User guide
How everything in cigt works, in one place. Pick the part you are curious about.
New features
- Our storiesNEWA text adventure starring your pet and your cards. Opening the page starts a run right away, and a finished story can be published for other people to play.
- Last SignalNEWA solo survival run. Pets appear as both your survivor and the bosses, and the server replays your run to verify it.
- Crews, titles, and the crew championshipNEWHow to join a channel's crew, wear its titles, and take part in the championship where crews compete on points.
- Mini-concert tickets and joining a showNEWA channel runs an online show. A seat ticket gets you in, and a mic pass lets you speak on stage.
Getting started
Portal
- Earning and spending pointsWhere points come from, where they go, and the rules that govern daily caps and gifts.
- Creating and shaping your channelHow to open a channel, tune its home and settings, and share it through your link page.
- Posts and boardsHow channel posts differ from board posts, and where to find the posts you wrote or read.
- The magazine and the weekly festivalHow to submit a story and get it published, enter the cover contest for an issue, and take part in the weekly festival.
- The commissions boardA board where creators and clients meet directly. Payment and settlement happen between the two of you, not through Cigather.
- Collecting cards and the card marketPull cards to build a collection, create a card for your own channel, and trade them in market auctions.
- Raising a pet and the pet dexEvery channel has one pet that its crew feeds and pets together. The activity you build up decides how it evolves and how it looks.
- Channel stocksStocks inside the portal whose value comes from channel activity. How to trade, what moves the price, plus dividends and reports.
- Channel boost and the channel vaultSpend points to unlock features for a channel you like — those points land in the channel vault and go back to its crew.
- Crews, titles, and the crew championshipNEWHow to join a channel's crew, wear its titles, and take part in the championship where crews compete on points.
- Time capsulesA channel or group collects one letter per person and opens them all on a set date. Nothing shows on screen before the opening time, and even afterwards no writer names are shown.
- GroupsSeveral channels sit under one group and are presented together, and fans can join the group directly as group crew.
- Events and the calendarSee collabs, tournaments, events and anniversaries on one screen, mark whether you are going, and pull it all into your own calendar app.
- Mini-concert tickets and joining a showNEWA channel runs an online show. A seat ticket gets you in, and a mic pass lets you speak on stage.
- Card roulette and playing responsiblyA points-only game with its odds and multipliers shown on screen, plus the daily cap, the rest mechanics, and how to lock yourself out.
- Explore and followingHow to find channels in Explore, and how to read what the channels you follow post — including the content mirrored from ci.me.
- A guide for streamersBring your ci.me channel onto cigt, tell your viewers about it, and see what you can grow it with.
Games
- Last SignalNEWA solo survival run. Pets appear as both your survivor and the bosses, and the server replays your run to verify it.
- Card battles, ranking and tournamentsBuild a deck, play bots or other people, keep playing through a defense deck while you are away, and carry the record into the rankings and tournaments.
- Mini games and roomsPick a game, open a room, bring friends in with a code or an invite link, and watch finished rounds again as a replay.
- Our storiesNEWA text adventure starring your pet and your cards. Opening the page starts a run right away, and a finished story can be published for other people to play.
GatherBot
- Songbooks and song requestsHow to find a song in a channel's public songbook, request it during a stream, and why a request can be turned down.
- Live events and predictionsHow to run roulettes, draws and polls during a stream, take predictions, and where the prize and payout money comes from.
- GatherBot point payouts and the overlayHow points reach viewers through donations, subscriptions and attendance, and how to put the overlay into OBS.
Messenger
- Using Cigather MessengerHow direct, group and open chats differ, plus adding friends, notification modes, polls and search.
- Open chat and anonymous aliasesOpen chats are rooms anyone can join without being friends. You appear under an alias that is different in every room and cannot be linked across rooms.