what LS's actually use voice chat?

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what are the good LS's out there that use voice chat via vent or team speak or xfire or something else :P typing is such a pain in the ass..........
 
OutterHeaven use it quite a lot
 
/em lost his voice in the string cheese incident of 1927. It is believed anyone that lost their voice that year can only get it back by defeating Vin Diesel in a Midget Tossing Competition(Tijuana rules).
 
PheonixPimps uses it sorta. Everyone has been on from time to time, but there is a core group that uses it regularly, especially for statics and such. It is amazing how much smoother our Promyvion runs went when there is a team leader who calls out Anima use and skill use, and has it all down to timers.

My record without Ventrilo in Promyvion: 9/21
My record with Ventrilo in Promyvion: 3/3

I recommend it for anyone group of people who plan to do BCNM-style fights, or is NM hunting, for something to do to pass the time.
 
I always wanted to get it for stuff like the promys, though no one in teh ls ever really showed interest in it. I think our LS is way too big for something like that, and I am way too foul mouthed for any kind of big voicechat shell..
 
Dar's right, it makes a huge difference during high-planning events like Promys... but you can pretty much always expect that everyone who logs on has a nerdy voice. I'm beginning to think they add a voice changing algorithm to all these voice chat programs that ensures a nasally, benadryl-infested pitch is added to everyone's voice.

The biologically estranged Australians are - of course - immune to this, as the one aussie woman on our Vent server always has the same hot foreign accent. Mmmmm... kangaroo lovin...
 
My LS tends to use voicechat when the servers are down. Occasionally we use it to just goof off and talk to each other while playing, but that doesn't happen often, since we all usually end up going silent while concetrating on our own battles with our own parties. If you're hanging out or doing missions with people though, I bet it rocks.
 
Trippyhippy said:
/em lost his voice in the string cheese incident of 1927. It is believed anyone that lost their voice that year can only get it back by defeating Vin Diesel in a Midget Tossing Competition(Tijuana rules).
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This hasta be the best emote ever! Haha.

Things like this would be amazing for BCNMs where people need to pay attention and listen past all that game spam. I would be glad to use it, despite my small fear of phones/voices of people I don't know. It really is completely irrational because, phones can't hurt ya, I just find it awkward to talk to someone you don't physically know on a phone, which gets me in trouble at work sometimes when I "forget" to make a call.
 
In RoyalKnights we used to use it. It was nice hope we'll try it again.
 
Yup, Keitaro uses it a lot. Though I have noticed less people have been on the FFXI section lately. I've never gone on myself, though. Personally, I prefer typing, and it pisses me off when people in my PT are using it, because they just ignore what those who aren't using it are typing because they're too busy talking. <.<;;

If you do use it for boss battles and such, you have to make sure everyone in your group is on it, or else whoever's not on is gonna be royally screwed, and then you probably will be too. :P
 
I use it alot with people I use to associate with in FFXI. Many people were in the same LS but the majority were just friends from all over. I split cost of Ventrilo server that has CSers, Wowers, FFXiers, GW people, and people just wanting to hang out. Sometimes it goes silent but there's no need to talk 24/7 :) If it gets to talkative(people talking over others) we just go to our own channels or something. It's a lot of fun and adds much more enjoyment to your game time imo. I can't play on the CPU without being on voicechat now it's just not as fun.
 
The CrimsonPiratesPG did a call around a few months ago (one person called another person who then used three way call on their phone to the next person who does the same thing). It is pretty fun but sometimes confusing since there are always three people who want to talk constantly. The most we had in a conference call was about 6~8 people (two of them could never get their three-way to work).

Some people become angry when other people tell them that they have an “accent,” or if they play the banjo. >_>;

We have not tried any of the computer chat programs yet (but there was a webcam/mike session between some of the MSN users of the LS). Usually everyone chooses to have telephone conversations instead.

Most of the conversations are about other things than FFXI. It would be hard to contain everyone to listening to a battle plan or a strategy.
 
/em is confused as hell. i'm gonna assume that those of you who HAVE and ARE ABLE to use voice chat on ls are on a PC playing FFXI, i'm on a ps2. i couldn't use it neway, as my parents would think i'm insane...well, more insane :twisted: . one question is how exactly one would go about using voice chat in a game like this. just a question if neone can answer it for me.
 
If you're using a PC, there are a number of VOIP(Voice Over Internet Protocol) programs that basically lets you stream data from your microphone to other people's computers. It's kind of like they connected a phone to your internet connection. Although I think the voice quality is a little less than that of a normal phone, but that's likely due to the quality of the microphone and my speakers.

I only have some knowledge of teamspeak, since that's all that I've used and I haven't used it very often. Basically, one person runs a server program to create a virtual server on their machine. Everyone else uses a client program to connect to that server, and then they start streaming from their microphones. You just leave the program up and running in the background while you're playing. I'm using a windower, but if you're not you'd have to start the client program before going into XI.

I have no idea about how to set up the server though, it was always someone else who did that. Aparently there are some compatability issues as well, since my Logitech headphones won't let me stream from my microphone at all, but the microphone might be broken. I can still hear fine, I just can't talk.

I'm not sure what you'd have to do if you're running XI on the PS2, you might just have to do without.
 
We used it for a month, but Sindarkus is a cheap bastard and won't renew the monthly fee for it. It was kickass though. We used it when we staticed, and we hardly ever missed a SC or MB because of it.
 
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