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I agree 100%. This is so vague so I will give my ideas on how I could picture it on vSide. Well of course, like There and Second Life, you should be able to turn on and off your microphones. The idea of having Voice chat throughout the whole city would be hectic though. So we could add a mic range. Like a certain amount of distance from one avatar to another range. So only a certain amount of people can hear your voice. There could also be a feature like a group feature where someone can start a voice group and they can kick, mute, etc. from the group. Also, with ignore lists, whenever you have someone on ignore you can't hear their voice. If you don't wish to hear someone but you don't want to ignore them... there could even be a "Mute This Player" button when you right-click them. It would also cut down prices on shoutCAST so more people will want to go on vSide to host radio shows since it is free. For example, lets say I wanted to host a radio show at my Island. I could go into my "Rules and Description" box and hit "Broadcast To All Users" which will broadcast me and everyone who is un-muted's voice to everyone in your apartment. There could also be a feature in your "Rules and Description" box where you hit "Mute Everyone but Me" and whenever you want to un-mute a certain person you can right-click on the user and hit "un-mute" for like an interview or etc. Those are just some last minute ideals on how to make the Voice option work.

Edited by: vSideJoshiee on May 29, 2010 2:55 PM

Pointless reply, just wanted to sayyy.. You're mean

Definitely no. Why not to just use skype for voice chats?

I think voice chat sounds okay. But if you used it in the city there are more than likely going to be random ppl saying stupid stuff. and What if you wanted to listen to music, would the voice chat be on at the same time?

Mabey if you only had voice chat in apartments, it might be most likely to work out easier

I'm not so convinced about this. One time I was at some other Virtual world, someone came by with the Voice option on and scared the hell out of me. It was so loud I nearly had a heartattack, no joke. That could happen in vSide too. Also, if you have voice chat you can't always control what people say. I agree with what others said. It's best to use Skype/msn/whatsoever for this.

-There would be a mute option for this option if they put it on, so why would you leave just because of it....


Msn voice chat sucks big time the only good thing that Ive used is skype, and you got to think that some people are not as privileged as you are :P Some people are not aloud to download a lot of things on their computer, like my cousins back in the day their computer was password protected and their parents wouldn't allow them to download anything but a few programs.

Voice option would open a lot of possibilities for vSide, like people who are hosting an event of some sort in their room, and I know a lot of you would complain about this stating " That is why we have shoutcast " Shoutcast is downright the MOST annoying thing on vSide, for people who are not computer smart and don't have money or dislike buying stuff on the internet they have to search for a free server which takes time to find one that will actually work successfully ( I Signed up for at least 6 different servers until one actually worked correctly ), then you have to download Winamp Shoutcast, Setup your shoutcast server to run on winamp and then your all set up to be able to talk on vSide and then if you want to add other people to talk you have to download skype ( or some other Voip program and get the other people to download that program ) and set up your computer to run both Microphone and Stereo mix at the same time, I my self have done it a few times and it was not worth it.

Now if everyone read my last post about a voice option, you would notice that I had it perfectly set up so everyone would be happy. I am going to briefly state everything I said that I can remember below

-Public Voice - A little visual add on above the " Music And Video " with everyone's name who is currently in voice chat with a little flashing icon will show for whoever is talking ( Which will give users the option to mute or lower the volume of that certain person ) An option where if someone is being Abusive/Annoying/Or something that some users don't like they can vote agents that person and 5-10 votes and he looses his microphone abilities for an hour or more, That way it is user moderated no need for mod/staff moderating it.

-Private Voice - User right clicks on another user and " Requests Voice Chat " and has the ability to right click on another user and " Join Voice Chat " and again with the visual add on above the Music & and video all users in the current call can be muted or have their volume lowered.

-Appt Voice- Owner of the room can set their room to " Public Voice " or " Granted Microphone " Public voice being people are free to talk, granted voice being Owner/Co-owner's have to grant users a Voice microphone for them to be able to talk.

There is no need for people to complain, because if they dislike the idea then they can Mute the voice system, just like if they don't like the music then mute it, Simple as that. You people complain so much about something that would make 98% of the users happy and get more and more users signed up for vSide( causing money flow to vSide which is good For better/frequent future updates and keeping vSide alive ) Just because you don't want to take a second of your time to push a button to stop whatever it is you don't like ( I don't mean to be harsh but it is true )

Also I noticed a post about it causing lag, they have it in most online computer/consoles games, all they would need to do to keep the lag down to a minimum is have the voice recorded then sent that would give it a few seconds delay.

I understand what you are saying but Part of what I was saying is some people are limited to what they can download ( Dew to Disk Space/Parental Control or both ) and vSide should try to get more people playing vSide not supporting Skype, most people come on to chat with users but if they get them users on skype they might get bored of vSide and just use skype instead.

My MSN voice chats never suck. If they aren't allowed to download Skype I don't think they'd be allowed to use vSide if it had a voice chat feature. Hence we could lose users because parents don't think vSide is a place where their kids should go.


But if there are no 5-10 people who "vote" against profanity it will just stay like that. Let's say a few people insult someone and this person is the only other person around. Sure that person can walk away but as soon as someone hits you with words that are personal that's just not okay.

It would be okay for private places but definitely not in public since there are so many problems that could happen and make vSide less friendly and all. We can't risk that.

@FreeHugglez: Lmao.

Also for skype and msn no one has it well... some do haha but still most people wouldnt want to download and i mean it would be alot easier walking up to somone and talking. and you were talking about lag skype does acctually lag me haha when i close it im fine.

No tah.
I think my ears would be steaming after one day.

Yes. Theyre your friend. Embrace them please kthxbai

I was about to link a reply just like that! Haha.

There's always room for improvement, but not improvement TOWARDS becoming SL! ;(

Shoutcast is enough. If you want to take it to the next level, take it outside to Skype.

Well stop going to sex beaches.

-sexond life-

Scary thought isn't it? lmfao

me a fool?
i never said i thought second life was nearly close to that

LMAOOO!!!! that's amazing. So everyone is asexual there? :P

Hey, I bet there's freaks that LIKE not having... that. "Nice... lack of package..."

Well we don't make any decisions. We're just users. It's up to the staff
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yeah, and assuming most people have built in microphone in there laptop like i do that would attract way more people and i used to play there.com to until it shut down , my username was hero2007, but yeah, and it was be awesome if they had the same graphics as there.com also..

Get skype.

i think thats so stupid a bunch of ppl talkin at once wow not to good

Alternative approach: TeamSpeak