As you can see within under a week our TeamSpeak 3 server has been shooting up in popularity. Following the fall of our old ventrilo this has happened. And frankly it's been quite a while since I've seen even our Ventrilo have 10+ People in it at once. So to me it currently appears that our teamspeak 3 server may be more of a success and more popular then our old ventrilo server.
Hear are a few benefits: * Bans are more easily placed as permanent (A simple IP change won't always get around bans like it does in vent)
* Ban durations can be set (Bans can be a specified time to correlate with another CG ban perhaps)
* WAY LESS Exploits. (Vent with a simple audio file on a clients end could crash every user in the channel, Also many other exploits such as spamming comment change, adding millions of accounts, non stop paging, etc etc)
* Customization!!! (Double Edged Sword...)
- Each channel has links on the side to the servers that will automatically open then up and send you in.
- Change voice Codec per channel (Great for music channels)
- Advance user permissions (Difficult to setup the way you want at first but great once you do)
- Custom icons per channel and per user group
- More advance admin power
* Free 32 Slot serverNow this all sounds great but we also have the disadvantages
Some disadvantages: * Far more difficult initial setup (User end), many options.
* Advance user permissions (Difficult to setup the way you want at first but great once you do)
* Users tend to not want to switch from 1 software to another (put lightly ventrilo <3)
* Users can have any avatar they want
* Some features are not default that should be
* Difficult layout
* More steps to connect
* Different voice codec
In the end it's up to you community. Which do you like more. Personally I don't care to much. I like both. I see both of their advantages. Which ever option you chose we will keep TeamSpeak online. So if we get a ventrilo you can still get on our teamspeak server. Simply because it's free and not a bother to us.
If we do get a ventrilo.
We will get about a $4 per month charge (on a 20 slot server *Approx).
So community... What do you think?