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Bringing the gaming community closer on MoTK through private battle.net
Helepolis:
Our own defense of the shrines community isn't large, but we have become quite close with the amount of people. Pesco was brainstorming this idea if we could have a central hosted private battle.net, so people can join and play Defense of the Ancient/Shrines.
After discussing it on IRC with our boss, TSO, we thought it would be more interesting to make this more broad, and not only for DotA/Dots. Therefore, without too much walls of text, the next question is asked:
"Would you use a MotK hosted Battle.net server?"
Please give us your honest vote and opinion regarding this. If there is enough support, we will put up our own private battle.net where people can play many types of blizzard games. Surely this is currently only focussed on battle.net games, but yea... let us hear it.
Pesco:
Yes and you know it.
The server helps smooth out hosting for our game group. And since it's a Bnet server, naturally we're open to try other games that can also make use of the server.
Bitmap:
Do you have to pay for DOTS since I'm pretty new to all of this...
helvetica:
The map is free. You still gotta own Warcraft 3 though.
The reason the bnet server came up was we were thinking of ways to channel community involvement beyond just forums and IRC. I used to run gameservers for #shrinemaiden long long ago (and was actually the original purpose of Triela) but that got shoved to the wayside as interest waned (and so did my bank account :().
I'm actually surprised by the nice turnout we got with the MotK Nethack server I threw up a month or so ago (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7037.0.html) and I just expanded my private TeamSpeak 3 server to host the DotS players and anyone else in the MotK community looking to run their mouths.
So this is an interest check to see if this is a direction we might want to invest in. At this point I cannot host any more on Triela, so this decision brings on possibly additional costs. So this is not something I want to put together for just 5-10 people to use.
Basically this server wouldn't be limited to just DotS (even if it was the initial reason it was brought up), it could potentially host ANY Battle.net enabled game at the very least, possibly even other games as well depending on how much interest there is and what kind of funding we can secure. I think this is a great way to stress the "gaming" part of this gaming community, bringing us together as a whole while giving us an outlet to hang out with other than just what you see here.
Herasy:
Hell yes for this idea!