Voice comms were around in the classic era but were nowhere near as prevalent as today. Roger Wilco was a very primitive and unreliable piece of software. I used to use it in 99/2000 while playing FPS games and it would regularly crash, especially once you had more than ten or twelve people in the server. It also had no chat functionality. IRC channels and AIM were much preferred means of communicating during that era. The vast majority of raiding in the classic era was done without the use of voice comms. I don't think that banning voice comms is realistic at this point, though, even though I greatly prefer to play without them.
In regards to GINA and log readers: if there was no other realistic means to ban them from Green, would it really be so bad to disable player logs entirely? Would most players miss that functionality? Would the game suddenly become unplayable without real-time DPS meters and such? Somehow I think we'd manage, especially knowing that basically everything worth parsing has already been parsed to death on Blue. At the very least, putting a delay on logging or eliminating the ability of the logs to be read in real time seems worth exploring.
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10-17-2019, 09:48 AM
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