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I think a chat room or something would be nice. Thumbs for the random topic I thought up in a split second lol.

Lord of Baal wrote:I think a chat room or something would be nice. Thumbs for the random topic I thought up in a split second lol.

In case you haven't noticed, Dakka is a forum, where people chat to each other.

A fast chat room, that may update every 5 seconds. Private chat ect. would be good than chatting on a thread and them having it be marked as spam.

you can use skype, WLM, PMs and other stuff to do that.

But what if some one doesn't have skype or that stuff? Then what? Look, having a chat here would help because you could check threads at the same time. Take a look at this forum and you'll see what I mean.http://www.papanurgle.net/

You don't really need chat - it's not as if a forum is especially slow. Plus chat is a lot harder to moderate.

If you want/need to use "chat", go use a program that has a chat feature

But not all of the people there are war gamers, we are though.

Make or join a wargaming channel in IRC (I have no idea if they are still going as it's been about 8 years since I used IRC) or equivalent program if you want to talk to wargamers.

As far as I am concerned, "chat" is not useful in any way in day to day communication with other wargamers. PM is more than acceptable, and if you are in the situation where you want or need to chat to another person, you will know them well enough to be able to find a program that you can chat through.

Omni directional chat is just horrible - too hard to keep track of who is talking to who, who is saying what, etc.

PMing is too long

Lord of Baal wrote:PMing is too long

No its not, there are chat rooms for War-gaming on the internet,

There is no chance of this happening.

There's of plenty of places where one indulge in the banal and pointless crap that they generate elsewhere on the internet.