[zokemon]

Did you do this all serverside or clientside?

emoticonchar I don't think is serverside and if the check was made clientside, there's no need to check anyone else's emoticonchar other then the main player's (player variable) since everyone player will have their own instance of the clientside script running on their own computer (very nature of clientside scripting).

You could just do a simple 0.05 timeout that checks player.emoticonchar against the npcs and it triggeraction's the result to the serverside if emoticonchar isn't either a null value (or whatever the value is when the player has no emoicon) or this.lastemoticon. Make sure to set this.lastemoticon = player.emoticonchar if the check is successful too to avoid spamming the npcserver with emoticons.

The actual selecting of the emoticon should be done serverside (so everyone gets the same emoticon as well as picking who gets kept and who gets kicked (which is convenient since you can only warp players serverside).

Hope this makes sense and helps you.