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Wafflemonger

Wafflemonger

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This is a horrible idea...look at all the other games that have implemented voice over the internet, combat arms being the prime example. When it was released, it was total TRASH, quality was garbage, couldn't mute anyone, didn't work half the time, insanely laggy. That was at first release. Half a year later...guess what..still doesn't work half the time, lowers game sound, still lags the game...this is a bad bad idea.
In order to utilize VoIP you need literally 0-100 ms ping, any more and it kills any potential conversation. I cannot see this happening over runescape as it's laggy for so many people already.
Fix your current servers before adding other servers. Oh also, if you don't have a dedicated server for your VoIP, you'll crash half the people's games if more than 2 people talk in the same general area.
Let's look at it from this point of view, a clan war, say, Exodus vs Downfall, you will get 30 people from exodus, 5 people from Downfall [about their average pull now] all potentially talking at once. That's about 35 people talking in the same area.
Let's look at bigger clans. Runescape Dynasty has 75-100 people at most events. Reign Of Terror has lets say 75 people to most events. That's almost 200 people [PLUS ANY RANDOMS WHICH WILL BE LOOTING/CRASHING/WHATEVER] totaling well over 300 people TALKING AT ONCE in the space of Spiders to greater demons. That will kill all clan fights, there won't be any need to DDoS runescape players anymore, all you need to do is mass up the clan and all shout at once and the other clan will drop.
World 2, you'll have thousands of people talking to buy items, IT WON'T WORK unless you have clan specific voice chat, and can only access it if you are on someone's clan list/friends list. Other than that, it will ruin the game totally.

09-Mar-2011 00:47:36

x AH
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x AH

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I support this update. I think that it will be a good way to communicate with other players and considering that many people already use a voice chat system while playing Runescape it would be more convenient.
I've heard people saying things like "It'll be annoying just walking by and hear some little kid whistling or yelling into the mic"... Well I think that a good thing would be to have an "Invite to Voice Chat" option when you right click someone's name to prevent that. You would be able to invite multiple people into a "Chat Party" and the host of the party should be able to kick players from the party. It would take up the extra space on the toolbar next to the friends list option as well.
This is my support/idea on the matter. Thanks for reading and I hope this passes through. :)
P.S: Will this update increase the cost of buying a Runescape membership?

09-Mar-2011 02:52:36 - Last edited on 09-Mar-2011 03:16:50 by x AH

Cvspartan

Cvspartan

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I don't use voice chat on Runescape, but if Jagex puts in a system which allows people to chat freely on their headsets, I would sure try it. Of course it would be glitchy and buggy at first, but when isn't it. The only other time I use headsets are on xbox live.

09-Mar-2011 04:11:44

Cvspartan

Cvspartan

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I don't use voice chat on Runescape, but if Jagex puts in a system which allows people to chat freely on their headsets, I would sure try it. Of course it would be glitchy and buggy at first, but when isn't it. The only other time I use headsets are on xbox live.

09-Mar-2011 04:11:46

Ardoyn

Ardoyn

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Heck no.
I can already imagine the whiny little kids spamming the voice chat at the GE...
This could lead to serious real life issues. Cyber-bullying, dangers of talking to strangers, etc... Unless Jagex enables the right to record the voice chat, then there will be no evidence for these issues. It might help if Jagex archives the conversations with the Reporting System but this would just add a heap of work for Jagex staff and discourage many people from participating in the voice chat.
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Thumbs down. I do not support this idea.

09-Mar-2011 06:29:57 - Last edited on 09-Mar-2011 06:31:00 by Ardoyn

[#2K8WHAXZU]

[#2K8WHAXZU]

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It would be awesome if you could incorporate voice communication in a clan chat! It would make clanning so much easier, there are some features it would have to include
1. Muteing - sometimes people have poor microphones, and when there are 200+ people in your voice chat and the clan is in the middle of a war, the person with a echoing microphone would have to be muted.
2. Mass Muteing (only XXX rank+ can talk) - Again, when in a war you have to remove voice from everyone that dosent need it.
3. Ability to send URL's - Yes I know Jagex is against sending URL's, but sometimes it's needed, for example I use it to show people links on our clans forum, show pictures of trips to people, etc etc etc. Perhaps you could have a URL filter like the word filter, and only block when people try to link to well known phising sites, or download sites (similar to what Swift *** does)
4. Different "rooms" in the chat - This wouldn't be needed if it's made free, as people could hop from clan chat to clan chat, however if it's not free then different channels in the same chat would be needed, also some would have to be ********ed, or a certain rank required.

09-Mar-2011 16:15:58

Lindz

Lindz

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I think it would be awesome to see a voice chat. Curious to see how they will pull this off if it comes out :o cause people all around the world play this game and not everyone speaks the same language. i am really truly curious to see how this comes out. :D

09-Mar-2011 18:26:23

[#WCJ3AETCZ]

[#WCJ3AETCZ]

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How: I join a Steam chat with my friends and use a mic to talk to my friends, however, I can't talk to just any player.
Why: Especially in dangerous areas, I don't want to be typing long sentences while in a battle, so voice chat is better to use. But, like I said before, you can only talk to someone in your Steam Chat so I think this would be a good idea.
But, that very important but, you wouldn't be able to hear anybody over the roar of 100s of players, especially at places like the GE. Maybe if it was just for clan chats then that would work.

09-Mar-2011 18:43:44 - Last edited on 09-Mar-2011 18:46:35 by [#WCJ3AETCZ]

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