Post by Cathie on Sept 5, 2005 8:55:48 GMT -5
Okay well since you've made it to the messabe board, if you'd like to make a character, first read this entire rules section. It's all very basic. I know there's a lot, but with good reason. When you've read all this stuff and you're at the chat, you'll see this: i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/myimages2005/gettingstartedsrif.jpg
The refresh button (the arrow on the right) will refresh your chat screen. Do not use your browser's refresh, or it will log you out. If you leave the site, do not use the back button because it will take you back into the chat, and will repost your last chat post. If you do, do this (everyone does at some point in time), simply hit the Undo button, but we'll get to that. Okay so you wanna rp? You have to register. So, next to the SIR Future logo banner, to the right, you will see I've put a red dot over the register button. Click that and it will take you here:
i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/myimages2005/applicationfillout.jpg
In the blanks, put your character's name (I've put Mitsie), your email address (there's mine. Now, you need to put this in there because your password and everything is emailed to you after I, or one of the admins/mods approve the application), and then choose your faction (I'll get to this so you can skip it if you don't know what that is) and then go ahead and put the requested information in the text box, and click apply. Simple really. I don't need a huge page of information, and please don't send me a link to follow. Now, about Factions for those who don't know (if you do, skip this next link):
i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/myimages2005/applicationfillout2.jpg
There is an explanation of Factions on the image.
Moving on...You wait. You can PM me or IM me (both are usually appreciated because I don't regularily check the applications), or one of my admins (they have a little gear to the left of their handles). Just to let us know that there is a new application. After that, please don't remind me unless I ask, or continuously ask, it'll be gotten to. And it's immediate as soon as I click the accepted button. Most people are accepted...if you follow the rules of character creation, you shouldn't have a problem. So then after you are accepted, you'll go back to the chat and you'll probably have been watching it already, so you'll see that first image again, but this time I'd like to draw attention to some things not explained by that 1st picture and the explanation. You will see a place for your nickname (handle), Color, Password, Image URL, Link, and Icon. Don't mess with the other options. You can change your font, but more than likely it's just going to be huge or tiny compared to the rest. You can always fiddle with it when there's nothing going on in the chat, but set it back to default, it's just easier, or keep it to something relatively the same size. The Nickname is what you registered with as a handle. It's not case sensitive, but it is space sensitive...you can register with either an underscore or a space...both will result differently (This_Name, or This Name). Below that you put in the code for your color. To get color codes, click the link to the right of the SRIF banner, below Register, labled Colors. Youll see a ton of colors there when you choose which color family to go to. You take that 6 letter-number code and put it into the box. Then, your password. The first time you login, you will use the password you were given in the emil you registered with. After that, you can change your password, and I'll touch on that later. So put your password in, then look to the right. These boxes (Images, Links, Icon) are not mandatory. If you have a character picture, you can put the entire url (including the http:// part) into the first 2 boxes. Or for Link, you can put a made bio on a web page, the choice is yours. You can also leave it blank. Sites like Animevisions.net and Angelfire do not allow image linking. You're all filled out, so hit the Enter link, located below Password. This is your screen now (without all the red marks, of course):
i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/myimages2005/letschat.jpg
Now, this isn't really in any particular order. So just to say, you can just type what you want into the text box (1), and hit enter and you're chatting. Here's an explanation if you need it...otherwise, you're done.
Something of note I didn't bring up are the icons. Located below the text box, this is set up to show others where your character currently is. It's also where, if you have a special character, you'll find it's icon (such as the admins' AMEA characters...no one else has this icon). And beside it, is the color box...you can change your color at any time in rp.
To see info about the Control Panel, view the post about it.
The refresh button (the arrow on the right) will refresh your chat screen. Do not use your browser's refresh, or it will log you out. If you leave the site, do not use the back button because it will take you back into the chat, and will repost your last chat post. If you do, do this (everyone does at some point in time), simply hit the Undo button, but we'll get to that. Okay so you wanna rp? You have to register. So, next to the SIR Future logo banner, to the right, you will see I've put a red dot over the register button. Click that and it will take you here:
i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/myimages2005/applicationfillout.jpg
In the blanks, put your character's name (I've put Mitsie), your email address (there's mine. Now, you need to put this in there because your password and everything is emailed to you after I, or one of the admins/mods approve the application), and then choose your faction (I'll get to this so you can skip it if you don't know what that is) and then go ahead and put the requested information in the text box, and click apply. Simple really. I don't need a huge page of information, and please don't send me a link to follow. Now, about Factions for those who don't know (if you do, skip this next link):
i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/myimages2005/applicationfillout2.jpg
There is an explanation of Factions on the image.
Moving on...You wait. You can PM me or IM me (both are usually appreciated because I don't regularily check the applications), or one of my admins (they have a little gear to the left of their handles). Just to let us know that there is a new application. After that, please don't remind me unless I ask, or continuously ask, it'll be gotten to. And it's immediate as soon as I click the accepted button. Most people are accepted...if you follow the rules of character creation, you shouldn't have a problem. So then after you are accepted, you'll go back to the chat and you'll probably have been watching it already, so you'll see that first image again, but this time I'd like to draw attention to some things not explained by that 1st picture and the explanation. You will see a place for your nickname (handle), Color, Password, Image URL, Link, and Icon. Don't mess with the other options. You can change your font, but more than likely it's just going to be huge or tiny compared to the rest. You can always fiddle with it when there's nothing going on in the chat, but set it back to default, it's just easier, or keep it to something relatively the same size. The Nickname is what you registered with as a handle. It's not case sensitive, but it is space sensitive...you can register with either an underscore or a space...both will result differently (This_Name, or This Name). Below that you put in the code for your color. To get color codes, click the link to the right of the SRIF banner, below Register, labled Colors. Youll see a ton of colors there when you choose which color family to go to. You take that 6 letter-number code and put it into the box. Then, your password. The first time you login, you will use the password you were given in the emil you registered with. After that, you can change your password, and I'll touch on that later. So put your password in, then look to the right. These boxes (Images, Links, Icon) are not mandatory. If you have a character picture, you can put the entire url (including the http:// part) into the first 2 boxes. Or for Link, you can put a made bio on a web page, the choice is yours. You can also leave it blank. Sites like Animevisions.net and Angelfire do not allow image linking. You're all filled out, so hit the Enter link, located below Password. This is your screen now (without all the red marks, of course):
i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/myimages2005/letschat.jpg
Now, this isn't really in any particular order. So just to say, you can just type what you want into the text box (1), and hit enter and you're chatting. Here's an explanation if you need it...otherwise, you're done.
- 1 is the text box where you type your chat message
- 2 is the post button...you can just hit enter, or click that. In that same row, there is also the Undo, Refresh, Userlist, Manual, and Members buttons. The Undo does what I said way above...if you make an error, you can click this and your last message is gone...just don't click more than once, unless you want more than 1 erasted. Refresh there does the same as the refresh in the first section. Userlist I think refreshes the Avatar on the Right. Manual pulls up a new screen with all the codes tp manually make things bold, italics, private messaged (without the pull down menu) and stuff. Check that out. And finally Members...this button's important. When you click it, you will be taken to this screen:
but for now let's keep moving. - 3 is for Private Messaging. You pick someone from the menu. No one else can receive this message.
- 4 again, this is your colors link.
- 5 This brings up a 500 year old map of the current continent...it's outdated. While the locations of the cities wouldn't be changed, the land would be. This map is actually used for SRI chat. But, on the far left, you can see a desert (which now, actually, everything is) and Antalousa, and Aranova. Just a nice way to see relatively where all the cities are and kingdoms.
- 6 Takes you to the Message Board
- 7 is the current CITY map. It's only of Aranova...and it's ever changing. I can add land, roads and the like when needed.
- 8 This is the SRIF logo banner...it's linked to the main portal of PJJ. If you click it, a new window will open, displaying all the PJJ chatrooms.
- 9 These are the marquis. The red is for OOC info, and the blue is for IC info...such as announcements that would've been broadcast. I'm still working on them and will be linked to a message board post in the near future.
- 10 Is the list of posted posts...however, if you will notice just above them, you will see a PJJ message in blue. Sometimes there's valuable information there, so be sure to look there. Right now, it's an opinion thread...so don't worry about it if you don't want. If you do go there, you'll need to register with their board to post.
- 11 is way at the bottom. It's the character chain. You set this up in your control panel, which I'll go into detail over later. This is especially useful when you have multiple characters.
- 12 And finally the Avatar on the right. Images or just handles (as seen in the pic) will appear there. If you take a look at Ark's handle, you will see a small white icon below his name. That's his bio. You can click it to be taken to that. Also below handles, you might see an email, AIM, MSN IM, Yahoo!, ICQ, or webpage link. Again, this is done in the control panel, under Members.
Something of note I didn't bring up are the icons. Located below the text box, this is set up to show others where your character currently is. It's also where, if you have a special character, you'll find it's icon (such as the admins' AMEA characters...no one else has this icon). And beside it, is the color box...you can change your color at any time in rp.
To see info about the Control Panel, view the post about it.
