How will the chat system in the game work?When we stumble across another player in space, how will we communicate with them?Will it be via voice chat, text chat, or both?asked by Asirum

So we're gonna still flesh that out.Our goal is to have voice over IP, we're also going to try to have this technology called "Live Driver," which we've got up and running, where you can talk and the webcam on your computer is looking at your face and it transcribes it to your avatar so your avatar's mouth moves along the lines of how your mouth is moving.And we'll probably do some level of voice processing on it because there's a lot of real-time filters that we can apply in the sound system that we're gonna use.So it will be cool, it will be sort of like I'm talking to you as a pilot.We're gonna let people hail other people, then if someone accepts the hail, then you can talk to them. You have to accept 'cause you also don't want people always abusing you and spamming you. And if you don't want to use voice chat, you can also be using text chat in a box. So you'll hopefully have both those options.Voice-over IP is definitiely part of our plan, so far we plan to have it in. It probably won't be in for Dogfighting v1, I'm not even sure we'll have text chat for Dogfighting v1, but as it progresses, this stuff will get in there.But I'm sure you'll all find ways to harrass each other without having it built into the system. Probably having Skype open at the same time or whatever.