communication in STO

[ussawsomeness]

what is commucication going to be like in STO?
will it be mic like in halo?

[Whoppin]

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[Antagonist]

chances are, it will be like most MMOs, IE typing to each other. however, a voice often could be added in later, like in WoW.

[ussawsomeness]

chances are, it will be like most MMOs, IE typing to each other. however, a voice often could be added in later, like in WoW.

I usually prefer typing.
you can't put smiley faces in words!
also someone could have a really bad mic that would desteroy your ears. :D

[RE-Kirk]

also someone could have a really bad mic that would desteroy your ears. :D

but that would be canon... how many times did we see Uhura scream and grab her bluetooth away from her head when the comm system went nutty?

[Kayos]

I believe they have said they will have built in voice chat built in. probably for groups/fleets etc...

[DarkJedi007]

via telegram, but you'll need to buy fancy hardware for that

[ussawsomeness]

via telegram, but you'll need to buy fancy hardware for that

that doesn't sound very good for my wallet :eek:

[fyreblayd33]

Well personally I will more than likely be using vent. Every game that has had a voice program as part of the game has not been very good. But chances are that any fleet that you join will have either team speak or vent for the fleet. Though for the main game I am going to assume if they are using the CO engine that the messaging will be text based. I personally do not like the CO text chat program they use. I can do a /team /zone or /local. But I tried to do a /reply and it did nothing. Without a manual to refer to for the technical aspects of the game I am not sure what the reply command is so I have to right click the name choose to PM and then type the message. Very annoying.

**hope they actually have a game manual with this one instead of pinching pennies.

[RabbiBoker]

what is commucication going to be like in STO?
will it be mic like in halo?

CO CO!!!!!!!!

[Evil_Custard91]

but that would be canon... how many times did we see Uhura scream and grab her bluetooth away from her head when the comm system went nutty?

Bluetooth?? Lolz

i wish they would remaster TOS and replace communicators with iPhones :p

[eNDIE]

Bluetooth?? Lolz

i wish they would remaster TOS and replace communicators with iPhones :p

put on your flamesuit lol:)

[Zepath]

Well personally I will more than likely be using vent. Every game that has had a voice program as part of the game has not been very good. But chances are that any fleet that you join will have either team speak or vent for the fleet. Though for the main game I am going to assume if they are using the CO engine that the messaging will be text based. I personally do not like the CO text chat program they use. I can do a /team /zone or /local. But I tried to do a /reply and it did nothing. Without a manual to refer to for the technical aspects of the game I am not sure what the reply command is so I have to right click the name choose to PM and then type the message. Very annoying.

**hope they actually have a game manual with this one instead of pinching pennies.

See this is the kind of thing I don't want to hear ... if someone doesn't like the game, that fine ... but when I start hearing that players can figure out how to interface with the game ... :mad:

[fyreblayd33]

See this is the kind of thing I don't want to hear ... if someone doesn't like the game, that fine ... but when I start hearing that players can figure out how to interface with the game ... :mad:

Yeah it is not the standard /reply that you would think. The manual that shipped with the game had two pages on instalation. Two on troubleshooting. The rest was a copy and paste of the EULA. When I say copy and paste it even had the buttons at the end to click to agree or disagree with it. lol

They then said that they did not want a firm manual that they were going to have something on the website. Well if you look at it and then try and figure out the game based just on that......good luck. It is how to create the character and nothing about how stats really work. What powers go with what stats. Information from them is terrible. You have to go onto the forums and get the scoop from the players to understand it.

[fractaleye]

Dang, I'm going to have to brush up on my /commands. Eve only has /me and everything else you do (like /tell or /reply) puts this in the chat box:

slash: /tell

Doesn't show up to the other people, and doesn't do squat lol.

Pretty funny about the instruction booklet having the agree/disagree buttons at the bottom :)

I think they will have a voice client in game, but I'm sure most people will use TS/Vent/etc anyway. I've used Eve's voice, and it's decent (it's gotten better over time), but I honestly use Vent.

And I'm looking forward to STO not having as steep learning curve as Eve (hmm, would link the pic of the MMO learning curves which is pretty funny imo, but I've lost my copy :() I'm kind of glad I started off as a miner in Eve, because it gave me plenty of time to surf the web and learn up on Eve. I'm not wanting that in STO, though. I want a decently hard learning curve for STO, but I'm not set on it (not a deal breaker for me) nor expect too steep.

So tl;dr - I don't know /commands, I'll most likely be using 3rd party voice (when I do use it at all), and sorry about the tangent about the learning curves (pretty funny about the booklet though imo)

[Sunborn]

Er... no Pony Express? That makes me so sad.

[Sunborn]

For Fractal_Eye: MMO learning curves.
http://upload.0x1011.org/files/LearningCurve.jpg

[DeathCarrot]

I say we use Semaphore.

[fractaleye]

For Fractal_Eye: MMO learning curves.
http://upload.0x1011.org/files/LearningCurve.jpg

Sweet! Thanks, saved it; love that pic :D

[Osias]

i don't think an in-game voice function is required. I may have just had the wrong experiences but i've never come across a decent in game voice chat.

Besides, with Vent and Team Speak and all those other programs, why waste time and money doing something that's already been done and a large percentage of your player base will continue to use just because it's what they're used to doing?

Just saying.

[Sunborn]

Sweet! Thanks, saved it; love that pic :D

No problem. From what I have heard it's pretty close to the truth too.

[fractaleye]

No problem. From what I have heard it's pretty close to the truth too.

Lol, yeah. Can't speak for the other MMOs, but Eve's is pretty bang on. I think I'm about at the bulldozer stage, but Eve's probably tricking me and I'm really at the crosses. :D

[evil713]

how about actually hailing ships, voice/video chat. have that peer to peer.

[ussawsomeness]

how about actually hailing ships, voice/video chat. have that peer to peer.

thats sounds good :D

[Sublime]

what is commucication going to be like in STO?
will it be mic like in halo?

It will be like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9EBHIhx8ik&feature=related

[Osias]

It will be like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9EBHIhx8ik&feature=related

One can only hope.

I long for the day when i pick up my Telephone and dial in the number for my nemesis from across the Neutral zone, and so cheap too!

[peter13317]

In terms of communication with other races in sto I hope you Americans will adpot the English method of speaking in another language.. SPEAK REALLY LOUDLY AND SLOWLY UNTIL THE PENNY DROPS.

Universal Translator my butt.

[Zepath]

It will be like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9EBHIhx8ik&feature=related

Can you imagine ... that's not even that long ago. We don't even have a fixed phone in our house now ... we're all cellular.

Which drives TiVo nuts because it keeps wanting to make a call, and I don't have a phone line for it to call on.

LOL