I've noticed that when people are on missions say botting for example they tend to have the mission panel up - this means if you say a friendly hello in the sector they often don't notice - it would be good if the chat window flashed red when there is sector chat or private message or invite so the player is aware (but not general 100 chat)

SpaceCowboy AKA Turkey

*Cam sings*

Some people call me the SpaceCowboy

Some call me the gangsta of love

Some people call me Turkey!

yeah back to the topic, I like it. Different colors when there's a PM, and while were adding all the IRC features why not have name highlighting too. :P

-Cam-

Sounds good, though I'd modify it to basically ignore channel chat, and maybe turn different colors for other chat types- Red as usual for sector chat, yellow for group chat (might just want to echo group chat into the mission window- nearly everything that's said in group chat will be relevent to the player right away), and orange for guild chat. Update the color whenever a new line comes in from a 'monitored' chat.

There are a lot of variations that could be suggested for this. Therefore, to get more input, I vote this go to suggestions.

moved to suggestions