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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: lazs2 on April 11, 2002, 02:50:06 PM
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Just wonderin... why is it that sometimes you can succesfully squelch the room and other times the "squelch room" command doesn't work? In either case I get the message that the room has been squelched.
lazs
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Laz that would squelch a player whos name is room.
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That makes sense. I did a ".squelch jerk" the other day and AHVoice stopped working altogether. :D
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ROFLMFAO Mickey!:D
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hehe good one.
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LOL Mickey! :D
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Is the command .vsquelch? I thought it was but I haven't played for a few weeks so I haven't had a chance to try it out.
Hooligan
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I don't want to squelch my squaddies but I certainly don't want to take the time to squelch dozens (or more) players individually.
I only want to hear my squadmates. What is the command for only hearing them?
lazs
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I think it's .squelch 2
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I've dug through the help files and I can't find anything except that it is .vsquelch.
So what is it?
.vsquelch 2?
.vsquelch room?
.vsquelch range?
Hooligan
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You can not vsquelch anything but a single user.
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Does this mean we can't squelch married users?
:confused:
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Originally posted by hblair
Does this mean we can't squelch married users?
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No you CAN, but you CANNOT squelch "alternate lifestyles", that would be politically incorrect.
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eeek...
so we still cannot squelch the range channel??
and all this time i thot .vsquelch did that...
never used it though as i only ever hear very faint murmurs on AHV even with play at 100%...
SKurj
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plug in your speakers! :eek:
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sorry.. was still in that 'tech support' thread hehe
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so HT.. are there plans for fixing AH voice so that we can squelch all but squad?
lazs
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Hard to fix somthing that works as intended.
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Please consider this a feature request.
Hooligan
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ok.... Ht.. are their any plans to add a feature that will allow us to squelch all but squadmembers?
lazs
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Rip,
Can squech married players..... but only male married players...you know that........ ever try to squech a wife!
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most married male players are only capable of saying "yes dear" at this stage of the game any how....
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Know what really sucks? That this thread is even necessary. Last night I flew various missions to 9, 10 and 52 and either asked other Rooks to join our voice chanel or spoke to them on the range chanel. It was amazing! Everybody kept focused and only communicated very concise and professional sounding comms relating to target coordinates, altitudes, six calls etc. The result was a coordinated taking back of 10 and 9 in short order.
I've only heard one instance of some would be napoleon berating another Rook on the range chanel and that wasn't last night. When I came in here today I was planning on putting up a separate post about that incident but since this thread exists here's my thought. PLEASE DON'T F-UP ONE OF THE BEST FEATURES EVER TO GRACE THIS GAME BY MISUSING IT! If you've got a squeak about somebody not covering you (which is usually very subjective at best) etc. do not succumb to the temptation of letting your testastorone run your mouth. Keep the range chanel clean and professional and it will lead to much better game play and absolutely great AH films which you'll be happy to run for your grandmother.
People are just beginning to sense it's benefits and have begun to use it but will soon revert back to silence if they think that they are going to be insulted etc. by voice which is a lot more scathing than the written form. It's nice to talk to squaddies but even nicer to also get to know the voices of other countrymen and to be able to effectively communicate with them.
Please give this your consideration.
Thanks
Beeg
CO Rampaging Rooks of Retribution
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beeg.. I think yu are missing my point. I am one of those who likes to socialize with my squaddies on voice and.... a lot of stuff we say to each other would not make sense to others listening anyway... not to mention... we call each other by name and not handle. We also don't like getting interupted.
I am simply asking if there is a way or if it is planned to make it available that we only talk to who we wish and that only they have to listen to our drivel. I certainlyu don't want to have to squelch 100+ players every time I come on. I don't have that much time.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
beeg.. I think yu are missing my point. I am one of those who likes to socialize with my squaddies on voice and.... a lot of stuff we say to each other would not make sense to others listening anyway... not to mention... we call each other by name and not handle. We also don't like getting interupted.
I am simply asking if there is a way or if it is planned to make it available that we only talk to who we wish and that only they have to listen to our drivel. I certainlyu don't want to have to squelch 100+ players every time I come on. I don't have that much time.
lazs
Lazshole
From what you are saying it sounds as if you may not be fully aware of the 2 modes of AH Voice: Channel and Area/Room. If you choose a sqaud channel that no one else is using, then no one else can hear what you and your sqaud have to say, when you broadcast on that channel. I think you broadcast on one or the other, not both. My sqaud does this regularly. It sounds as if the area voice cannot be blocked. As it stands, you can be selective with your outgoing voice, but not incoming. 1 of the 2 things that you are asking for.
eskimo
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There are no plans to implement range/room squelch
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Any chance for a separate volume control for each channel then?
One would have that in an aircraft with two radios. Then we could at least make the squad channel a bit louder than range. Or, alternatively, perhaps a "cueing" program that gives squad messages a priority over a simultaneous range transmission?
I don't mind the range so much.. except when it blots out squad transmissions. As I said, in an aircraft that's easily adjusted with the volume controls. This from a guy that used to have to listen to 3 radios at once in the RC-135.
Thanks for particiating, in any event.
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Hitech,
One thing to keep in mind is that there is nothing to block swearing over AH Voice - Icon/range/area. I live in a household with folks who I really do not want exposed to some of the words that others choose to use over voice (ages 2 to 82). I can't imagine how swearing can be stopped, and I'm certainly not going to tell on anyone, let alone even note their names.
eskimo
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Wow! I dont know who everyone flys with but so far I have not one problem with range AHVoice. Most people have been extremely professional. The range channel is great due to you can call out 6 calls and receive them. A number of times non-squadmates have saved me due to the range AHVoice.
:)
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Originally posted by Swager
Wow! I dont know who everyone flys with but so far I have not one problem with range AHVoice. Most people have been extremely professional. The range channel is great due to you can call out 6 calls and receive them. A number of times non-squadmates have saved me due to the range AHVoice.
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AH Voice is great and I love it.
A few times, however, family members have heard things that have made me cringe.
eskimo
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Guess we're going to have to learn a new skill; keeping it short and professional! One thing about this is that I no longer have the option of being on a voice activated RW which with a guy like me who swears at a drop of a hat was a curse. Now, I have to consciously press the button before I open my mouth. As I said before this is a great tool and I'm hoping that it leads to better communications among countrymen and much better game play.
Beeg
P.S Laz Sorry, I wasn't directly addressing your post and fully understand your position and desires but as you can see from this HT post, it ain't to be.
Originally posted by hitech
There are no plans to implement range/room squelch
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beeg.. yes. that appears to be the case. It would be nice if we had seperate volume controls tho as toad suggested. I'm sure that others don't want to hear me any more than I want to hear them.
I am certainly not going to "learn a new skill" and will continue to communicate with my squaddies in the same manner as before.
lazs
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I feared the worst for the Range channel when it was first introduced, but I've found it to be an asset to the game 99% of the time, and .squelch works fine for the other 1%.
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Laz, the best option for you would then be to disable AHVoice & run on a separate application (RW, etc...)
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You can plan that hour of "squelch typing" before taking off :D
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I would disable AHV if you could but you can't. RW won't work now that we have AHV so I for one am stuck with this. There is only 1 other person I want to speak with in this game but I have to hear everyone in order to talk to him. I'd squelch channel 2 if I could but you can't do that either.
DES
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The little I flew during the last TOD we used RW, AHV was already there, worked fine.
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AHVoice is a fine thing....volume presets would be nice...not to totally eliminate range, but a lower preset volume setting .
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RW works fine for me. It is much clearer and better quality than AH voice but I am using the older version. This is not the case with my squaddies however. A few of them can't use RW, it simply won't work for them so as a concession to them the rest of us are using AH voice.
pop... the range thing has or, people interupting has not been at all helpful even once so far. It simply is anoying. I move around a lot to try to find field with a lot of action close at hand so I would just about have to squelch the whole country. gotta be an eaiser way.
This all seems kinda odd to me. If people were able to read and respond on the squad text channel there would be a lot of pissed off people but now we are one big happy family? Now we don't mind the "occasional" potty mouth or interupter or inane chatter? Give it time I guess.
lazs
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There are some people on AHvoice who can get on my nerves, but I can see what HT is trying to do here. The vast majority of pilots seem to use voice in a responsible way and are generally helpful. I think it's a plus for the game. Very smart programming on HTC's part.
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Are you saying that AH voice is a way to "force" us to interact? Isn't channel 1 a way for everyone to "chat"? Why is channel one so offensive to so many and AH voice is not? I find actually hearing someones inane remarks even worse than trying to not read em. What am I missing here? Oh well... give it time I guess.
lazs
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lol lazs. Don't put something in there that doesn't belong ..
AHVoice is there (and RW for that matter) because it's easier than trying to type while flying.
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Tune radio 5 to channel 4, only members of your squad can be on that channel.
Someone says something on range channel that annoys you, squelch them, only takes a second anyway.
Blue
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It's a lot of work to squelch everybody in the area. Would be a lot easier if you could just squelch range channel like you squelch 1 and 6.
DES
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Personally I don't want to squelch the range channel because some country players use it to give 'check six' calls by voice and addressed to a callsign on that channel rather than using the check six button. Which makes sense if you have allot of friendlies and don't want to bother cycling through various friendlies to address the one that needs to check 6.
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Apar, then if there was a way to squelch the range channel, don't do it. ;)
I'd like there to be separate volume sliders for the two radios at the very least.
However, this looks like a case where Lazs is just gonna have to deal with it.
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nifty.. it appears that you are right but I don't think that I am the only one who finds this surprising (and annoying). I imagine that more will feel the same as AH voice is understood by more people. I can live with it tho. I have seen worse ideas. I came from dos AW and then WB. In WB you either lived with it or got out.
lazs