[DLM]->HighPlainsDrifter

Just posting to let ya'll know that I'm paying attention. Whatever you decide is fine with me. I have noticed lag on midwest #1. Today I was playing around noon and my ping went from 39 to 91 and I started laggin bad. Has happened before also. Thanks

Not at all. Just my 2 cents.

Swearing leads to team wounding Team wounding leads to team killing Team killing leads to banning This cycle leads to hurt feelings and loss of players on your servers This cycle is also not good for the growth of a community, which needs a constant influx of new, postive people to stay alive. This cycle is what will be happening if the admins had to explain to people over and over and over why they couldnt swear. Plus it wastes everyone's time on the servers because: 1. the admin is busy a. admin wont catch other problems brewing, (like hackers) b. admin wont have any fun because they are constantly typing and not playing 2. the explanation radio traffic will disrupt any teamwork oriented traffic 3. other people that might otherwise be playing will be typing trying to help 4. All the positive energy that is constantly generated on the servers will be sucked into one person's rant like a black hole because the normal positive congrats for a nice shot and other things will be lost in all the typing and radio traffic Sooooo......isnt it so much easier to just nip this whole, big mess in the bud and just do two things, 1. Tell everyone not to swear, and 2. Kick the people who do swear. Trust me, I've been in DLM for what seems like forever, (translation, since before CS came out), and Mmmm was around back then. I've also seen lots of clans come and go, but you know what? Mmmm has found a way to survive and also found a way so that all involved clans can grow through the Gamer's Coaltiion. Its very difficult and time consuming to run a good server that you can get people to come to day after day, and have a good group of admins to keep the peace. GC deserves a heap of credit for pulling it off. You have to also look at the GC servers as not just a server to go and shoot some people on, because that is only 10% of what their servers do. GC servers serve to bring together people who might never meet and make friends of them. GC servers create a tight network of people who will help each other out in real life if needed. GC servers allow an 80 person LAN party at a hotel over 3 days to be a great time and reunion for old and new friends. GC servers allow for parents to feel good about their kids playing games online, knowing that there is parental supervision, team building skills, and posiitive motivation there, not just mindless violence. In short, GC servers are HOME to many of its players. If they allow you into their home, is it too much to ask of you to not swear? I dont think so.

Good Job on getting Taco Bell to give us a discount, Mr. Duke! The TB deal also works out to 20% off!

For those who arent aware, Pizza Hut in Hudson is giving us a 20% discount the whole weekend on everything they have! And they deliver to the hotel! No minimum orders either, you just tell them that you're with FragFest at the Holiday Inn and they'll hook you up!

True gamers will not be showering over the course of the weekend anywho......

No one wants to sit at Table E vil ! why? Perhaps it enjoys the taste of human flesh a little too much?

Twenty Four!

Im on it already! See www.fragfestohio.com to see the sponsors banners. If you have any companies that you think would be interested or that you have a contact name to, please post them here. Thanks! If you or anyone else would be interested in helping out with sponsorships next year, post that in a new thread titled something like, "Im interested in helping out with sponsorships" Seriously , though, we could use some help getting names and phone numbers of interested companies.

They have a pretty good lunch buffet too!!! Pizza and Salad and Pizza and garlic breadsticks, cinnamon sticks and dessert pizza!! All you can eat!!!!

If you're going to FragFest, (and if you're reading this and aren't signed up yet, what are you waiting for?! Go now, brother!! Sign up and reserve your seat!! Don't miss out on the good times!! Who wants to look at the pictures and videos and read the posts when you could have been IN the pictures and videos and talked about in the posts!!!), PIZZA HUT will give ALL OF US 20% off ANYTHING they sell, (that you can eat, of course), And the best part is........THEY DELIVER TO THE HOTEL!! Just tell em that you're attending FragFestOhio when you order, and you'll get 20% off!!!

HighPlainsDrifter XL Thanks!

thats an awesome design man! what do you do for a living?

Hello Everyone! Here's the updated list of all the generous companies donating their time, money and products for our LAN this year! Remember, you can't win nothin' if ya don't show up!! Sign up now and reserve a good seat fer yerself!!! They're goin' fast!!!! Musicmatch, Corsair Memory, Case Ace/Gear Grip, Thermal right, bawls, Razerzone, Kendall Howard, Activision, Big donkey Fans, Arctic Silver, Wolf PC Systems, Jolt, Hacker Threads, Holiday Inn, SHattered Web, Mushkin Memory , DFI Motherboards, Cisco, Fineline, Legal Images,

Hey out there to anyone who is waiting to sign up! Why wait till gameday to buy a ticket when you can sign up now at a cheaper rate? And to those of you who arent sure if you want to go, I just wanted to let you know that we will be giving away, yes , that's right, Giving Away! prizes from a ton of sponsoring companies! From the likes of Bawls, Razerzone, Kendall Howard,(a nice server case!),Activision, Big A s s Fans, Arctic Silver, Wolf PC Systems, Jolt , Thermal Right , Gear Grip, and many more! But you can't get the FREE prizes unless you sign up, and the more people that are signed up, the more prizes we can get! So if you have any doubts in your head about attending this year's FragFest, erase em right now and sign up!!! Cya there! HighPlainsDrifter

Thanks everyone. My wife deserves all the credit.

Hey everybody, See if you can add to this list of possible sponsors for Fragfest 2005! It's fun for the whole family! ATI Antec AMD Aspire Altec Lansing Adamant Activision Alienware Amazon Abit Akasa Anarchy Online Arctic Silver Arden Computers Asus AGE Enterprises Ale 81 Averatec Bawls BFG Tech Brady Gmaes Big Huge Games Best Buy Big donkey Fans BGcg.net Bloom Microtech Bran Zone Big Bruin Belkin Corsair mem Cooler Master Case Wraps Crucial Mem Coca Cola Casecooler.com Casair Covad Cisco Computer Geeks Cousins Paintball Codemasters Cyberguys Cableone Chenbro Cardkeeper Cablecrazy ComputerStop Compucare Coolerguys Cooltechnical CreativeLabs Case Ace Chaintech Cable Organizer Centon Memory Casemods.com Circuit City DFI(mobo) D-Link(network) Dex Systems (pads) Digital Jesters Digicon-sa.com Digital Concepts Danger Den (cooling) Diamond Multimedia Digi-link comps Digi-dog Photo Eden(repair) EA Games Extreme Coffee/Shock Extreme Networkz Epox Everglide(pad) EnergyPimp(food) Fineline(networkCbl) FoxConn(systems) Fileplanet F5 Networks Fiberfrag Gamespy Gamers Card(visa) Gaming Matrix GearGrip Gaming Bomb Gamers stuff Geil Gigabyte Gamespot Gamestop Real Gamers The Gaming Project Gaming horizon Giant.net Genitech Hosting Games.net Hackerthreads Human Head HyperCore Hardware HQ Isogames INTEL Ideazon Icemat ID Software ITT Tech Institute ICC Computing Icydock IceMountain water IDC Web Develop JoltGum Jinx clothes Kendall Howard Kensington Kingston Kent Fried Chick KOA Power.com Kryptec Games Logitech Lanparty.com Litepads LanAddict Linksys Mushkin Memory Monster Gecko Music Match Midnight Hosting Monarch Computers MyGameTV.com Mythic Entertainment Mouse Bungee MGE Usa Moovitz Microsoft Midtown Micro Madcatz Mindfire Studios Mountain Mods Matrix Orbital NZXT Netboundries Nvidia NRG NYKO NewEgg Nomad Internet Nanotherm Netgear Norton Optorite OCZ mem Orion Comp Sys Pepsi PC Club Power Color vidcard Powmax cases PlanetQuake PC tote Peach Pit Pyramat Pizza Hut Purell Razerzone Redbull Roger Wilco Raven Software Re-PC(recycle pc) Seasonic SOYO Spire Silver Stone Steel Pad Sennheisser Sapphire tech Shattered Web Sudhain Strategy First Softmatrix Speakeasy Sybex Speeze Shadow Majik Startech.com Seagate Samsung Viewsonic Sunstorm Thermal Right Thermal Take TigerDirect Tweak Monster Transcend USA Thrustmaster UMPH US Robotics Ultra Products Velocity Micro Video Game Depot Vantec Via Wire Weight Wahoo Computers Wetplanet WolfPC Waffertech xgbox x-trac xoxoide ximeta XTZ xbags YooHoo yourPC Gear Zonet ZipZoom Fly Zerotoys ZiffDavis

We are all Mother Earth's Children, and her kids are more than welcome at FF05!!!!

DONE! Feel free to erase this post

I did. Thanks. Fatty, you know what we want. Please post here telling Urk what he needs to do to make it happen. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks.

Hiya! Hi! Please see Fattys post below. He will properly instruct you on what we need. Thanks pal!

Did I say "states of the US of A" only? I meant to say "states of the US of A and other great countries of the world" Sorry for the omission. I corrected my original post.

keep up the good work, it reminds me when I have to leave the bar. (I never believe them when they say last call. Their clocks are never right.)

Was wondering how many states in the US of A and other great countries of the world we will be including in our little shindig. Anyone coming from anywhere other than Ohio?

Correct! Just looking for basic info here, who you are, how we contact you, what company you think would sponsor us,and what they could provide, (if we dont recognize what they do from their name) Thanks alot for taking time to post here guys!