EVE General Discussion

It wasn't common in 2003 early game, but by 2004 it had become popular (and essential) for the Alliances and larger corps

Yeah, voice comms does a number on the RP factor. Admittedly, many of us aren't so big into that to begin with.

I've discovered that the people who refuse to jump on voice have a higher tendency towards troll behavior and can't be trusted as much. I think voice comms are a very good thing. EVE players have a way of forgetting that they're interacting with real people, and voice comms reminds us of that.

Talkin... who needs it.

Having used Eve Voice extensively for small gangs (mainly in FW) I do not understand the hate. Sure it doesn't cut the mustard for fcukhueg alliances that need 24/7 communication even when the nodes crash, but it really isn't as bad as people make it out to be for relatively small corporations/fleets. Relatively small here meaning around at least 50 people. I remember the in-game voice chat working adequately even though the reinforced(!) node was creaking under a fairly unusual 600 or so people in the system, of which around 120 of was in our fleet (This happened in 2009, Kamela, a lowsec system if you're wondering why 600 people was unusually high number).

I like voice chat too, whether that's ts or eve voice. I don't see it as immersion breaking either as I am speaking to people that I fly with who identify themselves on ts with the same name as their eve character. I fly with an international crowd, lots of different accents, makes for good characterisations. It feels like new eden to me.

Why would voice communication break immersion?

You don't think spaceship pilots would relay orders verbally?

There's a couple "real" girls in our alliance - not me of course I'm a 40-odd year old crossdresser - and I don't think they get any special treatment. Yeah we'll get the odd noob who will be trying to hit on them the first day or so, but our comms are quite lively with zero awkward silences.

I think a lot of it has to do with both the maturity of the corp members, the respect for the other person as a gamer - one of our girls is a seriously pro pvp pilot - and also very much the attitude of the female in question. Yes our comms can get rather crude and primitive and perverted at times, and most of the time she's the one that started it :)

Teamspeak was always common in all my corps even from 2004, how far back are we talking :P

Teamspeak, immersion breaker?? Don't think so, as stated already if you were in a fleet fight and the FC was giving out orders in text chat, you'd be dead before you knew what hit you. That is why Teamspeak is usually required by many corps and fleets and believe me it can save your arse knowing by voice what to do even faster.

Sure, there may be some idle chatter about almost everything imaginable but there are some limits in place, such as discussions involving politics and religion, two really big no nos in my book. Anyway, TS is not in no way an immersion breaker and I hate to see what other excuse that comes out from this.

FLY RECKLESS!!

Everyone knows in the year 2853 there is no such thing as a radio. All spaceships communicate through smoke signals which is why they have chimneys.