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Therion
03-11-2006, 23:30
I performed quite a bit of research and testing of both TeamSpeak2 and Ventrilo before I decided to go with TS2. The primary reason I chose TS2 was because of the lack of a concurrent seat limitation (Ventrilo denies more than 8 concurrent connections with their free version, TS2 is limited only by bandwidth) - which, by the way, is totally awesome.

The only lingering problem I have in the Ventrilo vs. TeamSpeak2 battle is the lack of viable voice collision management. When four people talk at the same time in TeamSpeak2, they're all played back at once - which obviously comes out like noisy gibberish. Ventrilo would temporarily lock the channel when someone spoke, meaning that you would always be able to clearly and audibly hear what the person said without having to set up a moderation scheme.

To crystallize the concept, I've never heard the phrase "go ahead" repeated so much in my life.

Is there a solution available for TeamSpeak2 which provides similar collision management to Ventrilo, other than Moderating the channels? If not, are there any plans to implement such a concept in future releases of TeamSpeak?

Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!

WolfStar76
04-11-2006, 12:14
I haven't, personally, seen that such a feature is planned for TS3, but you're not the first to request it, so its not impossible, or even unlikely that we may see it in TS3.

In the meantime, I think you'll find that over time (a few days to a few weeks, depending on your users) that you get used to the risks of "voice collision" as you call it - and people start learning how to yield to each other a lot better.

My friends and I play games and are on TeamSpeak nightly. At first we hated having to repeat things like you're going through now. Nowadays, however, we chat back and forth all night with no problems.

LuxNegra
04-11-2006, 13:18
Besides this way its more realistic. .. For example : When someone says something funny , and averybody laughs. How whould it sound to hear something funny and only 1 person laughing? :P I think it is perfectly good this way. BTW : I have seen on some srvs , 40 people in a chanel , and they had no problem understanding eachother....