Team chat

Team chat is a chatting feature added on ROBLOX in 2008. It can be activated by chatting "%" (percent) before typing the adorning message. The message will be sent to all the players who are in the same team as the player who typed the message. This function is only usable when the % is the very first character in the message, for example:

% Shoot that guy

Will come up in team chat.

 % Shoot that guy

Will NOT come up in team chat since there is a space before the percent.

While using team chat, if you type:

% My team can see this

It will show up as:

(TEAM) My team can see this

Notice:You must put the "%" symbol next to your text, not a space.

Example:

%Get the flag.

If there is no team then the sentence will not say (TEAM) at the front and the % will be shown. The team that appears briefly if the player has a laggy computer (called neutral) does not get called as a "team," and if they type with the percents and attempt to teamchat nothing will happen. Team Chat is helpful for making up a plan or giving out a strategy for a game without the other team knowing, especially for war games with teams.

Normally, without team chat, the other player may know the plans and/or even attempt to foil the plan. However, because it comes from free chat, safechat players may not see the chat and may not even follow said command. Safechat players can include guests, players who have not yet created an account in Roblox, and players whose age is below the age of 13.

A common mistake that is made by newer users of Roblox is typing out (TEAM) instead of writing %. If (TEAM) is simply typed, it is not accepted as teamchatting, therefore the other team is able to read the context of the message.

Triva

• With the new chat update within 2012, the (TEAM) will not show up, yet your text will only be shown to your team.