Meginjarder Guide

by joxer

Chat Tab

This tab keeps track of your last received @tells.
You can click on the names to reply, or click on the message text to view the entire @tell. You can also Set an AFK message to respond to @tells. How handy!

Message Tab

This tab functions like email. You may send characters a message that they can read when they check their "inbox" on their own new message tab.
You may even send messages when they are offline.
Messages will show up similar as with the chat tab. You may click on the text to view entire message.
You may send a message by typing @message then the character's name followed by a comma. and then the message.
for example: @message Joxer T Mighty, Thanks for the info.
^this message would appear on my new message tab when I log in.
You can always Click on the ? for more help when using the plugin as well.

Members Tab

This tab allows you to view other online members and their level/character type. You can specify what type of members to view.
For example you can choose to look for members in your level range, allegiance officers, corpse recovery team members, or search by skills.
Need an armor tinkerer? look under armor tinker skill to see who is online. (then ask politely)
another handy feature is if you click on the icon by their names it gives you their current location!

Group Tab

The group tab is handy for organized hunting or joining up in fellows.
Basically if you are hunting alone but would like to join up in a fellow you could click "solo players" and then select "enlist". This lets others viewing the tab know you are looking to join a fellow.
Similarly if you are in a fellow & looking for other members then you enlist on the Fellow leader option.
This lets others see your fellow name & current number of fellows. It also lets them know you are looking for more to fellow up.

Quest Tab

Ah the grand quest tab. This is where you can post or view quests.
You can view quests for the current day, or upto the entire week.
To view the info for any posted quests you simply click on them. This lets you see everything the leader has posted.
These quests are also synchronized with the online event calendar on the meginstats page. Posting in either spot lets them show up in the other.
Adding quests can be somewhat complicated at first. The easy method is using the event calendar.
The ingame command structure is like this: @quest Title | date | desciption
example: @quest giftbox |today 7pm est| Giftbox quest...joxer leading, meet at mansion.
The difficult part is making sure to use the | between title/date/description and also to type the date in properly. You can also add dates like "friday 8am cst"
remember use the ? when in doubt.

IRC chatrooms Tab

This tab is where you join chatrooms to talk with others in specified rooms.
the setup varies, but basically you would talk in the rooms using other combinations of key commands.
For example maybe you have saints room setup to chat using /s then your message.
maybe you use /q to talk in the quest tab. or /sc for the united monarchy channel.
It is important to note you can choose the color of text to be displayed as well for each chat room. It would be annoying than not knowing which room your conversation buddies are talking from! See the advanced section below for more info.

Update tab,
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Update tab

This tab lets you upload your character name/level to the clanstats server for viewing on the website.
It also has the option to be disabled, or to hide your stats and just display your name/level.

Advanced Section

Useful commands

  1. Identify your main character: while ingame, type: /mbr set main=your main character (eg. /mbr set main=Joxer T Mighty)
    this allows you to set a main character for your alternates to help sort your webstats, and allow people to know who you are. Check out one of my chars here and click the more information button.
  2. Setup a password for using the web interface & event calendar:
    Go onto your main character ingame and type: /mbr password 1234
    (this would set your password to 1234 for the character you had logged in. Choose your own password! Also you only need to set it for your main character)
  3. set your house coords and rent date, to allow others to look it up and help pay if you are away. Type /mbr housing for more details.

- modifying the xml file

This is the slightly more advanced section on how to modify your xml file. The settings I'll focus on allow you to choose the color of text, and the command you use to chat in specific rooms.

First off, lets take a look at the xml file. It is in your meginjarder folder. It might be a good idea to make a copy of your original incase you mess up somehow.
To get started with modifications, You should open it using notepad.

Next you'll see a section that looks similar to this:
(note that yours will have some < and >'s)

	irc
		channel server="irc.slashnet.org" port="6667" channel="#Saints" command="s" colorcode="14" join="False"/
		channel server="irc.slashnet.org" port="6667" channel="#scclans" command="sc" colorcode="16" join="False"/
		channel server="irc.slashnet.org" port="6667" channel="#SaintsPk" command="pk" colorcode="6" join="False"/
		channel server="irc.slashnet.org" port="6667" channel="#SaintsQuest" command="q" colorcode="5" join="False"/
		channel server="irc.slashnet.org" port="6667" channel="#SaintsPlugin" command="sp" colorcode="13" join="False"/
		channel server="irc.sorcery.net" port="6667" channel="#solclaim" command="so" colorcode="15" join="False"/
	/irc

The channel server shows what irc server you are connecting to,
the channel= is the name you will see displayed by meginjarder for the room when ingame,
The letters displayed in quotation marks after the "command=" are the combinations you need to type in order to chat in that particular room. So if you want a new combo, simply change them. However you need to avoid using more than 2 letters and also any current AC commands to avoid problems.
The number displayed in quotes after the "colorcode=" for each room are the colors of text that will be displayed. use numbers between 1 and 16.

Save your changes and then try it out, you can always change back later.

A further note

These chatrooms can be joined using any irc progam as well so you need not even be ingame to talk with those who are. Also, it is possible to setup rooms where other guilds using meginjarder or irc chat programs may join the same rooms and make communication easier. This is handy when on quests or just to make contact with others who aren't in the guild or dislike the basic /a chatroom.
All another guild would need to do is add the same room info above into their meginjarder xml file in order to join the room.
typically everyone just uses the saints channel (/s) whether you are in the monarchy or not.
feel free to contact me for more info.