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IRC Guide

This guide for all of you that would like to join the Rhino & COA channels to get extra help, or just have a place to hang when your not playing the game.

The first step is to download an IRC client. By far the best one is mIRC. Since I'm going step by step with mIRC, go download it over at http://www.mirc.com/.

Click the below link to begin downloading mIRC.

After that's done downloading, run the file (mirc601.exe) to begin Installation. It's pretty straight forward, right after you run it you'll be asked to push 'Next'. Then you have to agree to some legal jargon, just hit 'yes'. Now on the next screen you can change the installation directory and other things, but since this is the first time, don't bother with anything, just click on 'Install'. It will start copying files and create your shortcuts. When it's done click 'Finish'.

Now, click on Start, Programs, mIRC, and mIRC again to launch the program. This is what you'll see first.

This will appear every time you start mIRC, pretty annoying. So to make it stop, just uncheck that box in the bottom left corner. Now to make this thing disappear, just click anywhere on it, except any of the buttons.

This is what will come up next. First put something for full name. Anything will do, but you can't leave it blank. Then email address, again anything, just not blank. Now for your nickname, of course use your AC name, but your name must start with a letter, and it cannot contain spaces. Use a _ for a space if you must. Alternative nickname you shouldn't really worry about. Then, fill in all the blanks. Do not push 'OK' yet. We have a few more things to do. What you have to do now, is click that button in the top right corner, it says 'Add'.

In the Description box, it doesn’t really matter what you put, but put something like 'Stratics IRC'. In the next box, the IRC Server box, type in 'irc.stratics.com' without the quotes. That's all, click the 'Add' button now. You’re back to this screen.

Nothing left to do here, push the 'Connect to IRC Server' button.

In the very top box, where you can type, type in '#rhinos' without the quotes, the password is in our private forum. Then push the 'Join' button. Welcome to the Rhino chat channel.

To add additional channels, COA for instance, In the very top box, where you can type, type in '#coa' without the quotes. Then push the 'Join' button.

If you need help, let me know, I’m learning myself but we can work it out.

Acknowledgements:

Many thanks to the COA for the help and use of their mIRC guide, as well as DooMGazE, who unknowingly provided additional help from the Blood site.

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