Chat System

[MyPad]

In the Lua version, there appears to be a lot of closure functions being employed (and generated) when using certain public functions such as print, sendSystemMessage, sendPlayerMessage and so on. I suggest declaring them as their own functions.

The chat system also appears to have functions which should behave as private functions, but are accessible everywhere (due to the global table _G. You can hide these functions from the global scope by doing the following:

do
    local function convertTime(...)
    end
    local function sizeCheck(...)
    end
    function sendSystemMessage(...)
    end
end

The for-loops in the system appear to have an unnecessary parameter, and also contains "magic" numbers.

-- An experienced modder would likely already know the meaning behind the numbers 0 and 23
-- after a careful inspection.
for pID = 0, 23, 1 do
    -- do stuff
end

You can remove the trailing 1 from the for-loop block and identify the purpose of the "magic" number by storing it as a "constant".

local MAX_PLAYERS = 24
MAX_PLAYERS = MAX_PLAYERS - 1

for pID = 0, MAX_PLAYERS do
    -- do stuff
end

Indentation in the code might be a bit wonky.

EDIT:
Forgot to place this under Awaiting Update