game, but you need a large membership to play it. You also need to balance the maps or swap the teams, because most maps are Axis defense. Defense gets old when you are stuck playing Axis all the time. There are also the jerks that always jump on the offensive team, even after they are swapped to the defensive team. The winning offense team tends to map vote for more offense maps. A lot of times, the teams are so unbalanced, that you burn through maps in 5 minutes. The team on defense starts to lose players because there is no fun.
I love the game. However, even if you have active management on an Enemy Territory server(higher levels that can swap/balance/kick/ban), it is a rough job trying to keep everyone happy. This comes from my experience having the highest admin level on my clan's server.
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Monday August 10 2015, @07:02PM
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(Score: 1) by szopin on Monday August 10 2015, @07:17PM
Check out Splash Damage's latest game Dirty Bomb, it's F2P and pretty fun
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Monday August 10 2015, @07:36PM
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(Score: 1) by szopin on Monday August 10 2015, @07:48PM
Aww shucks, maybe wine? Looks like a lot of players are ex ET players, at least the game comes up quite often. Shame
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @10:31PM
Nope. [codeweavers.com]
-- gewg_ (who is not a gamer at all)
(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:42AM
I have been wanting a chess game like that for awhile. At freechess.org, every game is like 1 minute. Chess with friends is like what I want but comes with a bunch of facebook crap. I'm going to try to install it on my site but don't know if it will work on my crappy host provider.
It would be totally awesome if SN had it on their site!
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(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Tuesday August 11 2015, @11:31AM
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:56PM
Didn't there use to be an internet chess server somewhere maybe a decade or two ago? It would match up people who wanted to play. Where is it now?