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Help and Support Forums => Help and Training => Topic started by: waystin2 on September 12, 2008, 08:47:42 AM
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Hello All,
Thank you ahead of time for any help or insight that you may shoot my way! Here are my questions:
1) Is there an easier way than manually checking each vox channel to see if they are available for use?
2) I noticed you can select a generic Mission channel in Vox radio 5, is this only active when the mission starts or once you have joined the mission?
3) POTW is experiencing growing pains (3 wings), and it can get crazy with Pigs and friends on the same single Vox channel going after 2-3 different objectives at the same time. What are some of the things you folks have done or implemented to deal with crowded vox issues?
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Way
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3) Use hand signals. :lol
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3) Use hand signals. :lol
Hello Dot,
In my best monotone voice "thank you".
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Just one of the limitations of the game you have to deal with. Your only 'true' squad channel is '4 squad' . Numbered channels are OPEN and nobody has rights to any of them.
Personally I think its kind of funny when you have some squad thinking a numbered channel is theirs and they have the right to dictate who uses it. Give info out on one of those, it's your problem if the info gets into the wrong hands.
I do think it would be nice if you could somehow link squad channels or piggyback them with others to secure communications. That's a topic for the wish list forum.
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Sorry waystin, I don't have anything good to offer other than:
1) You probably have to manually check
2) I don't fly in missions, so don't know
3) Have vox channels for each wing if you're attacking different objectives - could be just one number up/down from each other. Or just start practicing combat brevity on vox - "High bogey northeast 3+ miles" instead of "Looks like there might be a con coming from the northeast...I think he might be pretty high but I can't tell what he is because he's too far away."
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Seriously, Way. Try TeamSpeak or some other similar program.
Out of all you guys someone oughtta be able to pony (pig?) up the $5 or so per month.
That way you can set up as many channels as you like.
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Thank you all for the feedback. We are in process of setting up some Vox disciplines and brevity speak, but it will take time (it's not easy roping together what is now some 65+ wild Pigs).
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The way my previous Squad did things was when your in combat, its range or text, no hoggin up squad vox to say "watch that Typhoon diving in XYZ" or "how you guys doin on fuel, im gettin low". and wen CO talked, it was shut up and listen, or get chewed a new one on the CO's bad nights :(
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Ventrillo!
There is no way to "lock" the tuned channels, or Password protect them, etc. I have often wished there was.
As squadrons in AH have gotten larger, it gets increasingly difficult to manage communications.
Either you have some canadian burping in your ear, and saying "EH" all the time.
Or you can't directly hear and talk to squad mates. Can't find em, wing up, etc. Because they are technically in another squadron.
The heart of the matter is the 32 person limit per squadron, and thats not going to change.
Ventrillo is ok if your JUST useing ventrillo, if you fly with it every day or 2. Then eventually you learn the keys, and get things sorted out. However our squads big thing is FSO, and half the problem is half of us forget what we were doing with ventrillo in between frames. I don't know what the answer is. Hopefully someday when the "Lord and Master" the "Great and Powerful" "Lord Hitech" has a minute or 6 he'll take pity on us poor mortals and find us a better solution. (Gets out of his chair, turns toward Texas, kneels, bows 16 times saying the 16 holy words.)
PLEASE oh great and powerfull HiTech we beeseecheth thee.
Truly we are dust under thy feet, but that very dust doth support thee.
Thou art the Alpha and the Omega but we art stucketh in the middle.
HTC hear our plea.
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Ventrillo!
Either you have some canadian burping in your ear, and saying "EH" all the time.
Hey!
I resemble that remark Sir! :lol
RTR
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The way my previous Squad did things was when your in combat, its range or text, no hoggin up squad vox to say "watch that Typhoon diving in XYZ" or "how you guys doin on fuel, im gettin low". and wen CO talked, it was shut up and listen, or get chewed a new one on the CO's bad nights :(
Part of the problem for us is that alot of the old pigs,myself included, like to just chat with them about whatever honestly. We also have pigs who just dont like to be social with other people :devil
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Thank you all for the feedback. We are in process of setting up some Vox disciplines and brevity speak, but it will take time (it's not easy roping together what is now some 65+ wild Pigs).
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Great, another Bop thing, the 32 man/squeaker limit isn't enough, so you would like yo reserve even MORE room for your emerging borg cube....makes the game so much fun to have 50 sectors, and an enTIRE country crammed into ONE of them, whording base after base like a tidal wave. I'm sure THIS is the very sort of thing that HT had in mind when he created this game :aok
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we seem to do more fighter sweeps than base takes lately anyway. And so what? if a bunch of pigs come at you, get a bunch from your country to oppose us. We LIKE to fight. An undefended base is BORING! Defend your terrirtory, PLEASE! nothing more fun than 30 planes on each side duking it out in a swirling furball!
S!
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Great, another Bop thing, the 32 man/squeaker limit isn't enough, so you would like yo reserve even MORE room for your emerging borg cube....makes the game so much fun to have 50 sectors, and an enTIRE country crammed into ONE of them, whording base after base like a tidal wave. I'm sure THIS is the very sort of thing that HT had in mind when he created this game :aok
Hello BJ,
I wanted thank you for providing such helpful information in the "Help and Support" forum.:rolleyes: If you cannot contribute in a helpful manner on this forum, then put a cork in your pie-hole.:D Please keep trash talking to 200 or the "General Discussion" forum with the rest of your gradeschool friends. :lol
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Hello All,
Thank you ahead of time for any help or insight that you may shoot my way! Here are my questions:
1) Is there an easier way than manually checking each vox channel to see if they are available for use?
2) I noticed you can select a generic Mission channel in Vox radio 5, is this only active when the mission starts or once you have joined the mission?
3) POTW is experiencing growing pains (3 wings), and it can get crazy with Pigs and friends on the same single Vox channel going after 2-3 different objectives at the same time. What are some of the things you folks have done or implemented to deal with crowded vox issues?
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Way
Squads are limited to 32 because any more is a horde, not a squad. :aok
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Squads are limited to 32 because any more is a horde, not a squad. :aok
Hello Skyrock,
I wanted thank you for providing such helpful information in the "Help and Support" forum. :rolleyes: If you cannot contribute in a helpful manner on this forum, then put a cork in your pie-hole. :D Please keep trash talking to 200 or the "General Discussion" forum with the rest of your gradeschool friends. :lol
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Hello Skyrock,
I wanted thank you for providing such helpful information in the "Help and Support" forum. :rolleyes: If you cannot contribute in a helpful manner on this forum, then put a cork in your pie-hole. :D Please keep trash talking to 200 or the "General Discussion" forum with the rest of your gradeschool friends. :lol
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I am trying to help you, you are experiencing a problem because HT did not intend for their to be 96 member squads. What part of that do you not understand. Also, I did not insult or attack you in any way, I simply said, 32 is a squad, more than that is a horde. If you find being called part of a horde, offensive, then get used to it. :aok
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How about cutting squad limits back to 12 people, and charge an extra 5 dollars a month for every person added on after that.
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I am trying to help you, you are experiencing a problem because HT did not intend for their to be 96 member squads. What part of that do you not understand. Also, I did not insult or attack you in any way, I simply said, 32 is a squad, more than that is a horde. If you find being called part of a horde, offensive, then get used to it. :aok
Hmm, that a switch, Skyrock is diplomatic, I'm obtuse :lol
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Hmm, that a switch, Skyrock is diplomatic.
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heres my 2 cent
POTW suck
k thx :aok
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You can do what we do, recruit adults. Problem solved :D
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You can do what we do, recruit adults. Problem solved :D
or recruit someone like me...problem solved :noid
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I am trying to help you, you are experiencing a problem because HT did not intend for their to be 96 member squads. What part of that do you not understand. Also, I did not insult or attack you in any way, I simply said, 32 is a squad, more than that is a horde. If you find being called part of a horde, offensive, then get used to it. :aok
Thank you Skyrock for an intelligent response. Offended no, just wanting some information in what I considered to be a forum where senior and more knowledgeable players can be of help to someone when may have an issue or question.
You can do what we do, recruit adults. Problem solved :D
Your kidding right? Name a Pig that is under 18 Sir. Waiting...
heres my 2 cent
POTW suck
k thx :aok
Flame-bait? Me thinks yes.
k thx :aok
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Thank you Skyrock for an intelligent response. Offended no, just wanting some information in what I considered to be a forum where senior and more knowledgeable players can be of help to someone when may have an issue or question.
Your kidding right? Name a Pig that is under 18 Sir. Waiting...
Flame-bait? Me thinks yes.
k thx :aok
In fairness to you, there is some history here Waystin of which you may not be aware (but many of us are)--goes back a year or 2 when BOP's were first 'mega'-squad (using 'wings' to bypass HT's limit of 32 guys per squad) Far beyond the pluses and minuses of the 32 man squad/vox limit, the bigger thing is what it (100 plane whordes) does to gameplay, and for EVERYONE ELSE in said arena, and it is nothing good. At any rate, the threads are there to be searched
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I always thought you guys considered the green channel as yours since that's where you guys give each other WTGs.
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Thank you Skyrock for an intelligent response. Offended no, just wanting some information in what I considered to be a forum where senior and more knowledgeable players can be of help to someone when may have an issue or question.
Your kidding right? Name a Pig that is under 18 Sir. Waiting...
Flame-bait? Me thinks yes.
k thx :aok
You're right. I meant mature adults :P
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I always thought you guys considered the green channel as yours since that's where you guys give each other WTGs.
:rofl :rofl
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heres my 2 cent
POTW suck
k thx :aok
:D I like this bi polar guy......don't know why but I like him...maybe cause he's a pittsburgh steelers fan :D
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This is the same problem the C-Hawks had. We just used better vox discipline and its been working.
We have twice your numbers too (75ish I think, although we only have 20-25 on per squad night). Just tell your guys to use the text channel instead of the vox channel as much as possible.
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Flame-bait? Me thinks yes.
k thx :aok
i own you and every person in your squad while both my arms are in casts
every single person in your squad are flying proxy kills
nothing but a horde of augers looking for a place to happen :aok
k thx
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i own you and every person in your squad while both my arms are in casts
every single person in your squad are flying proxy kills
nothing but a horde of augers looking for a place to happen :aok
k thx
:lol :lol :lol
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I'm sorry that football girl broke both your arms BP :uhoh, ...just try to remember your uber ACM skills do not apply in the bedroom :lol, inverted wheelbarrows* :huh and "saddling up on her six" :O are just gonna get you hurt every time...you know this....man :aok
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i own you and every person in your squad while both my arms are in casts
every single person in your squad are flying proxy kills
nothing but a horde of augers looking for a place to happen :aok
k thx
Thats funny, shot you down several times no ownage here :D