PFO Community IRC Channels

[Valkenr]

#PFO
#PFOhelp

I tried this back a while and it didn't catch on, and there was a recent push in T7V to give it a go again now that things are more active, so I thought I would try the community channels again too.

I set up two channels on the mibbit IRC servers: #PFO and #PFOhelp

Mibbit is a browser based IRC client that can be found here, it should be pretty straight forward.

Please idle on the server, and do not leave if you see nothing happening. You have no idea how many times I have scrolled up in chat to seen a bunch of people join and leave within minutes of eachother. I'd really like to see the #PFOhelp channel catch on, as it is very useful to have a non-forum where people OOG can help people in-game instantly.

***Impersonation is a zero tolerance offense and will result in a lifetime ban.***
...Seriously, don't even do it jokingly.

If any GW employees want to identify themselves in the channel, message me(/msg) or anyone with a star* by their name, we'll do some email conformation to verify your identity and identify you in the channel.
For future reference, if any GW employees are in the channel and have been verified, there will be half a star* by their name, and they will have a "GW_" prefix.

I know not everyone uses these forums, so please spread the word in your own channels if you want this to catch on.

For now this will be administered by T7V, if necessary we will identify members of the community to help with moderation. Please don't ask for moderator permissions, that only makes me suspicious of your intentions.

*The full star represents an Operator, this may be different if you are using another irc client.
**The half star represents the "half-op" permission set, this may be different if you are using another irc client.

[Valkenr]

How to connect:
Step 1: Go here.
Step 2: Click "Launch Mibbit Client"
Step 3: Choose a Nick (Nickname)
Step 4: Enter: "#PFO" into the channel entry box (or #PFOhelp)
Step 5: Click Connect
and now you can chat

I'm assuming anyone with IRC experience has the knowledge to connect by other means if they want.

[Wexel Daventry, The Veiled, T7V]

Thanks Val, I'm on and happy to have the option!

[Tyncale]

This is great, thanks a lot Valkenr.

Valkenr just made another channel, called #PFOtrade so that we can put all trade talk and "want to buy" stuff there. Excelent to talk to eachother cross-Hex.

Ryan predicted that players would use meta-gaming tools and I guess PFO's global chat and trade channel was just born. :)

[Guurzak]

Step 4: Enter: "#PFO, #PFOhelp, #PFOtrade" into the channel entry box. That will join all 3 channels on different tabs of the interface.

[Franz Lunzer]

Valkenr wrote:

How to connect:

Step 1: Go here.
Step 2: Click "Launch Mibbit Client"
Step 3: Choose a Nick (Nickname)
Step 4: Enter: "#PFO" into the channel entry box (or #PFOhelp)
Step 5: Click Connect
and now you can chat

I'm assuming anyone with IRC experience has the knowledge to connect by other means if they want.

your link sends me to a paizo page, so I changed in my quote to be (more?) correct. Hope it helps.

[randomwalker]

is idling automatic?

i like the idea that i can idle in this 'new global' without being logged into the game. Not to mention a trade channel where you can catch up with the last few hours of activity while waiting for the game to load.

[Valkenr]

I'm not sure what happened with that link, maybe paizo is using custom bbcode that pushes their url onto anything with out a full url.

Yes, idling is automatic, I think it kicks on in 5 minutes. There is also an auto-AFK notification if you are gone longer, not sure how long it takes(30min?).

[Nihimon]

Valkenr wrote:

I'm not sure what happened with that link, maybe paizo is using custom bbcode that pushes their url onto anything with out a full url.

Any link that doesn't include the http:// (or similar) gets prefixed with Paizo's address.

[Saiph]

I will join up when I get home!

[Thannon Forsworn <RBL>]

I like it, particularly the trade channel, I'll be hanging around it soon.

[Kadere]

Since I saw Saiph asking in channel - you don't need to use the mibbit web IRC client to access this if you don't want to - I am logged on using mIRC. The server is irc.mibbit.com.

[Valkenr]

I would just like to note that I want this thread to die, and the other thread to keep going, it has more information.