VoIP and IM

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What software do Sins players use for VoIP communication during games, and for hooking up for games?

Personally I prefer Ventrilo and IRC, but those may be a bit hardcore and best suited for organized groups.

I know IRC is used in the Sins community at least for just keeping in touch - is Xfire also popular for organizing games? Skype could be a good choice for more ad hoc groups as comes to VoIP, the number of seats is limited in their service though.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Teamspeak ftw

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

 

Teamspeak or Ventrilo would work.  If you're looking for some sort of a public TS server that's actually populated with lots of Sins players, you probalby won't find one.  I suspect that the overwhelming majority of Sins players know nothing about voice comm.  It's the same story for IRC which is pretty old school now.  Yeah, there's a #sins channel on Stardock's IRC server, but it really doesn't have much traffic and perhaps even fewer gamers today know about IRC as know about VOIP.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

True about IRC - said it's a bit hard core :) It's kinda the Vent or TS of IM - do you know any other instant messaging system which could support 100+ people - easily - on a single channel? Which can automatically connect servers, join your favourite channels, is highly scriptable, has dozens if not hundreds of different clients available, the list goes on?

If you use vent or TS, do you just use a public server? Because I figured out by now that the vast majority of Sins online players don't belong to clans... which beats me, would think this is the kind of MP game that requires dedicated teams and organized games!