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8-Band Radio Scanner...

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Marko:
I agree my friend. One of the reasons this is important to me is...i have had some non-voice faction members tell me how important it is that i constantly have a radio on me. Yet because they don't have voice chat, i would need multiple radios, not just one. That's because as a recruiter i try to stay on the public channel but to work with someone new (who is not yet on voice), i would need a unique channel just for him, and for my non-voice members, a channel for them. Then BAM someone wants to go hunting and i need a 4th radio? Crazy. So 1 radio to rule them all lol.

Okay this idea is shaping up a bit, at least in my head. Anyone with Science 40% can craft a normal radio with 6 junk and a workbench.

Radio #2 is an 8-Band Receiver Scanner
Crafting maybe: 1 regular radio + 8 eparts

Radio #3 is an 8-Band TranScanner
Crafting: 1 Radio #2 + 8 regular radios + 2 eparts
Requires: Energy 1



Radio #4 is the 8-Band TranScrambler
Crafting: 1 Radio #3 + 8 eparts
Requires: Energy 2

The idea here is based on Eternauta's post. If you can set up a faction terminal as a "Radio Server", then a Radio #4 device can be synchronized with that terminal to enable encryption on whichever channels selected (done at terminal). Flick a dip switch on the radio for that channel and now you talk in scramble/descramble mode on that channel. Only those people with similar syncing would be able to understand your transmissions when scrambled, and only if they have the same channel on scramble/descramble mode.

Yeah this leads to a bunch of what-ifs.

Swinglinered:
Very good.

I wouldn't want factions to have a perfect channel no one else can ever find.

Scramblers are a workaround to allow factions to secure a channel that others may happen upon..

Descramblers should also be in. Descrambling should require special equipment (the best radio type plus other parts cannibalized and repurposed- voice module, computer parts, fuel cell regulator/controller and/or electronic lockpicks (reworked as a makeshift DSP), and so on.

The equpment would be operated using an average of Science and Lockpick and Gamble, plus Luck and Int (yes, those are already counted in the skills- I'm giving extra weight.)

This would be contested against the Scramble Strength- which would be the same Skills/Attributes as the decoder except using the stats from the one who set the scramble matrix.


Of course this just means Electronic Warfare Alts.

(Especially if we could hook up Motion Detectors to the descrambler or other reciever to triangulate coordinates.)


 

Eternauta:
I am not sure if you guys have understood my idea about faction channels - what I meant is that they would actually be "public" because anyone with a radio would be able to listen to it. It'd work like when you set your Pip-Boy radio in New Vegas to "Radio New Vegas" to listen to some news. Sending messages from normal radios would not be possible because it would allow a lot of trolling, which is in my humble opinion one of the reasons why radio channels are not being used for other activities apart from meeting up with someone via distress signal or trolling in radio 0.

Wallace:
I love the idea especially after experiencing troubles with faction intergrity sometimes

That tool would greatly increase in-(and out)-faction communication  especially for some people who's PCs arent good enough to support multiple (or any at all) voice chats

Plu i concur Shonsu's point that the game itself should facilitate ingame communication as much as possible

Wind_Drift:
It's not a bad idea at all. Sure a lot of us wouldn't get much use out of it, but as you have demonstrated SOMEONE would get use out of it.

As it stands now, I pretty much only use regular radio's for distress while farming, setting up tents, or to meet for a "pick up" so someone doesn't have to leave a car parked on the grid. Of course I also use it to hunt players, but everything good in this game seems to be a 2 way street. Take the good with the bad, or vice versa.

At the end of the day, I'm always strongly in the "FOR" category when it comes to more features, versatility, or items. 

This wouldn't replace Skype or Voice Chat by any means, but who knows - upon implementation surely a few players would find an ingenious use for it.

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