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I am not sure I agree about LMGs. If you have cover you don't have to go prone, and going prone is actually good for avoiding bullets at least in my experience. In the end, we will hopefully get a balanced product, which thus far it is doing well.

PTW

I can playtest, may also learn WAD scripting.

SVN good?
EDIT: Looked at noip, looks pretty good for what it is.

After some playing around with the laptop, It seems to be incapable of exceeding 30 fps on  a server with 1 player, which means that it will not work the way I intend it to. Do you guys have any good ideas for what I should host on this laptop as it would be doing nothing otherwise.

Really? I was under the impression that the data packets sent between client and server were in order of kilobytes.

Hello,

I have recently found myself in the possession of some old systems, their specs are following:

1) 1.8 ghz core 2 duo, 2.5 gb ddr2, 250 gb (7200rpm?) hdd
2) 1.2 ghz core 2 mobile, 2 gb ddr2 laptop, 80 gb 5400rpm hdd
3) 2.8ghz pentium single core, 512mb ddr ram, 40gb ide hdd(not sure on rpm)

I was thinking of setting these up (at least the first two) as dedicated game servers for my friends and experimented with the first to see if it could support team fortress 2 at 24 players, It could.

After this foray into making servers I have become quite hooked on setting them up and since I don't use these I was planning on setting up each with one dedicated game server(Team fortress 2, Killing Floor and CS:1.6). I have a few questions regarding this:

- Do you think that 1 mbps upload could support these 3 simultaneously(I am probably not going to use the last pc as it is rather older than the others)?

- Are these good choices or are there better games to run on such aging hardware?

- I want to have these running 24/7. However, the first pc is in another person's room who isn't comfortable with it running while he is sleeping but I am, and the router is also in that room and it has ethernet only. Would it be a good idea to buy a cheap WiFi card and simply move it out of the room?

Thank you for the help.

Well a Jabberwock attacked me in my shelter while I was sleeping, much to my surprise.

Thank god for a good Saiga 12 and chitin armour when you need it.


P.S : where can I find skill books other than randomly in houses/zombies and houses.

To me at least they are quite easy, but I have been doing them for the better part of 4 years. However, the challenge is actually designing a program and making all the parts work.

To a degree, once you have learnt something like C/C++ you can grasp all others within a weekend (unless it is a functional language like Lisp or Haskell).

Personally I love C, but that is because I don't give up that easily. Otherwise try Python as that is a dream for a beginner IMHO.