Add a variable to the player's account, we'll call it "isvip".

Save it as a byte, etc, etc.

Then do a check, when a player sends a message with the * in front of it (server side, obviously) and if the isvip is 1, send the message. If it's 0, cut the * off the message and send it to the map.

That covers the chatting aspect of the vip stuff. When you wanna add more vip stuff, you simply could check if they are vip first and if so, commence the code.

Did you add a new variable to the player UDT? Or what are you checking to see if the player has access?

If you're doing it using access levels, you wont need to add anything to the player's account. Access levels should work fine, but you'll need to change all the access level checks that are everywhere.

Then you should add an ADMIN_VIP constant and use that, too

And don't assume everywhere uses the constants. Personally check every one yourself.

That is a number.

Go into modConstants. You've just saved the number as a constant value with a useful name.

My idea was super simple.. O.o