Keitaro Baka
Babylon Scientific and Industrial Enterprises
Babylon Project
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Posted - 2006.11.10 09:02:00 -
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In-game voip stuff is always quite a tricky issue.
- Issues with most in-game voip apps:
People who would use voice chat mostly do so already. This has quite a few advantages with dedicated programs. You can structure them in your own view, with different groups, whispering, group-group talking and one of the most important ones: You don't have to be in game to talk with your m8s. And you can shut it down without shutting the game down.
I mean no matter how well it's coded, extra info = extra bandwith & extra load = possibility of client/server lag. And I suppose some will think any extra payment is too much.
Then there is the old 14y-old [insert personal tag here] that could join.. Or would they? If not you would need to make an extra pw-ed channel.. Very annoying. When using stand-alone progs you would always set it up for the friends, pw-ed and perhaps even with regged people..
- Pro's of the in-game voip apps:
You could join from game! This is quite an issue with a game like BF2142, where if you see your buddies online in game you need to alt-tab-ctd to get your TS/vent on. The quality is pretty much great these days, even with oceans in between. And everyone should use voip imho so more easy options is a good thing.
There are ofcourse quite a few other issues, but to me it would boil down to this:
I already use a stand-alone program .. And for several games. So I will be on voip anyways. I use the voip in a game like BF2(142) sometimes and then only because it is immediatly available. The setup for EvE right now is just not interesting enough for me. I tend to listen to music when playing EvE.. I already get annoyed at the loud sound effects sometimes (warp+camera reset = way to loud effects, fighting when enemy comes close to camera drone when firing is the same) and having people having discussions over voip could be horrible. EvE is also great for the old alt-tab (in fact i run it windowed in max fraps res) so I have no issues whatsoever with SA apps.
Still I hope it works well and I def hope there is no lag with the load increase.
ps: I kept getting errors for the voip on sisi yesterday, so I haven't tried the talkie bit yet
- All the stuff above does not necessarily reflect my corp, my alliance or even me
- Pure drone user... give us a mini carrier and faction Typhoon and Dominix please |