Ingame chat

[Faeryan]

For about a week now I've had troubles with the ingame chat.
My internet connection is flaky at best and I've fiddled with different modems and routers a lot lately, so that might have caused the issue.
My problem is that whenever I play the game I get no connection to chat, nor do I have the channels available to choose whenever I try to speak. Needless to say whenever I speak nothing shows up.

My most recent char didn't show up on the char vault but a saved game I played did show. Neither of them had the chat active. My online profile is active and I'm validated. Finally today my internet connection has managed to stay stable so it can't be because of sudden drops in the line, like it usually is (though the sympton then is different - I get the chat, just disconnect a lot from it). All in all everything should be ok on my end but still nothing.

Is that what's happening to everyone or just me?

EDIT: Thanks guys! 13 views with no posts saying "works for me" or "it's down for me too".

[Zireael]

Dunno about your case (I assume you're playing ToME 4) but when trying to implement chat for Veins, it always says that the online profile is inactive or some such...

[Mankeli]

I've had pretty much the same thing with my chat! Well, at least the first part of your story. Online item/character vaulting works fine for me though.

Here is how it works: When pressing "space" in-game, I get no channels to choose from and if I write something I can't see what it is after I press enter. As a matter of fact, I can't the see any chat messages in-game so the whole chat space from the lower right corner is gone.

However, I am, and you Faeryan maybe are as well, connected to the chat, I just can't see any chat messages in-game. When I write something it does show for others in the chat and it shows for me too when I'm using the chat in an internet browser.

This should probably be moved to the bugs section etc so we can try to get some Nicolas love for this.

[Faeryan]

That sounds a lot like what's happening to me. The character vault (on the site) registered my latest char, just a bit late. The chat ain't working though.
Finally got at least something, a yellow message saying I got connected to to online profile or something, still no chat though.

[Crim, The Red Thunder]

Just to confirm, do your messages show up if you use the website chat faeryan?

And when you attempt to talk in-game, does the box bring up the tome channel by default? If not, it's happened before that somehow, the autoconnect to appropriate channels gets borked. Try checking your options and making sure you're set to auto-join the relevant 3 channels.

Chat currently works for me (based off your first post).

If our web-chat works, then trying ingame chat, type something, then go check 'real-time chat' on the website, and see if your message pops up on it, (not the live one where you can talk back, just the log of the last 50 lines or so), I don't know what caused it, but for a while I had intermittent connection issues where I would have no connection ingame, but things I said would still pop on other peoples screens, and on the web-log. But no one's chat appeared on my screen ingame.

Hopefully something works...

[Faeryan]

Thanks! Turned out that for some reason I had no channels selected. No idea how that happened as I never fiddle with the settings. So I just crossed the channels and voila.
On another note, how stupid have I been not figuring this out myself.

Dunno what your issue is, Mankeli, cause mine got totally fixed by checking on the channels.

[Mankeli]

This fix worked for me as well! Thanks! I haven't messed with the options at all (didn't even no you could) so it's most likely a bug.

The chat apperars in a different place though. It was in the lower right corner before now it's in the middle (but still at the bottom thankfully).

[Faeryan]

You can click on the lock button to unlock screen elements and then resize/move them by right and/or left clicking the knobs that appear.

Later on just click on the lock again to lock stuff in place.

[Zireael]

The main problem with the Veins chat turned out to be the same thing (unticking all the channels).

My suggestion is unticking should be cleared on exit (especially if ALL channels are unticked) or some sort of a warning dialog should be displayed: 'You are not listening to any channels, are you sure?'