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Bloodrocuted
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Bloodrocuted

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I've never used voice chat in runescape but I have had plenty of experience with it while playing World of Warcraft.
I believe that if you were to implement voice chat in game at this point in time the only viable places to use it would be in Dungeoneering, group minigames and clan chat because that way voice chat is limited to the people that are in your group or clan. I also don't believe there's a need for an in game voice chat at this moment in time, I think before you add a voice chat you should add an option for 2-5 people to "group up" like in dungeoneering and add quests and bosses that would utilize this feature. I should also add that rarely do i group up with other people while playing, pvp and dungeoneering are the only 2 things atm that I do with friends other then that I just go in by myself for group activities such as BA or Pest Control and get groups as i go.

03-Mar-2011 19:27:16

Ent March
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I don't use any type of voice chat and I probaply never will. (Yea I know, perhaps 'old fashion' :P )
Whatever program, you'll have the chance of getting errors or disturbtion in sounds and stuff. I know most makers of such programs try to solve such problems. :)

03-Mar-2011 19:27:28

Yeppers

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I think it's a great idea, as long as it can be monitored for abuse without causing too much strain on the servers. I also wouldn't want this to cause membership prices to go up since $5 a month is already about as much as I can afford.
I think would prevent users from going onto "other voice messengers" where they open themselves up to accepting malicious files and clicking malicious links, as well as ridding the possibility for hackers to find their IP for DDoS attacks.
I think GE should be a NO VOICE zone since it would cause substantial amounts of lag. There should also be functions to mute certain users or turn voice off all together if you just want to skill/kill in peace.

03-Mar-2011 19:28:20 - Last edited on 03-Mar-2011 19:35:52 by Yeppers

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Well, if it would actually get functional cross-platform support this would be a perfectly reasonable idea...
Then again, I fear this would be just as frustrating to get working correctly as any other anything using my microphone, those things are a pain to set up when they refuse to provide functional drivers and stuff.
If it can find a way to just work though, this would be very nice. The number of commonly used, 100% free (as in truly free) installed voice programs that work well is fairly slim, the number that work on not-Windows is likely even fewer yet.
So yeah, as long as it worked on all the things, I might almost be disappointed to have not been here for it...
By the way, would people who can't get microphones to work (or even don't have them, for that matter) still be allowed to join and listen and type back to everyone who can talk? For fast typists, this would make everyone else's responses much quicker, even if only half of the people get to do the talking.
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03-Mar-2011 19:28:21

Francisg777

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I do not pk, and my main dealings with clans are public ones where I am 99.9999...% sure that there would be lots of screaming 10 year olds using the chat. It's bad enough through text-chat, but voice would make it unbearable. Obviously, that's probably not a good enough reason not to add it, but it should be enough to persuade you NOT to remove text chat (which I sure hope you never had any plans to do so anyways).
And the same thing can be said for public chat. Since anyone can join any world to chat in it, it would almost certainly be fulled with players yelling and screaming (and possibly even auto-screamers lol). And since it's the only chat to use the world server, it would cause a lot of lag for virtually no gain (since hardly anyone would use it).
Though I wouldn't want to use it in any case (due to the increase in my internet usage mainly, which is bad enough as it is), I wouldn't mind if you added it to private chat and/or the new clan chat system that should be coming out. Providing you didn't hike the membership fees for it, especially since I'm sure that a lot of members don't use voice chat anyways. Maybe something like $5.00 a year for anyone who wants to use it. Star Find Custodian

03-Mar-2011 19:29:12

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