Skype

[Daedric]

First- there the 'public' section where we show people who wander by (our enemies too) an idea (?false front maybe?) as to what we're up to. -This allows us to point any indie Junkers to the forum site so that they may be informed of what information we're willing to share openly. - a function not available with skype.

No Skype doesn't, however www.discoverygc.com does.

Then there's our private area, where only registered Congressmen can go, and much of our internal discussion is sorted by content -another function not available with skype.

Actually, yes it does. That is exactly what Skype is used for, to discuss things. No Skype itself cannot sort the discussion, but I as a person can.

Also, the command officers have easy access to everything that was said about any subject by any member without having to dig through miles of skype chat.
Time is invaluable, as any faction leader can tell you, they rarely get to play due to the constraints of management, and any time saved is worth its wieght in gold ore.

If I want the opinion of one of my members, I ask them via Skype PM or disco forums PM. I do not dig through Skype back log. So your point has merit but is rather moot.

And all this without forcing people (who may be playing on a computer that isn't thiers -which noone's mentioned in this thread) to install buggy, laggy software that steals bandwidth and has security holes you could drive a barge through.

No one here forces anyone to install Skype, I've yet to hear of a faction leader going to an applicants house and forcing him to install Skype. If you want to be in a faction, you play by the faction's rules, having Skype is a requirement for most because they use it for idle chat, organization, gathering a group to go online, etc etc etc.

Sure it has issues and I personally hate it, doesn't mean the program is the anti-Christ.

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