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Does anyone here have any experience with Teamspeak? (). It's commonly used on the bigger graphical MUDs for guilds to organize raids and such.
What we want to look into doing is buying a bunch of Teamspeak licenses and running it on one of our servers, and then allow players to dynamically form voice channels to use. So, say you're going on a city raid. You get all the raiders on Teamspeak and PvP becomes much easier to coordinate. Or say you just want to have a private voice chat with 8 or 9 guild members. Skype is nice and works fine but doesn't allow more than 5 people in a conversation at once.
The difficulty here is that if we just set up Teamspeak and left it at that, anyone could use our resources, whether they are one of our players or not. What we'd want to do, I think, is do some reasonably trivial integration ensuring you can't use it unless you have a character logged into an IRE game at the time that's above X level (or whatever bar we set).
Does anyone have any experience using it that could tell me whether Teamspeak is written in a way as to facilitate this kind of integration with our game code? We can do whatever is necessary from our side.
--matt
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