from my BF and TF2 experience ...

Relevent to how many ?

This is the first of 2 key factors in teamwide VOIP

In battlefield there are 6 in a squad and the squad sticks together and and controlling one area of a map, they are spawning on the squad leader so they are always in the same local. VOIP comms when people are all in one local is relevent to everyone.

In TF2 the spawnpoint is at the back and people move up to the front line, like ET:QW. VOIP comms of what is relevent in your immediate local is heard by everyone but is probably not relevant to half your team or more. I have experienced the unfortunate player who is a selfish motormouth in TF2, they give a running commentary of their game, they can ruin the experience for everyone except themselves, but they are having a great time and they are selfish so what do they care.

Who's the leader

This is the second of 2 key factors in teamwide VOIP

In BF the squad leader controls the spawn point and their authority comes from that. In TF2 VOIP gets good when there is a 'spontaneous leader' who marshals the troops. The 'spontaneous leader' will be key to ET:QW, just as it is in TF2. Without this people are just not pulling together in more than 2 or 3 people at a time.

Desired end result

I see the desired end result as it being routine for a real plan to be executed on TG public server. by this I mean a handful of threads coming together into a plan eg 4 key ideas (threads) stated in two sentences. Fast movers rush up the left to distract them, while aggesors move in on the objective on the right, followed up by the medics, when they secure the area the engineers rush in and fix the slipgate.

This kind of simple plan that everyone can understand in two sentences, creates & requires the teamwork.

High standards on VOIP

I would want to see TG get to the point where just talking is not enough, although thats the stage we are at and encouraging now, as VOIP is new. I would want to see the standard expected for VOIP on TG is talking that is contributing directly to the plan achieving the objective. That could even be a rule on the server

Where are we now ?

For whatever reason there has not been a large number of TG folk moving to ET:QW, but there will be at least some retrying ET:QW now that there is VOIP.

A lot of the future server regulars will come from server visitors who come from QW predesessors eg castle wolfenstein, these games did not have VOIP. So a lot of server visits will be experiencing VOIP for the first time. Think about it, this is a completely different crowd from the existing TG folk.

What is good now ?

• Restate the objective I know the game says it regularly, but on VOIP we can restate it as well, eg "right guys we're stopping them repairing the bridge, if an engineer is there at the front repairing, they are our top priority to kill" etc
• Focus on what is key to the objective right now a subset of the above, eg "their tank is rigt infront of their engineers fixing the bridge, kill the tank so we can get shots on the engineers"
• Sprinkle teaching into your sentences "We gotta get that plasma cannon down, there's three ways x,y,z"
• Compliment by name people who contribute to the team This goes a long way to creating server regulars
• Encourage VOIP useage eg ask who's got a mic, tell them the default button for VOIP to team, tell them about menu options for setting up VOIP, the first time someone talks immediatly respond warmly
• Encourage people new to VOIP to do 2 things (1) contact reports & (2) good suggestions directly for the objective If they are doing these two things then that person new to VOIP becomes a recruiter for VOIP because others hear how easy it is to get in on the action
• Tell people TacticalGamer is the talking teamwork server So they know where to come next time when they bookmark our server
• Express your enjoyment to encourage everybodies enjoyment I've seen this in TF2 a lot, expressing your excitement at achieving an objective, really brings out the excitement in everybody