Speak now or forever.. blah blah blah

[Matt Krass]

Originally posted by Gadget470
Points brought up:

Gamer2028: "Have even hosted some session's on my 56k modem"
- Bandwidth limiters let people with 56k not get owned on bandwidth. '10k max TS upstream, 46k for other programs' sounds like a long distance phone call. Clear, but quiter. Easily adjustable in sound options.

Servo888: "I liked Roger Wilco until it became a paid service... booo!"


Jeremy_MC: "Skype:...comes from the great folks who brought you Kazaa!"
-Teamspeak is spyware free.

M. Krass: "How does that remain intelligible with more than a handful of users?"
-The vast majority of people are intellegent enough to know when to talk and when not to. As if it were a conference call.
=Solutions for those who will yammer on and on:
== Admins. Should an admin not be around at the time, there are IP:Name logs and one can be notified to check the log about the IP and if there should be follow up. Being that CD Keeps track of user IP's many people can be "caught" by comparing the log to the list of users.
== Mute/Unmute. Should someone be yakking to much for everyones taste, each person can choose to mute the player from having their voice played on each persons system. [ ex: John mutes Bill. Joe doesn't mute Bill. Joe can hear Bill, John can not. ]
== Multiple Channels. Need to leave someone out of the picture? Leave the channel. Say Bill is talking to Jared, but John wants to talk to Joe.. John & Joe can go somewhere else and be in peace.

David Kelly: "so is that just like a chat room?"
-Basically, yes. Real time, no need to type. Does not need to be "top window" on your screen. [Minimize and Multi-Task]

Jeff_Rice: "multiple people sometimes start talking after the same instinctive pause."
-Right now, I'm in a room with 7 or 6 people, and we are having a quality conversation without a lot of butt-ins. Yes, it does happen (there is a 1-3 second delay depending on location. I'm in MI, server is in CA).
I invite you to join my gaming clan's server to see what it's like, please PM me for IP information.

I share Gadgets experiences with large groups, I play on teams of 15-20 and in the middle of battle too, it still remains quite intelligible...until someone dies After the obligatory ranting though we're fairly intelligible again.