i'm going to be playing a 10 player civilization game with some friends of mine. it will be 5 teams of 2, so 2v2v2v2v2
i thought about using ventrilo or teamspeak for voice chat, but i need the program to support the following idea:
from inside the game, i would like a hotkey that would talk to everyone (like public chat?) and a hotkey that would just talk to my team (like team chat), and maybe even a hotkey that would just talk to my partner (private chat).
what is the difference between team chat and private chat? well in our game, each 2-person team is inseparable so you are permanently allied with your one partner: this is private chat. but as the game goes on, certain teams may form temporary alliances. this would be the team chat.
a distinction between team chat and private chat is not really necessary, but the idea of being able to switch between at the very least public voice chat and private voice chat is my main concern. i saw that ventrilo for example has a hotkey for switching channels, but this doesn't really work. if each team is in their own channel, and i switch to the 'public' channel before speaking, no one will hear me because they will still be in their own private channels. really, i need for each person to be in a public and private channel at the same time.
is there any program that can do this?
i thought about using ventrilo or teamspeak for voice chat, but i need the program to support the following idea:
from inside the game, i would like a hotkey that would talk to everyone (like public chat?) and a hotkey that would just talk to my team (like team chat), and maybe even a hotkey that would just talk to my partner (private chat).
what is the difference between team chat and private chat? well in our game, each 2-person team is inseparable so you are permanently allied with your one partner: this is private chat. but as the game goes on, certain teams may form temporary alliances. this would be the team chat.
a distinction between team chat and private chat is not really necessary, but the idea of being able to switch between at the very least public voice chat and private voice chat is my main concern. i saw that ventrilo for example has a hotkey for switching channels, but this doesn't really work. if each team is in their own channel, and i switch to the 'public' channel before speaking, no one will hear me because they will still be in their own private channels. really, i need for each person to be in a public and private channel at the same time.
is there any program that can do this?
