Advanced IRCing

Once you've got the basics of IRC it's not quite over. 'Serious' Planetarion players need to know a little more to stay ahead of the game. Things like how to keep a channel secure and how to hide your real identity can be very important, particularly early in a round.

How to Secure your own account

* Register with Netgamers and login
* Hide the Channels you are in
   /mode NickName +i
* Hide your IP address
   /mode NickName +x

Combined: /mode NickName +ix

This is a placeholder for information on maintaining two simultaneous and seperate accounts.

How to secure your channel

To set a channels mode temporarily use /mode #channel +flags and on registered channels permanently via P /msg P mode #channel +flags where + means addition (as opposed to - being removal) followed by the types of flags (e.g n, s, t or i).

=== Security Rating 1 === Suitable for a small public channel

* Only Ops Set Topic   +t
* No External Messages +n

=== Security Rating 2 === Suitable for a temporary or semi-public channel

* Secret		+s

=== Security Rating 3 === Suitable for any kind of non-secure permanent channel

* Channel registered with P, Ops are registered with P

=== Security Rating 4 === Suitable for a very small nonpublic channel, where all members have easy access to a changed key. Suitable for a galaxy channel or a small attack channel.

* Key 			+k Password

=== Security Rating 5 === Suitable for a major alliance's main private channel.

* invite only		+i
* All members are registered with P

If you are an alliance with more than 15 members, ONLY a Rating 5 channel will be adequate for your private channel needs. A Rating 5 channel will still have spies and so forth, just because its the last entry on the list does not mean its the highest level of security possible. Further levels of security exceed the scope of this article. Look into starting your own IRC server and other advice on removing spies who appear to be legitimate members of your alliance.

Consider setting up a filter to only allow known IPs into the channel (assuming your memebers have static IPs)