Author Topic: Shenanigan's Vent (Read 3024 times)

chrisinajar · « **on:** August 12, 2009, 07:45:58 am »

So, I think it's about time we get us our own vent... We play a few different games now, I think it would be great to have one SHENS vent with a channel for each game we play in it (and possibly some sub channels, and misc channels)... I know I would idle in the vent just about all the time, I think it would be really awesome... especially since Virally got banned from our last squat. I, personally, don't like jumping from squat to squat, and I'd love to just tell people to connect to vent.maggotry.com and be able to admin it ourselves with whatever channels we want. That would be awesome.

I want to get a vent large enough for the WoWcoholics to use for their raids while TF2 matches are going, and possibly some peeps on HoN all at the same time...

Here are some prices for vent servers, very cheap thanks to the price hunting skills of ihaveworms
10 slot - $2
15 slot - $2.45
20 slot - $3.45
25 slot - $4
35 slot - $5
50 slot - $7.45
75 slot - $10

So, I want feedback on three things here...
1) Do you think we need a vent at all? (I think so a lot

)
2) What size do you think we should go for? (I'm thinking 50, so a full WoW raid doesn't cap out the vent, gives us a lot of room to grow, and it's not too expensive)
3) What do we, as the admins of shens, need to do to get some donations out of you regular shens folk? (I vote nothing, go donate now. I realize that a lot of you are underage and don't have any method of donating, my answer to that is to get mommy and daddy to do it.)

Thanks for the feedback!

Daguava [BBC] · « **Reply #1 on:** August 12, 2009, 08:34:03 am »

I can't exactly weigh in on the ventrillo part of the post, but I haz an idea about the donations.

It would be great if there was something very visible, maybe next to the forum banner or something, that told us where we stood on server moneys (a chart, meter, or something?), maybe it would motivate people to donate when we were down. As soon as my paychecks start rolling in (just got a job) I should be able to help out a little bit, but it all depends.

Desert Eagle · « **Reply #2 on:** August 12, 2009, 09:24:41 am »

I fucking hate vent and hope I never have to use it ever again.

Ihaveworms · « **Reply #3 on:** August 12, 2009, 09:41:00 am »

Quote from: Desert Eagle on August 12, 2009, 09:24:41 am

I fucking hate vent and hope I never have to use it ever again.

Well...If you play games in any organized fashion (guilds/clans), be prepared to use it.

Desert Eagle · « **Reply #4 on:** August 12, 2009, 09:45:24 am »

I play Left 4 Dead on xbox live with a bunch of friends but that's pretty much the extent of any "organized" game playing that I do.

band-aid · « **Reply #5 on:** August 12, 2009, 09:46:39 am »

Id say 35 at the bare minimum. Just in case crazy 25 mans happen in world of warcraft. Those prices are really good too.

PS, sincewhen did it give you a warning if a new reply was posted while you were writing yours?

chrisinajar · « **Reply #6 on:** August 12, 2009, 04:44:10 pm »

since always, and wtf is wrong with deagle? I'm assuming a jackass friend of his logged into his account or something like that, i dunno...

Anyway, yeah, I want the vent to be 25-man-raid-able in case all you WoWcoholics gather a bunch of random people from the internet and do a turbo raid. It would be great to just have a vent we can all use for whatever we want. 50 man gives us another 25 after the WoW raid, which is enough for a TF2 match and a few other games to be played at once without capping it out. Honestly, there will probably be 7 people on there at once in most instances...

I'll look into embedding some kind of money thing, but my theory is basically if you are able to donate, you should. It would be very much appreciated, even dropping a few bucks a month is a few bucks less that needs to be picked up at the end of the month by Bobby or myself...

Desert Eagle · « **Reply #7 on:** August 12, 2009, 08:27:44 pm »

I'm a jackass because I hate vent? Thanks.

chrisinajar · « **Reply #8 on:** August 12, 2009, 08:40:06 pm »

Quote from: Desert Eagle on August 12, 2009, 08:27:44 pm

I'm a jackass because I posted a dozen pointlessly mean troll-posts

Fixed, Ozzie.

Desert Eagle · « **Reply #9 on:** August 12, 2009, 09:04:57 pm »

Yeah me getting drunk one night != being a racist ignorant inbred teenager.

chrisinajar · « **Reply #10 on:** August 12, 2009, 09:09:24 pm »

No argument here.

Desert Eagle · « **Reply #11 on:** August 12, 2009, 09:12:29 pm »

Cool, glad you agree!

smitty · « **Reply #12 on:** August 12, 2009, 09:51:05 pm »

wait what... virally got banned from fallout vent?

Kanji · « **Reply #13 on:** August 12, 2009, 10:04:40 pm »

Quote from: chrisinajar on August 12, 2009, 04:44:10 pm

Anyway, yeah, I want the vent to be 25-man-raid-able in case all you WoWcoholics gather a bunch of random people from the internet and get turbo aids.

Fixed for accuracy

Kanji · « **Reply #14 on:** August 12, 2009, 10:05:50 pm »

Quote from: chrisinajar on August 12, 2009, 09:09:24 pm

No argument here.

Ozzie II? Now thats a little harsh Chris.

chrisinajar · « **Reply #15 on:** August 12, 2009, 10:12:21 pm »

Quote from: smitty on August 12, 2009, 09:51:05 pm

wait what... virally got banned from fallout vent?

Yeah, apparently he was jumping from channel to channel spamming loud metal music, or at least that's what i was told. Wicked funny, but definitely a bannable offence...

So how about it folks? Will anyone besides me, and maybe sometimes bobby, pay for this thing?

Weegee · « **Reply #16 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:01:33 am »

Quote from: smitty on August 12, 2009, 09:51:05 pm

wait what... virally got banned from fallout vent?

This is news to me as well.

Ihaveworms · « **Reply #17 on:** August 13, 2009, 06:08:36 am »

I'm not surprised.

chrisinajar · « **Reply #18 on:** August 13, 2009, 04:02:40 pm »

Quote from: Weegee on August 13, 2009, 06:01:33 am

Quote from: smitty on August 12, 2009, 09:51:05 pm
wait what... virally got banned from fallout vent?
This is news to me as well.

That's why we're using the REC vent again

... Ho0ber even made us a channel there

chrisinajar · « **Reply #19 on:** August 15, 2009, 08:54:59 pm »

So, lets get a 50 slot vent... Go worms go!

Ihaveworms · « **Reply #20 on:** August 15, 2009, 09:13:54 pm »

Well, we havent had any people say if they wanted to help pay or not yet lol.

chrisinajar · « **Reply #21 on:** August 15, 2009, 09:21:11 pm »

they wont, it's cheap though. Mag just got a job, and maybe (since it'll be used for your wowing) you TN bros can help out. Worse case I'm ok with dropping another couple of bucks a month.. It'll be really nice to have a SHENS vent, and I think it'll help the community stay together as we stretch across several games...

Once you get it, use your fancy web interface for the domain (that or give me access to it) and set vent.maggotry.com to the vent, and tf2.maggotry.com to the tf2 server...

Indeed.

Ihaveworms · « **Reply #22 on:** August 16, 2009, 02:48:51 am »

Vent is up now:

vent.maggotry.com
port: 5032

oENDERo · « **Reply #23 on:** August 16, 2009, 03:25:21 am »

you kind sirs are my internet best buddies. =D

Daguava [BBC] · « **Reply #24 on:** August 16, 2009, 04:40:42 am »

In the future I may be able to donate, but currently my training pay is barely enough to cover gas and things like that

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Author Topic: Shenanigan's Vent (Read 3024 times)

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