[Simon]

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Originally Posted by Zoopaman Quote: Originally Posted by Simon What's to say 10 - 12 people using voice will lag? You shouldn't underestimate the power of a good programmer and today's powerful computers . and you shouldn't overestimate your (or other peoples') Internet connections

I didn't estimate other peoples internet connections at all. Karlip talked about server lag. A lot of servers could run voice pretty easily (although this statement does depend on how it's coded), because they have enough bandwidth and have enough processing power.

As for clients, they should be on broadband connections. People on connections worse than broadband (such as dialup) are possibly lagging already. FM quality audio is 96 kbit/s... telephones are generally 8 kbits/s (with speech codecs). The bitrates can vary alot depending on the audio codec used. The server could do the "3D" sound for the player (stream a calculated stream) or send the streams individually (multiple streams causing more bandwidth) so the client can decide about the 3D sound.

Anyways, another thing that could be argued is if RP servers really need to worry about a bit of extra lag (DM servers could disable it, if they worry that much about potential lag). From what I've seen RP servers tend to rely on the social aspect rather than the shooting (need for a lower ping) aspect.

A voice feature could be useful for multiple people, I don't see the point of arguing against it. If you could just turn it off (be given a "choice"), the only logical reason not to include it is simply if Kye can't be bothered coding a voice system.