Ventrilo

2005-04-13 09:42:48 pm

Cook of the Sea

I really think M2K2 should host Ventrilo voice chat if the demands on the server (the magnitude of which I really have no clue about) aren't too bad. I just got a headset for participating in the Vetrilo on another site, and it really is way cool. This would be a vastly more efficient way of testing things as a group with sequence breaking and so forth. Hell, five people could be working on some speculative sequence break and vocalizing their thoughts about it in real-time as they work with the game. Discoveries would happen much more quickly and more often. Any thoughts on this?

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JaggerG

2005-04-13 09:54:45 pm

Shifty Leader

That M2k2 guy

I don't know about "much" more quickly. It also really depends on who's on at the time. I often find the forums empty when I'm on. Even the chat gets dead fairly frequently. I guess it could work, and it could be a good idea, but to me and with the little info I have on it, it doesn't seem much more different from the chatroom except you don't have to type.

SABERinBLUE

2005-04-13 10:27:33 pm

Cook of the Sea

Well, perhaps not *much* more quickly, as you say, but consider being able to, while holding a controller and attempting a particularly difficult (and perhaps impossible) stunt, you are able to talk with other people who are also holding a controller and working on the same exact thing you are.

"Hey, try starting from this rock over here"
"the big one"
"No, the one shaped like a pear"
"Oh yeah, got it"
"Anything?"
"Hm...what's the timing of those bombs again?"
"Here, lemme show you" (puts the mike next to the TV Speakers and performs the complicated Bomb-jump-type maneuver again)
"Ah. But it's still not working?"
"Not quite. Not for me, anyway."
"Huh...what if we bypassed this section by doing an L-Lock Spring over there, toward that rock of there?"
"Hm..."

etc. Imagine how streamlined that would be.

Red Scarlet

2005-04-13 10:55:31 pm

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

That's what the IRC channel has, and is, used for.

JaggerG

2005-04-13 11:04:39 pm

Shifty Leader

That M2k2 guy

Well, you must admit, it does get distracting to put your controller down to type. Although it's not so bad with a wireless keyboard that you just hold on your lap and turn around and pick up the controller.

SABERinBLUE

2005-04-13 11:21:13 pm

Cook of the Sea

Meh, I mean, it's not like I actually speed-run, since I'm not good enough at it and I have zero time. In any event, however helpful Ventrilo would be to speedrunners (and listening to the timing of Bomb placement on the fly seems pretty useful to me) it would just a generally cool thing to have for the community.

Mr. Aran

2005-04-13 11:34:49 pm

everybody knows it's true

I think this is a good idea. Mr. Aran Approved!

Yoshi348

2005-04-13 11:59:30 pm

PAGE BREAKER

Ready and willing.

There's a rousing seal of approval.

arkarian

2005-04-14 06:49:40 am

red chamber dream

I think it's a good idea, although I'd never use it, since I don't really speed run.

SABERinBLUE

2005-04-14 05:35:38 pm

Cook of the Sea

Heck, I'd use it anyway, since there would almost certainly be multiple channels set up, one being a random chat channel. I'd love to be able to talk with you guys in audio.

Mr. Aran

2005-04-14 06:14:18 pm

everybody knows it's true

Now that I think of it, how about adding webcam? >_<

arkarian

2005-04-14 08:09:30 pm

red chamber dream

Don't know about anyone else, but I personally wouldn't want my face somewhere chatting away.

JaggerG

2005-04-14 08:27:54 pm

Shifty Leader

That M2k2 guy

with webcams, you can sort of see what's being played, though.

SABERinBLUE

2005-04-14 08:56:28 pm

Cook of the Sea

True. However, if you take everyone on m2k2, and then take everyone with a mike or a headset, think about that percentage. then think of the percentage of the people who have a webcam. I mean, it could be that most of the speedrunners are equipped for stuff like this anyway, but the general likelihood is something to consider.

GreenMamba

2005-04-14 09:27:09 pm

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

I'd use it, if only to insult your mothers.

Well, I suppose I can just type those insults. But a neat idea nonetheless.

...

Your mama is the third derivative of a position function!

Ekarderif

2005-04-14 09:29:18 pm

lmao

I wonder how many people would get that? It takes calculus AND totally random physics!

SABERinBLUE

2005-04-14 09:35:17 pm

Cook of the Sea

I'm trying real hard to convince myself that I do get it...

tomatobob

2005-04-15 12:47:05 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

I'm completely baffled...

ShadowJedi

2005-04-15 03:59:32 am

I am nowhere near having a webcam, but I do have a mike built into my screen. ... Though, the microphone -> computer wire kinda got lost when my computer was set up. I blame my father.

USBCD36

2005-04-15 08:35:23 pm

Personally, I would prefer a SubEthaEdit guide-writing thingy instead. It would be neat to have a LOT of people working on a guide at once and with speed runners, achieve (almost) perfection. I would start one, but there are so few Mac users here that I would probably only end up with Nate and myself interested after the first hour. I also have no starting content for it.

*grumbles about half-completed guide of Prime getting thrown out accidentally last year*

nate

2005-04-16 03:09:10 pm

too bad this didn't hit two years ago. :/

USBCD36

2005-04-16 03:18:29 pm

If 5 Mac users posted here and said they would work on the guide (and hopefully someone has part of a guide to start), I would open a SubEthaEdit for it, with periodic saves (about every half hour) either on usbcd36.metroid2002.com or on my computer.

this is never going to happen

StarmanHaxor

2005-05-15 05:31:50 pm

Teamspeak is much better.
www.goteamspeak.com

Jaytality

2005-05-17 10:14:29 pm

Quote from Red Scarlet:

That's what the IRC channel has, and is, used for.

IRC has voice chat now? News to me.

Commander

2005-06-24 10:24:46 am

Quote from StarmanHaxor:

Teamspeak is much better.
www.goteamspeak.com

... teamspeak sucks moron. have a look at ventrilo's bandwidth usage. its MUCH less then teamspeak (especially good for the server) ventilo also has better sound quality then teamspeak.