Thank you for relaying feedback from players Torank
As you said, it would be nice if they came forward themselves, but it's still an important issue we can talk about now.

It would be nice to define exactly what dead alltalk means.
1). Dead players can talk to dead and live players on their team and chat with live players on both teams.
2). Dead players can chat with live players on both teams, but cannot talk.
3). Dead players can chat only with their team, and cannot talk.
4). Dead players can chat only with their team and can talk to their team.
5) etc...

As Fernplant pointed out, if we any of the above, it will be more difficult for spies to do their job effectively. I like the fact that spies can take out targets that are by themselves without anybody noticing, especially using the Eternal Reward (*DEAD*: WATCH OUT GUYS, SPY IS ME!!!). It also becomes a lot more interesting because you rely on your live teammates to spot spies (Plasma: Spy just killed our medic, watch out!).

Here are few things that come to mind for me:
a). We're running 32 player servers. Dead alltalk might make it more difficult for "alive" players to communicate with other still alive players (such as a medic/heavy pair, spy+spy teams, etc...) Too many players talking at the same time.
b). It might encourage trolling. A sniper kills Player A. Player A gets really mad while dead and spams the chat (because he's dead, he's got nothing else to do atm).
c). ?

I like the way it currently works. Dead chat/talk is fine on public servers, and we're running public servers (32 players at that), but I think keeping it off increases skill level slightly. Spies (and other classes too, like snipers even engies a little) rely on the element of surprise. We have already restricted dead spectator mode to your teammates only for that very reason. I think enabling dead chat/talk goes against that.

About asking players their opinions with votes. It's a good idea, unfortunately too few players come on the forums, so the poll wouldn't be really useful. Now I agree we should give more reasons to come check out the forums, but that's another topic.

Again, we will look for options, and maybe we can find a good compromise. If you have played on servers with dead chat/talk enable, post your thoughts.

How did they set it up (can dead players talk/chat with everybody?)

If you were killed by a good spy, your warning to the team would likely be too late to be useful by the time you finished typing. And if you were killed by a bad spy, they are likely to die soon anyway. And if you have good pyros, spies are already screwed.

Most people are actually pretty quiet, even if they have a mic. We can... 'deal with'... anyone who abuses deadtalk. It's a different matter than dead spectating entirely. Being able to see the location of every enemy is practically cheating. With deadtalk, you only relay what you already know. Besides, players can already talk while dead with TS/Vent/Skype if they really wanted to.

Speaking of which!

We don't have this plugin.

Oh and,"Please do not attempt to communicate with the deceased on this server. Mediums, ouiji boards, scrying, and necromancy are prohibited."

I do see some servers have I guess "dead talk" enabled, but it kind of ruins gameplay for spy classes, not like everyone hates the spy enough already. Here are some off the top of my head thoughts of how it can affect gameplay:

• The other team will be able to call out "Hey Player1, turn around there is a spy behind you." with the advantage of being able to jump to any player and have a 360 camera view around them
• Warn the team of impeding flanks
• Let your teammates know where the red Spy/Scout is near your spawn that is constantly taking out your teles

Coming from earlier FPS like Counter Strike (bhop ftw) I grew up playing where you can't hear your dead teammates so I'm not surprised or shocked that it's not enabled on Hyperion. If Hyperion decides to put the mod in then I won't complain nor will I whine if it's not enabled, perhaps there should be a poll on the website where they can just vote w/o registration to get a feel for what people want.

Also I blame torankusu.

Trade servers... rotten hives of spam and villainy.

Also, I have unfortunately never bothered to trade, so I'm not sure what you guys need or how it would work. If you have ideas, I'd be happy to read them.

• There's a plugin that's used to allow players to see each other's backpacks (inventories) provided that their inventory and profile are not set to private and they leave the option to disable HTML MOTD unchecked (this is under Advanced Options, if you're wondering). I believe this is it.
• Some trade servers disable seeing the voice commands ("Spy!", "MEDIC!", etc.) as they'll be pushing advertisements out of the chat and it would cause people to spam them more so they're seen.
• They're usually 24/7 of a small map.
• The two servers that I visit the most, Ozzy Furocity and Reddit's trade server, use trade_plaza and trade_minecraft_b38 respectively. I like both, but I've been hanging around the minecraft one a little more this last week because they have the Headless Horseman spawning every 10 minutes or so and I've been trying to get more of his haunted metal, heh. Also, I think it's cool that it changes things up every 10 minutes so that everyone's fighting a boss.
• On maps like trade_plaza it's easier to spawn camp because there's only one way in and out of spawn. Ozzy Furocity added some plugin that has an orb that floats over the door and it deals dmg to enemies who get within a certain range. You can still get camped, but at least you don't have a sentry sitting in right in front of the door and campers outside are easily dealt with if you have an uber. I thought it was neat and it would be a cool idea if we ever end up using a map where there's only one exit that easily campable.
  
• Instant respawn is on
• Alltalk is on and you can read what the dead are saying so that being dead doesn't affect communication during trades.
• Servers I go to have messages that pop up periodically to not spam.
• Haven't seen this on a trade server yet, but I'd like to suggest giving players the option to voteban/kick/mute in case an admin isn't around (and I think this should be available in our other two servers, too).

I haven't used the command in some time, but I believe after you typed !request to contact an admin, it tells you about the team_chat @blablabla command to talk to admins privately. This is definitely something we could advertise, as I'm sure few players know about it. We'll consider adding it to the list of ads; we already have quite a long list of text ads in-game, and we don't want to spam our players. Something we've been considering is adding a motd style page that can be accessed with a single text command like: !info It would then open a motd webpage in-game with the list of all the commands we're currently advertising through text ads. That would probably be the best solution.