BZFLAG.org Chat Room ... can we make one?

All things BZFlag - no [OT] here please
Post Reply
User avatar
DEVIL DOG
Private
Private
Posts: 1
Joined: Sat Nov 16, 2013 8:31 pm

BZFLAG.org Chat Room ... can we make one?

Post by DEVIL DOG »

HI, to all that will be reading this. Could someone pleas let me know if their is a chat room for BZFLAG members. can we make one?
sillysir
Private First Class
Private First Class
Posts: 75
Joined: Tue Jan 01, 2013 6:03 pm

Re: BZFLAG.org Chat Room ... can we make one?

Post by sillysir »

There are plenty of already existing online relay chat channels. You can access it for free online, here: http://webchat.freenode.net/
Type your bzflag username as your nickname, and the channel as #bzflag

Here is the wiki page: http://wiki.bzflag.org/BZFlag_on_IRC

By the way, this section is for news and announcements, however your post is a question.
silly :P
User avatar
dang dizzy white
Private First Class
Private First Class
Posts: 69
Joined: Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:30 pm
Location: Flowery Path Twelve

Re: BZFLAG.org Chat Room ... can we make one?

Post by dang dizzy white »

As said, BZFlag already has its own IRC Channel open for anyone to join and chat in.
How active and visited it is is another story, though.
User avatar
macsforme
General
General
Posts: 2069
Joined: Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:43 am

Re: BZFLAG.org Chat Room ... can we make one?

Post by macsforme »

Sub wrote:As said, BZFlag already has its own IRC Channel open for anyone to join and chat in.
How active and visited it is is another story, though.
What is the other story, then? It has always seemed quite active to me.
User avatar
joevano
General
General
Posts: 1863
Joined: Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:08 pm
Location: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Re: BZFLAG.org Chat Room ... can we make one?

Post by joevano »

Sub wrote:As said, BZFlag already has its own IRC Channel open for anyone to join and chat in.
How active and visited it is is another story, though.
I've been on the chat channel daily (365 days a year) for the past 6+ years...
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." -- Abraham Lincoln
User avatar
kierra
Lieutenant, Junior Grade
Lieutenant, Junior Grade
Posts: 4108
Joined: Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:02 am
Location: outer Slovenia
Contact:

Re: BZFLAG.org Chat Room ... can we make one?

Post by kierra »

joevano wrote:I've been on the chat channel daily (365 days a year) for the past 6+ years...
As have 50-60 nicks been present there.
FYI @ sub: There are lots of bz related channels....some team channels, some league, some player and some server channels.
"Sometimes people try to expose what's wrong with you, because they can't handle what's right about you."
"Measure your words -- they determine the distance of your relationships"
"If serving is beneath you, leadership is beyond ypu."
User avatar
dang dizzy white
Private First Class
Private First Class
Posts: 69
Joined: Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:30 pm
Location: Flowery Path Twelve

Re: BZFLAG.org Chat Room ... can we make one?

Post by dang dizzy white »

Constitution wrote:What is the other story, then? It has always seemed quite active to me.
Depends on what you understand as "active". 20+ active users chatting at one time? Doubt it, even though such a number is nothing uncommon for IRC channels around.
kierra wrote:FYI @ sub: There are lots of bz related channels....some team channels, some league, some player and some server channels.
I know there are multiple of them, never said there weren't.
If I might add, the channels themselves do sound a bit unreasonable since half of the game is chatting in-game already... but never-mind that, I honestly do not see it how this turned out into some sort of disagreement over nothing.

There are IRC channels that are BZFlag-focused. Everyone is free to visit them at any point. That's that.
Excuse me if you were too shocked by my "activity" input, I would like to take that back, looking at those reactions.
User avatar
slime
Private First Class
Private First Class
Posts: 188
Joined: Fri Dec 30, 2005 3:08 am
Location: Omaha , Nebraska

Re: BZFLAG.org Chat Room ... can we make one?

Post by slime »

Perhaps this is the wrong place to ask this, but wasn't there a chat system integrated in the game set to release in 3.0? Would there be any hope to bring that to a 2.x release, or was it still too buggy?
User avatar
yosef
Private First Class
Private First Class
Posts: 56
Joined: Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:00 am
Location: Houston, TX

Re: BZFLAG.org Chat Room ... can we make one?

Post by yosef »

It's not like more than 20+ players are playing at any given time anyway. 20 at a time is not bad at all - you can actually follow what someone is saying, versus #fw on Efnet for instance.
--9/12 Taking an extended break from this beloved game to return to RL. Look for me at the starbow's end...
User avatar
dang dizzy white
Private First Class
Private First Class
Posts: 69
Joined: Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:30 pm
Location: Flowery Path Twelve

Re: BZFLAG.org Chat Room ... can we make one?

Post by dang dizzy white »

yosef wrote:It's not like more than 20+ players are playing at any given time anyway.
Wrong.
As the most of the active players come from the US, the game has approximally 30-40 players online at one point.
That would bring those players playing on around 5-8 maps at one moment.
User avatar
alfa1
Private First Class
Private First Class
Posts: 168
Joined: Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:21 pm

Re: BZFLAG.org Chat Room ... can we make one?

Post by alfa1 »

I started a new topic some related to this one, but some different too. I invite all to participate.
http://forums.bzflag.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18680
Post Reply