Chat error (Should be easy fix)

[JordanFromIT]

So using your latest dev build of factions, I get this error thrown everytime a player talks in chat.

[03:18:54 ERROR]: Could not pass event AsyncPlayerChatEvent to Factions v1.6.9.5-U0.1.3
org.bukkit.event.EventException
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader$1.execute(JavaPluginLoader.java:299) ~[spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1551]
at org.bukkit.plugin.RegisteredListener.callEvent(RegisteredListener.java:62) ~[spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1551]
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.fireEvent(SimplePluginManager.java:502) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1551]
at org.bukkit.plugin.SimplePluginManager.callEvent(SimplePluginManager.java:484) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1551]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.PlayerConnection.chat(PlayerConnection.java:938) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1551]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java:878) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1551]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.PacketPlayInChat.a(PacketPlayInChat.java:28) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1551]
at net.minecraft.server.v1_7_R4.PacketPlayInChat$1.run(PacketPlayInChat.java:59) [spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1551]
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) [?:1.8.0_05]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) [?:1.8.0_05]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [?:1.8.0_05]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [?:1.8.0_05]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.8.0_05]
Caused by: java.util.UnknownFormatConversionException: Conversion = '*'
at org.bukkit.event.player.AsyncPlayerChatEvent.setFormat(AsyncPlayerChatEvent.java:100) ~[spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1551]
at com.massivecraft.factions.zcore.MPluginSecretPlayerListener.onPlayerChat(MPluginSecretPlayerListener.java:48) ~[?:?]
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[?:1.8.0_05]
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:1.8.0_05]
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:1.8.0_05]
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483) ~[?:1.8.0_05]
at org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPluginLoader$1.execute(JavaPluginLoader.java:296) ~[spigot.jar:git-Spigot-1551]
... 12 more

[drtshock]

Looks like your * is the issue. Not sure why that would error. Let me take a look.

[keir-nellyer]

Looks like you have a percent symbol (%) before the asterisk () which causes this error. So for example your chat format is set to something like "blah blah % blah blah" to fix this issue simply double act the percentage so it becomes "blah blah %%* blah blah". Don't worry, the percent symbol will only show once.

This is unavoidable as we use the String formatter to format the strings (chat format), the formatter treats the percent symbol and the character after it specially. To avoid this we escape the % symbol (so that the formatter doesn't treat it specially) and to do this we use double percent symbols.

If you didn't understand the last paragraph, don't worry ;)