I say this every year on January 1st and this year is no exception.
I will never drink again.
But anyway, yesterday afternoon I was in Karazhan again with several friends (and that one random hunter pickup) and my Guild leader popped down into my Ventrilo channel to ask me if I was talking to myself. I guess from his perspective it looked like I was, but in actual fact I had two separate clients set up: 1 for my guild and 1 for a different guild. It’s not a trick that’s well known, but here’s how it can be done.
1: Right click on the shortcut to your Ventrilo
2: Click Properties
3: In the Target field, add -m to the end of the line
Now you can be connected to multiple vent servers simultaneously. If you’re going to do this, I strongly advise setting up different user profiles. Do that, then you can separate different keybinds for each user. Otherwise, what will end up happening is that pressing your transmit key will see you talking on all servers your connected on.
Then people will get strange ideas such as you talking to yourself.
I also know that teamspeak is a fairly popular voice client that some Guilds use. But I’ve never ran into anyone on Ner’Zuhl asking for people to use it. It’s always been vent. I’m interested to know if you use any 3rd party voice communication at all and if so which ones and why?
What third party voice client do you use?
- Ventrilo (76%, 82 Votes)
- Teamspeak (18%, 19 Votes)
- Skype (6%, 6 Votes)
- I don't use any (1%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 108
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Ventrilo tends to have better voice an d sound support for the codecs it uses. 🙂 Its Mac Client is more friendly too.
I use Skype for one-on-one conversations.
I’ve yet to use any other software for voice chat in gaming; Ventrilo and Linux don’t mix very well, and nobody I know uses Teamspeak. Obviously now that I’m 70 and moving quickly towards Kara and stuff, I’m going to have to figure something out, so one of these days I’m going to sit down and have a day of pure geekery and get Vent working.
I’ve also experienced better sound quality vs. bandwidth used on Ventrilo rather than TeamSpeak.
Good call on the “never drinking again” thing, lol. =P
Pike: I think an article on running Ventrilo on Linux (successfully) would merit you many grateful players 😀
Kulrayk: Yup, I agree with you. I think Speex is the norm now as it’s the only one that seems to be compatible with both macs and windows.
Trollin: I can kind of imagine what being Hammered of Justice is like.
There’s a lot of ventrilo users it appears…
You know…not drinking tends to solve any drinking problems.
An FYI. ;P
I’ve never understood why people intentionally get drunk. <_<
Apathy: Then they have a plausible excuse for their behavior.
“You groped me last night!”
“Really? I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to. I had no idea. I must’ve been drunk. Honest!”
😀
Not that I’d know.
Of *course* not. *raises eyebrow*
*shakes head*
Anyway, I’m going back to serving and fostering the coffee addiction of the American public. I am in no way planning to use this to take over the world or cause havoc for my own twisted amusement. Honest.
😀
Not that I’d know. I’m apathetic.
Matt, our guild uses Skype. Why? Well…we’ve yet to do a 10-man, and Skype supports 9 simultaneous connections on voice. With decent mics, it’s at least FM-quality, and I daresay most of the time, it’s CD quality.
I hosted a Vent server for the guild for a year, but it went unused. While the expense was not a hardship, I’d rather get some return on a $100 investment!
Kestrel: Sooner or later, your guild may wish to consider using a 3rd party client at some point. Once you start raiding in the 10s and 20s, it kinda becomes a necessity I think.