It all started when I was unable to chat with guild members during a patch day outage. I had several years experience with networking and remembered my golden days or IRC. I put 2 and 2 together and started putting UnrealIRC on 2 of my network servers. After a month or 2 we began having problems with users and the network was crippled. I then moved the network to 2 servers split between Europe and the United States. After doing so we've started to get more traffic as a network. I'm hoping people start using the network to their advantage.