Watching Shade's Vlogs and the casts of Lan have gotten me all excited, and I have decided to host a lan at my house, albeit a slightly smaller one than ESEA. Have invited 10 people, a mixture of laptop and desktop users. I've done it before, and it went pretty well but there were things that needed improvements, and I have a few questions

-My router only has 4 lan slots. Last time the laptop users were pretty screwed by the internet, with massive packet loss between the 6 of them to one router. Is there a way to turn those 4 lan slots into more? Can I connect another router to the phone line?

-What are good games to play at lans? We'll be playing tf2, with some prophunt, saxton hale, maybe some bball or something, but we need some others. Preferably not internet-reliant (e.g. I can host the server myself) as internet speeds in New Zealand are pretty shitty and between 10 people it isnt great.

-Any other just general tips for fun lans?
Cheers lads!

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Really good guide, even more in depth than harbleu's one. This kind of thing is incredibly useful to new players, especially being able to see all the classes in one video so as to get a view of the midfight as a whole. 10/10

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Use aliases.

alias player1 "Their Name"

bind key "spec_player player1"

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On this note, Gggygly will you sign my pain train? It caps points really well

What's the best way to get people to sign my weapons?

I'd quite like to get one from B4nny, Ruwin and/or Plat, but are any of them realistic? Seeing as they don't stream often and aren't that active on the forums.

Any help would be appreciated

I heard in a cast on Gullywash week that ZBryan has a gunboats rollout that gets him to mid around the same speed of a demo doing the "B4nny" rollout. Is there a video somewhere of this rollout, or just an explanation?

How is it more time consuming to have the information always on your screen? It doesn't take time to look to the edge of your screen, you should be able to see your whole screen.

I'll look into restrictions on that.

Normal crosshairs dont disappear either.

Is there a way to add these features to the scoreboard? I haven't done any hud editing.

bind f oneno

alias onevm "bind MWHEELUP onevmbind; bind f oneno; r_drawviewmodel 1"
alias oneno "bind MWHEELUP onenobind; bind f onevm; r_drawviewmodel 0"
alias twovm"bind e twovmbind; bind f twono; r_drawviewmodel 1"
alias twono "bind e twonobind; bind f twovm; r_drawviewmodel 0"
alias threevm "bind MWHEELDOWN threevmbind; bind f threeno; r_drawviewmodel 1"
alias threeno "bind MWHEELDOWN threenobind; bind f threevm; r_drawviewmodel 0"
alias onevmbind "slot1; r_drawviewmodel 1; bind f oneno"
alias onenobind "slot1; r_drawviewmodel 0; bind f onevm"
alias twovmbind "slot2; r_drawviewmodel 1; bind f twono"
alias twonobind "slot2; r_drawviewmodel 0; bind f twovm"
alias threevmbind "slot3; r_drawviewmodel 1; bind f threeno"
alias threenobind "slot3; r_drawviewmodel 0; bind f threevm"
bind MWHEELUP onevmbind
bind MWHEELDOWN threevmbind
bind e twovmbind

Is what I have. Then in every class, I can re-alias the binds so I have changing crosshairs, etc, and have a default viewmodel setup on every class (shotgun off for soldier, all on for spy). F simply toggles the given weapon's viewmodel. So if I have my rocket out, I toggle, and then the rocket will remain viewmodel off until I change class/restart the game.

Is that what you were after?

Also, because there isn't any exec, i think it avoids lag (i never used many execs, so not sure whether they lag).

I would quite like a spectator-hud like version of Omp's scoreboard for regular use, with just class icon and score, with one team on either side. I can turn my scoreboard on permanently with +score in console, and I could bind that, and I can switch weapons with use tf_weapon_whatever. If a hud maker could help me, I would appreciate it.

tl;dr I want scoreboard on the sides of my screen with class icon and score, nothing else

I scanned the hud page, and searched the internet, but couldnt find any.

Something like this, but with score instead of health:

http://i.imgur.com/EzcebqP.jpg

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