EM Tekkit IRC

The EM Tekkit community has a presence in IRC (Internet Relay Chat)! This is a long standing internet protocol which functions as a general chatroom. If you are interested in joining the #emtekkit channel on irc.gamesurge.net please read the instructions below in order to install mIRC and join the channel. In addition you can follow the instructions for nickserv authentication to register your username with Gamesurge . This will secure your username so that no one else may log in and use it!

EM Tekkit admins and moderators are generally available in the #emtekkit IRC channel even if they are not logged into the server. We are also using jca2323‘s CraftBukkit plugin MineIRC to link the server with our #emtekkit. This allows for an easy way to communicate with the server through IRC and admins can also moderate the server from IRC.

We look forward to chatting with you!

mIRC Instructions

Follow these instructions to self-perform and authenticate within the Gamesurge network using mIRC:

1.   Install and run mIRC (www.mirc.com)

2.  Fill out the first screen you see, it should ask for your name, email address, nickname and alternate nickname

3.  The next screen should be titled mIRC Favorites.  Make sure you unclick the box at the bottom and then close this box.  You don’t want this box popping up every time you start mIRC.

4.  Go to View, Options, Connect, Options and make sure that the first, second and fourth boxes are checked.  The third box should remain unchecked.

5.  Go to View, Options, Connect, Options and click on Perform.  Make sure the box at the top is clicked.  Hit the add button and select Gamesurge.  (Note that if Gamesurge is not on your list of networks, go to www.mirc.com and download the latest servers.ini file and overwrite the existing servers.ini file in your mirc directory (or the directory where your mirc.exe file is located)).  Add Gamesurge.  Add the following lines to the large box making sure that you have Gamesurge showing in the Network box  above:

/nick whatevernicknameyouwanthere
/j #emtekkit

6.  Now in the main Network window you will see a textbox at the bottom.  Type the following line and hit enter.  This will bring you into Gamesurge and if you entered the information correctly in the self perform window you will automatically join our channel:

/s irc.gamesurge.net

Now each time you start mIRC it should automatically connect to Gamesurge, set your username to what you included in the first line of the perform list, and join you to the channels you entered (#misfitmafia and any other channel you want to idle)

7.  Now go to View, Options, Display and make your Position “Left”.

8.  You can change your nickname at anytime by going to the Network window and typing in the textbox:

/nick whatevernicknameyouwanttochangetohere

9.  I would suggest playing around with the option menu.  You can set mIRC to minimize to the tray, which is nice, and you can customize stuff as well.  You can send and receive files (called DCC) and you will want
to change your settings to what you want in the DCC options window.  I can walk you through how I have mine set later.

Authenticating

NOTE:  One thing you are going to want to do is “Register and Authenticate” a username.  You will want to do this to receive special privaleges in each channel and to be able to be added to channel user lists.  If you do not authenticate, you cannot be  named a coowner, master, op or peon in a channel.  Now here a username is different than a nickname.  A username is the name of the account you want with Gamesurge.  Mine is annias. The username has nothing to do with the nickname(s) you will have in the mIRC channels (my nickname is annias).

To Register:

1.  Go to http://www.gamesurge.net/createaccount/  and follow the simple instructions.

2.  This will register your username with Gamesurge.  You will receive an email that has a cookie you need to activate.  Just following the instructions in the email to activate the cookie.

3.  Once the cookie is activated you need to authenticate.  To do this you will need to type the following in the textbox at the bottom of the Network window:

/msg AuthServ@Services.Gamesurge.net AUTH [account] <password>

Again [account] is the username you selected.  Do not use the [ ]‘s. and <password> is the password you selected and you don’t want to use the <>’s.

4.  Now you are authenticated.  In order to make sure that you don’t have to type that authentication each time, you will want to add that line in the self-perform window.  So the big textbox in the perform window (rememeber that is at View, Options, Connect, Option, Perform) should read as follows:

/nick whatevernicknameyouwanthere 
/msg AuthServ@Services.Gamesurge.net AUTH [account] <password>
/j #emtekkit

And now you should be all set.  After following these instructions, when you open mIRC, you will join Gamesurge automatically, your nickname will be changed to what you want, your username will be authenticated
and you will join the emtekkit channel.