The Dominions IRC channel

[DominionsFan]

Lads, if you want to play Blitz games [via TCP/IP] and chat about the game, join to the Dominions IRC channel. It is on the gamesurge network, and the room name is #dominions

See you there! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[PashaDawg]

Server = irc.gamesurge.net

port = 6667

[Gandalf Parker]

Does anyone have or want to create a newbie page for this? Does the wiki have one? Something I can link to.

Something like this (which is really sloppy and needs redone)
http://host.dom3minions.com/how-to.html

[Endoperez]

A very short guide that probably isn't enough:

IRC, or Internet Relay Chat, is complicated business. You need many things, and all must work right. First, you need a client. There are many. mIRC is one. I don't know any others. Some browsers have clients embedded into them; at least Opera has this functionality. I didn't now this when I started using IRC.

You need to set up few things before you can connect. These include choosing a nick. Nick is a nickname, the name you use. I use Endoperez. Using the name you have here works. Your name might already be in use. Then you just have to choose another. Or add a ' after your name, like this Endoperez'.

To connect to #dominions channel, you must first find a proper server. On mIRC at least, once you know that you want to find a Gamesurge server ( irc.gamesurge.net), things are pretty simple. From a drop-down list, choose Gamesurge. If everything works, you are then asked what channel you want to go to. Type in #dominions and press enter. Then you should be on the channel, and see all kinds of strange discussion.

[PashaDawg]

Yeah... I found it quite easy once I downloaded the IRC client. I use Colloquy on a Mac. Very easy.

[Gandalf Parker]

Try this link....
IRC://irc.gamesurge.net:6667

If it doesnt work in your browser then it should tell you why. Often it just means that you need to get an IRC program and in the options tell your bowser where its at.

[DominionsFan]

If you don't want to download any clients, config them etc. you can also use the java based webchat of gamesurge.

http://gamesurge.net/chat/

First you simply load the page. [It will try to install the java application, so you must let the site to install it] You will find yourself in the "welcome" channel.
You can change your name in the "change nick to" window. [bottom right corner in the java window]
After this you simply type in /join #dominions -> this will connect you to the dominions IRC channel.
This is a very simple and easy way to use IRC. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[raynor]

mIRC is a commercial product ($30). I recommend instead Trillian. It can be found here:

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

[Folket]

Well, you can use the trial version of mIRC.

[Dragonlord]

I have been in this channel for 2 days now and it is quite useful for a noob like me.

[Arralen]

If you don't like Trillian, you may try

Gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/) or

Miranda (http://www.miranda-im.org/).

All three are multi-protocol clients which can not only connect you to any IRC server but to ICQ, AIM, Jabber etc as well.

[Gandalf Parker]

For linux it tends to be already installed. Or at least, easily available in the software catalog for automated "select/install/configure".

Personally I go with IRCII altho irssi is becoming popular.

[lch]

Whu, hu wa? Already installed on Linux? Do you mean a default installation of Ubuntu Linux, per chance? Or maybe RedHat or SuSE?

I'm using XChat 2, myself.

[Gandalf Parker]

Any of the above actually. On a linux machine, its worth typing IRC just to see if it comes up before rushing to install something which might not be as stable. Just like on Windows its worth trying that IRC link just to see if your browser will put you into an irc window.

[Caduceus]

If you use Firefox, Chatzilla (an IRC program) is embedded with the program I believe.

Tools > Chatzilla

[Merkhant]

Opera browser also has a built-in easy to use IRC client. It is OK for chatting, but lacks some of the features other IRC clients like mIRC have, eg. downloading is very hard.

[lch]

DominionsFan said:
If you don't want to download any clients, config them etc. you can also use the java based webchat of gamesurge.

http://gamesurge.net/chat/


And if you don't even have a Java plugin installed or think that it's too much of a hog of system resources to use it, but you still have a newish browser, then you could use the following link to instantly chat on the channel:

Mibbit #Dominions chat (http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc.gamesurge.net&channel=%23dominions&noS erverTab=false&noticesToActiveTab=false)

[Sombre]

With that link I think pretty much everyone here should give the channel a go at some point.

[Saulot]

I second that, hopped on for the first time last night.