Vent, TS and mumble are far superior to Skype. From my experience on other servers having a sever Skype group or TS server for a large portion of the players is a bad idea. It kills any in-game chat, and any new players are greeted to a completely dead server. It also splits the group between those who use Skype/Vent/TS and those who don't. If we had a large group of active players, and didn't depend on constant flow of new players to keep the server busy, having a TS/vent server would great. Most people use Skype in their own small groups, but use in-game to chat to talk to others (I'm one of them). I also can't afford to pay for TS/Vent hosting costs.
