Sorry about that....
Let me clarify what I was talking about. First, IRC stands
for Internet-Relay-Chat (Or something like that). It is basically an
international "talk." It allows people to type messages to other
people, who are also in IRC, in real time. It is not a EMail type
setup. What you type, is what other people see. On IRC, there are
"channels" that people can tune to...each with a different topic.
One could just make a channel called "Traveller" and go from there.
You can also make the channel private, so that only people you
invite can tune into that channel.
Now, most people use a client program to connect to IRC. If
one were to modify the client of the referee for certain database,
and other miscellaneous functions, it would greatly speed up the
game. Also, you can setup a kind of server, that, when it heres a
few keywords, will "say" something in response. I've heard of dice
servers where a player can say "ROLL d4" and the server will
respond with, say, "d4 RESULT: 3." It would be a simple matter to
modify these for a task system. The complexity of the system would
only be limited to how much programming people wanted to do.
This, obviously, has many disadvantages. Only people with
access to IRC...which can usually be reached by "telnet"... can
play. It is slow, not in terms of PBEM "slow", but in that one can
speak only as fast as one types. Obviously, everyone has to be on
at the same time, which presents time zone problems. On the whole,
tho, I think it would be fun for at least a few individuals out
there.
Dan Andersen.
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