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Group chats in the pda

Post by aradsten » #441029

Just me that thinks this would be pretty cool?
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Post by wesoda25 » #441030

aradsten wrote:Just me that thinks this would be pretty cool?
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Post by Lumbermancer » #441031

But we had those, and no one ever used them.
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Post by Gun Hog » #441032

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.
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Post by wesoda25 » #441034

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?
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Post by Dr_bee » #441040

you can just PDA people a radio frequency that is not in use and use a fucking radio.
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Post by subject217 » #441052

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
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Post by SaveVatznick » #441062

tune your headset to a custom radio channel ._.
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Post by PKPenguin321 » #441064

this says a lot about our society the state of tablets
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Post by teepeepee » #441067

I really like the idea of tablets and speaking in chatrooms, remove PDA when???
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Post by Ispiria » #441092

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.
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