Names Steve. I'm one of the originals when mtgs was started. Just getting back into magic. Edh mostly with some standard thrown in. Hopping to be a bit more active this time around.
I went last year. Had a great time. They haven't announced a Boston date yet but it looks like it will be the Sept. 29 date and if so i'll be going again this year.
then start it up, go to the xchat toolbar. from there choose server list. hit add, name it protium. highlight it then go edit. where it says newserver/6667 change it to irc.protium.org. connect to the server. on the bottom you'll see a protuim tab. in that tab type /j#mtgsalvation, after that you're in.
I would love to see the IRC portion succeed as well but I would like to make some comments as to the problems of it.
1) This site has close-knit groups (from what I've seen) in all sorts of age brackets. Most of the chatting purpose of IRC could be handled in IM's just as easily if a group chat is started.
2) Promotion: This is the main problem as SorryGuy has already said, so need to comment further on that.
3) Again as said by SG, no one is really there. 2) would fix this a little but I think you need to go beyond that. Something has to be going on there like mini-games or topic discussions or something like that. In other words, some orginazation is needed. A good start might be to ask an artist or author to a Q&A session. That would indeed be fun and I guarantee the room would indeed be full.
Once you solve some of those problems IRC should be a better place to be (and more populated...).
you hit the nail on it's head. thats why the news irc chan. failed.
they've had the stage up for this for weeks now. didn't take much to figure out what it was for once I read about them doing a free show around here. I may skip work tomorrow to go.
1x Arcane Denial
1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
1x Baral, Chief of Compliance
1x Basalt Monolith
1x Beacon of Tomorrows
1x Blue Sun's Zenith
1x Brainstorm
1x Bribery
1x Capsize
1x Chrome Mox
1x Commandeer
1x Copy Enchantment
1x Counterbalance
1x Counterspell
1x Cryptic Command
1x Cyclonic Rift
1x Darksteel Citadel
1x Desertion
1x Dig Through Time
1x Disallow
1x Dissipate
1x Elite Arcanist
1x Evacuation
1x Fabricate
1x Forbid
1x Force of Will
1x Grim Monolith
1x High Tide
1x Hinder
1x Imprisoned in the Moon
1x Impulse
1x Insidious Will
1x Intuition
6x Island
1x Isochron Scepter
1x Lotus Petal
1x Mana Vault
1x Maze of Ith
1x Memory Lapse
1x Merchant Scroll
1x Mind Over Matter
1x Minds Aglow
1x Mirage Mirror
1x Muddle the Mixture
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Overwhelming Denial
1x Pact of Negation
1x Power Artifact
1x Propaganda
1x Psychic Surgery
1x Psychosis Crawler
1x Pull from Tomorrow
1x Reliquary Tower
1x Remand
1x Rewind
1x Rhystic Study
1x Sapphire Medallion
1x Scatter to the Winds
1x Seat of the Synod
1x Sensei's Divining Top
19x Snow-Covered Island
1x Sol Ring
1x Spell Crumple
1x Stifle
1x Strip Mine
1x Swan Song
1x Teferi, Temporal Archmage
1x Temporal Mastery
1x Tezzeret the Seeker
1x Time Stop
1x Tolaria West
1x Treasure Cruise
1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
1x Venser, Shaper Savant
1x Windfall
Link to deck @ TappedOut.net
with a comics clan I may start posting on here more often.
First download xchat for windows. http://www.xchat.org/download/ it's a free irc prog.
then start it up, go to the xchat toolbar. from there choose server list. hit add, name it protium. highlight it then go edit. where it says newserver/6667 change it to irc.protium.org. connect to the server. on the bottom you'll see a protuim tab. in that tab type /j#mtgsalvation, after that you're in.
you hit the nail on it's head. thats why the news irc chan. failed.