Inter­net Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Inter­net chat or syn­chron­ous con­fer­en­cing. It is mainly designed for group com­mu­nic­a­tion in dis­cus­sions called chan­nels, but also allows one-to-one com­mu­nic­a­tion via private mes­sage, as well as chat and data trans­fers via Dir­ect Client-to-Client.

#EchoCom­plex is a great place to social­ise and chat with your fel­low guild mem­bers.
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It’s highly recom­men­ded to register an account on Gamesurge first.

http://www.gamesurge.net/createaccount/

You are given a pass­word, you might want to change this or not. The instruc­tions to are in the email when regis­ter­ing. It is highly rec­comen­ded to change your pass­word to some­thing you will bet­ter remem­ber, but don’t use a pass­word you use for any­thing else.

The next step is authen­tic­at­ing with Auth­Serv. Remem­ber you must authen­tic­ate with Auth­Serv every time you con­nect to GameSurge. Authen­tic­a­tion is very simple and straight-forward. The com­mand to authen­tic­ate with Auth­Serv is:

/authserv AUTH <account name> <password>

Set­ting up IRC on vari­ous clients

• mIRC (IRC spe­cific client)
• Pidgin (Multi-Protocol IM (Also com­pat­ible with MSN, Yahoo, Face­book, AIM)
• Web-Client (Easier, but less features)