First steps with your chan

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This page is intented to help you on the setup and settings of a newly registered chan. Some contents are kind of obligatory - some others are only additional and do not need to be followed. This page can not replace all the other contents in this wiki, but it will hopefully give you a rough overview on the things to be kept in mind.

Intro


Now having registered your ally chan, you may wonder what you could use it for or what things should be configured in there. The simple answer: you can invite your ally mates in there to talk and everything is set the way necessary to fit that purpose.

There is of course a more difficult answer as well. You can

  • invite your friends and add their accounts to the userlist of your chan
  • set an individual topic and greetings that represent your ally/guild
  • change the settings and the accessibility of the chan
  • look for fun bots, bncs and lots of other stuff



How to


If you now got some ideas about things to change in the chan, you will surely need more informations about the way you can work on them.
First of all, it could be useful to look at some chapters inside the wiki, e.g. ChanServ - which shows nearly all the available commands to you.
Don't worry, we won't leave you alone at this point. This was just a tip on how to find these commands at all. We will now proceed in giving you some examples on possible actions.

Directing users to your channel


Most of you, will have a number of allymates ingame, that you could want to direct to the new channel.
If they just want to take a look, it is possible to provide them with the JavaChat. This can be done by using http://www.onlinegamesnet.net/javaChat.php?join=YourChannelname - for example, if you got the channel #AllyChan registered to you, you can use http://www.onlinegamesnet.net/javaChat.php?join=allychan to access it directly via the OnlineGamesNet website.

Some of your members may want to visit more regularly. In these cases they should think about installing an IRC Client, which has some more comfort than the basic JavaChat. For Windows users, we suggest starting with mIRC - a common IRC Client. For the installation and some tips, please visit mIRC installation.

If you need more information on how to join a (protected) chan, please visit this page.

Adding users to the userlist of your channel


If you now got some of your mates inside the chan, you could as well add them to the userlist. This way, they get some privileges in there, for example the operator status (@) or the possibility to change some of the settings.

For doing so, your mates need an AuthServ account first. They can be registered simple and free of charge on our website, following this link: http://www.onlinegamesnet.net/authRegister.php?language=en
Afterwards, they have an Accountname which can be used to add them to your userlist. You perhaps read some of the ChanServ commands already, the one needed now would be !adduser *<authnick> <accesslevel>.
If you need some more informations on the different access and the authnicks themselves, take a look at this page.

Keep in mind, that everybody needs to be logged in with AuthServ to get his or her privileges inside the channel.


Get user out of your Channel

Therefore you can handle it with Bans. To learn how to use them you should read the Channel Bans

Changing the topic of your channel


The topic is the infoline, posted at the top of the chan on joining. As with most of the things here, there is a simple way to change the topic inside the chan - and more difficult ones.
The easiest way is using !topic <text> right inside your chan. To get more variations, you may as well use some colors in your text. Most clients (e.g. mIRC) use ctrl + k to open a submenu for choosing a colortag with your text. Some other clients may have completely different options for it - at best try google or the helpfiles of your client to find out about it.

As mentioned, you can also put a more 'sophisticated' topic, that includes a fixed part and a variable. That way you got a static topic with the possibility to set a news posting in there if necessary.
If you want to find out more about this issue, please visit the article Topicmask.

Changing settings in your channel


Altogether, there is quite a big number of settings available for Channels registered with ChanServ. While you can find the complete overview about them here, we like to concentrate on the most important or interesting ones here.

Some of the settings are available for ChanServ access 300 and upwards already, some others require a higher amount of access inside the channel. Plus, the chanowner may adapt the default settings for the channel, so that some of these options may require more - or less access for your channel.

For this page, we will explain the effects and usage of the following settings:

  • setters
  • modes/enfmodes
  • givevoice/giveops
  • enftopic/topicsnarf
  • protect



All of these (except modes and protect) are set with the same syntax - /cs #channelname set <name-of-mode> <required-access>
Example: /cs #YourChannel set setters 350

  • Setting: setters
    • Usage: /cs #channelname set setters <accesslevel>
      • Example: /cs #YourChannel set setters 400
        • Explanation: This setting is one of the most important ones. Using it, you arrange the required minimum access for using all commands combined with set inside the channel. Of course, noone fulfilling this minimum may change a setting, set to a higher access (than he got). For example, with set setters 300 and set enftopic 350 - a user with 300 access may use set comands but not change enftopic because it requires a higher access level. Same for all other settings.

  • Setting: modes / enfmodes
    • Usage: /cs #channelname set modes +<letter of mode> (or -<letter of mode>)
    • Usage: /cs #channelname set enfmodes <accesslevel>
      • Example: /cs #YourChannel set modes -p+siz all the available modes can be found here. They can be set in any combination of + and -.
      • Example: /cs #YourChannel set enfmodes 350
        • Explanation: These settings care for defaultmodes inside your channel. Modes set with the command set modes can not be changed by someone with less access in your chan, than the level you determined with set enfmodes. For example, using access 500 for enfmodes, noone besides the chanowner may change a defaultmode +i in this channel.



  • Setting: givevoice / giveops
    • Usage: /cs #channelname set givevoice (or giveops) <accesslevel>
      • Example: /cs #YourChannel set givevoice 0
        • Explanation: With these two commands, you determine the required access to receive op or voice inside your channel. Using the example, everyone joining your channel will at least get voice (+) no matter of his access.. Or for using set giveops 400 only users with access 400 or higher inside your channel will get op (@).

This does not affect a users access. So !kick (required access: 200) will still work for someone with 200 Access even if he does not have op (@) in your channel.

  • Setting: enftopic / topicsnarf
    • Usage: /cs #channelname set enftopic (or topicsnarf) <accesslevel>
      • Example: /cs #YourChannel set enftopic 501
        • Explanation: Using those two options, you may determine who (or better: which access) may change the defaulttopic (for enftopic) and who may use /topic <yourText> (for topicsnarf) to overwrite a given defaulttopic in your channel. Only the chanowner may set the level 501, so noone (including him) can overwrite a given topic like mentioned then.

If you would like to have a static topic, with an option to change just some parts of it, take a look at the subject: Topicmask.

  • Setting: protect
    • Usage: /cs #channelname set protect <Number-of-protect-level>
      • Example: /cs #YourChannel set protect 2
        • Explanation: With this setting, you determine whether people on the userlist of your channel are protected against kicks/bans... Possible levels range from 0 to 3. Keep in mind, that this protection only affects actions taken via ChanServ. !k Someone can be 'disabled' with this setting, /kick someone (while being opped in the channel) will not. The different levels are:
        • 0 - All users will be protected from users with equal or lower access.
        • 1 - All users with access will be protected from users with equal or lower access.
        • 2 - All users with access will be protected from users with lower access.
        • 3 - Nobody will be protected.





Outro


Hopefully, these files did help you in arranging your channel. Further additions may be requested on #OGN-wiki at irc.onlinegamesnet.net
http://www.onlinegamesnet.net/javaChat.php?join=OGN-wiki

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