Microplay Gaming on Tuesday Nights?

[Fyndir]

Who's up for organising a mass invasion of Microplay Gaming (we could get the managers to reserve some seats for us) so we can all partake in the IGUK BF2 FFA one Tuesday night?

I've been going along some Tuesdays and taking part with anyone else in Microplay who's playing, but there's such a complete lack of teamwork that we generally suck, I'm convinced that we would be able to pwn if we organised it well and all made it. =)

Relevant links:

Microplay Gaming (http://www.microplaygaming.com/)

IGUK Homepage (http://www.iguk.org)

The basic rules:

Set map, no FF, no unlocks, fairly standard BF2 match rules.

If we're playing from the same centre and there's few enough of us (less than 10 I think) we WILL be assigned to the same server and team, which means we could squad up and lay down pwnage.

The cost:

Travelling cost = £5 (maximum for most of us I think)
Microplay Cost = £10 (gives you 4 hours + 1 free on creation of account for those of you who haven't played there before, plenty of time for BF2 and some spare to allow for some practice beforehand.

TOTAL = £20 (allowing £5 for drinks / snacks in Microplay, they're cheap but still, better to overestimate).

Hell, we MIGHT even be able to talk Andrew into giving us a group discount or something. =P

Also there's a raffle style draw organised by IGUK based on points, winner of the draw gets £50.

So, who would be up for it?


PLEASE post any ideas etc you have relating to this AND vote in the poll.

[--Mogwai--]

yah i went along tonight, but 5 mins too late to sign up for the free for all. =/

how does it work teams wise? surely if its 'more points, more chance at $$' its just all about the frag whoring and no actual teamwork??? what seems to be the case?

[Bluepixie]

Sounds cool only problem being that I work on Tuesday nights. I can get it changed but I need to know in advance. When were you thinking of doing this? How many for the team do we need? It is 16 player maps?

[Fyndir]

Sounds cool only problem being that I work on Tuesday nights. I can get it changed but I need to know in advance. When were you thinking of doing this? How many for the team do we need? It is 16 player maps?


I was thinking of doing it anytime everyone was free for it actually, basically get an idea of how many people could make it lets say..two weeks from now (the 21st) and then sort it from there, if not enough of us can then we could go on the 28th, or any Tuesday at all that suits the majority of us.

As for the maps, it's usually about 12 to 14 people to a team, medium size maps, not tiny, not the full sized 64 person though, usually the medium number of flags...if you see what I mean?



yah i went along tonight, but 5 mins too late to sign up for the free for all. =/

how does it work teams wise? surely if its 'more points, more chance at $$' its just all about the frag whoring and no actual teamwork??? what seems to be the case?


Well not really, because we're not just playing for the money, given that there's a LOT of people playing on different servers the chances of winning are minimal, but remember you can get a LOT of points through teamwork in BF2.

Also, it feels damned good to take on other proper teams and win. =)

[Fyndir]

*COUGHCOUGHCOUGHCOUGH*



Now that the obvious bump is over my real message:

It looks like this won't be happening, since almost no-one seems interested.

[Fyndir]

Well I was there tonight and we did alright, we were outnumbered (as much as 16 to 12 for a while) but we were actually doing better, we were just getting utterly zerged and eventually lost. =(


I got 3rd in the USMC, Best Combat, Best Engineer, 3rd overall...well, you'll see in the screenshots. =D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/Fyndir/14022006ScoreList.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/Fyndir/14022006topPlayers.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/Fyndir/14022006TopScores.jpg

[Strings]

Well done matey :)

How come people didnt even up the teams?

[Fyndir]

Well done matey :)

How come people didnt even up the teams?


It's the IGUK FFA matches, you're given a server and which team you've to join, the problem was that people who were MEANT to be on our team didn't turn up. >=(

So we were struggling against mighty odds, but as you can see from the scores (their commander score and best squad are especially telling of this), we were FAR more skilled.

[YegaDoyai]

I think you'll find this a prime example of 'kills = good' mentality.

Fyndir, you lost.

You had a much higher team score and yet you lost.

Why is this? Because you were better at killing than them? No.
You actually killed more of them, well done. However you and your team failed to hold the objectives and play as a team and subsequently lost. In no instance of BF2 should you attribute high personal score with gain. Getting gold stars is a bonus. The only thing you should be fighting for is the CPs, that's the only way to win the game.

On a happier note, well done, good score. Noobtubing were you?

EDIT- on second read, it appears that you alone were trying to defend (best CP defence score) however if you look at the overall teamwork scores they are far lower than most decent matches online.

Retraction: It appears that Fyndir was actually playing the game properly just his team was not. This post should not reflect on Fyndirs personal game play but the points made are still valid, hence why it is still posted.

[Fyndir]

I think you'll find this a prime example of 'kills = good' mentality.

Fyndir, you lost.

You had a much higher team score and yet you lost.

Why is this? Because you were better at killing than them? No.
You actually killed more of them, well done. However you and your team failed to hold the objectives and play as a team and subsequently lost. In no instance of BF2 should you attribute high personal score with gain. Getting gold stars is a bonus. The only thing you should be fighting for is the CPs, that's the only way to win the game.

On a happier note, well done, good score. Noobtubing were you?

EDIT- on second read, it appears that you alone were trying to defend (best CP defence score) however if you look at the overall teamwork scores they are far lower than most decent matches online.

Retraction: It appears that Fyndir was actually playing the game properly just his team was not. This post should not reflect on Fyndirs personal game play but the points made are still valid, hence why it is still posted.

Kills ARE good, because they help defend flags, but I know what you mean. =P

A fair amount of us were trying our best at defence, 32 person FuShe Pass was the map btw, and we did ok at keeping a few points, but with the added difficulty of being outnumbered anytime we tried to spread we got flanked horribly.

I fought as hard as I could for CPs, but when you're playing as engineer you need a fair bit of support (if you look I got best engineer), and that requires a lot of orginisation and talking, which once again didn't happen much due to a lot of people going for personal score, but just like with CS and most team-games I play I consider the team more important than myself, I will happily have a horrible score if it's helping my team to win.

As for noobtubing, there's no unlocks available in the IGUK FFA's, so I was playing with the bog standard USMC Engineer pump action.

I didn't get anywhere near as many teamwork scores as I would have liked due to people being stupid, driving off while I'm trying to repair them and other nonsense, or driving over my mines which I planted to help with flag defence.


Thank you for the retraction, although I would have thought that you knew me better than to think that in the first place, clearly we must play more BF2 together. =D

[Fyndir]

http://upload4.postimage.org/45562/BF221032006ScoreList.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/45562/photo_hosting.html)

http://upload4.postimage.org/45563/BF221022006TopPlayers.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/45563/photo_hosting.html)

http://upload4.postimage.org/45565/BF221032006TopScores.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/45565/photo_hosting.html)

I think that'll work...

Anyway, last Tuesday (21st's) scores.

[DAve]

That's a fantastic score there! :D

If you're going to be at Multiplay on Tuesday, I might drop by, depending on how next week goes.

[--Mogwai--]

' The commander points are every point earned by a member of your team during your reign as commander divided by the total of living team members at the given time. '

pld @ the rest of your tream i guess... =p

[Fyndir]

' The commander points are every point earned by a member of your team during your reign as commander divided by the total of living team members at the given time. '

pld @ the rest of your tream i guess... =p


Would they have done as well without my scans, spotteds, UAVs, supplies and artillery?

I severely doubt it tbh, they all commented at the end that I was being a 1337 commander with dropping that stuff.



Even if we did all forget that FF is OFF during the IGUK stuff, so the artillery was a bit gimped until about five minutes before the end. -_-

[Fyndir]

That's a fantastic score there! :D

If you're going to be at Multiplay on Tuesday, I might drop by, depending on how next week goes.

*Microplay. =P

But yeah, I should be there, hopefully you can join us, just be there before 6:30pm for the signup, match starts at about 7.

You'll also need an IGUK account, but anyone who's in (Andrew, Ray, Graeme) can help you set that up if you need it.

Other than that just have about £10 for time (4 hours for £10) or you could use their Student Card deal, which is £2 an hour and would be cheaper to get a few hours on, also you'll get +1 hour for creating an account. =D

So yeah, hope to see you there, and follow orders Soldier. ;)

[Fyndir]

No screenshots this week, since I fucked up and pissed off the store owner inadvertantly. >_>

HOWEVER:

http://www.iguk.org/?a=ticketday&ticketday=270 <--- I WON!
http://www.iguk.org/?a=ticketday&ticketday=270 <--- I WON!
http://www.iguk.org/?a=ticketday&ticketday=270 <--- I WON!
http://www.iguk.org/?a=ticketday&ticketday=270 <--- I WON!
http://www.iguk.org/?a=ticketday&ticketday=270 <--- I WON!


I finally get a soundcard, from what I understand it's a NICE one. =D

[DAve]

No screenshots this week, since I fucked up and pissed off the store owner inadvertantly. >_>
I finally get a soundcard, from what I understand it's a NICE one. =D
God job :D :---
Winners:*Fyndir - Creative X-FI SB FE
The soundcard is a good one, from what I hear from CustomPC magazine. It will boost BF2 frame rates by 5-10, I think. Oh, and sounds better too!

[YegaDoyai]

Played Fyndir, that is a sweet sound card. Can I have it? seeing as how you don't seem to know that it is any good? No? Ah well.....

<kicks heels and shuffles off>

[Fyndir]

Played Fyndir, that is a sweet sound card. Can I have it? seeing as how you don't seem to know that it is any good? No? Ah well.....

<kicks heels and shuffles off>

Actually I may not be able to fit it on my current motherboard due to space issues, although that may have been resolved with the new case, I'll have to see.

If I do have an issue with that I may offer it up as a prize for a Gunsoc tournament..

[Ru]

Or you could just give it to the most best-looking good-smelling dandy smashing demi-god. Oh thats ME!

[Strings]

Hah. Played Fyndir, certainly is a nicely nice card. Make sure to update yer drivers for it though. The default ones are kind of tempermental.

[Ru]

How much of your earthly pounds will you have to trade?

[Strings]

http://www.microplaygaming.com/prices.php

Basic Prices

* 1 Hour Credit - £3.50
* 4 Hours Credit - £10
* Weekday Pass* - £20
* Gold Pass (30hrs) - £50
* Platinum Pass (70hrs) - £100

*Weekday pass available Monday-Friday, only valid for day of purchase
Promotional Offers

* Intoductory Offer - 1st Hour Free!!!
* Bring a mate to claim an hour free!!!
* Every Tuesday - Student Night (Students play for £2 P/Hour Between 6pm and 10pm

Food & Drink

* Cans - 60p
* Redbull - £1.00
* Chocolate Bars - 40p
* Other Sweets - 60p
* Crisps from 40p

[Fyndir]

rawr

I got handed the card today, and I have no time to install it before the LAN. -_-


Anyone up for seeing if we can fit it in early on in the LAN?

[DAve]

rawr

I got handed the card today, and I have no time to install it before the LAN. -_-

Anyone up for seeing if we can fit it in early on in the LAN?
Sure :)

Just bring the card along, (see if you can find the updated drivers on the web too, according to Strings, they are much better)

[Fyndir]

rawr

I got handed the card today, and I have no time to install it before the LAN. -_-

Anyone up for seeing if we can fit it in early on in the LAN?
Sure :)

Just bring the card along, (see if you can find the updated drivers on the web too, according to Strings, they are much better)

Unfortunately I started dismantling my machine about 10 minutes after that post, so I hadn't thought of drivers.

Fortunately my ancient speakers work with the sound card and sound pretty sweet. ^^

Oh, and Yega, the only marking on them I can see is "harmon/kardon"

[Fyndir]

Fortunately my ancient speakers work with the sound card and sound pretty sweet. ^^


Forgot to check, is it the Icemat Siberia Audio Headset - Black (SP-000-IC) (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Gainward.html) that you were suggesting I get, Bluepixie?

[Fyndir]

This Week £50 up for Grabs! Watch out for
next week where we will have Raptor 150GB
hard drives worth over £150 each!


Souncards are all gone...Raptors are coming. =D


You KNOW you want your chance to win one.

[Bluepixie]

Fortunately my ancient speakers work with the sound card and sound pretty sweet. ^^


Forgot to check, is it the Icemat Siberia Audio Headset - Black (SP-000-IC) (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Gainward.html) that you were suggesting I get, Bluepixie?

Sorry, didn't see this post before! Yip, that's the ones that I have. You can give them a try at the next LAN if you want to try before you buy.

[Fyndir]

Sorry, didn't see this post before! Yip, that's the ones that I have. You can give them a try at the next LAN if you want to try before you buy.

Haha, too late, I got bored waiting and didn't want to bump the topic so I bought some already, I love them. ^^

The weird bit that moves at the top...it looks strange but it's REALLY comfy. =D