I'm to assume this no longer exists, as I read of it in the archives but there's no mention of it anywhere else. Is a shame, since I can't access the helper chat from my pc and I use IRC on a daily basis.
I have no idea if the IRC channel exists anymore either, but if you have a question, you could always shoot a PM to a helper. Personally, I'm also available on gchat, and other helpers may be as well.
There used to also be a list of helper emails and IM usernames, but it seems staff may have removed it.
If you want to chat we've got a Teamspeak Server. Some people talk, others just type or whatever. Sometimes Staff member come in to talk too. All rules of the GDB apply there.
sj01.gameservers.com:9363 Is the new server address.
You can get Teamspeak3 here: http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=teamspeak3 (http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=teamspeak3)
I was asking specifically about IRC because I prefer it, though if Helpers use AIM or email and publicize that, I could do that, too.
There's always helperchat (http://armageddon.org/intro/helpers.php).
edit: I should really read the entire op. >.<
You can shoot me an email at rhyden.arm@gmail.com too if helperchat doesn't work for you.
Alternatively you can always submit a request and allow staff to answer any questions you have.
A bit late to the party. But as you can see, just popping a question here will generally get you a few quick answers too.
is there a new IRC channel out there somewhere?
Quote from: OSOK on January 18, 2014, 08:10:37 AM
is there a new IRC channel out there somewhere?
It would be nice since I lurk around freenode a lot because of what I do in the Ubuntu Community. But I think we just use TeamSpeak nowadays and the helper chat.
Whats the ts server?
Oh IRC days. I remember those.
Here's the Teamspeak (http://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,45282.0.html) thread.
Quote from: ShaLeah on January 18, 2014, 12:29:30 PM
Oh IRC days. I remember those.
And there is still some who use it. ;)
Not like it used to be. Staff was in there a lot, which is why it was kept around for so long.
Quote from: tortall on January 18, 2014, 04:28:11 PM
Not like it used to be. Staff was in there a lot, which is why it was kept around for so long.
IRC or the TeamSpeak?
IRC.
The TS channel has regular staff visits, too.
I think we ,as a ArmMUD community, moved on to better option for chatting since it offers voice chatting.
Quote from: Barsook on January 20, 2014, 08:39:39 AM
I think we ,as a ArmMUD community, moved on to better option for chatting since it offers voice chatting.
Eh. I lost interest in it because of the voice chatting. I have nerve damage in my ears and it affects my word recognition. So I don't know the words to a lot of my favorite songs unless I looked them up or bought the sheet music. I can hear people talking on the phone and recognize their voice, but I sometimes don't catch what they're saying. If someone is turned away from me, I might miss a few words of whatever it is they're trying to tell me. Trying to listen to a bunch of people with varying accents and volume controls on their microphones, through the internet, is a huge huge chore for me. It's easier for me to just not bother at all.
Yah, gotta say I'm not a huge fan of the voice chat either. It can be fun, but I can't be in there when I'm actually Arming, because I can't focus at all with background noise. I'd end up typing what someone said in the voice chat randomly into a sentence and not noticing until after I hit enter. :-p
I sit in there with the sound muted, too. Teamspeak allows for just typing anyway.
Quote from: Patuk on January 20, 2014, 09:08:43 AM
I sit in there with the sound muted, too. Teamspeak allows for just typing anyway.
So, if there's a bunch of people in there, and no one is typing, but everyone is using voice - you aren't involved at all in the conversation. What's the point of being there at all, in those situations? That's why I don't bother anymore. Because some people use primarily voice, so I'm left out of the conversation or only get to see some of it - and have to ask people to "translate" (type what someone just said over voice) just to be involved.
I never really talk on it. It doesn't really take effort to be logged into the teamspeak anyway. If I'm going to miss out on some of the spoken conversations that's fine by me, I can type anyway. The channel really isn't a big deal.
I rarely go into TS, but my family is so active, I never have the sound or my mic on.
I much prefer Skype personally. I have TS but the quality usually isn't there for me and people popping in and out with out warning can be hard to deal with.
XMMP is the way I go,
There's another dutch guy in the ts. He's also very quiet
I'm suffering a minor existential crisis here dude, what's going on