EVE General Discussion

With the rising 'coincidental' use of DDoS attacks on alliances services fighting the CFC over strategic timers; I wonder can EVE voice provide a sensible substitute for comms? It is my understanding that EVE Voice simply does not work for large fleets. Is CCP making strides to improve the quality of this mechanic and what lies ahead for it?

Haha. I'm not really interested in the DDoS aspect, but in the EVE Voice part of my OP.

Is EVE Voice used in faction warfare or has each faction resorted to another form of comms for large fights?

Been using Eve voice for a long time. Largest fleet was in the high 80's although the number of pilots on Eve voice was around 50.

Eve voice issues

You can't have multiple speaking channels where you can different hot keys to access.

A few years ago it got sensitive. I started having lots of broken up coms though my mic. Found out I need a mic sock. Don't have the issues with any other VOIP but Eve Voice it is a must (for me).

limited hot keys.

No individual pilot volume control. That can be pesky and painful but the larger the fleet the fewer pilots are going to be speaking so probably moot.

Does not work out of Eve, unless they got the Eve voice though eve gate running and I have not heard of it.

Limited to fleet size if using fleet coms. Not a problem if you use a chat channel.



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Everyone has it.

Easy to get configured.

Any channel, any time. That said getting on fleet coms is different all the rest for some reason. Not a huge deal but you end up spending a lot of extra time explaining how to getting into fleet coms.

Works when Eve has crashed, as long as the client is still up. Kinda funny when you tell someone they have crashed when they are still in game (you see their ship do the emergency log off warp)

"Last Speaker on top" is flippin' awesome. Makes it easy to attach a voice to a pilot (my gangs have a lot of new pilots in them often). Another advantage is to have a pilot your warping in to speak so they end up on top of the list for easy right click and warp.


Granted, I have know used Eve voice in really large groups. Your probably better off using a chat channel as comes instead of fleet when the numbers get really high. In the end, if your primary coms are down, it would seem that any issues you would have with Eve voice would not matter since it would still be better then using text chat.

I suffer from a Distributed Denial of Sanity.

These attacks are carried out by the Thankors and the valemolians.

Confirming that Eve Voice is useless in fleets numbering larger than 1.

I can't speak for the other factions but Amarr has its own Teamspeak server. I assume the others do too.

Even with a DDOS most voice servers offer better service to alliances than EVE's own voice chat.

I can not imagine that you do not have one geeky bastard who can actually trace this back.
And you know nothing stops a DDOS goon better then the local police knocking down the door on his basement.

It is a crime even in places like Russia let alone the rest of the world.

We have had 250 people in fleet in RvB before, albeit not everyday, and EV worked fine. Compared to my alts who use Mumble and TS in non-RvB Corps, EV compares very well, especially if you think about how easy it is to use. Of course there are those that have issues with it, but with people joining RvB all the time, the incidence of this is pretty small. Most people just click and go. And people have similar issue with the other options, not to mention the ones mentioned by the original poster.

People seem to bash EV, but it works very well in my experience.

Del

So it is a solid backup then. Nice. Then again if they realize we simply switch to EVE voice to get around the DDoS attacks they might just DDoS the EVE server, which of course would mean everyone suffers.