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Battle.net provides an arena for Blizzard customers to chat, challenge opponents and initiate multiplayer games, at no cost to the user. There is no hourly or monthly fee to use Battle.net, and there is no startup charge. To play a supported game over the Internet with other players worldwide, simply select the Battle.net option from within the game.

The following commands can be used in any chat channel. For StarCraft, Warcraft II BNE, and Warcraft III players, they can also be used during game setup or while a game is in progress.

Universal Chat Commands:

/help

Displays usage help for chat topics.

Ex: /help whisper

/whois [user]

Looks up some basic information on a user, including their account number and their current location. This is an excellent way to find your friends online. typing /whois #[number] (E.G. /whois #1). Aliases for this command : /where /whereis

Ex: /whois LUser

/whoami

displays your information on Battle.net.

Ex: /whoami

/w [user] Sends a private message to a user online regardless of the channel they are in. This is an excellent way to let a friend know you are online. Aliases for this command: /msg /whisper

Ex: /w LUser Want to play some D2?

/ignore [user]

Ignores any future messages from that user effectively muting that user to you. Aliases for this command: /squelch

Ex: /ignore LUser

/unignore [user]

Allows a previously squelched user to talk to you normally. Aliases for this command: /unsquelch

Ex: /unignore LUser

/away [text]

Displays a message that you are away from your keyboard whenever someone whispers to you or does a /whois command on you. To disable this command, use the command again.

Ex: /away eating dinner

/dnd [text]

"Do Not Disturb" - prevents ALL whispers from displaying to your screen. Its use is similar to the /away command. To turn the DND mode off, just type /dnd without a reason. This will prevent people from sending whispers to you while in a game as well. You are still able to see all normal public channel messages.

Ex: /dnd sorry playing a game with LUser

/who [channel]

Displays a list of all users in the given channel.

Ex: /who Open Tech Support

/stats [user] ID

Displays the player's Win/Loss/Disconnect record for both normal and Ladder games.

  • STAR - StarCraft
  • SEXP StarCraft Expansion (Brood War)
  • W2BNE - Warcraft II Battle.net Edition

 

Ex: /stats LUser STAR

/users Displays the number of users currently on Battle.net.
/time Displays the current Battle.net time.

Chat Room Commands:

/join [channel name]

Switches to a channel without having to use the channel join screen. Aliases for this command: /channel

Ex: /join Blizzard Tech Support

/me [text]

Displays emotion text, as in "PatN is rolling on the floor laughing!"

Ex: /me is rolling on the floor laughing!

Chat Room Operator Commands:

/designate [user]

Selects [user] as the next channel operator when you step down, either by resigning or by leaving the channel. If the channel Operator leaves the channel and has designated more than one person, the last person designated will have ops.

Ex: /designate LUser

/resign Step down as channel operator and become a normal user again.
/rejoin

makes you rejoin the channel you are currently in.

Ex: /rejoin

/kick [user]

Kicks a user out of the channel. This is best used as a warning since a kicked user can return at their leisure.

Ex: /kick LUser

/ban [user]

Kicks a user out of the channel and prevents them from returning until the current operator steps down or leaves the channel. This is the most powerful command at an operator's disposal, use it wisely.

Ex: /ban LUser

/unban [users]

Allows a banned user to return to the channel.

Ex: /unban LUser

Friend Commands:

A user adds another user to their friend list. When a user lists their friends they will receive information about all of their friends in digest form. This will allow at a glance to see which of your friends are online. The digest information is similar to the current output of the /whois command. For each user you will see which program they are using and which channel/game they are in (so long as it's a public channel/game). For Diablo II the name of the game is not revealed (even if it's public). The maximum number of friends in the list is 25.

Since we want to provide more features to users who trust each other, if users add each other to their friends list they will be considered mutual friends. When enumerating friends, mutual friends will have their channel/game name revealed even if the user is in a private channel/game so that they can always find each other. When mutual friends perform certain actions they may be notified. The current notifications are;

/friends

The base command for all friends operations, on its own it prints out help about the friends commands. (alias /f)

/friends list

Displays you current friends list and has a summary of what each friend is doing at the moment on Battle.net.(alias: /friends l or /f l)

/friends add [accountname] Adds the specified account name to your friends list. You will receive an error if the account name is an invalid account (contains naughty words etc) or if you have too many friends in your list. (alias: /friends a)
/friends remove [accountname] Removes the specified account name from your friends list. You will receive an error message if the account isn't in the list.(alias: /friends r)
/friends msg [message] Sends a message to all of your friends.(alias: /friends m)
/friends promote [accountname] [position] Promotes the account name in your friends list. If no position is supplied (or is zero) then the friend will be promoted up one place in the list. If the position is supplied then the friend will be moved to that position from the top of the list with number 1 being the highest position.(alias: /friends p)
/friends demote [accountname] [position] Demotes the account name in your friends list. If no position is supplied (or is zero) then the friend will be demoted one place in the list. If the position is supplied then the friend will be moved to that position from the bottom of the list with number 1 being the lowest position.(alias: /friends d)
Friends Aliases Just about anyplace in battle.net (including the friends command themselves) you can refer to your friends via a short cut. To use a shortcut use %f[num] where num refers to your friend by their position in you friends list. For example to whisper to your number one friend you would use /msg %f1 hi there

Chat Protection Commands:

This allows users who are interested in playing games instead of reading spam to cut it off permanently as well as providing protection for people who are being harassed by other users.

/Options

There are three separate flags, which a user can set to customize which incoming chat messages are ignored. (alias: /o)

/options ignorewhispers

This command will ignore whispers from anyone who isn't in your friends list.(alias: /o igw)

/options unignorewhispers This command will allow whispers from anyone who isn't in your friends list.(alias: /o unigw)
/options ignorepublic Ignore messages in public chat channels from anyone who isn't in your friends list.(alias: /o igpub)
/options unignorepublic Allow messages in public chat channels from anyone who isn't in you friends list.(alias: /o unigpub)
/options ignoreprivate Ignore messages in private chat channels from anyone who isn't in your friends list. (alias: /o igpriv)
/options unignoreprivate Allow messages in private chat channels from anyone who isn't in you friends list. (alias: /o unigpriv)


 


 

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