rg.viza

I know this is an old post, but thought that the reasons you need teamspeak were not addressed very well. I thought I'd add my experiences to this, since I live and die by TS for a good portion of my non work time.... Not only that, but in eve you won't get killed because you were trying to type instructions to someone instead of watching your overview. I play eve. I run in some large fleet ops as well as small hunting parties. People that aren't on teamspeak Either: a. get themselves killed or b. get the rest of us killed by not following the fleet commander's instructions in a timely manner. One second is often the difference between success and failure. Jumping because you didn't hear the commander say "DO NOT JUMP" can alert the enemy to your fleet's presence and give them precious minutes needed to sandwich you between a larger fleet and destroy you before your reinforcements arrive. (been there) Most fleet commanders don't allow people on the op who are not in the voip. They are too dangerous. Death happens really fast and it can be extremely expensive in this game. It's not about immersiveness, it's about being able to act as a team and communicate without your enemy knowing the content of the communication, and keeping your ship in one piece. I witnessed a fleet commander pod kill someone that wasn't on ts and took to typing in local chat. Bad because there were enemies in the area and he simply wouldn't shut up. The commander told him over TS to stop typing in local 3 x before he killed him. Oh well... There is a lot at stake, billions in a fleet. It's definitely not a flight simulator where you can just respawn for the next match if you get shot down. It can take days to replace your ship if your corp is small or you need to go mine a new one. You really are in a naval type situation in space, and successful operations require military precision. You can't do that in a fleet of 60+ ships by typing everything. VOIP is not an option in this game... usually isn't in any game that requires coordination of multiple people, outside of scrabble -Viza