So back in the day Darron started a topic on sto.net about how they were thinking about adding voice chat into the game. That conversation continued up until the day sto.net shut down.

so i felt the need to hit the reboot button and start the conversation here. (oh noes!)


In my opinion, Voice Chat is requried for a game like sto. It will definitely make us trekkies feel totally immersed in the game. The problem comes when those people who are not trekkies begin playing, and we get people screaming over the comms about how much we suck or other stupid things. I believe that a mute command would be nice...but the game would only be able to mute so many people.

Another idea is that you could only Comm with people who were in your group/guild (fleet). Should people use the comm to be annoying anyway, then i believe that being able to shut their message down...which i guess would be considered a block/mute....but id assume wed still be able to see theyre typing.

so what do you all think? Voice chat is it needed? wanted? have ideas to make it less stressful to listen to annoying people?

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i would love there to be voice chat and comm's.

i want nothing more than to declare "RED ALERT!", "BATTLE STATIONS!", or "cap'in, she just cant take the strain".

i would say that guild connected comms would be a good idea, or poss an accepted friends list sorta thing, where u would add ur guild mates etc.

Bridge Commander was supposed to recognize voice commands - i never could get it too though

Which explains why i could never get it to work lol.

I guess i misunderstand the label on the box when i first bought it.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand.

I think in game voice chat is an essential element, especially when dealing with real player crews. It is far more efficient to give and receive orders via voice than via text. In a combat situation, in the time it takes a captain to type "Red Alert - Shields up, Return Fire" (10 seconds) you could get blown to kingdom come.

The only reason someone has to object to voice is if they are a male pretending to be a female or vice versa. Which is pretty politcally incorrect mind you.

but i can understand the younger generations "i want it now, speak to me, i don't want to have to read a line of text 2 secs later than i typed mine" syndrom.

That is true, but there are also those people who have not increased their typing speed to "super fast." When my father tried to play WoW, he could barely say anything because he was focusing all his attention on trying to not die. Once my friends got vent, he was able to talk to everyone.

Thinking about Males playing F characters and not wanting their voice heard...well, i guess its a non problem for me. a lot of my friends in wow are guys playing girls, so im used to it :P