Is Irc Worth It?
TheWizard
Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10553Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10553Members, Constellation
Its that time again. I get the urge every other week or so to become further involved in the NS community. THis is usually marked by a flood of my posts in the forums and insane amounts of play on NS servers.
However, my question is this: Should I devote the CPU cycles to running an IRC client and hanging out in the NS channel? I love discussing ideas and other topics on these forums and also showing new players the ropes, but what is the appeal to IRC? What function does it serve that these forums do not?
Generally I start up an IRC client and idle about in some of the channels for my favorite games but after a week or so I just get annoyed at having that little IRC icon in my system tray and get the urge to kill it.
What were some of your experiences with the IRC channel? Worth it? yes, no and why?
However, my question is this: Should I devote the CPU cycles to running an IRC client and hanging out in the NS channel? I love discussing ideas and other topics on these forums and also showing new players the ropes, but what is the appeal to IRC? What function does it serve that these forums do not?
Generally I start up an IRC client and idle about in some of the channels for my favorite games but after a week or so I just get annoyed at having that little IRC icon in my system tray and get the urge to kill it.
What were some of your experiences with the IRC channel? Worth it? yes, no and why?
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EDIT: How long have we had this <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif'><!--endemo--> smiley?
I know mIRC doesn't use up that much memory, but Im a bit O.C. about what runs on my computer. I was just wondering what IRC offered that the message boards did not.
You don't get all the gritty details of 1.1 as you might on the forums, but you get to know the people who have worked on the game as well as the website and forums. Besides that, you weed out a lot of the idiots and spammers in the ns channel.
If you're worried about devoting CPU cycles to an irc client, you don't have to be connected all the time...
All in all, you'll find me in there as [CB]Elven_Thief, and the community is open to having more idlers and supporters in the channel.
YEAH! They heard my request! w00p! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
as for the IRC matter, you could always run a sort of really low end client like bitchx or irsii which doesnt take up much anyway..I think there's a windows port of bx, not sure tho!
Honestly, One can have a good time talking to other members, or in my case developers, moderators and other playtesters. They're great guys to talk to, especially when you're just hanging out at home on your computer. (:
and NETSPLITS ROCK!
Gamesnet sucks at the internet.
Your best be would be reading the new-users guide, which should be either in the help files for mIRC or on their website, im not sure myself, I use bersirc <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
That should do it though <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Once you start with one channel, you spread out. Then across multiple servers. It's so evil.