steam/xfire groups will just create community splits and allround bad communication.
Its time to centralize the community into one major chat channel.
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Here's a simple and easy guide for getting on irc quick to look for scrims
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#ausblackops on GameSurge

http://chat.mibbit.com





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Edit by Nutshot ***

Heres the tutorial for regular IRC also.


IRC Tutorial:

There are many different clients that you can use but for this tutorial I will use mIRC as it is a very basic client.

Step 1: download mIRC http://www.mirc.com/get.html

Step 2: Now that you've downloaded mIRC run the executable and follow the installation steps, after installing start up mIRC and I will take you show you how to set it up.

The first thing you will see when you start up mIRC mIRC Options page, as shown.



Fill in the full name, using anything you want. You can use your real name, your forum name or whatever.

Below that is your email address, I strongly suggest that you do not enter your email address in here. You need to enter something and it needs to be in the format of an email address, what you use I'll leave up to you.

Step 3: Once you've done that go to "Servers" just to the left and find "gamesurge, random server" as shown.



Step 4: When you've done that press "Ok" and connect by clicking on the lightening symbol which is located underneath the "file" menu.
Once your connected click the heart symbol and type in #cybergamer and #mw2scrims

Step 5: Registering to "gamesurge" http://www.gamesurge.net/createaccount/ is pretty straight forward and once you've done that enter the following command into the chat box and hit enter: /as login username password or /AuthServ auth account password.

Step 6: Go to options > perform and click on add, then scroll the drop down menu until you find "gamesurge", enter the command you entered in step 5, click on "enable on connect" and then hit "Ok.

This will automatically perform the auth command every time you connect to the server.





Step 7 (Optional): You can also add the command //mode $me +x in the perform section, this will hide your IP address from other users on IRC and if you choose to do this I recommend setting it for "All Networks".

So it's that simple, oh and as an example i have listed my join list.

Under options/perform I have the following set

/authserv auth Nutshot (password)
//mode $me +x
/join #cybergamer
/join #codau
/join #ausblackops

- Nut

Edited 13 times, last edited 16/11/10 - 4:37pm.

very nice idea sabz, this kid knows his shit, got myvote, plus irc is easy to use

thanks for the input dude... seriously it doesnt get any easier than this rofl.

yeah using web irc is even easier, hopefully everyone keens up on this

2ez Saber, nw

Hmm, sounds good. First time I have herd of this tho. Will give it ago in the near future.

even better just download the client. Saves peope having to have firefox or whaterver open all the time..

Just download mIRC its free, and if you want to make it look cool get NNscript. Once you set it up, all you have to do when you turn your PC on is click mIRC and it automatically loads and joins all the servers you need without having to join any.

will idle

any idling and support will be appreciated

change the irc chan to #codau or #cybergamer so everyone hangs out in the one area. (probably cybergamer - CG woudl like having a bigger irc wang as well)

has like 15 people in it, which are idlers.

id rather have a channel solly for cod. ausblackops is already set up and is fine. Doesnt really matter what it is, just need people to add it into there auto connect an we are set. If everyone gets 1 person from there team to use IRC id be happy

People dont have to idle all day, i just want clan leaders etc to jump on irc in the evening and advert for scrims.

Edited once, 16/11/10 - 10:29am.

So is this basically like a massive dedicated MSN chat type thing?

pretty much, get in there.