DayZ IRC (Live Chat) Rules and Information

[Mysticales 118]

Greetings!

We the DayZ Team invite you to come and chat with us live and other members of the community.

You may choose the following methods to connect to chat:

Web Browser (Easiest): http://goo.gl/3mBVf (Mibbit)

Manually: irc.gamesurge.net #dayz (or if your client supports it, irc://irc.gamesurge.net/dayz )

Some clients that you may like if you find yourself enjoying chat would be:

http://www.mirc.com (Mirc, The main tool of IRC Junkies. 30 days free, then 20$ for a perm license)

http://www.silverex.org (This Version of X-Chat is free)

https://addons.mozil...ddon/chatzilla/ (Chatzilla is a simple addon to FireFox users)

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Rules:

We try to keep things reasonable in here. So basic common sense applies.

• No personal insults, slurs, harassment of any form, or vulgarity! I understand flames, (popcorn) drama, heated discussions happen, keep it civil or least be courteous to others reading, but moment you take it personal and use slurs, offensive slang to insult someone, chances are you will be gone.
  
• No promoting of cheats or hacks.
  
• No asking for CD-Keys, Generators, or info on how to make a pirated copy work. (Or anything Warez related)
  
• No spamming/flooding the channel.
  
• Be patient. Sometimes no one will see your question for quite a while if they are away from the computer or busy elsewhere. Sometimes people are chatting but no one answers your question. Just ask your question and hang out in the channel until you see some activity or find someone willing to assist you. Do not ask every two minutes. If no-one answers you may ask again 15 to 20 minutes later.
  
• Server related inquires should FIRST be directed at http://support.dayzmod.com before checking in chat for advice.
  
• No automated scripts or bots. (Nothing that triggers automatically to speak up in chat, MP3 announcers, greetings, away/back messages, or anything else that could disrupt chat.)
  
• NSFW, Porn, Offensive links are not permitted in #DayZ. Please try to keep things PG-16
  
• No promoting of Private Hive server hosting services. (Now if you run a private hive, thats fine, just please do not come in spamming your IP away. Right now main room is for official servers)
  
• If you are asked to stop, or take a chat outside of #DayZ, please do so. If you have an issue with someone, please tell an Op.
  
• If you are banned, then there is no rule to saying when you will be welcomed back in. However for the most part, bans may be cleared 30-60 days from when they occured.
  

Please keep in mind as well.. that should you be doing something illegal in regards to Bohemia Interactive Studios and its property, we reserve the right to take disciplinary action on you on any connected site and community. (So be smart and dont cheat or hack!)

Should you have an issue with IRC issue. You may contact me in channel or if you wish, reply on the thread.

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Community:

We are a community driven room for DayZ. So while official dev members are around, they may be busy or working on more important things. So please be polite and try to get user to user help in here more. That or stay around, make some friends to team up with! If an event is to happen or Dev Chats, You will be let known so you can always keep up to date with the latest happenings!

Bot Commands and Info:

I do have a bot loaded in the channel to help provide information, latest news and user to user support tools and links.

Bot will check every 15 mins for latest news postings from the DayZ, BIS team, and Rocket's Twitter and will post the news in chat automatically as it happens.

!twitter - Will PM you the last 3 items tweeted from the dayz dev team.

!forum - Will PM you the last 3 items from the DayZ Announcement Forum.

!bis - Will PM you the last 3 items tweeted from BiS/Arma related news. (Including Beta patch)

!rocket - Will PM you the last 3 items tweeted from Rocket.

!install - Installer torrent and simple installer client info.

!ui - How to get Steams UI working with DayZ

!newbie - Basic guide, tips and tricks for new survivors.

!beta - The Arma 2 OA Beta patch site.

!free - Guide to getting Arma 2 Free + OA working for DayZ

!stuck - Stuck in Debug Forrest? Open Sea? Pass the info on.

!weather (location) - Gives you a weather report.

!bothelp - Directs you to this thread.

!map - Links you to the Android and Web based map of DayZ.

!loot - Links you to the current cheat sheet for drops.

!badtime - Couple jokes for you. =)

!wiki - DayZ Search. If you just do !wiki it takes you to main page, if you type !wiki SearchTerm it will give you that result.

!server - Takes you to the server ticket system and info on hosting a server.

!german - News and Info about DayZ for German speaking people.

!mumble - Info on the Mumble server people use in the community.

!cheater - Links you to the cheater and reporting forum.

!banlist - Community Banlist for server admins to use.

!rescue - Reddit Rescue Force info for players in need of help in DayZ. (Not for newbie mentor help either)

On top of this. Urls posted in chat will be parsed by the bot to make it easier for others to know what it is about. (Also a good way to be able to know what a link is about before clicking a bad one)

Edited September 22, 2012 by Mysticales