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I've not sure if this is possible but is there a way to disable chat between players in a map? If so how, and if not whatever, just an idea though.

You could make a preserved trigger that always displays 11 lines of text.

But it would be useless in an RPG because it wouldnt allow the units like kings and stuff to talk to players easily unless you wanted to make a unit for every thing of text but that would be pointless...

... then dont use it in an rpg.

That's not true...you just don't put always as conditions for the "display 11 lines of blank text" trigger. Just turn it off with a switch (the "display 11 lines of text trigger") and keep displaying the text you need the "king" to say. After that, just change it back. Try to be creative

I thought that was what me meant by "make a unit for every thing of text."

I didnt think of this until now but it would be annoying after awhile, well ayways it was just and idea so ya...

Wait so what did you mean by that?

Actually, the 11 lines thing is pretty clever but you could have a switch/death counter to disable it in case a king needs to talk

Wouldn't constantly displaying 11 lines, even though they are empty cause some serious lag?

Pretty much useless. I could just play StarCraft in a window and chat via an external program.

I tried that once its on a sniper like map...Ill add it as attachment

Its an old map and it would need a lot of improvement but it was just an idea. Since im busy with my AE game anyone can have this map and do whatever they want with it (Its unprotected). It has voice commands but they only work for the player that uses it...I was working on fixing it when i quit.

voice commands? what do you mean voice commands?

well anyway, the 11 lines of text is a good idea.

Of course, a banning system is more than enough to deal with spammers.

If you wanted to disable chat, just ban them in-game or something...

You step on a becon and it says commands

Trigger

Description:

Trigger 1

Players:

¤ All Players

Conditions:

¤ Switch 1 is Set

Actions:

¤ Display 11 lines of test

¤ preserve Trigger

Trigger

Description:

Trigger 2

Players:

¤ All Players

Conditions:

¤ Switch 1 is Cleared

Actions:

¤ Display Paragraph preserve Trigger

Trigger

Description:

Trigger 3

Players:

¤ All Players

Conditions:

¤ Switch 1 is Cleared

Actions:

¤ Wait for However long you want the Paragraph to stay up

¤ Set Switch 1

¤ Preserve Trigger

I think that woudl work

it woudl take up alota strings and space and switches thou

Or use a death counter which doesnt take any switches

I have had this idea before, and jeez, why does everybody hate innocent switches, use em

You could use for a realistic map so people can only talk when they are close to one another was how I had thought about using it, but all it would do is piss everybody off. And using a external chat program is quite inconvienient.

Na, it wasnt anti spam i was thinking of, its would be for my upcoming map, in which im having the players get seperated and also have a maze-like thing where they could get seperated easily and i wouldnt want them coordinating to regroup, and if you cant see each other and cant talk, who's gonna say that the person behind you got left behind...just an interesting concept i had come up with...

the problem is... even if u have a death counter to enable and disable speech made by computer... you have no way to identify when a player speaks... so u will never know when to disable the 11 lines when someone is typing. However... if someone walks up to u and you disable the 11 lines of text... another player can use that time and fit thru a msg... so there is no perfect medium for this.

No... when it is disabled, constantly show the text that you want the person to see from the person "talking" to you

Ironically i created a map where it advertised
http://www.staredit.net/

and repeated itself after time using a Death Counter to restart it, so that it was almost always around.

I once had basically this same idea, where you disable the players from chatting by playing 11 lines of blank text continuously. Then if you want to display a text message to the players, you just have that message display constantly instead, then switch back. It's pretty useless though, as it's dumb and annoying not to be able to talk to the other players in the game. Not being able to communicate at all sucks.

i think chat is disabled when u pause the game via trigger..

Yes... when you pause the game via triggers, everything pauses except for the dialouge etc.