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Have headphones instead of speakers at every station. No exceptions. All it takes is one asshole to turn his music up full blast on the speakers to ruin it for everyone. Also, if everyone has their stuff going at a moderate volume level, its more difficult for people to communicate without shouting. Furthermore, if speakers are used in the gaming room, if one person fires their weapon, their speakers will blare the gun shot, along with everyone elses speakers who is within videogame 'earshot' of the first gun shot. Imagine the racket if there is a moderately sized firefight.
Headphones also provide improved privacy and can also by quite cheaper than very cheap speaker sets. For example, I can buy Labtec Icon-740 behind the head-phones with volume control for 7.99 (cdn $) in bulk at the local computer store.
The only problem I can see with headphones is that its pretty easy for someone to steal them. Maybe, when someone comes in, you can get them to sign the headphones out and get them to return them when they leave or their 'account' gets blacklisted or charged?
Furthermore, are you going to have account cards/membership cards where you can buy hours in advance, have a card just to speed up sign in and buy hours when you get there that last only for the night, or are you going to just let anyone buy time on the computer regardless if they are registered with the cafe or not?
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