Originally Posted by Soupy_Norman

Yeah sorry celestial i tend to run up to people and say "Mumblie Mumblie" just to check if there on it. Because seeing as its not enforced you never know who is unless you alt tab and see.

But i agree with you that its not "THE ALL MIGHTIEST OF VOIP SOFTWARE!!" because that was the first time it ever really seemed appropriate/useful.

Not referring to the 'mumble' to check if others are on it, but when it first came out there was a spam of 'mumble' by people playing the game but not actually using mumble for tactics, and also by people outside of the game just being general jackoffs.

The 'mumble' check is fine by me, just don't like it spammed randomly, ya know?

Mumble is definitely great... but it just has to have it's opportunity to become useful, otherwise it's not nearly as awesome as advertised.

Originally Posted by snooggums

Really when it comes to comms even more channels than SL and general would be good, but without having to teach everyone macros I don't see that working well with the current offerings.

Well, if it comes to the worst, they can always just stay in the SL channel and use Teamchat to relay any non-time-sensitive info.

Originally Posted by Snooggums

My dream communication would work this way:
1: There is a general positional channel. All radio communication is relayed through this when the person talks (so a person talking to the SL channel would be broadcast in positional at the same time). This channel would have no or very little delay, and people would be placed in the appropriate team channel when they join the game or switch teams.
2: SL channel - positional+all SLs can hear. Players are automatically moved to this channel when they become SL, and cannot leave the channel.
3: Squad channel - positional+all squad members, auto 'assigned' when squad is joined/leaves.
4: Sub SL channels - CAS, Armor, Logistics, etc. These channels would be joinable by any player in a squad, and would have a unique key assigned (like SL and Squad do) and to join the channel the layer would have an interface to 'join' the channel. When joined the player hears any chat from that channel and would hit a button to transmit to that channel.

I do not understand the significance of a general positional channel, because positional audio goes through all channels. I get the feeling, though, that you are implying that the use of SL radio is mimiced by a Postional Audio output (As in, everything you say through SL Radio is said over positional)? If so, it seems like it could be useful, but could also become a bit lunky and be more audio chatter than needed.

Has anyone tried mapping both Positional and SL radio to the same button in Mumble, and will they both transmit? If so, that would be a solution, but I highly doubt that it's possible... at least, yet.

Originally Posted by Snooggums

Possible setup example:
F - Positional chat
H - SL chat
V - Squad chat
KP_1 - Subchannel 1 (set to CAS on the TG comms setup)
KP_2 - Subchannel 2 (set to Armor on the TG comms setup)
KP_3 - Subchannel 3 (set to logistics on the TG comms setup)

In game the player would automatically be assigned to squad and SL channels as appropriate. If the player wanted to request CAS he could either stay in that channel or select it through the interface when needed. This would solve the CAS through SL chat spam that can flood the SL channel on both TS and mumble currently. I know you can set binds to subchannels in mumble already, is #4 something we could set up and if so could you hear things from SL and the subchannel at the same time or do you have to be in one or the other?

F, H, V, KP_1-3 is just referring to the keys used on the keyboard, right?







I wonder if the main room can be set to act as a waiting room, but all of the subchannels would have positional between eachother? Example: You join TG channel and it's sort of like TS Public (you can only talk to people in that channel), and then you join a Grunt, Squad Leader, or Asset channel that fits your need, sort of like joining up with Team Coordination channels (and can speak in positional to all other channels beside the waiting room).


If so, I would propose:

TG Team 1 (Waiting Room)
-Squad Leader Channel
-SL Guy
-Grunt Channel
-Grunt1
-Transport/Logistics
-Armor
-CAS
-CAS Pilot
--Waiting room guys

TG Team 2 (Waiting Room)
[...Repeat...]

That way, random pubbies may join the 'public' channel but must join a channel to actually do any speaking to other players, encouraging them to move themselves to the proper channel when they join, rather than just sitting in the lobby and speaking their heads off at everyone that doesn't need to hear them.