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The voice chat system should have a voice modulator option similar to the one used for xbox live that makes voices High pitched and low pitched. But changing pitch is alot easier to do than creating some sort of wookie or Trandoshian voice filter!

Rammel Lynterrus
The Underground Smuggler

/sign ive always liked voice chat in CS and PS, and even flightsim, so i would love it here

MBH, Bria
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ALI

My idea (which mando incorrectly said difficult) was for a recorded track to be played underneath (lower volume) of non-human players, this is very simple to do when player x who happens to be wookie speaks a lower volume level (say 25% of the voice comm volume) a recording of a wookie is played and both are mixed together and then sent via comms (or it could be done the other way with the receiving computer mixing the sound) any full-duplex card can do this without even flinching (and if your using voice comms it better bea full duplex one) the excuse for this ? universal translator built into the comms gear add in a "tin" effect and you have something similar to ANH.

A: Ok guys we're going to pull down all the servers in the early hours of the morning so our customers aren't inconvinienced.
B: Great idea how about 4am ?
A: Amazing who in their right mind would be up at that time ?
4am comes
B: Bring them down
Lunchtime in Europe
3 servers worth of players - Everythings gone down lets go play WoW instead

yes, that is a great idea, but anyway my names Mandal* not mando,or mandy.... and you still should be looking into new Ideas to help the current grow in the community, so you dont have to worry about this at all, since they are already geting ready for beta* (hopefully) and they will be releasing it this fall, so i suggest everyone to start new ideas to help the Ground* enviroment to be better... we still have 1-3 more publishes to go live before JTL so i suggest you get out there and post some new good ideas...

-Always judge the dead, Never the living- ((As yoda once said, "Mine!,Mine!,Mine!")) [On sunrunner, in the land of the rising suns]

Voice chat is good if they could implement it

Yensid
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Voice modulation sounds like a very cool idea. In fact just adjusting the voice so that it is higher or lower could help out some of those people who have issues with the beautiful twilek flying the in the ship next to him speaking in a gruff "mountain man" vocie.

Obi-Z
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I would love this but would rather have them working on content and fun stuff.

And how exactly could this not be fun?

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Teräs Käsi Master 9-27-2003
Master Smuggler 3-04-2004

I'm sorry I just don't understand why you are even hereMANDAL this post is about voice comms and is as valid an idea and request as any other no where that I know of has it been stated that this is a request for release or even for the ground (well I might have asked for ground but thats me) this forum is for JTL not ground if you want us to have ideas for improving ground fine look over there not in the space specific forum ! The only time I've seen anything to do with release is that they choose a 3rd party software (most of which is PD anyway or freeware - maybe some shareware) and stick it on the cd which can be completed before going gold (it isn't hard to say eeni meeni mino mo, save it to the disk structure then stick in a few words on the install readme saying - "if you want voice for now here's a program run to install follow their instructions this has nothing to do with SOE"). Who says I'm not looking into ideas to improve the current ground game ? I'm currently talking to other players about a fireworks display at a new town on my server + maybe something to give away to attract people, what I'd like to see is you leave this post alone let us discuss voice and how it could be implemented infact this could be seen as helping the Devs as the basic tenants of voice have already been dicussed - ie seperate server to remove lag including P2P controled by said server thus cutting lag right down, voice overlay (heck if shoutcast can do it easily then SOE shouldn't have any problem whatso ever) on either side (I'd prefer on receiver end since it'll allow more of the users voice data to be transmitted giving better clarity of sound), heck if people would stop bad mouthing the idea and stamping their feet saying "no, no, no they aren't doing it so do something else" then we might have some people who are currently using the 3rd party softs give us details as to what lag they get using such and such a codec and bit rate with what connection allowing the devs more information.

To get to the point mandal you don't like the idea, you don't think its worth dicussing well leave and let us discuss it and let us get on with it without your multipul posts trying to put the boot in, I'll reiterate if you want to discuss new ideas to improve the ground game then goto one of the ground forums and leave JTL to discuss space related ideas. I will argue voice comms till I'm blue in the face I argued for it playing clan games on tfc eventually Valve put it into the game (which had been outabout 3/4years by this point) because the number of players using 3rd party increased with broadband becoming more common, it's more a case of when not if it will be released if we keep asking and discussing it we will get what we want (well maybe this is SOE after all). If you don't want voice comms go create your own topics to discuss the problems with it, we'll read it then address those problems in our own topics and not come over there shouting how it will be implemented and that you should stop being negative and plain unhelpful.

A: Ok guys we're going to pull down all the servers in the early hours of the morning so our customers aren't inconvinienced.
B: Great idea how about 4am ?
A: Amazing who in their right mind would be up at that time ?
4am comes
B: Bring them down
Lunchtime in Europe
3 servers worth of players - Everythings gone down lets go play WoW instead

Thank you Belm. You bring up some good points in your post. In fact if you look back through the pages you will see that most people are either for Voice chat or indifferent. Manda seems to be the only one having a cow over it.

To All:

Lets assume for a moment that SOE will eventually patch in voice chat if its not in at release. Which 3rd party voice chat program do people prefer? We could weigh the pros and cons of each and maybe come up with a suggestion to SOE to put program "x" on the cd and endorse its use instead of ban us for using it.

Obi-Z
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Just Obi-Z here to bump the thread in hopes of anyone else with new ideas or ways to make this idea better.

Obi-Z
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Thread is dead... they said they want to focus on bandwidth for product... I'm not shooting down your ideas for endorsing Voice Chat... it'll just have to happen on the side as always by power players

Ex-Player Assocation Correspondent(11/4/2003)
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I agree with the original poster. It isn't fair to people who don't exactly have the money for another voice system, and for people who would rather not have to make sure all their friends have it too.

With an in-game system, people who just met up could talk to each other without having to arrange to buy the software and make sure its the same and go through all the haggles and procedures. Just pop on a mic and some headphones and your in buisness.

Personally, I'm not going to get a separate voice system, because I think that *ideally* a squadron should know its memberswell enough not to have to talk, but we all see the flaws in that reasoning. So if they include one, I'll make good use of it.

The reason that only astromech droids should be able to enhance ships... Think of a protocol droid:
"Oh, we're doomed!"
"I can't say how much I hate space travel!"
"The odds of surviving a direct assault on an Imperial Star Destroyer..."
"This is all your fault!"
"But sir!"