EVE General Discussion

I've found it useful as a player to have both Mumble and TS3 set up and ready to go. Some corps prefer one or the other and no one should have to wait for you to install one of them to get going..

I haven't run into a corp using Ventrilo yet, though..


Listening is a lot more important. You can always type short sentences in fleet chat.

Then at least you're on comms and can listen.

In PvP without comms you will lose. But it all depends on the situation. A small gang killing one target don't need comms but it will be much easier with. Typing is a big handicap. A gang without comms fighting a gang with comms will lose. They are disorganised and orders are delayed. Carebearing don't need comms. But overall comms will be essential. It's great for the social strength of the corp. Personally I can't talk on comms all the time due to my RL but when it's important I just need to listen. In theory you just need one FC speaking. From this pov there's no reason not to be on comms. Fast communication is power in this game.

A decent fleet op will bar members, (or they will know when to shut up anyway), from speaking over comms unless they are the FC or for some other specific purpose. Most intel can be relayed through the fleet chat or fleet window. You don't want to hear someone screaming "I need armor reps! I've been Tackled! I'm going down!" every ten seconds.

So yes, listening in and simply relaying stuff over fleet chat is probably fine for most corp/alliances.

Push-to-talk will keep background noise from bleeding through while you're not speaking.

Not to be overly critical but your corp info has this description:
3.5% tax rate. Looking for people that want to have good times and hang out.

That doesn't suggest a corp where comms would be a requirement, so whoever is getting frustrated trying to implement it needs to have a think about the types of players attracted to info like that. There are loads of players who, for various reasons (which they shouldn't really be required to justify), want to play casually and find comms for the sake of it irritating.

You can implement it gradually, an early corp I was in did, although initially a handful of us just used ingame voice and encouraged people but didnt force them. We shifted the corp towards mandatory comms during wardecs (for obvious reasons) because we always took the opportunity to fight. That was a corp committed to building up a memberbase and leaving Empire long term though, and as we shifted policies we made sure to send regular corp mails and update the corp info so new recruits were aware and had the opportunity to find somewhere else if it didn't suit.

One of the best ways to encourage comms use is to arrange regular corp meetings to chat about corp direction/things people would like to do. Chatting is fine socially, but if you build some purpose into it people will get used to it and moan less. Scheduled times helps a lot, some just resent being forced to be on it permenantly. Pre-arranged ops are another popular one. I wouldn't get too worked up about people without mics or who prefer to be muted though. Unless they are FC or scout, as long as they don't semi afk it's not an issue, it teaches good fleet comms discipline in some ways. I'm one of those almost persistently muted unless I have to be because I'm either listening to music or hilariously drunk :P

Just use eve voice works fine. My group only uses it. Be it we do so mostly as we involve a lot of new players and its simpler then making someone try to download ts or vent install and connect.

What if I'm deaf?

I don't care to be on comms, If I must login I normally just listen and type any responses I have. Unless I am pvping and am playing the role of scout. I also don't use comms when I do bad things to people, gives them direct access to yelling at me directly.

No comms = removal from the corp

There is essentially no difference between a NPC corp and a player made corp without comms.

What purpose does a member serve if they never communicate? You will never be able to assemble a proper fleet without comms. Does not matter if it's for pvp or pve. If they are in the game for solo play, they might was well not play the game.