Is this correct?

Nicky · 13-03-2001 7:19am #1

read this over on polosatiys homepage (ps.xaos.ru)

Date: 2001-03-13 02:06:37 Subj: news [0 Comments]
At main CPL Europe page refreshed list of qualifier tournaments. Look at this:

Ireland - Does not compute gaming cafe - 17 march
Ireland - Nethouse gaming cafe - 31 march
Russia, Saint-Peterburg - Hamillion gaming cafe - 7 april
Holland, Tilburg - The cybe gaming cafe - 8 april

Jedi · 13-03-2001 8:02am

Where this does not compute place?

Ser · 13-03-2001 8:37am

maybe the other cafe wil let us use our own mice?

Gerry · 13-03-2001 9:09am

The does not compute place is for the cpl counterstrike qualifiers. Its not Nethouse who arent letting us use our own mice, its the organiser. We should be allowed use our own mice, just no drivers. Which would you rather, your own mouse, perhaps minus some buttons, or some **** mouse you never played with before?

Ser · 13-03-2001 9:39am

ok, both suck

mouse will not work without drivers,

and to use mice provided is stupid.

doesnt take long to install drivers/reboot.

who is the 'organisers' then?

Shiminay · 13-03-2001 1:44pm

OK lads, for those of you who were there last time, would it have worked as well if people had to go installing mice etc after *every* match? It'd have been pants and the whole thing (which ran a little late as it was) would definitely have slowed to snails pace.

It's a simple time factor - I'm all for using your own mice, but sometimes it's just not possible.

All the best,

Dav
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Gerry · 14-03-2001 12:57am

Mindphuck, and nethouse staff I presume.

Gerry · 14-03-2001 1:08pm

My point was, let people plug in their own mouse, don't let them install drivers, disqualify them or whatever if they do. Most mice work with standard drivers. This way, you can get movement you are used to, minus a few buttons. It doesnt take very long to do this ffs, plug out the old mouse, and plug in the new one. 10 seconds work.

Shiminay · 14-03-2001 2:09pm

Well, thing is Gerry - it's not that simple - you've got to shut the machine down and then do the 10 seconds thing and then fire the machine back up (unless of course you've got USB which isn't the case for everyone).

However - this exact same issue is up on quake.ie and looks like the issue's solved!

All the best,

Dav
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creative · 14-03-2001 2:34pm

Why dont you just group machines into different mice/drivers. All the logitech people use these 8 machines...microsoft those 8 machines.. etc etc. Those machines stay that way for the duration of the comp.

Everyone happy...no constant changing of drivers...everyone gets to use their fav mouse.....yadda yadda yadda...

Gay_Baby · 14-03-2001 4:39pm

GG.

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quozl · 14-03-2001 10:17pm

I'll be useing my own mouse in the DNC qualifier. I even have my own intellimouse and dell mouse mat behind the counter in there

quozl

DeVore · 15-03-2001 12:04am

Kharn is right.

The only way to run an competition like that allowing your own mice would be to choose the top 8 players (judgement call on the part of the organisers) and
have pre-qualifiers to pick another 8 people from the public (playing with cafe mice).

Put all 16 into the cafe again with one machine each and their own mice and play them off.

That sounds vaguely workable BUT there are some hidden problems:
1. 2 days of cafe time doubles the cost to the cafe.

2. Who are the top 8 players? Thats going to be some row...

3. The publicly chosen 8 would still have to qualify using cafe mice.

Instead of complaining in monosyllabic, single sentence posts, why not suggest a way around the problem if you can see one?
Kharns point is glaringly obvious, the added time would kill the event.

DeV.

WhiteWashMan · 15-03-2001 12:27am

a players does not get hit skills from a mouse. its not samson a nd delilah here...
just use the mice. anyway, having a 4 button mouse is a bit like having a stop watch to time quad on your monitor really when you thinkn about it.....

Bunny · 15-03-2001 12:51am

Not that many are gonna turn up?...16 maybe?
I will be away.

[This message has been edited by Bunny (edited 14-03-2001).]

Gerry · 15-03-2001 9:04am

Hmm, seems to work fine for me every time in nethouse, by switching mice without powering down the machine. Never had any probs with that yet.