Speak now or forever.. blah blah blah

[miketwalker]

Originally posted by Gadget470
On the point of "in battle" differences to normal conversation:

People can say "Bill, grab my waypoint" and then be silent for 3 minutes... or they can be like: "Bill, grab my waypoint, Northeast corner. Hurry up, enemy approaching southeast." blah blah blah and have a skewed message.
Most people in clans like this in a large group know their position within the team. If the squad leader starts talking, everyone shuts up, almost immediatly.

I personally feel if someone such as myself were to be stammering out something about a gear ratio, and, say, Paul Copioli or Andy Baker started to correct me... I'd shut up and listen right away. I think many would follow suit.

I agree, but at the same time... I'm sure we've all run into this... some people LOVE to cut others off in the middle of conversation... and since you are primarily there to chat, it might be hard to hold a conversation, whereas in games... your not specifically talking about something all the time. In a chat you'll have people with varying opinions, and if people start to bicker with each other on who is right, which happens often, it could cause problems... and there's enough people on CD that I think would all hop on at once, that you could have 25-30 people on there all talking about the same thing.... and we all know that everyone isn't going to wait their turn for 29 other people to speak, and some people are just gonna keep causing a disruption... I don't know, I think it's a great idea, but I'm not too sure about if you get some people in there who want to just goof off or will just cut everyone else off *shrugs* I guess I'd have to see it in action with a bunch of us all on there and see how it'd work, but I know I sure as heck don't want to listen to 30 other people if I wanna try throwin in my 2 cents... which is also why I think the "design" groups on teams usually stay relatively small with details (4-6 people) because everyone can pitch in what they have to say and a good debate can go on, but with more than that... I don't know, it just seems like people would easily get impatient and especially if its about something controversial... like I said, I guess I'd have to try it out with a bunch of people and discuss something like normal to see how it'd work.