Frequently Asked Questions

What’s a LAN Party anyway?
Are your LAN parties reserved only to your members?
How do I sign up?
What do I need in order to come to your LAN parties?
What are member points, why would I want them and how do I get them?
Why are my points decreasing?
Why don't I show in the members list?
Why am in a "Waiting List"?

What’s a LAN Party anyway?
According to wikipedia.org,
“A LAN party is a temporary, sometimes spontaneous gathering of people together with their computers, which they connect together in a local area network (LAN) primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer computer games.” You can read the full article here.

Are your LAN parties reserved only to your members?
In order to sign up for an event, you need to be logged in. Signing up for a member account costs nothing, though.

How do I sign up?
Just click on the sign up link, enter a user name (no special characters please), a valid email address (so you can receive your random password that you can later change) and your location.

What do I need in order to come to your LAN parties?

^[1] LANTHrax members can earn LANThrax points while playing on the LANThrax Call Of Duty Servers (sorry, it does not yet work on TF2). In order to be eligible, the player has to place the [LTX] tag infront of the player name in the game. The player name has to be exactly like the member name used in the website. At the turn of every hour, the server automatically checks for players with the [LTX] tag and compares the player names with the list of LANThrax members. It also compares the IP address. If a match is found, the score at that very moment is automatically added to the member's point list. The amount of points awarded is equivalent to the score at the time of the turn of the hour, so even if the player in question reaches a higher score in that match, the amount of points awarded is still the score at the turn of the hour. Due to dynamic IPs, it is advisable that players log in to the LANThrax website right vefore playing on the game servers, to ensure that the IP addresses seen by the game match the IP addresses seen by the website. The use of a proxy server on the browser could prevent this feature from working properly.

^[2] A questions is "in the Green Zone" when the number of times the question was answered correctly is close to the number of times it was answered incorrectly. The percentage of times that question was answered correctly shows on the right side of each question in a member's "My Questions" list. Any question that has between 45% and 55% success rate has a green square around the percentage value, indicating it is in the Green Zone. This means that the question is neither too easy nor too hard, that is, a balanced question. Likewise, if a question is either to hard (0% - 5%) or too easy (95% - 100%) it will land in the Red Zone. Such a question will incur a point penalty everytime the question shows up (an impression). There is a limit of 15 impressions per day for every member. In simple words, even if a member has 1000 posted questions, this member's quesions cannot show up more than 15 times in a single 24hr period. The chances of such questions actually showing up would increase though.

^[3] BattleShips points are awarded to the members of the winning team at the end of every weekly match. Matches restart every week at midnight between Saturday and Sunday. The team member with the highest Kill Score is awarded 100 points while the other members are awarded a proportional amount of points, depending on the number of kill points they have.

^[4] The voting game question changes once every two days at midnight. Points are awarded to every member that correctly predicts the outcome of a voting poll, irrispective of his/her own voting choice. This means that a member can earn points even if he/she has not voted like the majority as long as he/she has correctly predicted how the majority will vote. The amount of points earned is inversely proportional to the percentage of players who make a correct prediction. Predictable outcomes provide less points and vice verse.

^[5] Logging in to LANTHrax on your birthday will award you 50 points. Trying to cheat the system by pretending to have multiple birthdays during one year results in a penalty.

Why don't I show in the members list?
The members list only shows members who have logged in at least once in the last 30 days. The fact that a member does not show in the list does not necessarily mean that he/she has been kicked.

Why am I in a "Waiting List"?
LANThrax events can only be attended in groups of four. Four is the perfect number for LAN parties because this allows for perfectly balanced teams. If you are in the waiting list, you might not be allowed to play in a LAN Party and you will probably be regarded as a gap filler, in case one of the members who signed up does not show up. You can be removed from the waiting list and confirmed as a player if one of these things happens: (A) other members sign up so that the total number of sign ups becomes a multiple of four or (B) a previous signee decides to "Eject" in which case you are moved up the list and probably out of the waiting list.
Although the sign up list groups signees in groups of four, this does not necessarily put these groups as teams since teams are formed at the beginning of the event or tournament (unless otherwise specified).