I don't think moving to QuakeNet is an idea that helps this PUG to a higher level. Quakenet is pretty much dead compared to some years ago. PUGs arent constantly full there, actually, i think there are less PUGs there than played here. The so called 'oldskoolers' dont give a fuck about UT anymore and are playing something else or already gone for a long time.
@ sausage. 300 dm/ctf players doing nothing / bored / wtf? Have u ever been into that DM / CTF scene? People are just idling there and talking to eachother because they have played together for a long time. Most of them hardly ever play UT. I think most of them dont even have UT anymore ffs. And do u think they have never heard from UTAS? I have talked to alot of the people hanging out there, and most of them know about assault and utassault.net, they just cant be arsed to play / dont like assault, esspecialy not because its too old and they are done playing UT.
Sure its fun to hang around on Quakenet and play some pugs there. Quakenet network is pretty unstable and shit tho. Give it a try and u'll see that its just a waste of time, imo.
Oh, and your idea is to switch IRC servers completely sausage? Im really against it. UTAS IRC is stable and fast. Quakenet is a fucked up network with alot of netsplits and other services that make it fucking slow. IF u want to introduce Assault PUGs on quakenet, you shouldnt remove it from utas but do it together. Anyway it wont work lol