Chatter in space

Happy Daze

Happy Daze
Imagine it's 2023. A long time ago. Imagine you owned an airplane. Imagine you are flying and listening to your VHF radio.
Suddenly you hear a Flight Attendant telling the passengers about the in-flight movie, or the pilot telling the passengers the weather at their destination.

Does this happen? It does not.

However in 3309 we get all kinds of chatter from passenger flights.

Hmmm... an improvement?

Don't even get me started about thunderstorms in space...
 

Riverside

Riverside
Selecting the wrong channel to broadcast on does happen and is human error. Mistakes are something that can always happen, not something technology can completely eliminate.

I agree it's a bit too excessive to be a realistic representation but it acts as ambient background chatter as you say & without any the game would feel a little less alive.

When I see a message from a passenger liner that apologies for an unexpected delay I imagine that's their diplomatic way of informing their crew & passengers that they are performing evasive manoeuvres, that kind of thing. More variety of chatter without increasing it's frequency would be welcome ;) One bit of chatter I find annoying is in Space CZs where the NPCs on each side all have the same description (system defence force etc), It shouldn't take much to make their description individually identifiable (eg ship name).

Static electricity discharges in dust/gas clouds seems like a plausible phenomena to me, and one the ships internal audio simulator would reproduce. I don't have a problem with that one.
 

Happy Daze

Happy Daze
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You're just too serious, son!

However, I can understand that no chatter would be a bit boring, but cross-chatter between truckers, security pilots, etc. would make sense, as they are actually transmitting over the air, not internally to their own passengers.

As for the booming, I think one of the NASA Shuttle Pilots would have mentioned something...

But as I say, too serious!
 

ethelred

ethelred
I was flying once and someone else left their transmit button on and open so I got 10-15 minutes of this bloke trying to impress his female passenger with various rubbish stories and impressive spotting of various local landmarks.

It was extremely funny and tragic at the same time and random late 90s pilot in Shropshire UK I salute you.
 
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