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Ventrilo Voice Chat Server (Teamspeak is GONE!)

Submitted by szaijan on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 10:22am
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EDIT4: VSpy is much quicker than the other options tried so far and will be used for site monitoring of the server. It will only show up for users with the 'Ventrilo' role, which I've given to everyone who plays MMOs. You may hide the block in your account settings if you don't want to see it.

EDIT3: The Teamspeak server will no longer be functional as of Friday, March 27.

EDIT2: The new Ventrilo server is up. You'll need to download the latest client from the link below. Setup the server as follows:

  • Name: Avatar
  • Host: ventrilo4.holdouts.com
  • Port: 3841
  • Password: Same as what we used in the TS server. If you don't remember the old password and can't recover it from your TS client, e-mail or call me.

First Impressions: Pirates

Submitted by Nick on Sun, 01/13/2008 - 8:35pm
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  • So I logged into PotBS for a couple of hours just now. And I have some seriously mixed feelings about it.
  • I like the naval combat.
  • I hate the land movement. Entirely WASD, with the mouse only affecting camera and not direction of travel. Haven't found an option to change it so far.
  • I think the land combat is rather slow.
  • Only Pirates are allowed to capture ships. This is the stupidest idea ever. Maybe limit it to only Privateers and Pirates, but not just Pirates. gah!
  • I'm sure the download is a low-res texture pack, but I have to saw it's visually under-whelming at this point. The people animations seem especially stiff. Some of the backgrounds are nice though, odd juxtaposition.
  • Character clothing customization is really pretty good. Lots of ability to manipulate how your clothes look, decent ability to choose hairstyles, not so much for anything else.
  • The UI needs much more customizability. It is very basic, and kinda clunky-feeling to me. At the least I need to be able to resize my 'radar', especially since I'm using 1920x1200.
  • It does have a fun factor, but ONLY PIRATES CAN CAPTURE SHIPS! This is thing that will be the deal-breaker for me, I think.

 

 Things I don't know yet and am looking forward to exploring:

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