Revlo
A Sentient Pyramid
A question was posed in the Questions and Answers thread a few days ago by PLEYA about whether TI users have a VOIP service that they use for communication. I didn't know the answer to this, and maybe we have that already somewhere. If so, please let us know. Anyway, this got me thinking about how a mass TI communication method like this might improve our games greatly, not necessarily for voice communication, but for bringing players together across servers for simul-queueing with each other. Sort of like a Looking For Group method. Recently I've been doing this over Skype messaging, and it works great. However, I wonder if there might be a better option for all of us out there that would tear down the walls of being on different servers even more. We can always get grouped when possible, but the simple simul-queue works great too, at least with a few people (though Horde would have an easier time with it given queue times).
If you're like me, sometimes I have no interest in queueing with people other than those I know, but there are many times where I'd prefer to play with anyone who is interested in playing objectively and improving as a player. That is so much more preferable to getting in a game full of 1k hp people screwing around. So..... what ideas do people have on this? Is it a bad idea? What are positives and negatives of the various ways of setting something like this up? Vent and Mumble cost money iirc, so that might rule those out right there. One option is that we could have a thread where we all share our Skype names for open "friending" with each other. Then when we are actively looking for people to queue with, we could set our status message to something like, "Looking for games, horde or alliance, playing FC, Heals, or whatever." You see someone you want to queue up with, message them, simul-queue and go from there. You wouldn't need to use audio chat, but could go down that road if you wanted to (I know there are varying opinions about this). Not sure of the riskiness of sharing Skype name on the forums here, and there might be a better way that we could pass our names around. Maybe a different IM service as well.
Maybe it's a bad idea. Just thought I'd toss this out there for exploration. Please share any thoughts on this, because if it is something that would work, it could make games a lot more fun. It also may have already been explored and I missed it. Please point that out as well.
If you're like me, sometimes I have no interest in queueing with people other than those I know, but there are many times where I'd prefer to play with anyone who is interested in playing objectively and improving as a player. That is so much more preferable to getting in a game full of 1k hp people screwing around. So..... what ideas do people have on this? Is it a bad idea? What are positives and negatives of the various ways of setting something like this up? Vent and Mumble cost money iirc, so that might rule those out right there. One option is that we could have a thread where we all share our Skype names for open "friending" with each other. Then when we are actively looking for people to queue with, we could set our status message to something like, "Looking for games, horde or alliance, playing FC, Heals, or whatever." You see someone you want to queue up with, message them, simul-queue and go from there. You wouldn't need to use audio chat, but could go down that road if you wanted to (I know there are varying opinions about this). Not sure of the riskiness of sharing Skype name on the forums here, and there might be a better way that we could pass our names around. Maybe a different IM service as well.
Maybe it's a bad idea. Just thought I'd toss this out there for exploration. Please share any thoughts on this, because if it is something that would work, it could make games a lot more fun. It also may have already been explored and I missed it. Please point that out as well.
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