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Jim_has_Skillz
Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12475Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12475Members, Constellation
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Sometimes people just aren't on IRC. You just have to pick the right times. I'll bet that somebody will answer you if you go into #naturalselection at most points during the day.
I'm sorry, I must be totally missing out on some important point here, but I still don't understand why filling a chat channel with people that don't chat is a benefit. But then again, other people seem to understand the need for it, so it must be me who is slow on the uptake. I'd better just go and shut my pie-hole.
It's much easier to connect to a channel and say "Want a pug?" and play with people who have made themselves available at your disposal as opposed to posting on these forums, waiting for a moderator to handle letting it go through in the "organized play" board, and actually getting enough people to play a decent game.
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The point of the channel is to make people who want to pug able to reach an easier means of arranging a game in realtime chat with other people who are available at that time. It's a simple and very smart idea. If you don't want to play, don't idle.
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I'm sorry basic concepts elude you. Jim is trying to add something to the community here, as generally if you ask for a scrim or a pug in #naturalselection, you'll get sent to look in other pertinent channels such as #findnsscrim. In there, it has been very useful for clans to be able to ask for a scrim in 1 channel and have access to multiple clans as opposed to joining 30 different clan channels and asking each one of them, many which probably don't want to immediately scrim.
In the end, the point in idling there (which you don't HAVE to do), is the fact that Jim is trying to make it easier for people who want to play an organized game to find an organized game to play. Take a look at how many "I need a good NS server" posts you see daily. This is just an easier method, and I intend on idling there to aid and provide a server to pug in.
That wasn't QUITE the way I put it, mind you.
As for E-Th33ph's post, it seems like we are talking about "idling" in two different meanings. What you mean is joining a channel and monitoring it for posts, correct? In that case, idling in such a channel is of course good, but that isn't what I would call idling. What I consider idling is logging into a channel and then going away from your comp or otherwise ignoring the issue, making you little more than a name in a list. So, if by "come and idle in my channel" he means your version of idling, then fine with me. If he means MY version, the idea is pointless.
EDIT: It's even more fun to see the late late late night chat.