Outgame chat

Well, one of my friends runs a Samp (San Andreas multiplayer) website and server, and he can log onto a website and chat to ppl ingame, though he is only logged onto the website.

Does css have anything similar?

Maybe being able to talk through the server console. That's the only external way I know to communicate on the server. Could probably make a module to read the text from the chat and output it to a webpage, and everyone's response tunnel through Console. That wouldn't really work too good, though, because there's no text limit on websites, and there is a text limit in CSS for the chat.. so you wouldn't know what half of your text was lost in the midst of everything, unless you had the console send the text back to you that was sent to the server. Just a lot of stuff that would probably bog the server down more than it already is. :\

Sweet thx kyle, but which ones best, when its just chatting, and some messages for all players?

Do we have this for the zombie mod server?

no we dont D:

you seem to be banned

Why not just use the Steam Friends client to chat with people that are in-game? Just keep Steam running in your systray and use IM.

I like to talk to the whole server sometimes. So I sit in spectate and chat.

Welcome to my world.

Usually when I'm on the server I spend most of the time sitting in spectate just watching people, and polishing the banhammer on those that keep ignoring the rules.

USE THE FRIGGIN STEAM FRIENDS IM CLIENT! YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOAD THE GAME!

Show me how? It will let me talk to everyone in the zombiemod server?

Chat based program would be nice, we actually have one on this site...

We had a vent here at one point, and barely anyone used it. Food for thought.

The chat room function (like Ventrilo) is built into the Steam chat client. I did overlook that you are wanting to just have a chat-room like interface with the players in-game, but why? The experience for players in-game would be terrible, as only 6 lines of text show at any one time. I still contend that you use the Steam client's chatroom feature and keep your off-topic drivel out of the game. That way, when I want to ask people why their ping hasn't changed from 5, they can: 1) notice that someone is typing to them, and 2) respond so that I can read it before 10 people type "(insert JD/rawr/cara here) r u a grl?" Plus, as an added bonus, only the people who want to talk to you will be in the chat room! Wouldn't you love to be speaking with a group of friends rather than using a megaphone in a group of strangers where only a few are interested in what you are saying and the rest only want to know if you have T&A? Ugh. Teenage horny boy diatribe aside, there is a way for you to do what you want to do. It is easy to see who is online and invite them into a chat room, all through Steam. Have fun chatting.

And how is any of that actually different from what happens on the server already?

Personally I think a chat program connecting to the server would just end up adding more to lag and server problems. But hey, if people want to chat with strangers then who cares? :whistling:

It's the internet nothing can go wrong!

I think I fell in love and lost.

I'd never have a chance with her.