Alliance chat clears on game startup

stef_focus
stef_focus Posts: 206 Tile Toppler
in MPQ Bugs and Technical Issues

The messages in the alliance chat get cleared every time I start the game. I'm on steam.

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  • Xerobulll
    Xerobulll Posts: 9 Just Dropped In

    Issue confirmed.

  • Krazy
    Krazy Posts: 109 Tile Toppler
    edited October 2025

    There is a mpq chat service site. Whenever there is a slight network glitch (anywhere on the internet) it will load up blank. In some cases I have gotten it to pulse symbols, other times it is blank. This is a bug. It is related to a few other bugs. Like stuck at 42% while loading.
    If you didn't know there were issues with Amazon Web services today.

  • AndrewThinkman
    AndrewThinkman Posts: 10 Just Dropped In

    We have the same problems since I posted a %-Symbol in the chat. At least I think it has to do something with this post, since this happened directly after. Customer support said, it's a known issue and will be fixed in one of the upcoming patches, which is quite unsatisfying, because we cannot use our alliance chat at the moment. :s

  • tom1
    tom1 Posts: 1 Just Dropped In

    12/3/25 and chat still comes up blank

  • abmoraz
    abmoraz Posts: 716 Critical Contributor

    01/20/26... still an issue.

  • DeNappa
    DeNappa Posts: 1,442 Chairperson of the Boards

    We had this recently too

    Chat was out for like a week?

    After it happened i flooded the chat with messages. I have no idea if that helped. But I thought if it was related to what @AndrewThinkman posted (% symbol in chat), maybe if it gets pushed out to out of the recent messages range it can fix the problem.

  • Krazy
    Krazy Posts: 109 Tile Toppler

    Just wanted to follow up on this.
    It seems somehow a message "goes bad" (invalid/weird character DeNappa mentioned)
    It causes all of the chat to be empty.

    Abmoraz over in Discord was able to fix the problem by forcing the "bad chat/post" to eventually fall off the list, by typing 20+ simple messages:

    Test 1
    Test 2
    Test 3

    etc.

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 4,033 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 28 January 2026, 13:49

    This suggests that the chat box is smart and interpreting character sequences ( 8-rightbracket makes a smiley face type thing) that would allow players to bold, italic text etc. Some of those sequences mean 'clear box' and someone likely typed that in by accident as part of a message.

    KGB

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