This mod has had its ups and downs all this years, and, its managed to survive. Now its time to attract players and make it better. There's been a suggestion (thought impossible) that players have kept repeating all these years: Bring 3D positional voice chat to PW. Basically, this would mean that players standing close to each other would be able to talk using a microphone, and their voices would fade out as they walked away from each other. Imagine how the game would look like with this: Bards, merchants, assassins; all role-players would have a great tool to build their characters. Also, since people are faster at speaking than at typing, it could decrease random attacks, improve the way people call for help in fights, and give people being robbed a chance to respond before their head-shot by those annoying bandits.
Now, to the technical part. If you have no programming background, you might want to stop reading here, and pass on the word to someone that does. Positional chat has been done before in Warband, through the use of Mumble, which supports 3D based voice chat. (Here's some proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBZTydpLefE ) Unfortunately, through the newer updates, Warband has become unsupported (Or, I'm really bad and i couldn't find the way). In any case, Mumble supports plugins, coded in C++, to allow games they don't support yet to be added to the collection. There is a guide, with most of the coding done already, that will walk you through all the steps, accessible here ( https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Pluginguide ) So far, neither me nor my clan-members with programming backgrounds have been able to get it working, but that might have to do with the fact that we don't have a lot of experience at it. Please, to any programmer that reads this, take a stab at the code on your free time, and see if you can get it working, and I assure you the PW community will appreciate it a lot!
