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Group chats in the pda

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:27 pm
by aradsten
Just me that thinks this would be pretty cool?

Re: Group chats in the pda

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:29 pm
by wesoda25
aradsten wrote:Just me that thinks this would be pretty cool?

Re: Group chats in the pda

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:34 pm
by Lumbermancer
But we had those, and no one ever used them.

Re: Group chats in the pda

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:41 pm
by Gun Hog
Lumbermancer wrote:But we had those, and no one ever used them.
Plus we currently have a group chat in-game, which is just as unused, the NTnet chat program which is a part of modular computers. I am betting that even if we replaced PDAs with tablets, it still would go unused.

Re: Group chats in the pda

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 7:08 pm
by wesoda25
To be fair tablets are clumsy, annoying, slow, and require a little bit of effort to acquire.

Anyways, as for PDAs, I can think of a ton of ways to use them, when did they use to be a thing? It sounds useful as fuck in a lot of scenarios. Would anything be lost re adding them?

Re: Group chats in the pda

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 8:21 pm
by Dr_bee
you can just PDA people a radio frequency that is not in use and use a fucking radio.

Re: Group chats in the pda

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 10:44 pm
by subject217
Gun Hog wrote:
Lumbermancer wrote:But we had those, and no one ever used them.
Plus we currently have a group chat in-game, which is just as unused, the NTnet chat program which is a part of modular computers. I am betting that even if we replaced PDAs with tablets, it still would go unused.
just port baycode pdas as well as their email client and tablets can exist as a more powerful version of the pda that you have to explicitly go out of your way to build. ezpz.

the only real problem with this per se is remaking the functionality of every PDA module

Re: Group chats in the pda

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 12:43 am
by SaveVatznick
tune your headset to a custom radio channel ._.

Re: Group chats in the pda

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 1:06 am
by PKPenguin321
this says a lot about our society the state of tablets

Re: Group chats in the pda

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 1:40 am
by teepeepee
I really like the idea of tablets and speaking in chatrooms, remove PDA when???

Re: Group chats in the pda

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 7:45 am
by Ispiria
Gun Hog wrote:
Lumbermancer wrote:But we had those, and no one ever used them.
Plus we currently have a group chat in-game, which is just as unused, the NTnet chat program which is a part of modular computers. I am betting that even if we replaced PDAs with tablets, it still would go unused.
This. I once went out of my way spending an hour building personal laptops for every member of the crew so we could all be in a chatroom together, and the only practical use we got out of it was one time comms went down it let us keep track of our miner. Radio is just more convenient to use - plus the way the chatrooms actually work is obnoxious, chat flows downwards but the Send button is at the top, so you have to constantly scroll through the entire conversation to send or read new messages.