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Yes, I have Steam, but I am not using it to chat with anyone. Get MSN or something.

Yes, I have a fair bit of experience with C#, but my main interest is with c++ and opengl - I would be glad to help you guys out, tho Is there any way to get a hold of a dev with some kind of instant messanger, like IRC, ICQ or jabber?

Some things that would be nice: Integrate the chat into the cncnet client (IRC would be good for that, there are C# modules available) Fixing the bug that 20 players are shown as "online" even if they aren't: I got a "possible NAT error" all the time until I looked at the source code. I tried to "fix" this by letting my cncnet client automatically fetch cncnet.php?a=3 to purge the idle ones every 10 minute, that works quite well. (Only problem is that someone who has not been active for 120 seconds is seen as "idle", but the client itself has an announcing/update rate of 180 seconds) I implemented a few things in my cncnet client that I found useful: displaying the IP of players and opening a ping prompt when double clicking on one "Westwood Online"-like game hosting, but I think that is already being discussed in another thread

I for one would like an IRC channel for CnCNet - its more convenient for me than a webclient as I have an irc client open all the time (as opposed to a webbrowser). There are ajax web clients for IRC available. Also it would be a lot easier to integrate IRC into the current CnCNet client. Edit: Oh, yeah, and it would be a bit harder for trolls. I encountered a few ones that renamed themselfs after someone (resulting in two people having the same nick) and spamming inline pictures.