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sound,chat,radio
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:18 am
by joykler
allright i think we have three more things to settle before we see the actual range of the mod
if we have that we can start think smaller and within the boundries of the mod
but firs
sound,chat,radio
how would it work
i give you a list of questions and you fill them in and post it
for the time being no replying with other idea or other suggestions
or offtopicness only post your list
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:31 am
by fr0stbyte124
The only definite thing is no VOIP. If someone wants that, they can use some external program.
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:29 am
by joykler
voip ?
and please please just only post the list
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:40 am
by cats
joykler wrote:voip ?
and please please just only post the list
Voice Over Internet Protocol. Google is a powerful thing, Joik.
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:38 pm
by Keon
Basically, where you can hear people speak into microphones.
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:40 pm
by joykler
thank you
i already got that but thanks anyway
but can you fill out the form
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:44 pm
by Keon
joykler wrote:1. do you want radios if you dont skip question two
2.would radios be able to transmit in the whole universe [look c.u.r.e for what i mean about universe]
3. would you be able to chat thru the whole universe or would you be able to chat in a certain radius [like you are talking say 60 blocks] if you would be able to chat thru the universe skip question four
4. would there be ear pieces that allow your chat to go further or to have direct contact with a radio
4. would planets have disorted sound if you think not skip question five
5.would chat be disorted when on a disorted planet
6.would you hear nothing in space but your suits sound
7. give suggestion for sound,chat or radio
1: If executed well
2: Chat would only be within a server-world.
3: Normal chat would be within ship worlds or normal worlds.
4: No.
5: I don't even understand.
6: No.
7: KIS
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:54 am
by Tunnelthunder
Keon wrote:7: KISS
I think that music is under copy rights to the point we can't steal it. or you are ...
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 3:58 pm
by fr0stbyte124
Yeah, no KISS. We should try to keep it simple.
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 6:28 pm
by joykler
keon i respect your ideas
but can i ask some questions to get this topic back on rails
point two people would only be able to chat within servers
but if a faction is planning an attack on a enemy server
people would be spread across two servers
how do you want them to communicate
whats the diffrence between a ship world
and a normal world
and how do you want people to communicate
what do people hear in space then
did you really think i was talking about music
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:43 pm
by Keon
Artificially limiting comm range seems dumb when somebody could just skype.
Also, KISS means Keep it Simple, Stupid. This idea isn't stupid, so I shortened it to Keep is Simple, or KIS. I didn't know that was music.
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:57 pm
by joykler
not everyone would use skype
but thats not the issue here
you know that on large servers its impossible
to handle limitless chat
because your messages would be replaced before you could read it
and comm towers and equipment are very important in most sci-fi series
so thats why i asked if it should be implemented
and you still didnt answer me on the point of factions over diffrent servers chat [this is a must how to do it i dont know but we need to come up
with a way of doing it]
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:38 pm
by ҉
joykler wrote:you know that on large servers its impossible
to handle limitless chat
because your messages would be replaced before you could read it
If that happens, awesome. It would mean that we were really successful. It could be handled by the creation of channels or something, but that's a very minor issue and one that we're not likely to encounter much.
joykler wrote:and you still didnt answer me on the point of factions over diffrent servers chat [this is a must how to do it i dont know but we need to come up
with a way of doing it]
Why should you be able to chat to someone on a different server? You're who knows how many light-years away. Expecting chat to work at that distance would be weird. That would be the place where you might use something like an ansible mounted at a communications tower or something. Or we could also say that messages have to go through hyperspace/warp gates/whatever exactly like ships do, but since you can't put a hyperdrive in a message they have to be carried from system to system by ship. If you want to plan some kind of complicated server takeover or something and you can't be bothered to bring everybody to one place, it's not unreasonable to have to go to where they are to tell them.
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:58 pm
by fr0stbyte124
Inter-server chat might be kind of hard, actually. Depending on how the network is set up, most servers may not have any awareness of servers beyond the adjacent systems. Doing communication farther than that would require either a centralized chat server or a complicated routing system, neither of which is particularly trivial. Since the list isn't going to be prohibitively large, we may be able to do direct connections between systems, but I can't guarantee it.
Network architecture isn't really my area, so I can't speak for how this is all going to work or how resource intensive it might be.
Re: sound,chat,radio
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 12:27 am
by Keon
fr0stbyte124 wrote:Inter-server chat might be kind of hard, actually. Depending on how the network is set up, most servers may not have any awareness of servers beyond the adjacent systems. Doing communication farther than that would require either a centralized chat server or a complicated routing system, neither of which is particularly trivial. Since the list isn't going to be prohibitively large, we may be able to do direct connections between systems, but I can't guarantee it.
Network architecture isn't really my area, so I can't speak for how this is all going to work or how resource intensive it might be.
Factions can use skype.