I reallllly want a good chat room!
 

I so want a chat system integrated with vB, so that people could use their same usernames, and you could view who was in chat, like you can view 'who's online' with the vB board, and I want to be able to assign 'moderator' privileges' to members for modding the chat.. I've viewed some of the chat threads here, but it seems like what I am looking for is just not around yet - any ideas, or any hope that this might be in a future release of vB?

Best bet is an irc server, and running eggdrops.

After trying to integrate a few of them into vb, I decided that best one is Real Chat but it would require you to be on dedicated server and it is pricey either. However it integrates vb better than all other the scripts I have had experience.

On the other hand in such a integration everything would not be possible as the integrating scripts are from different worlds: VB is PHP and Real Chat (or any other good chat script) is Java. So you can not make all dreams possible while combining a chat script with your forum but Real Chat is flexible to make most of your requests come true.

hmm, now all we need is a free real chat =/ lol