This subject may have already been brought up, but it would be nice to have them either in the forum or in the game chats somehow.
I'm not going all the way through all the postings!
Back in my day, all we had ASCII and we liked it! Breakfast, lunch and dinner! (But if this place starts looking like some sort of AOHell W4r3z room from the 90s I'll consider doing something drastic and unpleasant.)
That said, I'm gonna have to go with LBO here, and put up my banner on the side of readability. Silly wabbit, chat is for words.
I do not like the graphic smileys that show up in facebook mail or in some blog comment threads. they make me want to break windows and burn down post offices.
I love when you type a smiley in global or local glitch chat and it makes your glitch smile. such a nice touch. :) :) :)