Use of voice chat for broadcasting radio ruins ping

[DRuGNikT]

Tanatos has been using voice chat as a form of radio, advising people to turn down voice if they don't like it.... this doesn't resolve it's affect on my ping. I have asked him to stop but he won't (*edit* he did eventually stop and immediately I could connect again), yet I have seen some admins asking him not to use it this way.

This raises my ping enough on bad days in the server, that I am no longer able to connect - he is playing music through the voice chat.. especially when there is a lot of players on, like now - I suspect this is because it's using more bandwidth streaming his music to every player... I thought the reason you guys used mp3's for this is to avoid this overuse of it.

Secondly, it means that I end up turning down the voice part of mta to avoid hearing his bad music... which leaves me missing others' proper chat on there.

Can something please be done to police the reasonable use of voice chat for only chat, not to broadcast non stop?

Edited July 22, 2012 by DRuGNikT

[Gametaff]

Tanatos has been using voice chat as a form of radio, advising people to turn down voice if they don't like it.... this doesn't resolve it's affect on my ping. I have asked him to stop but he won't (*edit* he did eventually stop and immediately I could connect again), yet I have seen some admins asking him not to use it this way.

This raises my ping enough on bad days in the server, that I am no longer able to connect - he is playing music through the voice chat.. especially when there is a lot of players on, like now - I suspect this is because it's using more bandwidth streaming his music to every player... I thought the reason you guys used mp3's for this is to avoid this overuse of it.

Secondly, it means that I end up turning down the voice part of mta to avoid hearing his bad music... which leaves me missing others' proper chat on there.

Can something please be done to police the reasonable use of voice chat for only chat, not to broadcast non stop?

Nice to see you back in the forums NikT, you're a great person, and yes, I think this could be one of the problems why people have bad ping, when ppl starting putting sounds (especially from internet or radio) my ping gets from 190 to 230/250

[BinSlayer]

Well atm people pay greencoins to use voice..

And we haven't formed any rules (yet) about how to use it because the price's pretty high

You're right, something needs to be done. Just need to figure out what

[Tanatos]

Hi,

I repeat once again, that I let the music does not affect any of the ping, not from today, I let go and there was no problem

[DRuGNikT]

Yeh Tanatos was good about it & for that, thanks dude.

I also worked out a way to shave 100 off my ping by fiddling on my router, so all good.

There do still need to be some rules in the area, though, Bin, the next person might not be as nice as Tanatos was.

[Ruff]

I kicked and muted and b& the man for this but after receiving an anonymous complaint about me abusing my admin powers.. I stopped.

So have fun with the results

[DRuGNikT]

Well I hope something is done about it because he's still doing it.

There's already radio in the server and he's ruining voice chat.

[kronk]

Yeah it's pretty annoying, in these days my ping rised a lot when tanatos was using music but i'm not 100% sure that my lag was tanatos' fault. But anyway it's annoying because i don't want to hear his music and i don't want to turn off voice chat.

[Kari.Pesto!]

Can you please delete sounds like "wasted, time up, race on" they are really annoying and retarded.

And also voice chat.

[Ruff]

Can you please delete sounds like "wasted, time up, race on"

No

[Ywa]

Can you please delete sounds like "wasted, time up, race on" they are really annoying and retarded.

And also voice chat.

Why not just mute the game instead? :')

[Tanatos]

I bought it, so I can let go of what you want! If you do not like to Setting-> Audio-> Voice 0!

[Kari.Pesto!]

Oh there's mute! Sry, didn't know that, my mistake.

[DRuGNikT]

is there a mute outside of turning off all voice chat?? I don't think so.

[Ruff]

I bought it, so I can let go of what you want!

That must be the most ignorant comment of the year. Humankind never ceases to amaze me.