WIT Gaming Soc

christophicus

Just wondering if anyone knows if this is still up and running? I tried to get in contact with them in September and had no success. I used the mobile number that is given on the WIT website.

EDIT: Sorry for double post , boards.ie is having some database errors atm. Can you delete one of the threads plz Sully.

EDIT #2: Interested in joining or helping out with WITLess Gaming Society? Please visit our website here:- http://www.witgs.co.cc/. Visit the later posts in this thread for up-to-date information!

ec18

nope not this year

christophicus

Damn thats a shame. I am going to look into resurrectingit next year then. Hopefully there will be some interest. Where you a member of it before if you don't mind me asking ??

AdMMM

As I mentioned in another thread, I'd like to help you get this back up and running. Haven't classified myself as a gamer in quite some time (not since the glorious CS days) but would most certainly be interested in the sponsorship side of things before building my new rig.

christophicus

Sponsorship?

Yeah I am deffo going to try and do this, I will more then likely take you up on your offer to help .

ec18

I was briefly...they didn't do much and it wasn't lan gaming it was magic the gathering and warhammer...that sort of thing

ec18

I was briefly...they didn't do much and it wasn't lan gaming it was magic the gathering and warhammer...that sort of thing

christophicus

Yeah thats the strange thing, on the WIT website it says PC gaming, dosn't mention anything about boardgames/cardgames/tabletop games.

What I am thinking of is PC gaming, none of the above. Perhaps I should not try to carry on the WITless gaming name then, as I do not want people thinking it is the aforementioned .

stick-dan

Christohicus, there are others who would be interested in helping you with that, members of my class have tried before to start it up again and to no avail! They too only wanted the pc game side of things like counter strike source and pro evolution soccer and most xbox, pc, and play-station games. I'll get them to post up here!:)

christophicus

Cool good to know. Yeah it would be very helpfull to get them to post here if possible. I myself am not a CS fan, I prefer CoD and BF, but obviously CS is so big that that would be one of the main games played. Its good to see some enthusiasm surrounding this .

jakedixon2004

Well i am not in WiT yet but im almost there and i would be very interested in setting up a gamers soc next year and would love to help with things such as organising lans and tournos.

christophicus

Cool man, I am actually going to go into the Clubs and Socs office today to get as much info as I can about setting up the club.

Sully

christophicus wrote: »

Cool man, I am actually going to go into the Clubs and Socs office today to get as much info as I can about setting up the club.

Best of luck :P

christophicus

Heheh cheers man .

AdMMM

It's not that daunting. I'll advise you to get the basics set up now so you can have a stall at Clubs and Socs day which is vital to recruit members!

Sully

|.Murderer.| wrote: »

It's not that daunting. I'll advise you to get the basics set up now so you can have a stall at Clubs and Socs day which is vital to recruit members!

Well if Clubs & Socs are as unhelpful as they were with me, then he isn't going to have a clue what to do or how to go about things! Take him on under your wing there Adam and show him the way things are done!

christophicus

|.Murderer.| wrote: »

It's not that daunting. I'll advise you to get the basics set up now so you can have a stall at Clubs and Socs day which is vital to recruit members!

Your help would be much appreciated man, as is anyones that is interested in helping out with this, if only just to bounce idea's around.

One thing that i am concerned about is actuall interest in such a Club/Soc. The fact that it was present before, but then stopped a year or two ago would lead me to believe that back then, at least there was very little interest in it.

Still, I am going to try and get this going, hopefully there will be alot of interest in it .

The guy in Clubs and Socs, was reasonably helpfull, although he could not aswer some of my questions as they depend on other factors and we will have to set up a meeting with other people.

What I really need atm is someone that can do professional looking posters.

jakedixon2004

Any news on the gaming soc.

christophicus

I have to have a meeting with Comp Services and since I was only looking into this in the last week of lectures there was no time. I will try and get a meeting asap, I don't know if Comp Services is even there during the summer, I will have to check it out.

Regardless of the results of the meeting i will be setting up the club, but I want to make it the best it can be thats why I need to sort a few things out.

The more people that we get to better though obviously. A few people have already said they are interested and willing to help so I will try and get them together in or around the time college starts next year to get everyone's ideas together.

jakedixon2004

Well u can count on me as a member next year and i would be glad to help in any way possible

stick-dan

sorry i never got back to ya, the lads i was talking to are not bothered with it next year. He not sure if he coming back and the other lad left. Is the S-net server still operational in the college or did they not shut that down.

christophicus

Thats good to hear Jake, just make sure you get in ( and I'll working on not failing this year and dropping out ) .

No problem Dan, that sucks though. Yeah the S-net server was shut down afaik a while ago.

Sully

Yup Snet was dropped due to lack of interest. We tried to get interest and while people signed up, getting a time and place to suit people was proving difficult. Then server problems arrose and speculation was rife that the other lad running it with me was downloading of it lol.

But ya, Snet is gone!

christophicus

I'm sorry you are going to have to fill me in here a bit. I thought S-net was for the most part a site and forum for WIT Students to hang out on? When you say "getting a time and place to suit people was proving difficult" what do you mean? What did you need to get people together for ??

jakedixon2004

Well as long as i get the points for one of the three courses i applied for down in WiT i will help we out but until then i am useless to ye

witless_steve

As far as I can remember WITless gamers collapsed under the weight of inept management really, not enough recruitment of fresh talent so it ran out of steam. Well a few internal splits didn't help things out either.
Not sure if you want to go down the traditional gaming route or the PC gaming route. If the PC route I'd forget about getting any help from the college on that score, I think the only route that was open when I was there to do that was to rent out a gaming cafe and have a gaming night there.
If you want to go down the traditional route let me know I have a few contacts for that part of the world that are still alive and kicking.

WITless gamers won't really die as long as there is always some old hand around to keep the name alive. At least until someone gets their head together and floats the society again.

rogue-entity

christophicus wrote: »

I'm sorry you are going to have to fill me in here a bit. I thought S-net was for the most part a site and forum for WIT Students to hang out on? When you say "getting a time and place to suit people was proving difficult" what do you mean? What did you need to get people together for ??

S-Net as I recall was always there to provide for computer students, what the college was unable or unwilling to provide.
Members got shell access to a Linux server, with various software compilers (C, C++, Java).
Members were also free to host their own websites, and most of the features you normally only get with paid-for hosting, were provided for free (PHP, PERL, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc).
Members also got a nicer email address compared to the college's offering.
e.g. witless@snet.wit.ie instead of 20007777@student.wit.ie

Of course, we did have our website and our forum, but by-and-large, they were not active.

As for starting a WIT lan gaming event, the only place I can think of that used to do this before, was the old Cybermart internet cafe on the Park Road.

christophicus

Thanks for the info Steve. When you refer to the traditional route are you talking about consoles ( ie. Playstation / Xbox / Wii ) , or are you talking about D&D,Warhammer, chess and all of that lark?

I am thinking of trying to cater both PC and Console groups. I myself am a PC gamer, but I would like to have console gamers too as there seems to be a growing console scene in Ireland ( we are/were the country with the most PS2's per head of capita outside of Japan ) and I would like to try and facilitate that too.


OK thanks for clearing that up rogue-entitity. I was actually just thinking the other day how it is disgracefull that they do not give us at least a minute amount of those reasources that were provided by S-Net.

jakedixon2004

Does anyone play Company Of Heroes down n WiT because i am the uncrowned king of that game and would love to whoop some a$$ when i get down there in September

rogue-entity

christophicus wrote: »

OK thanks for clearing that up rogue-entitity. I was actually just thinking the other day how it is disgracefull that they do not give us at least a minute amount of those reasources that were provided by S-Net.

True, but at the same time, they were not used much. If the interest is there, I rescued the server hard-drives so I have a complete backup of the user's home directories, the website and the forums, and it wouldn't take me long to set up a VPS, domain and restore everything.

If you succeed in getting the gaming soc back up and running, and want to setup a website/forum combo, I would be interested in helping.

christophicus

jakedixon2004 wrote: »

Does anyone play Company Of Heroes down n WiT because i am the uncrowned king of that game and would love to whoop some a$$ when i get down there in September

I don't personally I am more of an FPS man, but seeing as that game was so popular I am sure there will be someone that plays it.


Thanks for the offer rogue. I may take you up on that we will certainly be trying to get a website and forums set up.