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WC8

Dec 2 2008, 09:18 PM

Registering with GameSurge has many benefits. If you prepare your IRC client to perform, then you can automatically authorize with GameSurge and this will allow channel levels to automatically be applied to your account. This is a step-by-step guide to getting IRC set up to work for you.

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Yellow - Universal
Red - Windows
Blue - Mac

Registering with Gamesurge and Authorizing for the First timeShow/Hide Spoiler

Step 1 - Download and install IRC client. For Windows, I suggest mIRC, and for Macs I suggest Colloquy. For Linux, I suggest checking out this page, which has a list of Linux based clients. I don't have any knowledge of Linux, so I can't make a guide for it.

Step 2 - Register with GameSurge here.

Registering on the GameSurge website

Success!

Step 3 - Check your e-mail for your password.

All that you will need to auth for the first time is here.

Step 4 - Open your IRC client and connect to the Gamesurge network.

mIRC (Windows)

Setting up to connect on mIRC

Colloquy (Mac)

Setting up and connecting on Colloquy

Step 5 - Join the SC2GG room

mIRC (Windows)

Joining #sc2gg on mIRC

Colloquy (Mac)

Joining #sc2gg on Colloquy

Step 6 - Authorize for the first time. Type in /authserv auth <yourname> <yourpassword> and hit enter. I screenshot on Colloquy but it's the same on mIRC, just a different GUI.

Authing...

SUCCESS!

Step 7 - Now that you've authed once, you definitely want to change your password. type /authserv pass <oldpassword> <newpassword> and hit enter. Again, screenshot is from Colloquy but same deal on mIRC.

Changing....

CHANGED!!!

Congratulations! You have now registered and authorized with GameSurge. But you don't want to go through that every time do you? Well that's why there's such a thing as Perform. The next steps will show you how to make the client authorize you and join #sc2gg everytime you start it up.

Performing on mIRCShow/Hide Spoiler

Step 1 - Go to File -> Connect and then click on "Options" under the "Connect" Category. Then click on the "Perform" button.

Step 2 - Type in /authserv auth <yournickname> <yourpassword> and then /j #sc2gg. Check the box for "Enable Perform on Connect". Congratulations, you're good to go!

Performing on ColloquyShow/Hide Spoiler

Step 1 - Bring up your "Connections" window. This can be accomplished one of two ways: Windows -> Connection or pressing Command+1. Highlight the particular connection you want and click "Info"

Step 2 - When in "Info" select the tab names "Automatic"

Step 3 - Type in "/authserv auth <yourname> <yourpassword>" in the "Commands" box and add "#sc2gg" to the "Join Rooms" box.

Congratulations, you're good to go!

WC8

Dec 9 2008, 02:05 PM

Bump

zapherix

Dec 10 2008, 10:05 PM

Hey WC8,

Nice guide - one thing you might want to do is fix some of the bigger screenshots by just cropping out the parts that aren't really important (like a whole lot of empty screen) and focusing on the stuff that is.

Also - you mention that there are a lot of advantages to registering with GameSurge... what are they? And why would one want to authorize with IRC? What exactly does that do? I think I'd be useful to explain why this is important and what you can do with it (like, what does "applying channel levels" do?), especially since I myself don't know

KageAkurei

Dec 10 2008, 10:10 PM

Ya I have to say I don't see any real need to download that thing when I can just put in a nickname and go straight onto the sc2gg irc and chat. But then again I don't have special access or anything on there to need it.

epicurus

Dec 11 2008, 12:35 AM

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

I must admit, I'm an idiot and you saved me. Thanks.

WC8

Dec 13 2008, 02:04 AM

Honestly, being on the client allows you to have multiple channels open and browse through them more quickly, and also if the website were to say, go down, you'd still be able to be on the IRC. Registering is good if you're staff especially so we can give out operator status, but also for members who come in on a regular basis, you can be voiced which has its advantages if we need to shut the channel up for a second or two, you aren't effected.

Honestly, the benefits of a client outweigh the perceived "easiness" of the java applet, which is really buggy at times. Literally with mIRC/Colloquy, you won't have to enter a nickname again, you just start and connect.

zapherix

Dec 15 2008, 12:29 AM

Hey WC8,

No doubt that having a standalone client has advantages over the java applet - my questions were mainly derived from the title of your thread:

What is "performing"?
What is "authorizing"?

Are those all the same thing as registering?

NuffZetPand0ra

Dec 15 2008, 10:09 AM

QUOTE (zapherix @ Dec 15 2008, 01:29 AM)

Hey WC8,

No doubt that having a standalone client has advantages over the java applet - my questions were mainly derived from the title of your thread:

What is "performing"?
What is "authorizing"?

Are those all the same thing as registering?

I know your question was directed @ WC8, but i figured i might as well answer.

"Performing" is a series of commands you want to run when your client has connected. It is the equivalent of writing the commands in the client after connecting, but perform just makes this easier, as you don't have to remember them and type them in every time. So if you've written "/j sc2gg" as first line in your perform, the client will simply write /j sc2gg when you have connected successfully. You can use this for all kinds of stuff, even to say hi when you enter the channel (just add "Hi" in a line for itself in the bottom of your perform commands).
Authorizing is the same as logging in anywhere else. You've got some rights on a forum as a registered member, and staff usually have other rights. Until you have logged in, the forum recognizes you as a "guest". It's the same on irc, and an auth account simply allows you to store your rights.

Edit: typos <.<

zapherix

Dec 16 2008, 08:30 AM

Thanks!

You're just trying to respond to every post I put out, aren't you?

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