Heroic / Villainous Voices (CoX Teamspeak)

It's time to introduce something 'new'.
We all know each other's typing style and some of us have spoken to each other as well.
Be it over Skype or various voice chat servers scattered all over the place that two people spoke to each other on because one happened to have the right to be there.

What it seems there wasn't yet though was a single voice chat server open to and specifically meant for all City of Heroes / Villains players, available 24/7 and looking to meet their needs.
That is changing.

There's now a Mumble server online for all CoX players to use.
Before we get to the server details however, let me lay down some rules:

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--Rules--

1. Respect each other: no discrimination, no offensive language, no offensive remarks, no insults, no harrassment, no cybering, no threatening or anything of this nature.
2. Speak english at all times.
3. Only CoX players. It's just fine to keep chatting to people you know from CoX if you're doing something else. As a rule of thumb: you do not have to be playing CoX, but you do need to be a CoX player.
4. Use your in-game global chat handle as your nickname on Mumble. Including the '@' is not necessary.
5. I mentioned no offensive language in rule 1, but I'm gonna repeat it here separately. Swearing should be kept to a minimum. Having said that it's also important to realize we're dealing with voice chat here. There's no noticing it after typing and backspacing rather than hitting enter. We're all human and the occasional slipup is bound to take place - denying that is not realistic. Ignore it and move on, but don't make a scene.
6. Do not share any personal information. I care very little if you do so in a private chat with someone else, but if you accidentally throw it in the main server channel instead it's your problem. Hence my advice would be to keep any personal information - both in written and spoken form - off the server entirely. You have been warned and at the end of the day it's gonna be your own responsibility.
7. Do not try to disrupt the service by any means. From hacking and cracking attempts to deliberately trying to put an extreme load - be it in terms of network traffic, CPU usage or anything else such - on the server this will get you banned. If you insult someone to the point banning you is considered, then apologize and both parties turn out happy with you staying, that can be lived with - but I assure you the server is cold as ice (or nitrogen, rather) and does not accept apologies.
8. Anything else that brings into question your presence on the server will be dealt with at my discretion. Deciding to get rid of people who didn't clearly and undebatably break any of the preceeding rules is an absolute last resort, but a right I reserve for the plain and simple reason this is a privately owned server.

• Although the availability should be pretty consistent, I cannot and do not guarantee anything in this regard.
• This is third party. It should be more than obvious, but I'll emphasize it anyway: should you be unable to connect or have any other issues with this Mumble server at any time for goodness sake do not contact NCsoft support about it because they have nothing to do with it.
• All actions / connections / commands are logged. This is mainly for the purpose of performance monitoring and enforcing rule 7. Any chats and voice conversations however are not logged.

1. Download Mumble
2. Install Mumble
3. Click here

Reserved.

Reserved.

Certainly worked well enough during my first try yesterday....I'll continue encouraging players in-game to give it a go.

Thank you Tri'Angel for setting this up its a great idea and I have joined it too. It's great to be able to put a voice to a global name with other ppl that we team with!!

Many fun times and giggles ahead I sense!!

Tri, would this be any use to people to see whose talking whilst in game to help put a face to the name?

http://ts3overlay.r-dev.de/

Wall of Red Text is hard to read, also if this is for ALL EU'ers, wouldn't this have been better put in the EU lounge rather than Defiant page?

Just 2 thoughts of mine.

This is now open to all CoX players.

Tomorrow between 1400 and 1500 GMT the TS server will be down. When it goes back online it'll be with a password I have no idea of what it is again.
From then on a plugin will be required to connect, instructions on how that works - although it's pretty straight forward - will be posted then.
It will not yet be exactly as described in my earlier post but a simpler version right now. Registration for one will not be required yet.

So this has gone Global to all CoX players? Interesting.

Still here, even after all this time!

Yes, this is open to any CoX players to use at any time.

The TS server is back up, now with measures to keep non-CoX players out.
For instructions on how to connect see the second post in this topic.

Very cool thing you've done for us players Tri. Just downloaded the client and fooled around with it to get the settings right. Really cool thing, about the only thing I can see needed is server channels.

Right, this has been working for some people thus far and not for others.
The issue seems to be, as has just been brought to my attention, that the assumption I made of the plugins and config folders always sharing the same parent directory is inconsistent.
Therefore I've thrown together a batch file which will take care of copying the files into the right location for you and to establish what that right location is I employed a different method in this case which (to the best of my knowledge) is always accurate.

The plugin's ZIP archive has been updated and the instructions in the second post of this topic have been adapted to reflect this change.
All in all it's only become easier again.

Bottom line: If you were having trouble finding your plugins directory despite the method I gave earlier today to figure that out download this new archive, unzip it and run the file "INSTALL.BAT". That should take care of it.

If you already had it working with the previous package you do not need to download this as the only change is the included batch file as a helping hand in getting the plugin files in the right place. The plugin itself is still the same.

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Originally Posted by Man_From_AUNTIE Really cool thing, about the only thing I can see needed is server channels.

I've been thinking that, but whenever I asked myself what sort of channels people could find useful to have my inspirationless mind kept failing me.
Open to any suggestions, just shout.

Also, I'm not around all the time myself, so it could very well be that certain groups of people use this at times neither me nor any other admins are around in which case if it may be necessary to have more admins at some point - especially as usage increases.
Currently there are 3 admins for this server, myself included, and they're all europeans.

I put some potentially useful things to know in the third post of this topic now.
It tells you how renaming works, how you can log in to TS from different locations without needing the game everywhere and what obvious issues to check for first if the plugin doesn't seem to be working, before asking me about it.

Well the only suggestion I have is the server channels.
For that, just put in one channel for each server and set the permissions for those channels low enough for folks to make subchannels just for their session, I.E. Man From AUNTIE's Tin Mage TF, should work if TS3 is like TS2. I use to host a server for my SG and coalition 3 or more years ago and that is how I had the server set up. Took a few days with some test subjects, er I mean, SGmates to get the permissions right, but afterwards, folks like having the ability to customize a channel to their liking.

Not sure if this is down to my computer ineptitude or not but I run TS3 64bit version and the plugin failed to load. The .bat installs into the folders correctly but the client gives me the red text of doom in the settings/plugins bit.

I downloaded and installed the 32bit client and it works fine.

The batch file really didn't like running correctly and I could not see the CoX authentication plugin. :/

Still here, even after all this time!

I had to use the "Browse" feature to unzip it into the right folder. Just using the info from TS didn't work for me. It kept installing into the temporary folder for my browser. When I "Browse"d the folder it was installed. Didn't have to do any 'super geek' regedit stuff.