Progress / Phase 5

Phase 5: Chat and Presence

Players can talk and see who’s around: say, zone chat, whispers, nameplates, emotes and a who list.

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This phase is still ahead.

5.1 Chat on the server

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Channels: say (range-limited), zone, whisper (by character name), emote and system, with server timestamps.
Fan-out by channel with length limits and per-player token-bucket rate limits that reply with a friendly “slow down”.
Each chat message encoded once for all its recipients, with a benchmark of zone chat to 1,000 players.
Persisted ignore list and whisper reply.
/who listing online characters in the zone.
Text hygiene: Unicode normalization, control characters stripped, combining marks capped.
Chat logs kept for 30 days for moderation and then deleted, as the privacy policy states.

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Account roles (player, moderator, admin) with server-side permission checks.
Moderator commands: timed mute, kick, and timed or permanent ban, all written to an audit log.
/report <name> <reason> stored for review.
lorehallow-admin CLI on the host for role grants, bans and report review.

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Chat window with channel filters, scrollback, / commands, optional timestamps and clickable names to whisper.
Speech bubbles above characters for say chat.
Nameplates with a readable outlined pixel font.
Emotes /wave, /sit and /dance with animations.

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Decision Game UI font: an open-licensed pixel font with full Latin coverage, ideally matching the website.
Draw Batch 05 by hand: 9-slice window frames, buttons, chat bubble, nameplate backing, channel icons and emote frames (sit, wave, dance).
Intake and integrate, with one UI theme module in the client used by all UI.

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docs/walkthroughs/phase-05-chat.md: fan-out, rate limiting and moderation design.
Devlog draft, release notes, tag v0.5.0 and deploy the browser build.

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Say reaches only nearby players, zone chat reaches the zone, and whispers reach only their target.
A bot spamming chat gets rate limited without affecting anyone else (test).
A moderator can mute, kick and ban, and every action appears in the audit log.
Owner Playtest: a small group chats comfortably and the UI reads well at 2x and 3x.