Chat room

[MrWhereItsAt]

As posted around, Impaler[WrG], laurentius, Phenix and I are chatting in a makeshift Poly chatroom, getting a lot of info exchanged, and improving our own sense of what's going on + feeling more active. I think this is a good thing, and thus I ask if the rest of the team deems it is logical to take the next step - for me to set up our own permanent room at Poly, that will be passworded to protect vital Consciousness datastreams.

May I?

[laurentius]

Go for it. Its a very good idea, I like the effiency of it

[Impaler[WrG]]

Second that, probly wont be schedualed as were are spread over several Continents (the Sun never sets on the Cycon Empire). We used PM's to get this organised so if your chating and you see someone bulb is on give them a ring.

[MrWhereItsAt]

What happens for the ISDG and the Civ3 Demo Games is that people just go to the chatroom and idle there whenever they can. Kind of a hang out. Unsure if we will be active enough for this, but Impaler's suggestions is good - time to add another 17 names to my buddy list...

[MrWhereItsAt]

Here's the chatlog. Mostly infodump on recent CyCon history and discussion on Interior matters.

[Phenix]

Yea, this was a good idea, the best way to exchange information and ask some fast questions

Best to get the password protection up asap... we don't want any Peace probe agents infiltrating!!

[Maniac]

Great initiative!

Btw MWIA, IIRC you said in the chatlog that you only had SMAX v1.0. The patch version 2.0 can be downloaded on the Firaxis site.

[MrWhereItsAt]

OMG! There's a 2.0?!?!?

[MrWhereItsAt]

BTW I am following up on the chatroom thing now - I will need people to register their nicknames eventually with Chanserv, but once I have it up and running I will let everyone know how to do that.

[laurentius]

Great! Just let us know when you get the party started.

Maniac: 2.0!!?

[MrWhereItsAt]

OK, I have registered a channel for us - #CyCon. The password is "betterliving", with no quotes.

There is one annoying thing - when no-one is in the room, anyone can join without a password, but as soon as someone joins the password is needed for everyone else to join. This should not be a problem as long as no-one tells anyone else what the chatroom name is, as although I have registered it, I have added the "secret" suffix to it, so it will not appear if anyone searches for all rooms we are in, or if they look at a list of registered rooms.

However, it will be best for everyone to register a nickname they like on the Apolyton.net server, so you can post the nicknames here and I can add them to the operators list. This way you will gain control over the room whenever you enter, and we can check out the identities of anyone in the room who is not an operator.

So, to go through this registration process quickly:

you have to be on the Apolyton.net server using mIRC. I will not go into the details of this as you can find it elsewhere on the site.

Choose a nickname, and type

/nick NICKNAME

then

/msg nickserv register PASSWORD EMAIL

Where PASSWORD is the password you will use to identify you as being the person who owns that nick, and EMAIL is an email address Nickserv can send an authorisation code to.

It should give you a message somewhere that an authorisation code has been sent. Then go to your email address and find the auth code given. Back in mIRC, type

/msg Nickserv auth AUTHCODE

Then your registration is complete!

You should close mIRC and reopen it to be sure. Now, type

/nick NICKNAME

then

/msg nickserv identify PASSWORD

You are now confirmed as the person authorised to use that nickname. This is important because anyone can choose any nickname they like when they join a room, so if you find someone has assumed your identity you can IDENTIFY yourself and give them the boot!

to join CyCon then just type

/join #CyCon ROOMPASS

Where ROOMPASS is the room password. It will change sometimes, but for the moment it is just "betterliving", as above.

Try it out, and when you have successfully registered your nickname post what it is here and I will add you to the list of operators. Then, as soon as you enter (and are identified with the right nickname), you will be automatically given the operator status to the room, and we all know it is the real you!

[Drogue]

Looks good

[MrWhereItsAt]

So if anyone has a moment please register your nickname and I will add it to the list of those who control the room.

BTW, would it be possible to try to schedule a chat for playing the next save? If it is this weekend then many of us could make it, I think, and it would be a further way of getting our knowledge up to scratch.

[Phenix]

Yea, this weekend's saturday would be really good for me

[Maniac]

Registered.