I have more than 3 friends, however all the people on my Friends list aren't necessarily friends. They are people I play games with. Yes Ive played Eve, that's why I wanted to play Dust. And Ive been in Fleets, and after listening to someone drone on for 15mins about the "plan" Im tired of hearing them talk. Because on so many occasions the "plan" only lasted til we made first contact. In which case that whole plan went to ****. So we had to plan on the run.

I also get the feeling people are thinking this game is gonna be alot more in depth than it's actually going to be. Talking about holding planets across multiple star systems. As far as Ive seen Dust players show up fight and move on. You ain't holding anything. I don't think you're gonna convince people to planet camp like people gate camp in EVE. If you own a planet and I own the space above you, what do you really own? Nothing. You can't fly anything in or out. It's like setting up a blockade around a city. You'll eventually starve them out. So needing to have a constant track of what your DUST corp is holding at this point is a mute arguement. You don't know that the Dust players are gonna own anything. You may just go fight and then the EVE corp that hires you gets control of that planet while you move on.

You are taking on the role of a Merc. What does a merc care about a planet? All he wants is his money and to know where his next fight is gonna be. He doesn't care if there's a Pelagiacyte mine on the planet. He isn't gonna go mine it. And you're gonna be hard pressed to convince someone to sit in a lookout tower on a planet, waiting on people to possibly land.

Point being you still don't need to talk to 1000 plus people at one time. The only people you absolutely have to have comms with are the people in the battle with you and that's provided for FREE.

Chris and anyone who doesn't see the problem with demanding money for communication. CCP is already obtaining a steady flow of cash from all the other aur purchases they don't need to charge for broad communications, so you're paying for bandwidth argument is moot. It's also unreasonable because the game is centered around the corp and by only allowing four players to talk out of game takes away from the fun- the true reason for gaming. All the people in my corp are my friends and I enjoy talking to them, but with this feature I can only speak to three max. At the very least we should be able to chat with as many players can be on one team, but that's a bare minimum. When waiting for a game, an entire corp should be able to chat and shouldn't have to pay for it. If that's too big an expense for ccp, then they shouldn't have made this a f2p game in the first place.

Honest question: why do you think that corp and alliance chat will cost AUR? I can understand why we have that now - it's an NPC corp we are in, and essentially NPC corps are like you aren't in a corp at all.

Hello,

Just to clarify what UVT is supposed to enable and what you get for free:

UVT Gives you:

- Ability to voice chat in custom channels, DUST or EVE/DUST
- Ability to voice chat in corporation channels, alliance channels, ect.

UVT is NOT required for:

- Team voice chat
- Squad voice chat

Text chat is of course free everywhere.
Players can speak / listen to one channel at a time.

Keep in mind that price is still subject to change during the beta period.