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@xdc the doc wrote:
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The meeting could be summed up very quickly…
1) We are going to get IRC back up.
2) All XDC must play games on the PC for 6 hours a week, split in 1 or 2 hour blocks… Alzir will be running the sign in service.
3) Paddy came out as a gay atheist after many years of turning to the main bastion of homosexuality in the Western world – the RC church.N.B Only 2 of the above statements are true! 😈
Doc sum’s it up quite nicely, though I’m sure it was 12 hours a week we agreed, and not 6… Anyway I had a wall of text type reply almost completed for this, going into the points above in a bit of detail, but I’ll leave that now for another thread later. The important thing is that I’m satisified we’ve enough interested members to get XDC back to some level of functionality, beyond simply a forum sharing jokes, game and film reviews, so I’m going to stick around and put some effort into this. We agreed that a recruitment drive’s going to be needed, but we need to assess the group we have first, and how we operate online. The approach of logging onto TS, when we want a game, isn’t working, so I’d like to return us to the notion of using IRC to keep in touch and track each other. The idea is to get us back to the stage where we actually resemble a clan, and hopefully encourage some contact between the various cliques we have still playing PC games (there are more of us than the forums/Insane would have you know).
There’ll be more to come on this, as I suspect I’ll need to write up a guide on how to use IRC, and probably argue the case a bit, but for now there is channel created on quakenet.org so feel free to join me in #xdc (no point in using #xdcuk anymore, as #xdc is available) if you remember how. I will need 4 unique ID’s in there (all of which need to be “Authed”) before I can request a bot for the channel, which will keep it permanently in our name, but as I said I’ll write up a guide on how to do this, for those who haven’t used it before or can’t be arsed figuring it out for themselves.
IRC is old, and somewhat unfriendly if you have no patience to set it up correctly. But it is by far the best system to use, you can set it to start when you turn your PC on and log you into all the channels you want automatically. By far the best way for organising stuff.
Don’t know about you XBOX users but if my XBOX is on and I’m playing something my PC is also going to be on and I run it all through the same monitor so one touch of a button means I can flick from playing some Fallout3 to checking a game walkthrough on the net 😀
i am farly sure there is a flash based plugin which we can integrate in to phpbb which logs the user on to irc as the use they are logged into phpbb with
any use?
Depends how well it integrates with quakenet, or whether it does at all. Part of the reason for using Quakenet is for future communication between ourselves, other UK clans, and competition site Admins, most of which use this network.
Do you have one in mind which we could test?
Ugh!!! I remember agonizing over setting up irc lol
XDC – teaching old dogs new tricks, since 1999 😉
Some of us never stopped playing PC games (COD:WAW)
All the recent console talk and existing cliques has well and truly put me off XDC as a gaming clan.
Start using IRC mate, you might be able to find a game amongst us there.
Oh and is COD WAW worth the £30 price tag it has on steam atm, or should I wait for it to come down a bit?
how comes steam is like 5 quid moe than amazon at present.. something not right there.. given a choice i will have the box
Can’t believe I’m going to say this, given my views on it in the past, but I’d actually rather spend the fiver and have the game delivered “instantly” than wait for it to arrive by post.
Not going to though, I think I’ll wait for it to come down a bit in price. How recent a release is it?
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bloody hell….as is usual i catch on late and have only just seen this….=XDC= cant disband….thats insane !!
imho the site dropped a couple of times and we lost some members through that…..why not have a roll call of all the members….we must have all their email addresses…..something along the lines of ‘where you been,come visit the boards’ etc etc
i reckon people who are in have a lot of love for these tags…..i know i cherish mine and still read that front page and it sums everything that is right about dealing with pc’s !!
apologies to the members for crossing over to a console….but personally i dont see any issue with gaming on a console,pc, whatever really…..it seems a bit ginky to be exclusive to pc gaming,especially when even the biggest game of the year (mw2) looks to be a port from a console with only 9v9 on mp.
for me =XDC= is about the boards,and yes certainly fun times playing together online, but in light of the fact we never really took things too serious when everyone was about, it seems wrong to exclude those like myself who cant justify the constant upgrades,the technical know how it takes to keep on top of how fast things move in the land of pc’s
it just seems a bit unlike an =XDC= move ??
i reckon you would be suprised how many people were lost when the websites wnet down….nooblets like me who got lost for 6 months,but like a bad smell i found my way back….matt….i wold be devastated if this place ever closes up…..seriously man you cant do it…..i dropped in tonight and dropkick has posted….excellent news….i met alun….we had a beer….we had many good nights together wibbling and playing
dont do it….embrace the consoles…the two should be able to sit alongside each other….=XDC= is all about the mission statement,wrote ten years ago and just as relevant today,its just that gaming has moved onto a different platform,easier for all to use, and those that are on the consoles,first port of call is to hook up with a fellow =XDC= player, cos you know you aint gonna be hookin up with tard !!!
=XDC= must never die !!! we just need to contact the members and say get your arses back !!!
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