aerelm Wrote:The way I look at it:
Its not just Voice, Image of the one you are talking to appears on the screen in front of you, and you can see and hear him talking. (Same thing happens when you 'hail' a NPC)
And about AIs, Go to a Station that has Robots at Bar and talk to them, Thats what I think about 'AI Communication' InGame, a 'Mechanized' Voice with maybe no image at all.
I sort of disagree with the picture (under the implication that it's always there). That'd be like your face popping up with caller ID. Which would be creepy in more than one way. I imagine it would probably be optional, or at the very least able to be disabled through some sneaky method similar to hotwiring a car. Not really supposed to be done, but it can be. And besides all that, if you're doing it in system chat in say, New York, does the screen have a seizure, or...?
Returning back to the point of it being optional.
But that's completely unrelated to the point at hand, so I'll leave the thread and brush my teeth and play my didgeridoo. Bai.