Change of IRC System

Alright! We wanted to extend the brilliancy of our wonderful VPS Host which we pay a lot for.

So Robbie has set us a Robbiebot which relies on the VPS Host, nothing else, this means 99% of the time it will work . This also means I save about £20 of power per month, same with Buzz (Although I don't think he'll be turning off his comp during the night anyway >_>)

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Anyway...Let me get explaining, You MUST read everything. This is what I want you to do.

1. Check to see if you have a registered IRC Nickname. You've got one? Great! If you don't, Get into IRC, join #IRChelp & ask 'How do I register & identify my nick?' They'll be glad to help.

2. Right now that you've got a registered nick, Click on your name at the top of the forums, for example: 'Abmanju'. Now click on 'Edit My Profile' next to 'Avatar Options'.
In the field "IRC Nickname" You must insert your IRC Registered Nickname. Then click on Amend My Profile.

3. Alrighty now, Connect to the SwiftIRC & join #Wg_Lobby. Now this is important, you must join on the nickname you entered on forums in the field 'IRC Nickname:' If you do not do this, you will not be invited. Join #Wg_Lobby on that nickname, then RobbieBot till invite you, so all you do is /join #Wg

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Why have we changed the system?
Well the problem with Buzz's system was that Buzz would sometimes ping out, meaning it wasn't 99%-100% reliable. This relies on our VPS Host.
Another problem was that Buzz had a list, currently, there were 517 Nicknames on that list. So say 150 of them were Wg, 150 were duplicates, 50 are random things, This means 167 are random Ex-Wg. They could join #Wg_Lobby, type !invite & join #Wg to flame etc. during dead period where no Ops are alive.

I'll tell you how this new system works.

1. A Person joins #Wg_Lobby (Any Person, even Guests)
2. That person's IRC nickname is searched on the forums using the Robbiebot.
3a) If that person is Trial Guardian+ & Emeritus...It means they get invited into #Wg
3b) If that person is Clan Friend/Banned/Clan Ally or non-existent on our forums, it means that Robbiebot does nothing. We might add the case that if someone with a rank 'Banned' Joins #Wg_Lobby they'll get kb'd.

So you can see, there is no list involved, it is simply the database on forums.

And that's how you join #Wg_Lobby & #Wg. Remember to do the steps otherwise you won't be able to join #Wg_Lobby.

If you need more help, this is the topic:

http://www.wildernessguardians.com/forum/i...hp?showtopic=97
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For Emeritus

You may use this way to join #Wg...However it will be changed because your nicks will get unregistered if you don't identify within a 2 month period, someone can easily take your nickname, register it & Join #Wg.

Robbie is setting up a system so that you will have to pm him your forumpassword to validate. So basically, it would be: /msg Robbiebot <ForumPasswordHere>

~Abs

This is awesome. No more having to use !invite.

Yeah I like this more than the "invite" system, for the reasons Abs mentioned.

Thanks Robbie.

Great job Robbie, this is really good.

can i make it not my forum pass if i pm robbie about it first?

I love Robbie, nuff said

worked well

(15:32:32) -Buzz- WG Members, type: !invite to be invited to #WG.

Buzz needs to take that off

and Nice

Good job guys!
but what if the forums are down for some reason?

Once again, Robbie...Outstanding job and idea.
This will make things much less reliant on Live Persons.

This seems to be a good system Nice. I'm assuming its scripting causes it to check to see if the IRC Nickname is registered before inviting? Not bad

Is there a way to get the Personal Rank type thing back up? Or was it a straight replacement? (By personal rank type thing i mean the place where the IRC Name is now). I miss it already lol

Nice update


Btw, No need to go into #IRCHelp and pester the ops to help you register. To register with SwiftIRC:

1.

Nice, this makes joining less of a hassle.

Coolio.

Nice job Robbie , as always.

This is sweet!
Nice idea, i love the system, i felt stupid when i joined irc today without going on forums.

I tried playing with scripts to sort out all the inviting and joining stuff, and had about as much success as a african tribe in an ice hockey match

Thid system is much better to be honest

Sounds cool. I'll check it out yo.

Very nice work Robbie... again!
WG has definitely got the best technology and security.

sounds cool kk done

Awsomeness, good work!

Awsome system!
Could be dangourus if it had any faults or bugs, I'm sure it doesn't though.

~Zeth

Hate it

1. It doesn't work yet, I still can't get in #wg or even voiced in wg_lobby.
2. It's much more tedious. You have to join the server, then identify, then join the lobby, then get invited, then join wg.
3. BLAH.

yea I guess it's more secure and all that now... but make it work plx?

This is awesome, I love this because my hostmask changes when I D/C from the net...so I would need a halfop to re !ai me everytime I d/c'ed.

DOES NOT WORK IF YOUR NAME CONTAINS ANY SPACSE, UNDERSCORES, OR DASHES ( , _, or -) just make your irc name on forums a name with none of those(or any other special characters) and then login as that name and change back to your normal name once your in.

Sounds good I'm pretty sure I've got everything down. I'll get on changing my forum nickname. This is great!



Brandon

so make my forum IRC Nickname thing: Samurai JM, and Samurai-JM will work on irc?

I did what you said but I dont get invited in