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May 9, 2004, 7:00pm

I have heard rumors of voice chat for AW, so heres an idea i would like to
see implemented...

If a user has this on their phon object "Create type=phone" it would makse
that obejct into a phone, by this i mean it would allwo users to call
eachother. to use it it would be a click on the phone thing and enter the
numebr you wish to call, phone numebrs would be citizen numebrs, then if the
user had a phone (determiend by ownership block, if not udner persons name
one coudl also add owner=cit #) it would call that given person, there would
be a sfx that played such as a phone determiend by op "phone.wav". this way
it would be liek having telephones in aw, and itd be sort of fun,

now you get to the problem of multiple phones well you coudl have extensions
else it woudl rign to al lphones udner that given name, onee a user picked
upthe phone it would automatically start a vocie chat session between users,
then it would be sort of fun sitting there talking, you could hang up the
phone by hitting the originating obejct again i guess.

and if perchanse they dont do it but they do vocie chat i guess a bot could
be used in place of this ey :-)

May 9, 2004, 8:43pm

Thats the best idea Ive heard in months.

Jaguar Hahn


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May 9, 2004, 10:49pm

yes great idea now how do I call if im in a GZ or world where I cant
build?


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May 9, 2004, 11:24pm

click the phone :-) we could have payphones at gz :-) cal would goto
payphone so the given phone would ring :-)
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May 10, 2004, 6:30am

Yes have a telephone at GZ, to save Bandwidth, a MAX of 3 users can be using
the same telephone object...

I think instead of citizen numbers, have them enter it AW style! Eg: (978)
499-3237 (The 978499 is the AW offices areacode and subarea code) then
3237 is the first four digits of the citizen number (mines 323710, first
four is 3237)

Extensions would be cool...


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May 10, 2004, 7:38am

Yes but someone might have the number 323708, 323709, etc....so that
might not work out very well. ;P I think CP has a good idea with this
phone thing of his...maybe AWI might consider this when they upgrade AW
with voicechat.

[View Quote] > Yes have a telephone at GZ, to save Bandwidth, a MAX of 3 users can be using
> the same telephone object...
>
> I think instead of citizen numbers, have them enter it AW style! Eg: (978)
> 499-3237 (The 978499 is the AW offices areacode and subarea code) then
> 3237 is the first four digits of the citizen number (mines 323710, first
> four is 3237)
>
> Extensions would be cool...
>
>
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May 10, 2004, 7:47am

woops.. half asleep here
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May 10, 2004, 5:36pm

glad to see everyone likes it i think it would be a bit mroe realistic than
just vocie chat, and itd be kind of fun, imagine answering machine bots!
they play ur voice XD or tell you who is/tryed to call(ing) you, nice way
we can screen out online calls too!

and with the phoen sound stored on op, i guess one can have themed phones,
in cofmeta you might have a cool futuristic phone, where in awteen,aw, and
some others we would use modern phones and cellphones :-)

0_0 and with video streaming one can also add nice pretty pictures like
webcams :-) (we can use webcams now with certain software but 100fps is
better than 1f/5s lol
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May 10, 2004, 6:15pm

In addition to your idea, why not be able to leave or set a prerecorded
voice message when you are AFK or offline? Or better yet, the ability to
store short voicemails that get played when you click on them, similar
to telegrams, but with voice. I would assume they would all be stored on
the AWI server, but I could see hard drive space might be an issue.

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May 10, 2004, 6:23pm

Short voicemails? I Smell bandwith/HD Space costs ;)

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May 10, 2004, 9:09pm

Well, maybe set aside an extra few MB of storage space per citizen for
voicemails and make it so they can't be longer than 30 seconds or
something. Also, use some sort of compression to lower their size. With
the price increases AWI has made in the past, I'm sure they could at
least afford a basic hard drive array/RAID array on eBay. ;)

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[View Quote] > Short voicemails? I Smell bandwith/HD Space costs ;)

May 11, 2004, 6:45am

Yep..

Also, when the person enters the 'Phone Number', someone can record the USA
ringing tone (long bluttered beeeeeeep) or the AUS ringing tone (short
bluttered beeep) ... Until someone picks up...

The answering mashine /voicemail will be good, if a person is too shy, they
can have a standard one 'You've reached ActiveWorlds Phone Service, ther
number you are calling is not available, please try again later'


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May 11, 2004, 4:40pm

if not have a sharing folder on each persons comp the way custom avatars
could be allowed also :-), and have the browser access
c:\Activeworlds\files\shared

and search for Ring.wav, or away.wav :-)
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