Possible use of irc

[srwu_mods]

Recently a lot of people had trouble connecting to mission rooms using AIM or other software that supports AIM. It has always been an issue for some but usually one we could get under control - but it got a lot worse during the last few weeks.

So we're considering using irc to run missions. We'd still use AIM for communication, but this is an alternative in case someone gets dropped and AIM won't let them rejoin during a mission.

Without further ado, which of those options do you prefer best?

1 - Stay as it is now. Don't use irc for running missions.

2 - Try to use AIM for running missions, but keep irc around as an option in case AIM is acting up.

3 - Use irc for mission running every time.

Say which option is your favorite, and maybe also why. Discussion is welcome and encouraged. Make your voice heard on this matter.

Comments

[streamedastar]

Option 3 is my vote
Because honestly I already have to switch to Trillian in order to get into a version of AIM that lets me get in the chats, and IRC can set up with Trillian fine. I'm already have two of them there.

Honestly the only detractor imo to IRC if we did it is we'd have to make two different chats on two different networks for OOC and IC. And I'm not sure how to handle tracking logs.

[majestic_keiki]

Why would we need the IC and OOC to be on separate networks? About the only reason I can see for doing that is to keep our IC and OOC names separate, but that seems like far too small an issue to bother with that kind of trouble.

[streamedastar]

Well because you can't switch between the two with one name/account, and considering how much we gab in OOC we can't just switch back and forth with names easily without it hindering things.

[majestic_keiki]

You can just make a second channel and join it easily. When I'm on irc I'm in six different channels. I have a weekly game that has separate IC and OOC channels.

[streamedastar]

I think that's what I meant when I said networks

[majestic_keiki]

Channels and networks are different things. Networks are the toplevel organization of irc and need separate setting up to join. Channels are just different rooms for discussion and anybody can create one simply by going /join SomeChannel. There are ways to register them and get more control over them, but on the basic level they're just individual chatrooms.

We should definitely have separate IC and OOC channels, but there's no need to keep them on separate networks.