[addons_zz]

1. When it happens?
2. Every changelevel?
3. At map start up?
4. At map end?
5. It is always 5?
6. Did you set it to 5 somewhere?

[WhiteTomcat]

This happens even during playing, not in map change:

L 07/18/2017 - 00:12:50: Server cvar "mp_chattime" = "7" --------------- ---few sec later--- --------------- L 07/18/2017 - 00:12:55: Server cvar "mp_chattime" = "5"

and then in map change even though in server.cfg mp_chattime is set to "3" it still changes to "5".

So weird.

L 07/17/2017 - 17:41:00: Server cvar "mp_chattime" = "5" L 07/17/2017 - 17:41:03: Server cvar "mp_chattime" = "3"

[addons_zz]

Originally Posted by WhiteTomcat This happens even during playing, not in map change:

Seems you have some third part plugin messing with your `mp_chattime`.

If you have all your server plugins source code `.sma`,
you can look for all plugins which define the cvar `mp_chattime`
and look when they are changing the cvar and why.

1. If you do not know how to code plugins, you can post here all your server plugin source code `.sma` files
   and we can look into them and see if any of them is changing the cvar `mp_chattime`.
   
   
2. Or you can disable your server plugins until you find out which plugin is doing it.
   
   You can start just disabling every amxx plugin, then see if it is working,
   hence goes slowly (half by half) enabling things and see if it is working until you find it not working.
   
   
   1. Disable all plugins and test, if the default installation is really working properly.
      
      
   2. Next, enable half your plugins, and test if it is working.
      
      
   3. • If it not working, that means that some of that half you just enabled is breaking it.
      • Now you need to disable half of that half which you just enabled and broke your server.
      • So, repeat this, until you find out which plugin(s) is screwing your installation.
      
      
   4. • If it is working, that means that some of that half you just enabled is not breaking it.
      • Now you need to enable the half of that half that is remaining to you enable on your server.
      • So, repeat this, until you find out which half(s) is screwing your installation.
      
      
   5. • This is a quick procedure, for example, if you have 1000 plugins on your server, at the first moment you would eliminate 500 plugins.
      • But could be complications that could let to take more time, if there are bad plugins on both first 500 half's.
      • However, this is very less possible to happen.
      
      
   6. If you have trouble to understand it, see another similar approach to this.
      
      
   7. See here a similar problem/case and its solution.