Option to mute players by admin or turn off voice for the whole server

[D3nnis3n]

In Voice.eco is there a way that there can be a "off" set so that voice does not work at all ora mute so its muted? Been a number of requests for this as our friendly trolls are using it as they can't the chat as well as they can be caught to run up to players and get very nasty and graphic and insulting before they can even get them muted and if an admin is not on to set a ban they can upset and disrupt a server is short order. Server owners/admins have asked for a way to globally mute or turn off voice when they cannot be on to deal with these issues and then they can unmute/turn it on when they are. And yes they know that players can mute other players but that is not something they can do that quickly and usually one outburst gets through and it can be bad before they realize the person is a troll to mute them ahead of time or mute them quickly. So you have players upset by at least one statement made. Server owners have said that they, as well as their players, would rather have it globally off when admins are not available and only use it when one was.

[D3nnis3n]

@redwyre A global off option for the voice chat, next to my range option, should be pretty default, even though the server is not using any resources. I know people can mute themselves and even turn their voice chat off, but given admins cannot mute and some people may just not get it, admins should have the ability to either mute players as admins or disable the voice chat completely when people freak out.

[pamduncan]

I posted a bug report about this the other day about a way to turn off voice server wide as there have been a number of issues to date with new bands of griefer going from server to server running yup to people and spewing in graphic detail some very bad stuff. In most cases the people they are going to have not muted voice as they have been talking to other players and initially assume some has a question for them and even if they quickly nute they are getting an earful. If a admin is on they can definitely ban but many have asked for a way they cam just turn it off across the server when they are gone. Then there are the issues of a longer time player that gets upset about something and starts carrying on and no one really wants to hear it - in those cases being able to mute the player by the admin would be good until they calm down, but just muting the server works too. Because of the griefing, hoover, its probably one of the most common requests I here, about how they can turn voice off when they are not around to ban people. There is a way players can protect themselves, I know, but since voice can get stuff out there a lot faster than typing it in a chat window and there is not log file to record it if there is a complaint later that so-and-so was saying stuff that player 2 did not want to hear having a way to just turn off voice when an admin is not going to be around is about the only answer

[TwixterZ]

Feature observed and confirmed in 9.5 Develop-367

Players able to toggle voice chat in game and server config available in Server UI