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Ship to Ship Communication and / or Player to Player Communication?


BzyBuilder

  

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  1. 1. What does the Public think? Ship to Ship 'radio' or Global chat, or even both?

    • Ship to Ship 'Radio signals' to add a "Star Trek" like feel.
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    • Global chat is enough to communicate.
      1
    • Both 'Radio' and Global Chat.
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In-game voice isnt necessary, no.

 

But a generalised localised communications system that can also be used by automated systems could provide a lot of gameplay.

 

A general "communication station" "link" in a ship with a scriptable way to reroute it to specific locations in your ship or even through other communication links.

Any incoming coms would just go to "coms" and could then be routed internally to specific stations or computers.

 

 

This link could then be used to provide remote interfaces or computer interactions.

For (semi)automated requests or trading systems (with remote provided interface widgets).

For docking, stargate usage requests, fully automated handshake identification, semi automatic identifications (code entering), etc.

 

An automated construct could send you a communications request, you let the request through and put it "on screen".

The construct then puts a custom interface onto the screen through which the player then interacts.

asking for authentication in form of a password, or maybe in form of another computers output.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Now isn't there a LUA solution to this like rednet? https://board.dualthegame.com/index.php?/topic/7880-lua-communication/

This would likely work alongside a voice chat and an ingame text chat, but it could open up some possibilities of encrypted site to site text chat or remote ship control.

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I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with Elite Dangerous communication, but I think something similar could be usefull here. Basically, there is a chat in each station, there is whisper feature, whisper to group, etc. One feature that is trully nice is the possibility to open voice chat to ships that you meet. Also there are group voice chats.

Add some EVE Online freedom with chat windows and there - you have everything you need for communication to work fluently,etc :)
Just my 5 cents...

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