Ok I'm decided as to how the in game chatting will be. There are 2 current possibilities and I'm open for idea's (the examples provided are definitely just demonstrations and are not complete representations of how the in game battling would look and are a bit smaller in size than the real game too):

We can have it so that when you chat, it displays comic like bubbles of what your saying. We'd probably have the names of the person playing above their character (cut down to 8 characters) and when you chat, it displays your full name (or up to 16 characters) followed by what you said. Example here:
https://www.vizzed.com/VizzedBoardFiles/vizzedflashbash/SonicLevel-GreenHill-ChatDemo.html

Or

We can have it so that there's a small box at the bottom of the screen which displays the last 3 things said and also you could press a little button to display the entire conversation. Example here:
https://www.vizzed.com/VizzedBoardFiles/vizzedflashbash/BattleScreenSmall.html


EDIT: I'd also like to point out there will be a "free play" mode which you can play and it doesn't help or hurt your records. This would be sorta a 'practice' mode or a mode which you can just freely play around.

It's also worth mentioning out that if we did the "chat bubbles" that we'd probably let the user have preset chat lines that they can use or they could just type out stuff manually.

I prefer the bubble one. Aswell as the cutdown text, so +1 for me for that first link.

I have to agree with Bob, the bubbles looks so much cooler

I think what we'd do with the names is make is so that users can select a custom name (8 characters long) that is displayed above their character for in battle. This name can be changed at any time outside of the game in edit profile. So where it shows the users health at the very top, that would display their username, and above their name would display their 8 character battle name. Now they most likely should pick something similar to their username so people know who their character is if more than 1 person select the same character. Just a possibility.

Maybe, once they win X amount of games, that becomes unlocked?

Could do something like that, could also make it so they gotta pay Viz to unlock the feature. I'd like to have a few features which have to be unlocked using Viz, such as some characters (gives more purpose for viz).

Yeh, would be good to have to buy stuff...
Maybe everytime they want to put a differnet name in place of there name above their heads, it costs Viz to change.

We have even more of a problem in the game Dark Signs Online (hack sim game). The currency in game, DSD, dosnt really have any use. You use it to buy domains in the game. And there is no real way to get money... Just ask for it from the banker to buy domains, to make missions .