id say go with vent, i havent had any problems with vent runing on demigod. i run it to talk to some rl friends while playing. once ya get it up let me know or send me a friend invite.

I have not used vent or teamspeak with demigod yet, but in my experience the sound is way better in teamspeak.

That's not my experience. The codec ventrilo uses is much better than teamspeak's codec, allowing much truer sound decompression/sample rate ie. the voices you here over ventrilo are much truer to real life than the voices you here in TS. As a result, there are like 3 possible voices you can hear in TS. Those voices are: old man, middle aged man, or 10 year old boy/female.

Its much harder to tell people apart by the sound of their voice alone in TS.

Anyway, my vote is for ventrilo. I use it when I play and it makes quite a difference.

I don't know what you're basing your experience off of.

This exactly.

Teamspeak is traditionally for cheap/broke guilds who want a voice program to communicate, but don't want to shell out money for a vent server. Vent sounds better, looks better, and is easier to use. I have no idea where the allegation that vent is full of 13 year old spammers came from. I mean in my experience, 13 year old spammers are deffinately using gmail these days not ventrilo.

ventrillo

rent a server

best clarity.

Meh... just saying i played CS:S and BF2 and Eve Online
in all of them i was in a clan of adult gamers (30+)
and we used TS

while everytime i played warcraft 3 or starcraft or diablo, ive been asked to join vent servers
and when i did it was the worst thing ever happaned to my ears
i still got nightmares about the squickin voices of this kids shouting "HOW DO I PLAY THE GAME"
or those kids that put RAP music "because they are cool"
or those who fight because "HE IS A CHEATER!"

OK, I decided on Ventrilo. Reasons..

1. It's not another service running in the background on my PC sucking up the bandwidth.
2. It's very cheap, they even have free web hosting. No setup or cancellation fees.
3. I can open several rooms and let my friends use the account when I am not playing.
4. Better quality
5. My vent server can be bookmarked and people can rejoin in easily.
6. Control - I could easily ban and castrate any kids that want to mic spam or play rap music.

Demigod is a fun game and I really want to find some good "mature" players that want to use strategic edge that VOIP offers. Maybe this is how clans eventually form?

You can do every one of those with Teamspeak, and none are any more difficult to do than with Vent.

I don't understand why people say Teamspeak is for cheap people who can't afford a server, and that you need to pay for a server to runt Vent. I have run both a TS and Vent server on my machine for my friends and myself to use in the past. And you can pay for a Vent or TS server with various providers.

And again with the sound quality, I don't understand why people say TS uses a worse codec. You can choose from different codecs with both Vent and TS, and providing you use one which uses enough bandwidth, the quality will be perfectly fine in either TS or Vent.

There really is no benefit of choosing one over the other. It really is just a matter of arbitrary preference.

So true. I was on Vent with Linkshell/Guild members of Final Fantasy 11 for 4 years. When I finaly met them in real life at a convension their voices IRL were a perfect match to Vent voices.

Also, you can host your own server on your computer but you are limited to 8 slots. It takes almost no bandwidth and I regulary play WoW/CoD/Demigod online with no lag issues while haveing 6 other people on my server.