Revision as of 15:58, 28 March 2010

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is used to improve the communication between all players and friends of #openttdcoop.

Channel: #openttdcoop + Server: irc.oftc.net / irc://irc.oftc.net/openttdcoop

If you want to join our community, you will need an IRC client. We therefore recommend one of these clients:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatZilla (Many OS'es, Firefox Addon)
• http://konversation.kde.org/ (Linux, KDE)
• http://www.xchat.org/ (Many OS'es)
• http://www.silverex.org/ (Win32 freeware fork of XChat)
• http://www.bersirc.org (Microsoft Windows Only)
• http://colloquy.info/ (Mac OS X)
• http://irssi.org/ (Linux, other UNIX)
• http://www.pidgin.im/ (Multi-protocol, basic IRC, Many OS'es)
• Wikipedia:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients

If you installed the client, connect to the OFTC IRC network. For further details and FAQ see http://www.oftc.net/ .

To join our channel, simply type: /join #openttdcoop, or join via irc://irc.oftc.net/openttdcoop . Be sure to have IRC_Highlighting enabled.

Webbased IRC client

http://www.openttdcoop.org/irc/ (for server oftc.net)

Helpful commands/settings to make your Nick belonging to you

First of all, register it

/msg nickserv register <password> <email>

Link from your old/alternative nicks to the master nick:

/msg nickserv link <masternick> [<password>] (if it isn't the same)

if the nick is likely used by others, set enforce on:

/msg nickserv set enforce on

Your nick might change due reconnect

/msg nickserv ghost <masternick> <password>

or your nick might be occupied by an other user

/msg nickserv regain <masternick> <password>

general help from the services:

/msg nickserv help
/msg chanserv help