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Frequently asked questions Frequently asked questions about the IYF Gaming Network and its system. In case you cant find the right answer to your question, create a ticket in our support system. This is the fastest way to get answers to your questions. | General system | » Why are the times and dates incorrect?
The times/dates in our network might be incorrect for you because all times on our site are in GMT time. If you are a registered member on our site you can change your time zone settings by clicking on "Account > Site preferences" on the top of the page. After setting your time zone all times/dates will be shown in your time.
| » Can I use HTML in IYFGN?
Only in the editor boxes, by clicking on the little "HTML"-icon. Currently editor boxes can be found in the Article system and in your profilebox located at: Account > My profilebox.
| » How can i support this network?
Keep your eyes open for relevant ads. The ads are the only source of income to keep this site running. There are no hidden costs if you register or use our site.
| » Why can i not log in?
If you can't log in, an error message will appear on the left side. Recheck if you entered your username and password correctly. (Watch out for CAPS-lock). If you still can't login you might have been banned from our network.
| » How does the registration work?
Click on "register" on the top of the page and follow the instructions on the right side.
| » What is a registration-key?
A registration-key is an automatically created sequence of letters and numbers. Every user receives his own personal registration-key via E-mail during his registration process. The registration-key is necessary to validate your E-mail-address.The registration-key always contains 32 characters and every registration-key is 100% unique.
| » How can i log in?
Click on "Login" on the top of the page. A dropdown-menu will show up. Insert your username and password and press the "Login!"-button inside of the dropdown-menu.
| » What can i do if i forgot my password?
Click on "Forgot password?" on top of the site. Now enter your username, E-mail address and date of birth in the "Password loss"-box. If everything matches you will receive an E-mail with a new temporary password. Log in with your new password now and change it if you want to.
| » Somebody scammed my account. What now?
If the person changed your password you can click on "Forgot password?" on top of the page, insert your information in the "Password loss"-box and log in with your new password. Of course you shouldn't change your password back to your old one afterwards. Pick a new password instead.
| » How can i contact the admins?
Click on Contact in the footer of the page to view a page with E-mail-addresses for different situations.
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| Video system | » How can i add videos to this network?
Go to our Video system and choose your game/category from the list. You should now see the link "Submit a video to this category" on the right side under our linkbar. Click on it, and fill out all the fields.
Copy the URL from the little URL-Box under the description of the video. Copying the URL from your browser might lead to complications.
When you are done filling out all the fields, click on "Submit video" and your video will be online immidietely.
| » Why is my video not playing?
If your video is not playing you should check if you have flash installed. If that is not the problem click on "Support" in the footer of the page and submit a ticket to contact the site admins.
| » Where can i find my videos?
Move your mouse over your name on top of the page. A dropdown-menu will
show up. Click on "My videos" to see a list of all videos you
added to our network.
| » How can i edit my videos?
Go to "My videos", find the video you want to edit and click
on "edit" under the video. Type a new title and/or description, or choose a different thumbnail (image), by clicking on the little circle under the thumbnail you want to use, and
click on the "Update" button to apply the changes. You can not edit the URL of the video.
| » How can i delete my videos?
Go to "My videos", find the video you want to delete and click
on "delete" under the video.
A pop up will appear and ask you to confirm your choice. If you are sure that you want to delete the video, press "Ok".
| » Where can i find my favourite videos?
Move your mouse over your name on top of the page. A dropdown-menu will
show up. Click on "My favourite videos" to see a list of all videos you that you marked as a favourite.
| » How can i remove my favourite videos?
Go to "My favourite videos", find the video you want to remove and click
on "remove" under the video.
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| Screenshot system | » How can i add a screenshot?
You can find the list with all supported games in our screenshot section. Click on the name of the game that you took a screenshot from. Afterwards click on "Submit an image to this section". Type in a title for the screenshot and then browse your computer for the screenshot you want to add. Afterwards add a description and then click on the button "Submit screenshot".
| » Where can i find my screenshots?
Move your mouse over your name on top of the page. A dropdown-menu will show up. Click on "My screenshots" to see a list of all screenshots you added to our network.
| » How can i edit my screenshots?
Go to "My screenshots", find the screenshot you want to edit and click on "edit" under the screenshot. Type a new title and/or description and click on the "Update" button to apply the changes.
| » How can i delete my screenshots?
Go to "My screenshots", find the screenshot you want to delete and click
on "delete" under the screenshot. A pop up will appear and ask you to confirm your choice. If you are sure that you want to delete the screenshot, press "Ok".
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| Article system | » How can i add articles?
Go to our article-section and click on a category that fits to your article. Afterwards click on "Submit" on the right side of the page right under our linkbar.
If your article is related to any of the games in our database you can pick it from the dropdown menu and it will show up on our gamepedia-page. Now type a title for your article and start writing. If you are done with the article, browse your pc for a fitting image and it will be uploaded and resized automatically
Click on the "Submit article"-button to send the article to the site-admins. We will review your article usually within two days. If the article meets our guidelines and rules, we will activate it.
| » Where can i find my articles?
Move your mouse over your name on top of the page. A dropdown-menu will
show up. Click on "My articles" to see a list of all articles you
added to our network.
| » How can i edit my articles?
Go to "My articles", find the articles you want to edit and click
on "edit". Hook the article to another game, type a new title and/or make changes to the article and click on the "Update article" button to apply the changes. You can not edit the
image of the article.
| » How can i delete my articles?
Go to "My articles", find the article you want to delete and click
on "delete".
A pop up will appear and ask you to confirm your choice. If you are sure that you want to delete the article, press "Ok".
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| Forum system | » What is BBCode?
BBCode is a special implementation of HTML. Whether you can use BBCode or not is determined by the administrator. You can also disable it on a per post basis from the posting form. BBCode itself is similar in style to HTML: tags are enclosed in square braces [ and ] rather than < and > and it offers greater control over what and how something is displayed. For more information on BBCode see the guide which can be accessed from the posting page.
| » What are Smileys?
Smileys, or Emoticons, are small graphical images which can be used to express some feeling using a short code, e.g. :) means happy, :( means sad. The full list of emoticons can be seen via the posting form. Try not to overuse smileys, though, as they can quickly render a post unreadable and a moderator may decide to edit them out or remove the post altogether.
| » Can I post Images?
Images can be shown in your posts, but there is no function for uploading images directly to this board yet. Therefore you have to link to an image stored on a publicly accessible web server, e.g. http://www.some-unknown-place.net/my-picture.gif. You cannot link to pictures stored on your own PC (unless it is a publicly accessible server) nor to images stored behind authentication mechanisms such as Hotmail or Yahoo mailboxes, password-protected sites, etc. To display the image use the BBCode [img] tag.
All images will be automatically resized to match the width and height of the forum layout. You don't have to worry about image-sizes!
| » What are Announcements?
Announcements contain important information from the site-administrators or moderators and you should read them as soon as possible. Announcements appear at the top of every page in the forum to which they are posted. Whether or not you can post an announcement depends on the permissions required, which are set by the administrator.
| » What are Sticky topics?
Sticky topics appear below any announcements in
viewforum and only on the first page. They are often quite important so
you should read them where possible. As with announcements the board
administrator determines what permissions are required to post sticky
topics in each forum.
| » What are Locked topics?
Locked topics are set this way by either the forum moderator or board administrator. You cannot reply to locked topics and any poll contained inside is automatically ended. Topics may be locked for many reasons.
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| IYF Servers | » Where can i see my CoD4 stats?
Go to http://stats.iyfgaming.com/ to find our server-statistics. Now move your mouse over "Search" in the linkbar and click on "Search for players". Enter your ingame name in the field "Search string" and chose "Search by PlayerAlias" from the dropdown-menu. Now click on search at the right side and click at your exact ingame name in the list.
The page that will now open will show information about used weapons, victims, hitlocations, favourite maps, etc. Keep in mind that the statistics don't update automatically. So if you check the statistics right after you played, changes will not be visible. We will regularly update the server statistics manually though.
| » I got banned from a iyf gaming server. What now?
If you got banned by mistake, submit a support ticket from here.
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| IYF Clan | » Is this a clans homepage?
We are not only a clan, we are a gaming network. You don't have to join the clan if you register on this site. If you join the IYF-clan you will have access to more information though.
| » What is the IYF Clan?
The best dang clan in the world!
| » How can i join the IYF Clan?
If you are not a registered member of our site yet, checking the box next to the text "You can join the IYF clan right now..." during the registration process. If you are already a registered member on our site, click here: " Join the IYF Clan". Read the few clanrules and click on the button "Join the IYF Clan" at the bottom of the page.
| » Where can i find information about the clan?
You can find the rules and other basic information here.
For videos of the IYF Clan playing click here .
The history of the IYF Clan is written down in "About us ".
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