Conquest of Elysium 3 dev log

[Gandalf Parker]

And by the way, Johan prefers "Mumble" for in-game communication.
I can see where that would be a good fit

[Bossman]

I can guarantee you that when the game is released and people start playing multiplayer, the number one complaint will be "there's no text chat!". It's a pretty standard feature nowadays and people are used to having it.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by Bossman

I can guarantee you that when the game is released and people start playing multiplayer, the number one complaint will be "there's no text chat!". It's a pretty standard feature nowadays and people are used to having it.

No offense but I hear that a lot. About many things.
I actually think screenshot is the #1 I hear. Then I think its reprogrammable menu keys. But Chat might be higher than usual for this game.

Im not sure that "standard feature" would do much. But the suggestion of re-using the Dom3 code might even though they tended to get more complaints than thankyous.
But I will mention that.

[WraithLord]

"* Most of the music in place." yummy, can u disclose more details?- If it's a band/group I'll start listening to their material

Oh and congrats for hitting ver. 2.9. I guess no pre-order this time.

[elmokki]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

And by the way, Johan prefers "Mumble" for in-game communication.
I can see where that would be a good fit

Oh yes, obviously voice communications are even more fun, but people tend to not have microphones and/or tend to not like to speak to them (especially in their non-native languages). Also that stuff requires setting up a server so it isn't as low effot as IRC potentially is. Sad really. Listening/speaking is so much quicker to do while playing than reading/writing.

That said it seriously isn't expensive to rent a server. I pay about half an euro per month for my small Mumble server and anyone who regularily hosts games probably shouldn't have problems running a server from the host computer.