AFAIK, this is a really simpe thing to accomplish, and it would be a pretty cool feature. think about it, your having a really slow time in a game and you feel like talking to somebody other than people that your in a game with: *CLICK* your on ADMINOP's officiall irc room

it would also be good because if your just starting on SOURCEOP than you can easilly log on to the irc room for help with a function, it would significantly reduce repeated questions in the forums, too.

another good thing about this is that IRC doesnt use up barely andy bandwidth, so it wouldnt lower the ping of the server's players.

another feature you could add to this is put up a TV screen or computer monitor that displays the chat room ingame (seperate from the GUI).

another cool idea would be to build ingame controls for winamp so you would have to comprimise your game with the buttons on your keyboard or minimize your window to change the song.

SADLY, i got these ideas from a video game "hack" for natural selection that i used just for those two features...