HoN and Lan Centers

[[NsW]Shambros]

Getting together with 4 other friends and playing TMM from the same room, or even getting 9 people to do in-house 5v5s is about as fun as HoN can get in my opinion. We used to have LAN centers nearby but they have all closed due to lack of business. We would of course play more than just HoN, but would you guys go to your local LAN center to play a game like HoN? Compete in local tournaments? If so, how awesome is it.....

[Ceriss]

that IP block only affects matchmaking, you can still play your own LAN tournaments in public games
and also 5 man team logging from same place will not be affected by this

[Grave`Digger]

that IP block only affects matchmaking, you can still play your own LAN tournaments in public games
and also 5 man team logging from same place will not be affected by this

Why is there an IP block? Does it matter if I play with 4 friends all over Germany or we meet up and play on 5 machines in the same room and are able to see the anger and hate in the faces?

[Ceriss]

Why is there an IP block? Does it matter if I play with 4 friends all over Germany or we meet up and play on 5 machines in the same room and are able to see the anger and hate in the faces?

the IP block only prevents you from joining games against players from same IP address as you, nothing more, nothing less. Only matchmaking games are affected, not public games. Also your own team is not affected by this. You can have as much people from same IP as you want in your team, but you will not meet people from same IP address as you in oposing team.

[Grave`Digger]

the IP block only prevents you from joining games against players from same IP address as you, nothing more, nothing less. Only matchmaking games are affected, not public games. Also your own team is not affected by this. You can have as much people from same IP as you want in your team, but you will not meet people from same IP address as you in oposing team.

Ah okay. That clears things up

[Bassrockerx]

Getting together with 4 other friends and playing TMM from the same room, or even getting 9 people to do in-house 5v5s is about as fun as HoN can get in my opinion. We used to have LAN centers nearby but they have all closed due to lack of business. We would of course play more than just HoN, but would you guys go to your local LAN center to play a game like HoN? Compete in local tournaments? If so, how awesome is it.....

they wont install hon evryone just plays lol. when i bring laptop and play hon when evryone is playing lol i get so much **** for it but whatevers

[[0su]AceFiend]

Used to do this all the time with cousins, we would go play 5v5s, we've been doing it since dota but we stopped recently because there were lag and delay issues when we would go to internet cafe's. Not sure if it was too many people connecting to the same HoN server from one area, or if it was a problem with the Router and modem setup the LAN cafe was using since we had to connect to the same game. If anybody could clear that up it'd be great, I think it started after a certain patch.

Edit: I've started playing HoN at lan cafe's again, it seems it was the set up at those old cafe's that caused the problem.

[[Faux]`Dinz]

In urban areas here in SEA, there are 1-2 LAN centers per block. No exaggeration.

One of the reasons as to why HoN is big at our region.