Chat read out

mmRunner · Post by **mmRunner** » Mon May 11, 2015 7:25 pm

Couldn't find anything about this in the forum. So my question: Is it possible to get a read out of the chat text so you can read it into another program?

PaulB · Post by **PaulB** » Mon May 11, 2015 8:00 pm

From post: 176750, Topic: tid=11910, author=mmRunner wrote:Couldn't find anything about this in the forum. So my question: Is it possible to get a read out of the chat text so you can read it into another program?

I doubt it.

Post by **DaveK** » Mon May 11, 2015 8:09 pm

Not given this a thought before but it could be very useful if Vice can add it to the savedata.txt output in some way. There are time on a quest for example when it could be useful too have a record of the quest steps. I guess it could be useful if a team are doing something or when I'm doing research and occasionally use the chat stream as a sequence marker/crude timer/a record.

mmRunner · Post by **mmRunner** » Tue May 12, 2015 2:02 pm

Yeah. And it would be great if the format of the chat read out file is:

timestamp [tab] category [tab] line of chat text

where category is a unique number representing on of

distress call
quest message
trade related message
crew related message
hangar fee
trading fee
crew wage
message from/to other pilots
contract message
...

Timestamp could be system time, but in game time would be better, I think.

Post by **DaveK** » Tue May 12, 2015 2:25 pm

Some info is already available in the flight log

Post by **Marvin** » Tue May 12, 2015 3:53 pm

If you don't need the information in real time, you can probably get a copy of the chat log from the server owner.

PaulB · Post by **PaulB** » Tue May 12, 2015 7:34 pm

From post: 176755, Topic: tid=11910, author=DaveK wrote:Not given this a thought before but it could be very useful if Vice can add it to the savedata.txt output in some way. There are time on a quest for example when it could be useful too have a record of the quest steps. I guess it could be useful if a team are doing something or when I'm doing research and occasionally use the chat stream as a sequence marker/crude timer/a record.

If he were to add it I hope he does it to it's own unique text file.
Chat logs can grow pretty big pretty fast.
If it's a unique file - say chat.txt - then one can always go in and delete it at any time to clear it.