Query regarding ALLOW_CONTROL_DURING_CHAT

[Pink Tomatoes]

I could be wrong, but ALLOW_CONTROL_DURING_CHAT seems to be a server side function.

Surely this is a player preference rather than a server preference? If a player is stupid enough to think they can talk and play at the same time, they should have control over whether they can? Even so, it works in two ways. If it is enabled in servers, it is the sort of function that will confuse players who oddly lose their chatbot, a different behaviour to what they are used to.

Is it considered a 'cheat' if this functionality it implemented regardless of the server preference?

[Z-Man]

I could be wrong, but ALLOW_CONTROL_DURING_CHAT seems to be a server side function.

Half. It's a server side setting, but the actual implementation is on the clients. Like with the forbidden camera modes.

Is it considered a 'cheat' if this functionality it implemented regardless of the server preference?

That's how we thought about it, yes, that's why it is a serverside setting.

Surely this is a player preference rather than a server preference? If a player is stupid enough to think they can talk and play at the same time, they should have control over whether they can? Even so, it works in two ways. If it is enabled in servers, it is the sort of function that will confuse players who oddly lose their chatbot, a different behaviour to what they are used to.

You have a point there. You can't actually cheat with the setting on, the only difference is that you jump from chatbot to actively doing turns a bit faster than if you escaped from chat first. So yeah, discuss

[wrtlprnft]

At least with the history feature you can jump out of chat, play, go back into chat, press up, and resume writing your chat line This has saved my (virtual) life quite a few times.