TECElite is an unofficial client that that was created by a dedicated community member named KimJongUgh that makes use of AdiIRC which is a free to use program very similar in nature to mIRC. This client offers far more customization than the official Orchil client. As of now, the only way to download a copy of this client is by to the #unofficial-clients channel of the community Discord. The most recent copy of the client can be found in the stickied topics. Members can also help solve and issues you have using the client.
More information to follow soon.
(rough draft being worked on)
Initialization process
The process to login to the game is different from using Orchil; you will instead right-click on the main window (add picture with right-click) and then click on "Initialize". You will be prompted to enter your username and then press enter. The password for your TEC account will then be asked and press enter again. The initialization process is now complete and you will be able to get directly into the game. You will not have to complete this step again unless you log into TEC's website with your TEC account. Even just connecting to your account without using Orchil will still require you to do the initialization process again. TECElite uses the same MD5 Hash method that Orchil uses to encrypt your password - it uses the same login process and takes the hashed password from the cookie. Your password will NEVER be stored in plain text in any of the TECElite files, it is simply used to create the initialization process that is required to create the cookie.
Connect
Once the initialization process has been completed, you can now connect with your account to TEC's game server. You will not have to enter any identifying information and will be directly taken into the Welcome Room.
Save Screen Positions
The user interface (UI) is customizable based on your preferences. You will have access to several windows which you can move and resize as desired. These windows include: @TEC (everything that comes from the game), @Crits (only critical hits will show here, both the ones you do and receive), @OOC (everything that happens in the OOC channel will show here), @Thoughts (every single message sent to the think channel will be here), @Speech (all messages that include speech will be here) and the @Map window.
The @Map window is a combination of the minimap, the directions you can walk to, your health/fatigue/encumbrance/satiation/lighting bars and macros. There are two different map styles available: classic and horizontal. You can easily switch from one style to the other by right-clicking on the @TEC window background and then going to Map Pref. (add pictures for classic / horizontal styles)
Preferences
When using right click on the main @TEC window, you will see an option called "Preferences". Clicking on this will pop up a menu to turn several different settings on/off. Most of these settings are self-explanatory:
- Display think in main window: turning this to "OFF" will only display the think channel messages in the @Thoughts window
- Display OOC in main window: turning this to "OFF" will only display the OOC channel messages in the @OOC window
- Display entered command: turning this to "ON" will show the entered command in the @TEC window
- Condensed think echo: turning this to "ON" will remove the "thinks aloud" part of the echo
- Use combat advance: turning this to "ON" will make you use combat advance over the basic approach command during scripts
- Kill automatically: turning this to "ON" will make you use the killing blow command automatically when your target falls unconscious during scripts
- Use Custom Approach: turning this to "ON" will make you use the customapproach macro to make you use a variety of skills that can approach a target to you. You must first "@macro customapproach" and set it to whatever skill you wish to use, i.e.: falx: break <target>, chainblade: raptor <target>, nelsor: kleap <target>
- Continue Attacking on KO: unlike the KILL AUTOMATICALLY function, this one allows you to keep attacking with your regular attack(s) while the target is unconscious. This is something that was added in for testing game mechanics.
- Beep alerts ON/OFF: this function was added to allow the user to hear a beeping sound when certain things happen, such as reaching 4% fatigue, reaching 50% health, reaching -50% fatigue and other things that are currently hard-coded into the client. The beeping sound is different for each of these thresholds.
TEC Elite Commands:
/player # (example: /player 2)
This command is used while in the Welcome Area to designate the character that you are going to play in order to load that character's combat data and preferences associated with it. It will make you enter the gameworld with the character assigned to the # used in the PLAY menu.
/initplayer
Logging into the game when using the /player # command will warn you if the character you are currently using has not yet been initialized. The initialization process will take you through a few pop-ups to save certain preferences associated with said character. Right now it includes: combat advance, custom approach and falx kill.
/saveplayer
This command will save all of the current combat data and the preferences associated with the character to the appropriate file. The system has been designed to have up to 10 text files that will store character data individually. These text files can be found in the main folder and will be labeled playerstorage1.txt up to playerstorage10.txt and the text file currently in use to store the data will be designated by the /player command used previously.
/sleep
This is a combination of the /saveplayer command, but it will also make your character sleep at the same time.
/resetplayer
This command will completely erase all of the saved combat data and preferences for the active text file as designated by the /player # command.
/font
AdiIRC command used to change the font and text size of the main @TEC window. Keep in mind that if you want to have perfectly spaced out SKILLS and STATS outputs you will need to use a monospaced font. Everything else will generally look fine even without a monospaced font. Here is a list of the base fonts available that are monospaced: Consolas, Courier New and Lucinda Console.