When jumping the chat window should persist uninterrupted during jumps. It then has to be reselected once the jump has completed and often has lost the part of the message that has been typed.

This is interfering with my inane babble.

This gets broken all the time. And then needs to be refixed. Except the lat time it broke it wasn't fixed fully.

a very big +1

It is the same when you die too. You used to be able to chat while the station interface was loading, but since the "loading" screens got removed, whatever you had typed into the chat box gets "whited out" and you have to type it again.

And yes, the chatbox still loses focus when warping/changing sector, and although it is better than it was when the last time it broke, it is still annoying.

Yeah the whole chat system needs to be split off from the hud and pda to become a separate entity that doesnt get reloaded.

Its a design choice the devs made somewhere and the current problems are an unintended consequence....The choice now is to stay the course and suffer or do a rewrite that will slow other work...