No, unites are not usually needed, but we went in short, and lost one due to lag very early on, and had a child with us. When I saw Lila’s laff, I said “Let’s use toon-up….Meet here”, and waited for her to get there. She was obviously having issues, and never did make it over. We both were being hit with random –5, and I was getting –20s from golf attacks. I’ve come out of battles with full laff before, and been at 1 others (hee hee, think that was a Sunday night, so we won’t go into that one). When 8 toons go in… or even 6 or 7 on a normal run, it should not require the use of unites. If you are with inexperienced/distracted toons, or someone is having internet issues…
I think that my issue with ventrillo or teamspeak, or any of the other voice chats, is that it seems that there is very little communication with the people NOT on it. Even in battles, it seems that way to me. If people were not “talking” amongst themselves, then perhaps it would be easier to remember what had been said was a good way of making sure everyone got tooned. In my opinion, it diminishes the team…if not ALL present are on it.
I'm taking a break from scheduled runs for a bit, but I'll be around.
Skip
The opinions stated above are of Skip the toon, not skippysnifflesnooker the moderator.