I feel like ogame doesn't really give you the opportunity to communicate freely with other people (I hate the mailbox). Our forums don't seem like they are doing it either. The Chatbox on these forums suck because it disconnects you, but it's the only one i could get. I want to get a new chatbox, IRC, but i don't want to take the effort into getting it if you guys aren't going to use it. So tell me, are you going to use it? Also the IRC channel doesn't need to be related to ogame, you can just use it to chat with alliance members.