
[spoiler]First off download the mIRC client and install it. You can get it here.
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Ok lets start her up. This will be the first screen to pop up. Fill it out

Now click Server on the left, you will see a pop down menu. Scroll down and highlight GameSurge: Random US server

Now click Options under Connect and click on Perform

Click Enable Perform on Connect box and type in /join #hardfought then hit OK, and OK again

Now click the lil lightning bolt

EDIT: To register an account with gamesurge, you now have to do it via their website. Go to GAMESURGE.NET and follow the instructions. Once registered, follow the instructions in the confirmation email.
Now you're registered with gamesurge, but you will hafta identify with gamesurge everytime you log on, but we can set that up so mIRC does that automatically. We need to go back to the options menu drop down View menu and click Options.

Go back to where we set up the autojoin to #hardfought and type in the following on a new line under /join #hardfought Username being your handle and Password being the password you used to REGISTER
/authserv auth username password

Ok now hit OK, then OK again to exit out of Options Menu. Hit the


Hopefully this should help. And thank for idling at #hardfought[/spoiler]