[TUP] Chatting Amongst Ourselves
VoodooMike71
TUP has around 120 members, and the in-game methods of communication aren't brilliant at letting us talk to each other. PMs have to be split into four or five groups of 30 and take forever to set up and maintain. The TUP shoutbox is great for
Luckily, there are other alternatives out there, namely the forums and IRC.
In this article I’ll show you how to get onto and take part in the forums, so you can see just how unutterably cool and easy to use they are. Watch this space for a future article on IRC.
Forums - they’re the
Forums are perfect for party discussions, as they record - in a decent threaded form - a whole discussion. A new topic can be set up for every topic, so you’re not constantly trying to keep track of several different subjects in a single message thread. Best of all, they are private - only registered users who are in TUP can see our party’s area of the forum. The eUK forum doesn’t just cover TUP - there are loads of different subjects and areas on there.
None of these people are real
Getting on to the forum is dead simple - just follow these instructions and you’ll be flaming people quicker than you can say “BigAnt is a numpty”:
1. Go to http://forums.erepublik.co.uk/ . You can read the forums straight away, but you can’t post anything until you register.
2. Click on the word register in the top right corner where it says Please login or register.
3. Skip merrily past the Registration Agreement without reading a single word of it, and sign your life away by clicking the Accept button at the bottom.
4. Fill in the registration form. It’s important that you provide your correct eRepublik name; if you don’t the admins will pour scorn on you and refuse your registration.
A word of warning, the type-in-these-letters captcha thingy used on the forum can be fiendishly difficult to get right, because it’s sometimes completely unreadable. Don’t waste your time trying to decipher the indecipherable - keep clicking the tiny refresh button until something intelligible shows up.
Child’s play
Once you’re registered, you can start taking part in the public forums. However, there’s one more thing you need to do to gain access to the super secret squirrel TUP area:
5. Find the Private Forum Requests area and saunter in, whistling, as if you haven’t got a care in the world. All the locals will stop what they’re doing and stare at you, menacingly. Ignore them and go straight into the Access Requests sub-forum.
6. Click on the New Topic button.
7. Write a message saying something along the lines of “Hi! I’d simply love to have access to the mighty TUP’s private forum, please ever so much innit?”.
One of our trusty admins will spot your message almost immediately**, check you out and grant the access you desire.
Now, when you return to the homescreen you’ll see The Unity Party forum is available to you. Bosh, you’re sorted.
See you on the forums!
*Joke! That was a joke! Ho ho ho ho ho etc
** They don’t eat, sleep, drink or chase beautiful girlies or anything - they just sit there, all day and all night, watching and waiting for someone to request access. That, my friends, is how dedicated they are.
Comments
nice
If you want to know what's going on, this is how! Interested in becoming more active in the party (apart from PTO'ing it, that is)? Get on the forum and get talking!
you need to do an idiot proof version for congress so they can realise how much better forums are than 2 sesperate message threads that some people dont use
Apparently some people don't use the forums either...