Askgar

Just a quick forward on this post, I have been planning to write it for quite a while, it has been rattling around in my head for at least a month but I’ve finally had a “push”, so to speak, to finish it! It is not just due to one or 2 events but more of an observation I have noticed over the past 6-12 months since my life situation has changed.

Just some background, I play in a few static groups a week, all starting at around 8pm uk time, this also happens to coincide with the bed time of my step child, relying in the need for silence in the house until asleep.  This is where the problem lies, I join in with the static group, log into voice chat an listen in but can’t speak myself, meaning if I do want to reply to anything I have to do it in the in game text chat.

With a greater and greater reliance on voice in my static groups, and less and less attention paid to the text chat it starts to feel more and more like I’m partly invisible and almost completely like I’m being ignored.  I know it can be a pain to keep an eye on the ingame chat when you’re chatting away in voice but personally I always have an eye on the ingame chat, incase someone isn’t in voice, or someone can’t speak for a min and has needed to say something.

My solution to this is that I think from now on I either won’t start playing until I can get into voice and speak, or at the least I won’t join the voice server until I can speak, it just leads to frustration on my end.  Also, I think in future especially when I can’t speak in voice chat I won’t try advising people where to go or what to do because they tend to notice it 5 mins later and by that point its irelevant.

Once again, just to reiterate, this isn’t because of any particular situation, just a general problem I’ve been thinking about for a while and finally decided to actually write.

I have a couple of eve related articles I plan on writing soon, one a writeup of wed and the other about my “rediscovery” in eve from last night.