[Year 12 IPM] OT : LAN gaming

[Andrew Shortell]

Andrew,
Counter strike is a game that encourages a lot of noise from the
participants. (I really mean a lot.)  The game server needs its firewall
disabled. The game runs quicker on a dedicated machine. 

Questions I would ask include:
Parental permission ?
Encouraging violence?
Against the ethos of TC College - religious affiliation etc, biblically
inclined parents etc
Bad reaction from RE teachers?

The fact that it will be almost entirely boys .. this is not a girl
friendly environment ... 

I endured it on Wednesday afternoons last year --- some loved it, some
grew bored

LAN gaming is big, there must be better ones out there than CS
Good luck

Andrew Shortell
Braemar College 


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Subject: [Year 12 IPM] OT : LAN gaming

Apologies for the off topic question

Some of my students have expressed interest in wanting to run a lunch
time LAN party using the schools network before we rule it out or go
ahead with it I wanted to see if any other schools had actually done it
and what issues we might face.

We have already begun to look at the following aspects;
Game Rating and audience.
Licenses
Installation

The students wanted to use Counter strike. There idea is charge a small
admission fee and donate the money to charity.

Any help or advice would be great.
Andrew

Andrew Weir
Head Of Information Technology
VK3HFT
Thomas Carr College
35 Thomas Carr College Tarneit