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Jazzza:

--- Quote from: Kyren on March 06, 2013, 06:08:55 am ---Well, the problem I see with an IRC channel would be that you've got to open it seperately. It's like having the Forum on Firefox, GoIO opened on Steam, and then mIRC started to access the GoIO channel. Unless there was a forum or ingame integration. Linking the ingame chat somewhere off game would be great of course, and I suppose it'd greatly increase its activity. With an IRC Channel that would work just wonderful, I suppose. There'd be a need for programming an IRC bot that copies the ingame chat-information to the IRC channel, though.

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I agree. I wish the devs add in some kind of API for us developers to tap into. Unfortunately I have no experience creating IRC bots, but I'd dare say there'd be someone out there who does.

Also you do know there's an IRC client plugin for Firefox?

Kyren:
Aye, of course I know the plugin, and all the other variants of java and flash stuff that also access IRC networks :P I even had it once, I think, but it somehow didn't convince me and I went back to my trusted mIRC.

I guess the bot-programming wouldn't even be so difficult, I played several browsergames that had a bot posting ingame information in the channel. We'd need to host the bot somewhere, though, or pay for a bot service.

Jazzza:

--- Quote from: Kyren on March 06, 2013, 06:51:20 am ---I guess the bot-programming wouldn't even be so difficult, I played several browsergames that had a bot posting ingame information in the channel. We'd need to host the bot somewhere, though, or pay for a bot service.

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Nothing can be done until this.

Moo:
An official IRC channel would be good, even if it wasn't connected to the in-game chat. This could be used for discussions about the game itself, rather than the in-game chat which tends to be about more immediate things (please join our game...).
It wouldn't even need a page/link on the main site itself, just a sticky on the forum or something. Then people would just have another place to go for discussion. People could idle on the channel when doing non-gaming-type stuff without needing the game or even steam loaded.
It would be a bonus if the developers would hang out in the channel too.

Clara Skyborn:
Well, there's always the Steam group chat, which could certainly be used more for general hanging around.

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