I have a server with multiple teams, global messages from other teams do not get the words in colons turning into emotes and also all messages from other teams disappear if you open and close chat or message something yourself

What command is being used to send messages globally? It sounds like I am not properly handling it.

Hm, maybe it is something to do with Oarc Multiplayer Spawn mod, im not sure but that may be changing how the chat messages are sent? Because otherwise we are just typing in chat

So I just echo chat to other forces without requiring players to have to type /s every time.

Maybe you can provide a setting that forwards normal chat messages to all other forces like I did? I found most players really like this feature. In my mod, there are often players on different teams playing cooperatively.

I have no idea how your mod works, just responding here since I was pinged.

That does sound like a good idea... I'll go ahead and add it to my mod at some point soon 👍

For now, the workaround is to use /s (or /shout) to send the messages properly globally.
I'm currently thinking of adding a new command to replicate normal chatting behavior of only sending to your team. Do you have a better idea than /t (or /team)?

And Oarc, my mod basically had to entirely recreate chat by recording each message, and then overshadowed the real chat so it can print out its messages with the added modifications... I've got a remote interface specifically because I can't catch prints from other mods.

Two simple(ish) mods that make use of it is Complex Death Messages and Biter Memoirs. And then the specific luals annotation for the signature is https://github.com/PennyJim/better-chat/blob/772061f3b1552d2e97e7d8ca2d0dd3cf9b6df240/runtime/handle_messages.lua#L148-L162

Thanks! I'll look into adding compatibility at some point, you mod sounds great!

You got me sucked back into working on Better Chatting...

I've released a version that has a setting to change what a normal chat message does, combined with a command to send it to your team as a normal message would normally.
I also implemented a few more commands, but I am releasing this version because I have to go to bed..