Official IRC Room

Post by **zaydana** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:45 pm

OK Guys, here it (finally) is...

irc.freenode.net
#vegastrike

i'm hoping most of the devs will hang around in there, and it will be another useful tool for communication for things where the forums aren't immediate enough, and msn is too buggy

However, the rules are:

- No private messaging the devs if you are not a dev (devs know who they are)
- No complaining if nobody answers - people idle you know
- For matters which do not warrant being discussed in real time, or if you frequently connect/disconnect, please use the forum.
- Griefing will not be tolerated
- The usual no spamming, etc. applies.
- Offenders will be banned from IRC, and possibly from the forums as well.

Any questions/comments then say so on IRC, or reply to this thread.

- zaydana

Halleck · Post by **Halleck** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:54 pm

Yay! Freenode != morons.
Aaand its on the same server as #sc2. Fun.

Ari Rahikkala · Post by **Ari Rahikkala** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:55 pm

I'm there, and have been for a couple of months already

. It's too bad that I tend to lack the skill to help people beyond "ask the forum, they know better"..

CubOfJudahsLion · Post by **CubOfJudahsLion** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:00 am

I managed to talk my net admin into opening the IRC port for this. I usually don't share my good cookies. (Mine!)

Tarran · Post by **Tarran** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:20 pm

whats griefing?

wirser · Post by **wirser** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:16 pm

whining

wirser · Post by **wirser** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:16 pm

whining

cracken · Post by **cracken** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:32 am

looks about as active as this thread

Spartan_ninja · Post by **Spartan_ninja** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:48 am

How do you get to the irc room? Do you have to download mIRC and pay for it or what?

mortaneous · Post by **mortaneous** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:52 pm

mIRC is one option, for Windows there is also HydraIRC(free) and XChat2(shareware).

There are a number of clients available for all platforms, and even some browser-based java/cgi/other-scripting-language versions that can be used without installing anything.

See the Wikipedia list of IRC clients:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IRC_clients

No matter what client you choose, you will want it to connect to the server "irc.freenode.net" and then join "#vegastrike"

If the client supports URIs like "irc://...." you can just click this link: [url]irc://irc.freenode.net/vegastrike[/url]

Aeon · Post by **Aeon** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:14 am

You can always go to www.ircatwork.com. There's no need for a client, its very n00b friendly, and you can access it behind school or workplace firewalls without having to bother with packet encrytion and protocol tunneling.

Neskiairti · Post by **Neskiairti** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:41 am

dont forget chatzilla using firefox, mozilla, or such.

mortaneous · Post by **mortaneous** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:52 pm

Chatzilla still uses the default ports, so it won't get around work/school proxies. There are, however, sites that have cgi-irc available, which will get you around firewalls. Aeon already mentioned Irc@work, which is one such site, another site I know of that has their cgi-irc open enough to use is http://www.axenhammer.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi

And others can be found by googling for "cgi irc"