build in irc

[treba]

hey,
i was just thinking about a very simple inbuild irc client for internet games. the masterserver could have a little irc server so we have a lobby to talk inside of mg. it shouldn´t be to hard to implent. what do think about it?

EDIT: oh, just saw something like this is already planed.
but this is maybe the way to go (as you may already planed), since there are enought c++ coded irc clients out there 

[ultifd]

Well, I asked him a few weeks ago, and softcoder said they were thinking about it already, but one thing at a time... 
They/we still need to test MG on it's multiplayer... 
But yeah this is a good idea... 

[Coldfusionstorm]

i think it would be cool, but considering that we allready have ingame chat, and the Glest IRC, i dont see really improve glest that much.

its a cool gadget but i think that time is better spent doing other stuff that is needed atm. imo.

[treba]

of course, there is the glest irc channel, but as far as i know it is actually used for talk about developement, problems etc.
the inbuild irc channel is meant to be a lobby for mp games. see who is online, ask people to play.
just think of blizzards battle.net in starcraft. it mostly consists of a server list and a irc-client.
it makes playing online much more fun imo.

[ultifd]

Well, they will work on it...in the future.
later, probably.
Also, since now, there isn't a large number of people playing multiplayer...yet. 

[Coldfusionstorm]

The server list is allready underway, i remeber that titi said it was underway(and i have a pretty good hint that the development of it is well under way and very good too). .