| Blitzing FAQ |
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Not so much a new game annoucement as a teaser to come start or join a blitz in #stars!
We do regulary have a Friday night and Sataday night games but you get chance to play at any other time pop in and see if you can rustle up some interest.
1) An Introduction to Blitzing
2) Setting up mIRC and using mIRC
2.1) Downloading mIRC
2.2) Initial mIRC setup
2.3) Setting up DCC file transfers
2.5) Rules of the channels
3) Using the blitz bots
3.1) What are blitz bots?
3.2) How to send commands to the blitz bots
3.3) A list of the most commonly used commands
3.4) An example of joining and playing a game
4) Blitz rules and conditions
4.1) Universe Conditions
4.2) Multi year generations
4.3) The game timer
4.4) Special rules
4.5) Handicap rules
5) Blitz strategy
5.1) General guidelines
5.2) A few sample blitz races
6) Credits
1) An introduction to blitzing
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Blitzes are fast stars! games played over an Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
network. The games use multi-year generations, normally batching up 4
years until 2440, 2 years until 2460 and 1 year thereafter, and are
usually finished over the course of one night. A timer will force
generate the game 5-10 minutes after first submission. To play a game
you will need a copy of stars!, an IRC client (mIRC is recommended), a
large pot of coffee and a few spare hours of your life. The coffee is
optional.
2) Setting up mIRC
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2.1) Downloading mIRC
mIRC is available from many sites across the Internet, a few are listed
below:
http://www.mirc.com
http://www.mirc.org
http://www.mirc.co.uk
http://www.tucows.com
http://downloads.cnet.com
ftp://ftp.demon.net
2.2) Initial mIRC setup
After you have downloaded and installed mIRC you will first need to set
a
few basic preferences.
Run mIRC and close the pop-up splash screen.
Set the following preferences:
Connect
IRC Network : Starlink.Org
Full Name : <Your name>
Email Address : <A contact email address>
Nickname : <The name you wish to use on IRC> (This must be shorter
than 10 letters)
Alternative : <A nickname to use if your first choice is already
taken>
Connect/Options
Reconnect on disconnection : Ticked
Connect/Local Info
On connect always get local host : Ticked
Lookup Method : Server
Connect/Identd
Enable Identd Server : Ticked
User ID : <Your nickname>
IRC
Rejoin channels on connect : Ticked
Those settings should be sufficient to allow you to allow to connect to
the Starlink.Org IRC network and chat. Go back to the main Connect
options window and click [Connect to IRC server]. A window titled 'mIRC
Channels folder' will pop up, untick 'pop
up folder on connect' and close the window.
2.3) Setting up DCC file transfers
You will now need to set-up mIRC to handle stars file transfers
correctly. By default mIRC rejects all file transfers apart from a few
sound, text and picture formats. It will need to be configured to accept
stars files and route them to your stars! folder
Open the mIRC options dialog
DCC / Folders
Under DCC get folders click [Add]
The 'DCC get folder' will open
In the 'Save files with these extensions' box add the text
*.r?,*.r1?,*.m?,*.m1?,*.x?,*.x1?,*.h?,*.h1?,*.hst
Click the 'Into this folder' button and choose your stars folder or a
sub folder of it
Change 'DCC Ignore' to ignore only
If you feel particularly worried about security you may wish to leave
the 'DDC Ignore' type on 'Ignore Except' and add all the stars! file
type mask's (*.r? etc.) individually to the list of accepted file types.
If you have real problems setting up DCC tansfers the bot RandomHost has
ftp accesss. PLease ask in the channel for advice on using it.
2.4) Using mIRC
Firstly if you are not connected you will need to connect to a IRC
server on
the starlink network.
Type '/server irc.starlink.org' into the text box at the bottom of mIRC
and
you s
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