Liquid.qihl README

Welcome to Liquid.qihl! This document contains everything you need to know to interact with this server. Please read all of it before posting to #help-desk, it will save you and the staff time and patience. Thank you for joining us!

Contents

1. Rules
2. Get Started
3. Checking Ranks and Updating Roles
4. Finding, Joining, and Hosting Games
5. Reporting Players
6. About qihl website

Rules

Breaking these rules may result in being BANNED.

1. Be respectful! Any hate speech, racist remarks or downright disrespect will not be tolerated.
2. Do not threaten, harass, dox, or ddos.
3. NSFW content is off-limits. This is a NO TOLERANCE RULE. This is your only warning.
4. If an Admin or Moderator asks you to stop something, you should stop.
5. Do not break Discord ToS (includes cheating). https://discordapp.com/terms
6. Do not play in lobbies when under the minimum rank. You must forfeit (-refresh in game NOT in Discord).
7. Do not post lobby passwords in Discord. Do not share lobby passwords with people outside the lobby.
8. Use the same Steam account in game as when you join/host a lobby on the website. If you would like to link a second steam account to the same discord account, it’s doable and is explained in the Get Started section.

Get Started

Please read everything above this so you understand how to interact with this server. You can repeat the steps below to link multiple Steam accounts to Discord, or to switch your active Steam account (you must use the same Steam account in-game as when you join/host a lobby on the website).

1. You must play at least five games to get a rank in game. Without a rank, you cannot interact with Chessbot to update your rank. Please do this before joining qihl. Make sure you’re NOT set to invisible. Go to User Settings.
   

2. Go to Connections. Click the Steam icon.
   

3. Click sign in. If you haven’t signed into Steam in your browser, do so.
   

4. Make sure Steam appears in your list of Discord Connections.
   

5. Click this link: autochessbot.vinthian.com. Make sure this shows your Discord is connected to Steam, and the Discord and Steam usernames are correct. Click Authorize.
   

6. Make sure it shows the correct Steam64ID and Steam Username. Click Link [Steam64ID].
   

7. You’re verified

8. Verify and update your rank on Discord.

   • To verify and update your in-game rank, send a direct message to @ChessBot1 with the following command: !r
   • Chessbot will DM you your current rank and role in a direct message. Make sure you have DMs enabled in Discord.
   • You can find Chessbot on the top-right corner of your screen in discord, and right-click its icon to DM.

9. Go to the https://qihl.gg website, click Matchmaking and have fun!

Checking Ranks and Updating Roles

• To verify and update your in-game rank, send a direct message to @ChessBot1 with the following command: !r
• Chessbot will DM you your current rank and role in a direct message. Make sure you have DMs enabled in Discord and are not set to invisible.
• You can find Chessbot on the top-right corner of your screen in discord, and right-click its icon to DM.

Finding, Joining, and Hosting Games

The first step to being able to join our matchmaking games is login in with your steam via the https://qihl.gg website. Once you are logged in, you can join any lobbies that you are eligible for after clicking on Matchmaking.

Games are usually arranged through the website. If you find irregularities, feel free to drop by #help-desk and or #qihlfeedback.

Reporting Players

Sometimes, players don’t follow the rules and you may feel like something needs to be done about it. To learn how to report someone properly, go to #report-readme before anything else.

If you are in danger of demotion from your current rank (e.g. You are Bishop-1, and playing in a bishop-1 and over lobby but just place bottom4 in your last game) you should wait for your game to complete and your rank to update before you join another game. If your rank updates before you join your next game, but after you join the qihl.gg lobby, and you are below the minimum rank while in game (e.g. you lost your previous game and are now Knight-9) you must forfeit the game (by typing -refresh in game, NOT in Discord) or be banned from this server.

Players that experience this in your games, please consider not caring about a one-rank difference. It doesn’t have a serious impact, and is often an honest mistake. Making a big deal of these instances is seldom beneficial for anyone. This is not an invitation to do this, however, and we do not condone this behavior. We will be handing out bans for this to repeat offenders, so please be careful.

If a player refuses to forfeit (-refresh in game, NOT in Discord): Post a screenshot of the game, their Steam Profile URL, and the lobby password to #player-reports. If you don’t provide all three of these things, the report won’t be considered. If you need to report a player for some other reason, explain the reason in #player-reports and make sure you have proper proof.

About qihl website

Qihl’s primary goal is to be the easiest, fastest, and most convenient place to find fair Auto Chess lobbies with other players near your rank. Up until recently our Discord server and Discord bots have been the best way for us to accomplish this goal, but due to incredible growth and popularity of Auto Chess, our community has ballooned up to a size where Discord is no longer capable of handling its demands. The Discord bots we use for verifying player’s ranks and for joining lobbies have been shutting down more and more frequently as they continually become overloaded with requests, which has forced us to remove bot access from players of more and more skill levels over time.

With the continuing growth of the qihl community and no way for us to increase the load capacity of our Discord bots, these problems will only continue to get worse over time. Any and all long-term solutions to improving our matchmaking service must begin by migrating to a new platform with our own servers, and a web-based matchmaker seemed like the most natural solution.

Team Liquid have developed and will maintain the website and are welcoming all positive and negative feedback on our Discord server, in the#qihlfeedback channel.

Thank you for sharing our passion for this game, and good luck, have fun!