Originally by: Praxis Astra

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Hey all you New EVE Players. I just wanted to clue you in as to how you can guarantee that you remain on the fringes of any online organization.

Now some folks do just want to have fun poking around on their own. That's fine with us if this is the case. Just remember that you have an open invitation to the revels and a seat near the hearth any time you want it.

But if you want to be in the thick of what is happening in this or any online organization, you gotta do the same thing you have to do at any party. You have to TALK to the other people. You have to get into the corp voice chat server. Voice to voice is the heart of the operation. Getting into the voice server makes it easier to do every single thing you want to do in the game. The voice server is where almost all of the educating, wheeling and dealing, Secret Evil Planning, and bonding takes place. That's just how it works. Fairness has nothing to do with it. Or to put it another way, who would you rather play with--somebody who is talking in the room with you "face to face" or somebody who only exchanges written messages with you through a slot in a door? (They'd have to be a DAMN good writer to keep me interested for long.)

Voice communication is essental to entering the leadership, to ops of any kind, to doing anything in 0.0 space. The only way I accept voiceless people in ops is with the understanding that nobody is responsible for what happens to you if you miss out on critical instructions at crisis moments such as if a mining op is attacked. A lot of the time typing is simply not an option.

It really doesn't matter why you don't participate in voice communication. All the other players can judge with any certainly is that, with millions of ISK and our character's lives at stake, you are someone who does not have this essential tool. If your finances are so bad that you don't have $15.00 for a headset, you need to stop reading this and find a job. If you are having tech troubles and are unable to figure them out I got some bad news for you: learning EVE is at least as complicated as that. If you can't figure out how to make a microphone work, you probably won't ever be very good at this game. Perhaps something simpler like tic tac toe? Solitaire? Finally, if you need further explanation on this point that does not bode well for your ability to function as a part of a team.

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