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XMPP Chat - How to set up out of game chat

kaiserin#0958 kaiserin
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edited December 2014 in Controls and Interface
One of the greatest aspects of Champions Online is that you can chat with people while not in game!



How to set up your out of game chat:
You need to have gold status in Champions Online or Star Trek Online, XMPP goes through the Public Test Channel which requires a subscription.
Download Pidgin or Trillian. Both are free multi chat programs.

Trillian
On the upper left hand corner click Manage Accounts, Add New Account then select Jabber/XMPP.
Type in your Perfect World username followed by @crypticspace.com, then enter your password.
Example: name@crypticspace.com
Under settings make sure the host is crypticspace.com and the port 5222.


Pidgin
Click Accounts, Manage Account, and Add.
Type in your Perfect World username and password.
Under Domain type in crypticspace.com.
Under Advanced make sure the port is 5222.


And you're done! You will now see your CO friends listed in chat and can send them messages.




Joining Custom Chat Channels:
Trillian
Click on the Jabber/XMPP Icon and select Join a Conference.
Type in the channel name you want to view.
Under Server type in channels.crypticspace.com
Hit okay and the chat channel will pop up.

Pidgin
Click Buddies then Add Chat.
Select your cryptic account.
Under Room type in the chat channel.
Under Server type in channels.crypticspace.com
Hit okay and the chat channel will pop up.




Joining Guild Channels:
Trillian
Click on the Jabber/XMPP Icon and select Browse for Conferences.
Wait for the list to load then select guilds.crypticspace.com in the drop down menu.
Select your guild and join.

Pidgin
Click Buddies then Add Chat.
Select your cryptic account.
Click the Room List button.
Type in guilds.crypticspace.com
Select your guild and join.




Searching for Custom Chat Channels:
Trillian
Click on the Jabber/XMPP Icon and select Browse for Conferences.
Peruse through the list.

Pidgin
Click Buddies then Add Chat.
Select your cryptic account.
Click the Room List button.
Type in channels.crypticspace.com
Peruse through the list.
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  • UnknownUnknown
    edited July 2014
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  • kaiserin#0958 kaiserin
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    edited July 2014
    I can only suggest to recheck your account info. I haven't encountered any problems like that.
  • UnknownUnknown
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  • rexcelestisrexcelestis Posts: 194 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    This is available only to gold members. At one time, you also had to have an account on the test server.

    Could either of these be the issue, Gradii?
  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    What are you using as your resource? And you could always do what I advised some months ago and post the output of your help>debug.
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  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    gradii wrote: »
    I'm not famillar with chat client resources :x

    I never used pidgin till now. can you explain? :redface:

    I meant in the resource field in the account settings in pidgin.
  • jerax1011jerax1011 Posts: 966 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I was about to be all excited to be able to chat with friends outside the game (I don't have access to play atm), and then I read... You need to have gold status... I'll go to my corner now ><

    But otherwise thanks for making clear and concise directions Kaizerin!
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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Yay! I can finally stalk mah friends off game!!!
    gradii wrote:
    -edit- fiddled with it a bit, getting a new error now, server closed the connection, not authorized.
    Ditto.
    aiqa wrote:
    I meant in the resource field in the account settings in pidgin.

    What should be there??

    NVM!!!

    Wrong username...and password....:redface: (i just made new ones...needs to be the stuff you log ingame...)

    All is well.
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  • rexcelestisrexcelestis Posts: 194 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I posted some instructions for this over a CORP, with pictures. Maybe a retelling will help.

    http://championsonlineroleplayers.shivtr.com/forum_threads/1310667
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  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    gradii wrote: »
    I know. what I mean is I have no idea what it wants me to put there.

    The name of the character you want to use for chat.

    So assuming you want Sylviana@Dazee to be used when you are chatting with pidgin, you enter Sylviana in your resource field. Also make sure you use your CO username as your pidgin username, that is not necessarily the same as your handle, having those the same is even discouraged from a security standpoint.
  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I know. what I mean is I have no idea what it wants me to put there.
    You don't have to put anything there.
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  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    flyingfinn wrote: »
    You don't have to put anything there.

    I've had things bug out when not setting a resource, if you don't put anything there it should give you an "IM" character name, but that does not always work well.
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  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Then we're back at the start, post the output of the debug window :tongue:
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  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Well where that goes wrong is the "Invalid username or password." part.
    If CO itself does accept those login credentials, there is something not configured correctly on the chat server. So you'll have to contact CS for that.
    But just to be sure, you do have to use your CO username, not your handle. Of course those can be the same, but that is not recommended.
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  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    gradii wrote: »
    I don't even know the difference between CO username and handle.

    Only after you made your CO account with a username and password you had to chose a handle. If I remember correctly the account setup advised you to not use your username there.
    If the legacy CO launcher and in game login uses dazee, that is fine for pidgin, just not recommended.
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  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    gradii wrote: »
    that may be the problem, legacy launcher uses a different name.

    how do I set it up so I have DaZee displayed in game to people when I chat, and my login name used for setting up out of game chat?

    You don't set up anything, it does that on its own. Just like you don't have to set things up when you log in to the normal game. Just use the same username as in the legacy launcher, none will be able to see it.
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  • kaiserin#0958 kaiserin
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    edited July 2014
    Edited the first post to make it clear you need to be using your perfect world account name. Did not think the old cryptic accounts worked for logging in anymore.
  • chalupaoffurychalupaoffury Posts: 2,553 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    kaizerin wrote: »
    Edited the first post to make it clear you need to be using your perfect world account name. Did not think the old cryptic accounts worked for logging in anymore.

    I just logged in today, and I *had* to use my old cryptic account. If you converted, seems that's how it has to be, for at least some of us. Tried eviltaco and chalupaoffury, nothing. my old legacy login name was the only way to get in.
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  • groupzerogroupzero Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    I'd like to add something to this. After a year of trying to figure out how to get jabber work, and many fruitless attempts at guessing, I broke down and asked customer service what my account name was. It turned out I didn't have one when I created my account. After a useless back and forth that went on far too long, I realized they weren't going to give me an account name. So stuck with this problem, I sought out help and found it.

    If you only have an email for a log in use \40 in place of the @ in your e-mail name. So if your log in is bob@email.com you'd put in bob\40email.com@crypticspace.com

    I hope this helps someone.
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  • itsbrou#5396 itsbrou
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    edited August 2014
    Looking for an XMPP solution to keep in touch with your Cryptic chat channels from a fansite?

    Check this out.

    It's fully functional and open source, and it's mostly JS/JSON.
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  • somebobsomebob Posts: 980 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    chalupaoffury wrote: »
    I just logged in today, and I *had* to use my old cryptic account. If you converted, seems that's how it has to be, for at least some of us. Tried eviltaco and chalupaoffury, nothing. my old legacy login name was the only way to get in.

    Strangely enough I know a friend who had to use his old Cryptic account name for external chat. I have to use my PWE one. And we are both near launch players who had to convert.

    *shrugs*
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  • yvonnedyvonned Posts: 147 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    kaizerin wrote: »
    Joining Guild Channels:
    Trillian
    Click on the Jabber/XMPP Icon and select Browse for Conferences.
    Wait for the list to load then select guilds.crypticspace.com in the drop down menu.
    Select your guild and join.

    Not sure if anyone else has had this issue, but I followed this bit until I got to the drop down menu. My Menu only has channels.crypticspace.com. Nothing else.

    Any suggestions?

    BTW, I'm able to connect to custom channels no problem.
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  • iamruneiamrune Posts: 965 Arc User
    How is this going to work in STO now that Gold status is being phased out there?
  • kamokamikamokami Posts: 1,633 Arc User
    Is this a question for the STO forums?
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