So, I found out we can connect to STO using Pidgin to chat while not being logged into the game.
See this link to know what I'm talking about:
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Global_Channel_Directory
I am a gold member, actually a life timer, but, I started after the Cryptic/Perfect World account name merge. As such my PWE account name (email address) will not work in XMPP. So, I've tried to acquire my "Cryptic user ID," which is supposed to be found by logging into the game, then selecting Logout from the menu, and the string of numbers and pound signs that the client fills in for your username on the following login screen, is supposed to by my "Cryptic user ID."
But, when I try that, it does not give me the string of numbers and pound signs, it gives me my login name (which is not my e-mail address, nor is it any kind of e-mail address it's just a login name.) I then thought maybe I started before the Cryptic/Perfect World account name merge, so I tied the procedure for that, trying both my actual e-mail address attatched to my account, and my login name.
None of them work. I think what I need is a method of getting my "Cryptic user ID."
Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get this to work?
Thanks!
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Protocol: XMPP
Username: (whatever you type into the account name field on the launcher)
Domain: CrypticSpace.com
Resource: (this is the default name that'll show up when you talk in channels)
Password: (whatever you type into the password field on the launcher)
Back in the day, yes, you'd use the Cryptic username, but that got changed to your PWE username like sometime after the merger. In other words, it has been quite a while now.
But it's still whatever you type into the launcher. So if you type in 'bob' into the Account Name field, you'd put in 'bob' into the Username field of Pidgin.
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Thank somebob. But I've tried that. It's essentially the same thing outlined in the wiki. The problem is, "whatever you type into the account name field on the launcher" does not accept what I actually do type into the account name on the launcher. I've even cut and pasted my login name to ensure I was not miss-keying it. I'll give it another try though.
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Okay... so I'm a doofus... I can admit it... mutter...
It worked fine this time, so obviously I was miss-keying something!
Thanks again for your help!
Our fleet created a chat channel so we could talk between our Fed fleet and KDF fleet. I would like to be able to Pidgin to that channel too! Any ideas?
server: channels.crypticspace.com
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That worked!
Thank you!
From there, change the Account to your STO one.
Room is whatever the channel name is, keeping in mind that if the room name has a space in it, convert the space to \20
So if the channel name is called Star Trek, it would be Star\20Trek in Pidgin.
Server as mentioned is channels.crypticspace.com
Handle is the default name that shows up (for those people in game, as it doesn't show that info in Pidgin).
Password and Alias are left blank.
And then click the 'Autojoin when account connects' button so it'll always connect whenever you launch Pidgin.
Happy external chat!
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