Author Topic: Could Blockland have Voice Communication?  (Read 2289 times)

Someone already suggested the "Use a different program, but have an addon that feeds it position data and changes volumes based on that so you can only hear people near you." You could also have it play the talking animation while using voice chat on Discord somehow probably or something. I dunno.
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mic spamming and Unpleasant Individuals aren't really incredibly problematic imo since you can enforce your own rules just like with text chat

Also, it would probably sound like ass since it would probably have to go through the server's blockland so that everyone else can hear it, and if the server is laggy, then it would be choppy. Not good.
only if it's implemented poorly. there are a lot of games that implement voice chat with a very similar structure and it works

I made a mod for servers which shows an icon above someone's head when they talk in teamspeak.
https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=281964.0


It requires the server to be in the teamspeak channel and any client who wants the icon to appear, to have their LAN name set to the same thing as their teamspeak name.  So the server can identify them.

It's nowhere near as good as an integrated system.  But-




In my experience, voicechat w/blockland was good.  Hearing someone's reaction when you nail them with a jeep is awesome. :D  And generally being able to communicate easier was just- good.

As far as annoying people go, they're annoying in whatever method of communication you use.  Whether it's voice chat or text chat.

Administration options.
can talk on join?
automatically allow some people to talk based on blid list?
automatically allow admins to talk?
administrators can "announce" to talk over others?
volume adjustments depending on distance between players?
admins can adjust the volume of some players?
talking rooms?
talking teams? integration with slayer?
allow clients to limit max volume they hear?(to prevent ear rape)

'mic spam' isn't different at all from regular chat spam.

there's muting, kicks, and bans involved.

if you guys really don't want to communicate with children then you should probably also shut your chat off.

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Rude

Simple fix for the squeakers: third trust option for voice chat. You only hear who you want to.

it would have to be a system where you click a button to join the voice chat of the server, and you can see who is in the voice chat or whatever
so you dont bother trying to talk to someone who isnt in the voice chat
kind of like how steam does their voice chats in groups?

player list would show speakers next to people who are in voice chat. you can be invited or request to be invited to the chat. one chat per server or multiple?

player list would show speakers next to people who are in voice chat. you can be invited or request to be invited to the chat. one chat per server or multiple?
this'd actually be a cool system, and the host could change the voicechat from public to private

You could always Skype

You could always Skype
Skype is awful and I wouldn't want to add everyone in the server/team to Skype anyway.

I absolutely hate the argument against this regarding squeakers and voice spam. It's not a serious issue at all, tons of other games that have voice chat don't have any problems with people using the mute function. If someone is voice spamming it takes not even ten seconds to mute them.

I would love to have this though but it's probably not going to happen.
/support

and most people don't even use voice chat, i don't see how it would be a problem at all
probably wont happen tho

Skype is awful and I wouldn't want to add everyone in the server/team to Skype anyway.
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You got a point.