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Internet Relay Chat: Channels

There are several IRC channels dedicated to Deathball play:

For general Deathball related Chat & Help and for playing pickup games:

#deathball on Quakenet


For North American Deathballers, there's also (although we'd like to move the NA Community to quakenet unifying communities and all that).

#dbmixers on irc.quakenet.org

For Australian Deathballers:

#db-au on Enterthegame

Help to get IRC started:

This is a simple guide, for people who might want to find our way to get to our Community Channel, or Other clan Channels. It also shows you a little bit more, and will always get updated.

Internet Relay Chat: Guide

Downloading the software:
To get the list of country downloads go to http://www.mirc.com/get.html .

1. Configuring the software:

In the MIRC options, enter the required details such as Name, Nickname & Email address (This is all in the connect section of the options). To connect to a Server, go to the Servers, sub tab underneath the Connect tab. Then move across to the IRC Server Box, and select the appropriate one, (In this case Quakenet). Then Connect to server.

2. Once Connected:

A large box shall come down with writing which displays server rules and help. In the type box, you can do multiple commands, but to join a channel you do /join [#Channel] | Example: /join #dbcommunity. This will then connect you to the required channel you want.

3. in the Channel:

People  you will see people with such Symbols near there name, this is what they mean:

@ = Channel Admin
+=Voiced
=Nothing


4. A Topic:

The topic is what the channel is currently talking about, there biggest point or favourite interest, an example of this is:

Topic is ' http://www.ut2004.jolt.co.uk 4»« ONS League Week 5 - Frostbite (side nodes link setup) - Tonight! '

5. A Welcome Message:

The welcome message is the most important information for people entering the channel, it shows what the channel is about and can give links and certain commands which are enabled also important relevant information. An example of this is:

For a clan:

-L- [#a51-clan] 10»A51« 15Unreal Tournament 2004 Clan 15Server: 10ut2004://80.68.47.47:7750 15WebSite: 10www.a51-clan.net 15Join Application: 10 http://www.a51-clan.net/a51v7/index.php?s=join 15| Server Host: 10 http://www.gdhost.co.uk 15Commands: 10 !show !forum

Or

For a league:

-L- [#e-leagues] 10E-Leagues 7Unreal Tournament 2004 League 3Server/s: 10Deathmatch 7ut2004://80.68.46.137:7850 10Onslaught: 7ut2004://80.68.46.137:7750 10WebSite: 7http://www.E-Leagues.net 10Forums: 7http://www.e-leagues.net/forums/

You see they show the important information!

6. The more complex stuff:
If you’re in a clan, or want to play in Pickup games you will need an Auth. An Auth is like an identification tag for you. Once signed up you get your own username and password.

To request an auth:

Type these commands in the Server/Text box:

/msg Q HELLO user@mymailhost.xx user@mymailhost.xx

Example: /msg Q HELLO A.Ashley@gmail.com A.Ashley@gmail.com

Once this has being done an email will be sent to you with your new auth line. To successfully auth copy the line of command which was sent to you and paste it in the server box or any channel but be carefully when doing this in public channels that you don’t forget to put / or you will spam your Auth to everyone in that channel.

Congratulations you have just Authed 


You probably don’t want to copy and paste that command line every time you go into IRC, which brings me to my next Section in this guide….

7.….Perform:

Perform means Automatic Join… for example if you connect to Quakenet all the time and you always go to #dbcommunity, why not let IRC do that for you? That’s what perform does, you put the commands in which you would do in the Server box and it will automatically do them for when you connect! This is highly recommended, especially for the people who have Auth commands, and go to lots of channels very often.

Go to the options tab in the MIRC options, (It’s a sub section still under Connect) Then click on perform tab… A small box will open up. Click on Add and you can put the required server in. For this example Enter Quakenet, and add it…

Then in the typing space enter the commands you want MIRC to do for you when you connect to Quakenet.

An Example of this is:

/join #deathball
/join #dbmixers

It’s wise to include your Authline here as well.

Then tick the box which says “enable perform on connect”

So now you have your Auth line, you know how to connect to channels and you know how to auth connect to servers and channels.


8. If you want to contact someone privately and send:

Double clicking on someone’s name in the channel will open up a new window and enable you to start a private chat, with that person. If you want to send that person a file, right click on there name and go to DCC Send.

9. Change the Background Image of your Chat Windows:

On the top of MIRC you have the Toolbar commands, Directly under it, you should have the channel listings, if you right click on a channel name, a list of options will drop down, go to background and then select the .. Wait for it... Select option then browse for the picture you want. Then of course select the picture to implement it in to the background.

10.Change you’re Nickname:

To change your nickname simply, type /nick and your required Nickname, an Example of this is: /nick Ash. You may find an error like `Ash Nickname is already in use`. This means that the nick is already in use. Therefore please select a new nick.


11.Sending a message to all the channels you are in (/amsg) :

To send a message to all channels you are in type /amsg before your desired text, An Example of this is: /amsg 10E-Leagues 7Unreal Tournament 2004 League 3Server/s: 10Deathmatch 7ut2004://80.68.46.137:7850 10Onslaught: 7ut2004://80.68.46.137:7750 10WebSite: 7http://www.E-Leagues.net 10Forums: 7http://www.e-leagues.net/forums/ Join the League!

Or more simply;

/amsg Can anyone tell me where i can download, the new Unreal Tournament 2004 patch?

12.How to edit your messages appearance:

Ctrl & U = Underlining your text Message
Ctrl & K= Choosing the colour of your text message
Ctrl & B= Making your text message, bold

13.Want to find out what channels/Personal Information a person is on/is:

To find out this information, you must who is the person. You can do this in two ways:

1. Right Click the person's name
Go to information
Whois Info

2. Type in the Console
/whois [ Name of person ]
E.g /Whois Ashleh

14.Private Commands for channel operators:


/msg L CHANLEV #channel [nick] [flags]

Defines what power the user has in the channel. If no user or flags are specified, then the access rights for the entire channel are printed. Use nick for online users and #authname for offline users. You need be either the owner (+n) or the master (+m) of the channel to change the access right for the channel. Only the owner (+n) can set or unset the master flag. If the user has no flags for the channel, the user is added to the channel and if all flags are removed, the user is removed as well. To remove a user, just remove all the flags the user has for the channel.

Supported flags are:

a auto Auto-ops or autovoices a user on join to channel
g auto Works only for the +v flag
m master Can set users access rights for channel
n owner Like master but can set masters for channel
o op Has the right for mode +o on channel
v voice Has the right for mode +v on channel

Example: /msg L chanlev #mychannel
/msg L chanlev #mychannel myfriend +ao
/msg L chanlev #mychannel #myfriendsauthname +maov

This guide will be constantly upgraded through time...

I hope this guide answers your problems and querys

Ashley

IRC: Quakenet : #deathball

who cares

edit: oh wait its got my name in it

wp n1 ash

edit2: #dbmixer on gamesurge for NA pugs

#db-au on enterthegame for deathball australia

#ballers on gamesurge is practically dead

#allpickups for all pickups non-deathball

Way to go ash

Just one thing: this makes it seem like mIRC is the only client at least include a notice of 'the client we will use for this example is mIRC, there are alternatives but this is the most common client'

Even google makes people think mIRC IS IRC

Its a first time users guide, mainly dont want to confuse them, however, will add that toward the middle or end of the guide once near to completion

would be nice to put this as sticky , good explainations

the guide looks alot better on the Deathball Community forums, which it is a Sticky there. Have a look: http://www.db-community.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186

It looks better because it has colours? o_o

Is there any extra info?

mirc IS irc kthx

you say "gamesurge"
but its not in irc by default, the exact url is needed

irc.gamesurge.net

n1 Ash! :p