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Broadcast Tower

Postby mikejacobs14 » Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:05 am

Just a thought, dunno if its suggested or not but don't you find it annoying that you have to leave someone in a room to monitor the radio for messages etc, so what I propose is that you make a broadcast tower in the general area so people outside can hear the message. Also, make it so that the tower is connected to a certain receiver or whatever.
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Re: Broadcast Tower

Postby chase02 » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:28 am

Hmm, interesting idea. Either that, or bring in handheld receivers/transmitters.. they could be handicapped by not allowing much range. Or let receivers/transmitters be build outdoors, on a pole.. similar to the above suggestion but not quite the same.

I'd love to see any of these happen.. it is very frustrating!
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Postby Idriveayugo » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:57 am

The more ways we have to communicate in Cantr the better I always say.
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Postby Mr. Black » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:39 am

Absolutely. The fact that communication is so limited is probably why there haven't been absolutely HUGE empires, or something like that.
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Postby BZR » Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:34 am

you have to leave someone in a room to monitor the radio for messages

That's indeed very annoying, at least because one active char need to stay in the workshop to receive messages. In a smal community, all active people usually prefer to stay outside.

IMO, broadcasting towers would make to much noise. I still prefer the portable receivers.
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Postby fishfin » Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:53 am

Ok, I'm going to jump in and make the first negative post:

I don't think this is a good idea because it will make radios too good. It will remove the only disadvantage that radios still have, which is their inability to be useful when characters arn't around.
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Postby DylPickle » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:34 pm

Agreed with Fishfin. It is kind of annoying, but as a player that's had two full time radio operators in his cantr career, I'll be the first to tell you it's not all that bad.
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Postby Rebma » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:04 pm

Thanks Talapus, you beat me to it ..this has been mulled over in other suggestion threads before. Check'em out.
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Postby Idriveayugo » Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:21 pm

At least allow radios to be moved from a building to another building...

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