KOS IRC Help guide

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IRC(Internet Relay Chat) is a chat program used mainly to socialize on the internet, here is a quick overview about how it works : There are usually many servers linked together in a "IRC Network" wich means that you can connect to any server in a IRC network and be able to talk to everyone it that network even if they are not on the same server as you. Most popular IRC networks are DALNet, EFNet, IRCNet... There are hundreds of IRC networks in the world. The IRC network we will use is called Stratics IRC network wich is a small IRC network focused on online roleplaying games. Once you get connected to an IRC network, you have to get into discussion forums called "channels". And from there you can start enjoying IRC! I hope this guide will make the setup process easier for you.

1. Quick start step by step instructions
2. IRC commands
3. What are IRC Services?
4. Stratics IRC network server addresses

Quick start step by step instructions

• Go at http://www.mirc.com/get.html and download the latest version of mirc and install it!
• Once it is installed, start the mirc application you should see a screen like this :

• The first thing you should do is fill up the "Full Name", "E-Mail Address", "Nickname" and "Alternative" fields, the Alternative field is used in case someone is already using your nick name on the IRC network. I highly recommend that you enter only bogus informations in there except for your nick name of course wich is the name that will be showed when you are in a channel.
• Don't press "ok" yet! Just below the "Connect to IRC server!" button, you have a list of most popular IRC servers, this is not where we want to go so press the "Add" button and add the servers listed here. Here is an example of what it should look like :

• I would suggest you enter all the 4 irc servers listed in case one of them is down you can quickly reconnect using another one.
• Once all the servers have been added you are ready to connect! Just click on the "Connect to IRC server!" button. When you will connect a dialog will appear asking you what channel you want to join, you can just click "OK" and continue following these instructions.
• If all goes well you should now be ready to enter any channels you want, i suggest you check out all the options in mirc and the help too since it is very well done.
• If you just want to get into the KOS channel, type "/join #KOS" (Keep KOS in uppercase letters) in the "status" window, every channel name is prefixed by a # sign, you will then be in the KOS channel and ready to talk to all our guildmates!
• You can "reserve" your nickname so noone but you can use it, to do that go to the "What are IRC Services" section.

Some IRC commands

Here are some IRC commands you might find useful :

/help : Will show you all the available commands

/nick <new nick name>: Change your nickname

/join <channel name> : Join a channel

/list : Lists all available channels

What are IRC Services?

IRC Services are little programs running on IRC servers acting like robots, the 2 most important services are NickServ and ChanServ.

NickServ is used to "register" nicknames so noone other than you can use it, to register a nick name you must type "/nickserv register <your password>" this will register the current nickname you are using, please use a unique password here, DON'T use the same password as your uo account for example!). After you did that, everytime you connect to a server you must type "/nickserv identify "your password" wich will tell nickserv you are really yourself :). Type "/nickserv help" if you want to know all the other commands you can use with nickserv.

ChanServ is used to "register" channel names, for us, we registered the channel #KOS wich means only us can be operators in that channel (We can ban/kick anyone we want and allways keep full control of the channel). Type "/chanserv help" if you want to know all the commands you can use with chanserv.

Stratics IRC network server addresses

• port 6667- irc.stratics.dhp.com
• port 6667- intworks.stratics.com
• port 6667- stratics.sanman.com
• port 6667- stratics.frws.com