Another Languish EU3 game? Weeknights EST?

[katmai]

Fight!,fight!,fight!

[Viking]

Fight!,fight!,fight!

It's bad enough that he has already crossed the line between our agreed spheres of influence twice.

[Tamas]

Hungary: stearing up shit since time immemorial?

[DGuller]

Fight!,fight!,fight!

It's bad enough that he has already crossed the line between our agreed spheres of influence twice.

Can't we all just get along?

[Kleves]

I'll be playing tomorrow, but I'm flexible as to which country if Kleves got too attached.

Well, I'll take Russia then. 

[Berkut]

What do you guys think about using a Vent server for commo during the game?

[Habbaku]

I think I could do without Viking's heavy breathing and lack of English-speaking, but otherwise I'm fine with it.

[DGuller]

Not a fan of VoIP stuff.  Text is almost always the more efficient way to communicate over the Internet.

[Berkut]

Not a fan of VoIP stuff.  Text is almost always the more efficient way to communicate over the Internet.

How can typing with your fingers be "more efficient" than speaking and hearing?

Text fucking sucks as a way of communicating within any game. My fingers are busy doing other things.

[Berkut]

I freaking hate having to try to keep an eye on the damn chat window, or trying to make any kind of deal in real time via typing, and managing who you are sending the message to, and all that.

It would be so much easier to just use voice chat.

[Kleves]

My fingers are busy doing other things.

Gross.

[DGuller]

Not a fan of VoIP stuff.  Text is almost always the more efficient way to communicate over the Internet.

How can typing with your fingers be "more efficient" than speaking and hearing?

Text fucking sucks as a way of communicating within any game. My fingers are busy doing other things.

It's much faster, and you can take your time reading it instead of having one go at comprehending what was said.  That goes double for EU games, because you don't actually need the keyboard for controlling anything.

[Berkut]

You need more than one go to comprehend spoken words?

And you can type faster than you can talk? Or read faster than you can hear?

And no, in EU3, you CANNOT take your time reading anything, because it scrolls off the chat window very quickly. I don't see half of the stuff that gets blabbed about.

There is a reason people who game in any kid of semi-serious manner use voice communications. Your mouth and ears are not doing anything while gaming otherwise, and your hands most certainly are. Kleves is apparently doing some other things that don't really help with communication or game playing, but I think we all suspected that...

[DGuller]

You need more than one go to comprehend spoken words?

Sometimes, when I'm not paying full attention to the person speaking.

And you can type faster than you can talk?

Probably not, but it's close enough.

Or read faster than you can hear?

Definitely yes on that, not even close.

[Berkut]

OK, it is true that I can read faster than someone speaks to me - but I am pretty sure that they cannot type faster than I can listen, so that actually doesn't matter.

But the point is that hearing requires no attention - it is completely passive, it happens even if you aren't looking at the chat window. And speaking requires no effort of anything that is busy doing something else.

You cannot rationally claim that typing in a chat window is "more efficient" than simply speaking. There must be some other reason.

Do you refuse to speak to people in person as well, and just jot notes to them instead? Since that is every so much more "efficient" than these pesky spoken words that people seem so attached to?

Weird. Anyway, can't make anyone speak if they don't want to I guess.