Eagler, by chat I assume you mean the text thing you can access with the this `...
if that's the case, if you type simply "<" without the quotes into where you type, it will bring up everything from what has been loaded initialized, and will also allow you to scroll up the messages.
The trick is, it's opposite, you just click in the bottom window, hold and move the mouse either up or down. Up will make it go down and down will make it go up.
Confused yet?
Also, do you fly on Hyperlobby? If not, you should... hyperfighter.jinak.cz And the dogfight rooms, look for the ones that have "FR" listed in their title. It means Full Real... PL is Padlock, I only fly on those dogfight servers. Usually some better pilots there too.
As for damage, Oleg was supposed to have fixed that with the online game in v1.1.... like other things he was supposed to have fixed... they didn't quite get it.
If any of you guys have GF4s or Radeon 9700s, turn on the Stencil Buffer... and run it in OpenGL... almost every form of smoke has a shadow, the stratosphere clouds (I dunno they're called, but not the puffy ones), and trees will reflect in the water.
-SW