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.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday August 10 2015, @12:58PM
This was written at almost the same the other one was. We just ran them back to back. And yes, I agree the editor thing is a problem, but we can work on solving multiple things at once.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 10 2015, @02:46PM
I'd be up for it; I'd like to see someone (somewhere) set up a more easily used IPX over a VPN (GRE or ipsec or whatever; security isn't the issue, carrying the traffic is). Older games like the original Doom and Doom 2, Heretic, Quake 1, C&C, Descent 1 and 2 etc... all used IPX.
Some of those would be great to dust off. I've played a few over the internet via hardware VPN tunnels to carry the traffic, but it can be somewhat overly complicated for people that simply play games and don't know how the underlying communications work.
I am sure what software clients are out there that easily allow for this; so it may just be a pipe dream. (having the hardware, I haven't had to wrap it in some application to transmit the traffic; I just run IPX on the local hardware I am playing with and it has no idea there is an internet out there)
Despite this, there are lots of options anyway. Older IP based games are viable and often didn't even need a specific server. When Quake came about, that was the beginning of game servers (as far as I can remember. Doom, descent, heretic, C&C etc did not need a dedicated server; one of the hosts handled it so a beefy 486DX2-50 or 66 was suggested where possible for better performance with games handling more than just 2 people). A generic VPN connection to a server that places you on the same subnet may be more than enough without needing to worry about specific support for a given game.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Monday August 10 2015, @03:31PM
Heck yah, I would play Quake 1!
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(Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday August 10 2015, @03:32PM
Routing IPX is a pain in the ass, because you need a layer 2 VPN, and frequently have to also provide IP information (else most VPN clients go belly up). I could probably rig something if I put my mind to it. I'll think about it.
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