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Inquisitor IRC

Inquisitor maintains its own IRC network, for a few reasons. It's a place for our users to hang out and play the game, for our developers to work together, for our players and channel administrators to get support, and for our staff to monitor bot operations. Inquisitor was started as project on a private, invite-only IRC network, so we believe strongly in running and controlling our own infrastructure whenever possible. This is why we've elected to run our own network, instead of just setting up some channels on an existing network. We hope you'll join us!

Quick Details

  • Server: irc.inquisitor-trivia.me
  • Port: 6697/7000 (SSL/TLS, some clients may require a + in front of the port)
  • Channels: #inquisitor (general discussion and gameplay testing), #dev (development discussion and early testing of new bot releases), #help (for assistance playing or configuring the game once the bot is complete)

Nickname Registration

You are encouraged to register your nick with NickServ. This prevents other people from using your name when you're not around, and is actually required to speak in any channel that is not #help. Gameplay scoring is also driven by an automatically assigned cloak that is created upon registration.

To register your nick, send a message to NickServ as follows: /msg NickServ REGISTERYourPassword YourEmail. Don't worry, your email remains private and is not visible to regular users. You'll receive a confirmation email, and you'll need to follow the instructions to confirm your registration. Once this is done, your nick is registered, and you'll automatically receive a user cloak when this happens.

After your nick is registered, you'll need to identify to it each time you connect. Many clients offer functionality to do this automatically, such as via perform commands, or via SASL. Information on how to do this on various clients is readily available with a quick online search. You may also manually identify with /msg NickServ IDENTIFYYourPassword.

Channel Creation

Channel creation is currently enabled. Use this wisely, abuse of channel creation may result in it being turned off. You can register your channel with /msg ChanServ REGISTER#channel. See /msg ChanServ HELP for more information about channel registration and permissions.