Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Regardless of this....

People in null want you on teamspeak so they can hear you speak to you because not everyone is watching chat logs when engaged in a 1000 man fight.

Majority usually have chats minimized
and have fleet window open

Well I also had ideas of eve suppling premade voice files for each of the hotkeys. I need time to cool off and think more on the idea though so give me some time folks.

Eve Voice does have a GFX cue (if you're in the right chat room -- e.g. fleet or corp).

As for "who" with external programmes -- the DirectX overlay in TS/Mumble/Vent is pretty nice (shows the list of people in your 'room', and highlights the speaker)...
As for the hearing... have you tried noise cancelling headphones? Then again, they're a bit expensive for just a game...

@OP, all of those things are already in the game in the form of fleet broadcasts (or atleast close enough, the specific formatting might be different). And most people that aren't in a fleet typically post in the intel channel when they're in trouble (and if you're in so much trouble that you can't type a quick message, no one can get to you in time anyways).

And the VoIP requirements for alliances aren't CCP's fault, that's players deciding to use them. CCP can't do anything at all about that.

Sometimes you can get out but a quick voice command that transmits to the whole alliance, even those without teamspeak would be nice. I mean who wants to join an alliance chat with an alliance who has like 500 members. The goons have like 10000 members, can you imagine how noisy their channel must be? This would probably benefit the goons too. Quick key to alert with a visual and audio warning to alert that there was an enemy spotted in your territory that uses no bandwidth and requires no voice com system while providing tactical links to help set courses and such. Maybe I should add this to title thread.

Don't forget, some people are just lazy as hell and don't want to type or they do stupid things like phone text type.

Yes, but don't you agree that an alliance notification might be helpful? Or even Corporation notifications, on screen information and voice added to notify someone that %player% says such and such? So far no one's noticed the fact that this would greatly help deaf and mute people, and people with crap net or low data limits.

Most people in eve only think about themselves so it's hard to get any ideas in. It's why it's hard to get ideas in as if one guy doesn't like it for himself, it must be a bad idea. Sure my ideas usually benefit me in some way, but I also plan for everyone else it will help as well. So I hope to see some more users join the topic that can help support this or show good reason why no one should have this ability.

Can you click Ctrl Alt G and say "Danika Princip spotted an enemy in %systemlink* at ##:##" and have a sound file play for everyone in alliance that opted in for hearing these messages that says "Alert, enemy spotted by alliance member" without you having to use a voice chat program or type anything else after that? If you can please let us know so CCP can ban you for hacking. :P

EDIT: Nevermind, misread.

That's where the opt in button arrives. If you want to receive notifications you check mark the option, if not then you don't receive notifications. If so, all this does is add a 50 meg or so update the next time you update your game and it will never bother you ever again.

Also, this spam thing can easily be limited via delaying your next allowed notification to 10 seconds or 30 seconds. But if someone in the alliance spams, the corp leader can just kick that person out as fair punishment. Spam is already possible with chat, what makes this different.


Perfect example of people who only care about themselves and no one else. :P I bet you could care less if a deaf mute played the game, was one system over and in range of being saved and could click this button to save his life.

P.S. to all who read the topic, I'm adding a new part to the main post right now.

Did you see the new 7th tactical data item on the list?
It would still be up to the player to type certain things too yes, but it would be less and it would get the attention of anyone not reading the required chat. You are also still thinking of null sec only. What if this is in low sec instead? Or high sec? No cyno in high sec. Could be in high sec during a war. Sometimes there's a fleet out on the hunt and all you have to do is click "spotted an enemy" button and the fleet will know exactly where to go without you typing squat.

This is to help eliminate the absolute requirement of teamspeak with all these alliances. I'm sick of every alliance I join telling me I have to have team speak when I CAN NOT USE IT. 95% of the game practically requires voice coms of some sort, so much so it's getting absolutely annoying.

My idea is a basis that CCP and OTHER people can add on to to make it more worth adding in. None of you seem to be adding input, you all just want to shoot down the idea because YOUR way is easier TO YOU only. Sure. I can probably type in all the required information in a few seconds. But that doesn't stop me from being kicked out of any alliance that has some silly requirement for teamspeak. No one in this game even USES the fleet buttons for target this guy or need shield or warp to this gate. They just all say what to do on teamspeak. This is why no one noticed when I click the "warp to gate" button like 10 times and I face-palm because no one saw it. This is why I also face-palm when no one saw that I clicked "target this guy" and they have to ask who to target. It absolutely drives me insane that voice coms are the dominant requirement on EVE when we can't all use them.

This is the reason I am stuck in high sec space, because you people and your voice com requirement. I'm not a carebear, I don't like hiding in high sec. I hate high sec. But I can't go out into null till someone I trust out there will accept me without forcing me to use voice coms. CCP sits here killing the game, trying to force people into null and some of us can't go because of the voice com requirement.

Where is CCP when you need them, they hardly ever reply to these topics. :/ I got nice input from one once on one of my topics and that was it.