TeamSpeak
Teamspeak (TS for short) is a program that Allegiance players use to communicate with each other by voice. This allows people to say commands to their team, not type them. This increases your situational awareness allowing you to respond more quickly.
Even if you don't have a microphone or the desire to speak, connecting to your team's Teamspeak channel helps shorten the learning curve. You will hear your teammates report intelligence and give commands to eachother using Allegiance vocabulary allowing you to learn the names of technology and tactics more quickly.
Setting Up TS
Once you have installed both programs, run Teamspeak. In the upper left hand corner, click “Connection” and then “Connect”.
When you click "Connect" you will go to this screen:
Now that you are at the servers main page, right click “Servers” and click “Add Server”.
It will create a new server on your list and ask for a name. You can name it anything you want, but I recommend something that you can recognize.
Now comes the time where you have to enter the info. The instructions are on the picture.
When you have entered the info in, left click somewhere on the TS window to deselect everything. Press “Cancel”, you aren’t supposed to connect yet.
At the top right hand corner of TS, click “Settings” and then “Options”
Once in that menu, go to the third tab, “Bandwidth”. The first two tabs wont do much for you. If you are on Cable or DSL, change both of the upload and download speeds to “Unlimited”. If you are on 56k, you will need to do some testing later.
Now go to the “Other” tab. In there, type your name as you want it to appear in TS. Remember how you typed it though, you will need it later.
Click “Apply”.
Now go to the “Settings” menu and click “Sound Input/Output Settings”
Make sure the output volume is maxed. Below that, choose the “Push to talk option”. Pick a key that will not interfere with your Alleg gameplay. If you have an extra button on your mouse, I recommend using it.
If you do not have a mic, I will cover that later.
Running TS
You should be set up now. Go ahead and connect to the server that you created earlier. Do this by double clicking “Main Alleg TS Server” as seen in the 3rd picture.
When you are connected, you should see a screen like this:
In the pic, here are some things that you need to learn:
- The different channels are: General Allegiance, GW, ogame, and Palidor’s Knights. The last channel has two subchannels Attack and Defense.
- Adaven@XT and Lykguros both have their mics muted, they cannot speak to anyone.
- (U) means a standard user
- (R) means a registered user. This is a person that the Server Admin(Aarmstrong) knows. If he knows its you talking, he may allow you to register which reserves the name for you on the server.
- (CA) means Channel Admin. This person can edit the channel and boot people from it if they are being disruptive.
If you want to mute your own mic or headphones, the option is in the “Self” menu at the top of the window.
To join a channel, double click the channels name. If a password is required, TS will ask for it then.
Creating and Running a Channel
To create your own channel, click “Channels” and then “Create Channel”. That will bring you to this window:
If you want to make a password for the channel, type it in there.
Note that the codec used is “Speex 9.3 Kbit” THIS IS CRUCIAL. If you do not choose this codec, your channel will sound like crap.
If you want to do something to a player, right click their name and select what you want to do. You can boot a player, send them a PM, give them CA rights, and other things.
Troubleshooting
If people are saying that your mic is feeding back, that means that your mic is recording all outbound audio. You need to change it to your mic only. Do this by going to your Control Panel, double click “Sound and Audio Devices”, under “Sound Recording”, click “Volume”, then check the box below Microphone. The pic below illustrates this.
