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sound,chat,radio

Post by joykler » Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:18 am

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
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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 planet with strange sound [like underwater sounds reallweird if thats the case would thechat be changed [mixing the letters]]
6.would you hear nothing in space but your suits sound
7. give suggestion for sound,chat or radio

and i dont mean voip

[radios are blocks in wich you can chat that would transmit your chat to the other radio or radios

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Re: sound,chat,radio

Post by fr0stbyte124 » Wed Mar 20, 2013 3:31 am

The only definite thing is no VOIP. If someone wants that, they can use some external program.

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Re: sound,chat,radio

Post by joykler » Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:29 am

voip ?

and please please just only post the list

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Post by cats » Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:40 am

joykler wrote:voip ?

and please please just only post the list
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Re: sound,chat,radio

Post by Keon » Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:38 pm

Basically, where you can hear people speak into microphones.
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Re: sound,chat,radio

Post by joykler » Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:40 pm

thank you
i already got that but thanks anyway

but can you fill out the form

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Re: sound,chat,radio

Post by Keon » Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:44 pm

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
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Re: sound,chat,radio

Post by Tunnelthunder » Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:54 am

Keon wrote:7: KISS
I think that music is under copy rights to the point we can't steal it. or you are ...
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Re: sound,chat,radio

Post by fr0stbyte124 » Fri Mar 22, 2013 3:58 pm

Yeah, no KISS. We should try to keep it simple.

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Re: sound,chat,radio

Post by joykler » Fri Mar 22, 2013 6:28 pm

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

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Re: sound,chat,radio

Post by Keon » Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:43 pm

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.
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Re: sound,chat,radio

Post by joykler » Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:57 pm

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]

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Re: sound,chat,radio

Post by  ҉  » Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:38 pm

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.
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Re: sound,chat,radio

Post by fr0stbyte124 » Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:58 pm

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.

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Post by Keon » Sat Mar 23, 2013 12:27 am

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.
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