Since everyone has different IM programs - ICQ, MSN IM, AIM, etc - and since we all like to chat, I thought it'd be good to set up a #therpgsite on the Magicstar server, in irc. I choose irc because it's quite easy to use.
You can get mirc from here (http://www.mirc.com/get.html), but there are many other versions of chat programs. Then click here (irc://austnet/).
A chat room is like a forum, in that in the beginning it'll be fairly quiet. But lurk around for a bit, set your program to flash or ping when someone shows up or talks, and over time a little community of chatters builds up. I've found that chatting to people in real time makes a big difference to the associated forum or hobby, since you find that people you thought were cocks turn out to be not so bad, and vice versa ;)
You'll find me, at least, there each weekday from about five hours ago from the time of this posting, to a couple of hours from now. I usually work at home, or in the evenings, so I have the pc on during the day (my time).
Quote from: JimBobOzSince everyone has different IM programs - ICQ, MSN IM, AIM, etc - and since we all like to chat, I thought it'd be good to set up a #therpgsite on the MagicStar server, in irc.
Right next to #rpgnet, eh?
Yep. Same server, different chat rooms. Like living in a house, and there's someone you sometimes like, sometimes hate, across the other side of the suburb.
*shrug*
You want to start a #therpgsite on another server? It's all the same to me. It just needs to be in the same place every day, so people know where it is.
Already had a good chat with someone today. It was all about the game love, instead of boring old game hate. :)
Quote from: JimBobOzYou want to start a #therpgsite on another server?
Nah: MagicStar is a fairly good server for gaming folks, with plenty of room for everyone.
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Rockin'.
Well done Kyle!
-Marco
And it's registered, so will remain about even in my absence. I'm there now with a few others. Come along!
As time goes on and we get a steady membership, I'll make some other people ops. I don't think we'd need to do much other than kick/ban spammers. But I will have a policy against lurkers. If you don't want to chat - don't log on. Some people are quiet - that's fine. But if you don't have anything to say even once an hour, well... then head to #rpgnet instead.
what is the server/url address for Magicstar?
edit - found it - am I alone?
Well I wouldn't have been around at that time, Lawbag, that's my work time. I tend to be online reliably from two hours earlier than the time of this current posting, to two hours after that.
And you have to have patience. For example, one guy just walked into the room. There were four minutes between his walking in, saying hello, not getting a response (because I was posting here), and his giving up and walking out. A litle patience can be a good thing ;)
Just keep the chat window open, and people will come in. Of course you can't do this if you're busy, but if you're busy you won't be chatting! Then make a little habit of it, and gradually the room will build in membership.
Some sort of scheduled chat might help draw in a regular audience on the channel. Doesn't have to be often, but regular and announced well in advance would be good.
Great idea. Work it out, guys. I might even make an appearance. No promises though.
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Quote from: Casey777Some sort of scheduled chat might help draw in a regular audience on the channel. Doesn't have to be often, but regular and announced well in advance would be good.
We're there everyday. Right now, in fact. I am present in that chat room for four hours a day, this time is the evening in the USA, or around midnight in Europe. Just show up hang around, keep the window open while you're doing other stuff.
If you want to make an appointment to chat to a particular person or people, then say so in this thread, nothing stops anyone using the room at any time.
If you walk in, there's no-one there, and you leave sixty seconds later, then of course it'll flop. Chat rooms are just like forums - someone has to kick it off, and hang in there while it's quiet.
*ahem*
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That's all! Thanks for your time!
Woah, Rob Liefeld is doing anime now?
bumpity bump, bitches!
It's time to resurrect this. I tried talking on #rpgnet but they're almost entirely lurkers, it's like one of those high school dances where all the boys sit against one wall and all the girls sit against another.
My recollection is that they were lurkers OR chatting about absolutely anything other than RPGs. I would have thought that you of all people would have noted that, Kyle...
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My recollection is that they were lurkers OR chatting about absolutely anything other than RPGs. I would have thought that you of all people would have noted that, Kyle...
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That's been my experience in the past. However, I've not been for years. I went yesterday and today; yesterday they avoided discussing rpgs, turning the topic to other things when I brought them up. Today there was a discussion going on, names for campaign worlds or something.
So in my two brief experiences recently, it's one-for-one. But that's just two relatively brief visits. I can't really say what the culture of the place is now.
But I can say that they had 30+ people logged in and only 2-3 talking, and that their rules do not allow for the full and frank discussion which we enjoy here on therpgsite. I prefer smaller groups who all talk, and that straight talk.
Quote from: Kyle Aaron;275005only 2-3 talking, and that their rules do not allow for the full and frank discussion which we enjoy here on therpgsite. I prefer smaller groups who all talk, and that straight talk.
Indeed. Can't blame you at all. I've been absent from my own #rpgchat for several reasons. (Holiday business, plus finishing up my next game which I needed to focus on.)
I'll be back around and people are welcome to come to #rpgchat OR goto #therpgsite to talk about games
I don't shut up ever, but I am on Synirc networks usually talking in a Warhammer channel. And once a while even on topic!
Oh I could see about visiting yall, but once I get going it would only be the inevitable silence in the room that would quiet me.
And then I would feel like a douche.
I don't have time to hang out on irc anymore. I only go on to run games. I've got two long-term irc games going, a StarCluster game going for seven years and an In Harm's Way game going for three. Each one goes for a half-year before switching. I just finished the season for the IHW game, and I'll be starting up the StarCluster game in January. I used to hang out on #rpgnet, but with my release schedule, I've had to cut that out. If I'm not writing, I'm painting or researching.
-clash
OK, I'm there. Where's everyone else?
Good hell, now I have to add another tab to my X-Chat?
No one about at the moment?
Ech! I gotta go run errands.
"I was here but I disappear"
-Ivan
(If anyone can tell me the movie that line is from, without consulting google, I will be wicked impressed.)
I'll be on around 7 P.M. Pacific, so, be there!
I know it seems like I am, but in fact I am not online 24 hours a day :)
Usually I'm on during business hours Down Under, which corresponds to late afternoon and evenings in the Americas, early mornings and midday for east and central Asia, and the middle of the night for Europe.
So just come on, hang around, when you see the mirc bar flashing then someone has turned up :)
The only way to make this place work is as follows:
1. Advertise it!
2. Have some people (more than one) that are willing to hang out for protracted periods of time there, even when the room is empty and then engage anyone who comes in with conversation.
Otherwise, people come in, see the place is empty, and leave, then never come again.
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The chan has been taken over by the Swine !
I'll be back on today...again around 7 P.M. Pacific.
Hope to see y'all there.
I'm in there now totally praising Ron Edwards.
My PC declined the offer to download the mirc thingy. Then again, i'm on lowly dial-up, so it doesn't surprise me much. :(
I'm back, for the moment, at least.
Quote from: One Horse Town;275386My PC declined the offer to download the mirc thingy. Then again, i'm on lowly dial-up, so it doesn't surprise me much. :(
If you're using FireFox a nice alternative is the ChatZilla addon. It's quite user friendly.
Quote from: One Horse Town;275386My PC declined the offer to download the mirc thingy. Then again, i'm on lowly dial-up, so it doesn't surprise me much. :(
Try pIRCh 98. I think it's quite a bit smaller. I had no trouble using it over dialup way back when... :D
-clash
Quote from: flyingmice;275425Try pIRCh 98. I think it's quite a bit smaller. I had no trouble using it over dialup way back when... :D
-clash
Got a link for that?
Quote from: One Horse Town;275441Got a link for that?
http://www.softlookup.com/display.asp?id=6323
-clash
Quote from: flyingmice;275462http://www.softlookup.com/display.asp?id=6323
-clash
Thanks! Check your e-mail, Clash!
Conversation today:-
"You see before you two doors. Through one door is ONE MILLION GP. Through the other is INSTANT FLAMING DEATH. You don't know which is which. Choose a door."
"My players have learned GURPS, it's just taken them three years. Three years of "wait... what dice are we using?""
"I was reading that Ron Edwards flap on rpg.net and rpgsite today, and was musing that if not for Pundit, I would never have heard of Ron Edwards at all"
"one of my players had a mage whose characteristic was mainly that he had a hood that always left his face in shadow...
so, one time we encountered some cultists... so we captured a cultist, and he wouldn't tell us where his temple was, and we'd been blundering around in the snow for about an hour realtime
so, the faceless mage says
and, again, fake deep andrew eldritch voice
"i bend him over."
"and i give him a hot beef injection"
"is gygaxian naturism how the fighters on 1e modules never wear pants?"
"i have to admit that i was really sort of surprised that the birth of D&D wasn't even partially out of a primal sea of zeppelin and bong hits"
The "hot beef injection" story is a classic. I predict that's going to become a new running gag around our gaming table.
I'm in there, turkeys.
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!;275488I'm in there, turkeys.
Are you? I don't see you!
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!;275488I'm in there, turkeys.
Really? I'm in there and I don't see anybody.
Doc, looks like you're on efnet. Try /server irc2.magicstar.net
See, I dunno this stuff.
I'm around this morning. Looks like I just missed Doc R!, though.
I am there now.
Quote from: ticopelp;275487The "hot beef injection" story is a classic. I predict that's going to become a new running gag around our gaming table.
The best part is that that joke is nearly 15 years old.
Boulet and I have been in there off and on for the past few days.
Edit: And are in there right now.
Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;276224Boulet and I have been in there off and on for the past few days.
Edit: And are in there right now.
And you all suck
I'll be on about 7 p.m. Pacific time tonight.
I'm in there from time to time too. Though this week and the last had a lot less face time from me. Holiday weeks mean more work hours for me.
Which is annoying given I have multiple gaming projects I wish to be working on.
I'm in there right now.
From #therpgsite:
Back When I Played Recon Someone's foot fell onto a bunch of punji sticks with a mine buried amongst them.
The party died.
Someone was chasing Viet Cong through a jungle when two logs smashed them "like an AT-ST in Return of the Jedi".
Then he fell on a mine and the party died.
Once, the party ambushed some Viet Cong on bicycles who were shipping dynamite in boxes. One of the rounds punctured the box of dynamite.
The party died.
Once, the party had to guard someone from assassination by the Viet Cong.
The man lived in a mansion, and the party staked out the house really well, so that no one could get inside.
So the Viet Cong crept in the night while they slept, and planted mines outside all the entrances to the house.
Then in the morning, once the PCs were up, someone threw a molotov cocktail at the house and got shot. The PCs ran out of the house b/c it was on fire.
The party died.
Once, the party ambushed some NVA regulars who were driving construction vehicles.
They leapt atop the vehicles, fought the NVA to a standstill in brutal firefight, disabled most of the tanks, and went home to enjoy a job well done.
Except they'd laid mines to disable the vehicles, and forgot they were in the middle of the minefield that had just blown the treads of the vehicles off.
The party died.
Then we stopped playing Recon.
we had this guy who had a sequence of suicidal mexican grenadiers
Pte Nacho and his cousins
what would happen was that the GM said, "if you can see and shoot at the enemy, he can probably see and shoot at you."
So we're strolling along and get ambushed by a platoon of VC
we let off a panic mag and jump behind the berm of a rice paddy
we're carefully planning flanking and calling in mortar support
Ender has his guy get up and charge at the enemy
so 30 VC all shoot at Ender's character as he runs along firing from the hip.
I wasn't there, but apparently he once went through 17 characters in one session.
The most I saw was 4 or 5.
Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;277310From #therpgsite:
Back When I Played Recon
Once, the party ambushed some NVA regulars who were driving construction vehicles.
They leapt atop the vehicles, fought the NVA to a standstill in brutal firefight, disabled most of the tanks, and went home to enjoy a job well done.
Except they'd laid mines to disable the vehicles, and forgot they were in the middle of the minefield that had just blown the treads of the vehicles off.
The party died.
Then we stopped playing Recon.
we had this guy who had a sequence of suicidal mexican grenadiers
Pte Nacho and his cousins
what would happen was that the GM said, "if you can see and shoot at the enemy, he can probably see and shoot at you."
So we're strolling along and get ambushed by a platoon of VC
we let off a panic mag and jump behind the berm of a rice paddy
we're carefully planning flanking and calling in mortar support
Ender has his guy get up and charge at the enemy
so 30 VC all shoot at Ender's character as he runs along firing from the hip.
I wasn't there, but apparently he once went through 17 characters in one session.
The most I saw was 4 or 5.
RECON as Paranoia. That's what I always figured would happen.
I'm around for the moment, if anyone wants to stop by!
Anyone around today?
And after my largely netless month, I'm back and in #therpgsite regularly now. Come along!
So Kyle, why am I banned from #therpgsite?
Okay, what did you guys do?When I left a few hours ago, the chan was happily chugging along. Now I tried to sign in, and,
* You were kicked from #therpgsite by ChanServ (This channel may not be used.)Then a PM,
Visit #Forbidden to read the network rules, and be sure to review your motd. This network does not allow channels like #therpgsite. Thank you.
Okay, I'll bite.
* Now talking in #forbidden* Topic is 'Forbidden Channel help.'* Set by Reddog on Sun Jan 25 03:02:27-Atlantis- Magicstar has devised a set of regulations that we expect our users to follow. The three most common offenses are Hacking, Warez, Profane and Sex channels, which are all forbidden for various reasons. For more information, please type !Warez, !Hack !Profane or !Porn. For those of you joining about #klavye, type !klavye. For Network rules type !netrules. !netrules-Atlantis- *** Network Rules ***-Atlantis- No Warez, emulatorz, or trading Copyrighted Material-Atlantis- No Porn, kiddie or otherwise ------ No 'sex' or cyber-sex-Atlantis- No Illegal activities ====== No Mass Advertising-Atlantis- No Flooding ------ No Begging for Ops-Atlantis- No War Scripts ------ No Wingating-Atlantis- No mass-invites ====== Bots must be registered-Atlantis- at http://www.magicstar.net/bots-Atlantis- individual channels may have additional rules.So, what the fuck did you lot do in my absence? Or did some moron report us? If so, that cunt ought to fuck off to rpg.net where the report button is attached to sex toys to encourage people to use it a lot.
And you're not, warthur. Nobody's banned, the chan itself is.
That's fucking weird.
All I saw was that you entered the room, then ChanServ banned you, then I got banned. Before, Silverlion and I were talking about how he hasn't been getting much sleep and I don't get to talk to people very often on the channel because most people are asleep when I'm about thanks to the time zones.
I don't know but I'll check into it.
No response from the people in #magicstar. Their webpage claims them to be a "family oriented network." That means they're American and sensitive to everything. Well, fuck 'em.
Let's change to the server,
irc://austnet/
Rules?
"* The server admins will take no liability for what transpires on this server."That's the Australian way. Austnet (http://www.austnet.org)!
"IRC is an
unmoderated medium. No AustNet server, staff member or provider logs or scrutinizes the traffic which passes through the servers. We take no responsibility, and explicitly disclaim any legal liability for the content of any messages which pass through any AustNet server [...]
"IRC may not be suitable for children. Please supervise your child’s IRC session."
Did you ask one of the Ops in #magicstar what happened?
I managed to log in today with no problems. No reason why. I suspect it was just a glitch.
I would assume. I've dealt with the Server Ops before, they are pretty good folks. If they suspected some violation, they would have had somebody in there to confirm. I am pretty sure there have been Server Ops in #rpgnet to verify a problem or root out a problem child in the past.
The response was too many bad attempts to put in the password for the room registry. This was my fault as I think I gave Kyle the wrong password. So all blame falls to me.
Quote from: Silverlion;282250The response was too many bad attempts to put in the password for the room registry. This was my fault as I think I gave Kyle the wrong password. So all blame falls to me.
Ah, I see. Tell him not to try the same password that fails fifteen times in a row. :)
I'm here in AUSTNET's #therpgsite. Given the tone of therpgsite, it seems better to use a server which says, "hey, you're responsible for what you do, and for what your kids do," than a server which says, "we're family friendly."
Quote from: Kyle Aaron;282255I'm here in AUSTNET's #therpgsite. Given the tone of therpgsite, it seems better to use a server which says, "hey, you're responsible for what you do, and for what your kids do," than a server which says, "we're family friendly."
For me its too big a pain to have IRC connected to multiple servers or two windows open to deal with it, without a really good reason and I already have an RPGchat room on Magicstar to deal with. However, don't mind me.
Have fun gents.
Quote from: Silverlion;282273For me its too big a pain to have IRC connected to multiple servers or two windows open to deal with it, without a really good reason and I already have an RPGchat room on Magicstar to deal with. However, don't mind me.
Have fun gents.
Can I recommend pidgin? It's compatible with a heap of different operating systems, and setting up multiple IRC servers on it is a breeze. You can even set it up so that all the chats open in tabs in the same window.
Kyle - what are the details for the austnet room? And can I get to it from eu.austnet.org, or do I have to connect to a different address? I've not seen anyone in there (including you, and we're in vaguely compatible time zones).
Quote from: Warthur;282302Can I recommend pidgin? It's compatible with a heap of different operating systems, and setting up multiple IRC servers on it is a breeze. You can even set it up so that all the chats open in tabs in the same window.
Kyle - what are the details for the austnet room? And can I get to it from eu.austnet.org, or do I have to connect to a different address? I've not seen anyone in there (including you, and we're in vaguely compatible time zones).
Yeah, i just see a ChanOp bot
Ill stick on the Magicstar one. Im also on synirc in a warhammer 40K room, though I tend to take the room into everything else geeky when I am there. (And I tend to get glazed eyes when Warmachine/Hordes are brought up.)
I'll keep the magicstar room on my autojoin list, for what it counts.
And now I am back online regularly and in AustNet's #therpgsite...
Aww man. We are still in the old one. Nobody cares what we say there anyhow.
Alright, I give in, you'll find me in the Magicstar server's #therpgsite :)