I quit NS2 some time ago for many reasons, but one particular one is how inactive the gather scene was at the time.

One thing I always thought would have been great was if you would get a notification through steam, that either the gather you entered is starting, rather than having your internet browser up only to wait for that appaling alert music. At that time, I did research a little bit to see if it was possible to maybe make a bot that a player could elect to add to their friendslist on steam, and it would send prvt messages, such as:
"Gather started Connect [NS2 Server] and see teams [ENSL gather page]"
And "ENSL gather needs 2 more players Join at [ENSL gather page]".
Through the Steam API (http://steamcommunity.com/dev) - I found back then that it was not possible.

However I just stumbled upon this : https://steamtracks.com/tour which DOES seem to allow for this exact thing. As I said, I don't play NS2 anymore, but I do think back fondly of the game, and would like to see it succeed again some day. So I won't be making this myself, but perhaps somebody here can use that link.

Edit: Also, in the same fashion, I think it would be awesome to have an irc bot somewhere, perhaps on some of the twitch.tv streams that can sort of advertise/inform about gather activity. I don't know how many people still idle irc, but I do and have many twitch related bots and scripts for it. It allows for a bit more life in an otherwise inactive ns2 streamchat if nothing else.

-SantaClaws

That's interesting. I have no patience and motivation to do that myself but maybe it could be nice to ask the current gather admins their opinion about this. Thanks for the information anyway.

that's essentially what we use the NA pug group for.

i think i should push this theard daly until we find somebody that could potencialy do that cause i think most people agreed in the gather redoe theard that something should happen to the gather system and this would be a good start

Any help is welcomed.