asdf Clan Art. - Page 19

EpiK

Korea (South)5757 Posts

December 10 2007 18:34 GMT

#361

What really bugs me about hamachi is that there is no chat lobby and there is no way of knowing whether someone is afk/in-game/or w/e... We should all just get on msn and make one Clan Art chatroom to organize games and rant

Cascade

Australia5405 Posts

December 10 2007 18:37 GMT

#362

Maybe I'm just a newbie that has missed something, but my problem with meeting in a channel is that i actively have to taskswitch to broodwar to check if someone is there. hamachi can run in the background and will alert me when someone sends me a message.

So apart from the wonderful lagless hamachi I think it will be easier to find games if it is with some application that can run in the background that will alert me when someone wants a game. preferably it should make a sound as well so i only have to be in the same room.

Chat programs like msn/skype does this, but if we should all add each other on MSN, it would quickly be 90% inactive people, and it would no longer be viable to just message someone and ask for a game. Preferably it should be a program that people use ONLY for this, so when we see someone online we know that it is a person that wants to play sc. Maybe we could dig up some really rare chat-client that no one uses otherwise?

EDIT: Or am I missing some smart feature on MSN? Exactly how does a chatroom work?

of course, having a bnet channel would be far better than not having a channel... But I cant see that channel being more successful than op TL-west in the long run. You are more than welcome to prove me wrong though!

grobo

Japan6199 Posts

December 10 2007 18:46 GMT

#363

Why not just use IRC?

You can easily set it up so it plays a sound or whatever as soon as a certain word is uttered (for instance your name) and you don't have to PM every single user just to ask them if they want to play.