Here’s some links & information to help you get started on IRC.
IRC Client
You need an IRC client to connect to an IRC network. That’s the program that you’ll be using to connect and chat. Most people use mIRC, so if you don’t have it, follow this link to download it and install it. If you want to learn more about IRC and it’s usage, visit this page and read the “Intro to IRC” and “IRC FAQ”.
Connecting & Joining #oromea
In IRC there are many networks, each having several inter-connected servers & channels (chat rooms). IRC channels start with #. Oromea’s IRC channel is #oromea, on the stratics network.
Once you’ve installed mIRC, clicking one of the following links should launch mIRC automatically, connect to a stratics server and then join #oromea.
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
If you can’t get the links to work, don’t worry. You can do it manually. Start mIRC and type:
- /server irc.stratics.com 6668
- or /server stratics.afraidyet.net 7000
- or /server irc.glowfish.de 6668
Once you’re in, type:
Changing your nickname
You can change your nickname by typing this command:
- /nick your_new_nickname_here
Registering your nickname & identifying yourself
You can register your nickname so that noone else on the server can impersonate you. To do this, set your nickname of choice first and then type:
- /msg nickserv register your_password_here
Now your nickname will be registered in the server’s database and protected by the password you entered. Everytime you connect to the server, you’ll just have to issue the following command to identify yourself:
- /msg nickserv identify your_password_here
Making use of IRCs “Perform on Connect” feature
- When you have opened your IRC client (mIRC), go to the top of your screen, and press the tab Tools.
- When you have opened the Tools tab, more options will appear. At the bottom of the list, you`ll find the button marked Options. Click it.
- Now you should have a window popping up, called “Mirc Options”. On the left side of this window, you will see a little frame with lots of items in it. This frame is marked above with Catagory:
- Locate the Options button in the list, it will be one of the subchoices under the Connect tab.
- When you have pressed this, look to the right of the “mIRC Options” window (to the right of the list of choices you just pressed.) And press the button named Perform.
- Then you will be in the “Perform on connect” window. Be sure to first check the “Enable perform on connect” box at the top of the window.
- Then select “All Networks”, or Stratics if you have added it to your servers list.
- Now we can start programming the IRC to make the everday stuff so much easier. Look at the large white square box. You can edit stuff in there, like it was a command window in DOS and so forth.
Here is an example of my own Perform On Connect orders, the orders will be issued starting from the Top to bottom, so make sure you remember that when typing it in :
- /nick Oromea|Vadriel [Alters your nickname as you log in]
- /msg nickserv identify (your password) [Identifies, if you have registered]
- /j #oromea [Joins the official Oromea channel]
- /j eleador [Joins the House Eleador Channel]
- /j Darkfall [Joins the official Darkfall Online channel]**
There are almost no limits to the amount of channels you can be in at all times, so dont Leave one channel, thinking that this is needed to join a different one.
How to edit your Quit Message
- Whenever you manually quit IRC, you have the option to edit your quitmessage. A nice contribution for your clan if you are in any more public channels, is to edit in the Oromea.com website address.
- Do as above, in the Perform on Connect guide; Tools -> Options -> and under the IRC headline in the list at the left in the box press Messages.
- In the Quit Message line, type in for example: //www.oromea.com//
How to get a Time-stamp on each and every event in >IRC
Do you want to see whenever something was said ? Do this:
- This is done in the same window as you edited your Quit Message.
- At the top of this window, you`ll see a Timestamp Events window. If this is not checked, please check it so that it is toggled On.
- Next, add the letters” to your timestamp so that the finished line will be :
[HH:nn:ss]
- Press OK to save and exit.
