Alan Pope wrote: > I've recently been chatting with someone who is enthusiastic about an > Ubuntu Community Gaming Server, and wanted to run it past you lot to get > opinions/ideas. > Snip > Thoughts, ideas? > > Cheers, > Al. >
A few years ago I was very active in a gaming clan. I realise that this isn't about starting an Ubuntu Medal of Honor clan or FlightSim Air Traffic Control thing, but bear with me :) One thing that we found was that having dedicated channel-based voice chat (we used TeamSpeak: www.goteamspeak.com ) really helped. Firstly, we got a lot more people coming to chat with us whilst playing and then returning to play with us another day. Secondly, a lot of gamers (especially FlightSim) hang out on TeamSpeak in the same way that geeks hang out on IRC :p It's pretty hard to shoot people or fly/direct a plane and type at the same time after all - but if somebody was off playing on another server/snoozing/doing work then you could still chat to them without interrupting them (and usually persuade them to come and have a quick 'bash' or flight). I assume most newer games now have their own voice clients, which is a shame because it means you need to have to fire up the game to chat to people I guess. TeamSpeak might be non-free, but it's great for creating communities of like-minded people. So, my point is, you might want to consider some kind of TeamSpeak (or alternative) channel-based, always-available voice service. There seems to be only one free alternative (Mumble) but it doesn't seem to be quite there yet. In my experience, your average gamer hangs out on voice channels, rather than, say IRC, so it might be worth exploring. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
