Make Instant Message Log be at the side of the game screen

[Mashimaro]

Sometimes when i chat to people during pvp, i may not often stare at the screen all the time and the message they have sent me may have gone away before i looked back. Which i found really  when they send another msg soon after that why am i ignoring him/her.
I'm not the person that dont respond or ignore people when they talk to me (unless they are super annoying  )
Anyway i just hope they put in a chat log thingy in the game, so i can always check if other players have sent me a msg or not.


Regards,
Mashimaro

[Scaredgirl]

There's been a lot of talk about merging chat and game. The way I see it there are two major obstacles with this.

1. No room in screen layout
Elements uses a lot of screen space. I personally prefer to see the client as big as possible, which is why I stopped playing in Kongrate as soon as I found the main game site.

Having chat in the same window would guarantee that the actual game would be smaller (like on Kongragate). Of course if it were optional, that would remove this problem altogether.


1. Chat uses ridiculous amounts of server CPU
This is something most people don't know. Even though chat looks simple and innocent, it uses TONS of server resources. Elements, with thousands of simultaneous players, all connected to chat, would probably mean Zanz had to buy a dedicated server just to run chat.

There might be some way of fixing this problem, like making the chat update only every 10 seconds or something, but I doubt there will be any solutions without a downside.



I agree that our current chat kind of sucks because you cannot scroll up. There is the "history" button but it's a bit inconvenient. I'll try to fix it at some point.

There are many other problems with the current chat too. I ask everyone to be patient. Everything will be fixed in time.

[PuppyChow]

SG, he wasn't asking to merge this chat with the game. He is asking to make a log of messages people send to each other during random pvp games and pvp duels since the message doesn't stay for very long and is easy to miss.

I agree with the suggestion, but there is really no room for it.

[pepokish]

It's too bad that this would be pretty much impossible to implement, because I'd really love to see this happen.  It would be nice to be able to stay in the chat while grinding, without having to switch back and forth constantly. 

But it's understandable that even if this would be feasible, it would be pretty low-priority. 

[Scaredgirl]

SG, he wasn't asking to merge this chat with the game. He is asking to make a log of messages people send to each other during random pvp games and pvp duels since the message doesn't stay for very long and is easy to miss.

I agree with the suggestion, but there is really no room for it.

Oh, ok. I totally misunderstood. Actually when looking at the post, I think I only read the title and composed the rest of the message in my own head

Original poster, I suggest you change the word "chat" into something else like a "instant message" because chat (when used in interwebs) usually means something other than these ingame instant messages.

But yeah I agree with this 100%. If not a log, then at least a sound effect or something.