Why? Simply put it's a more modern app with more features and still under active development. It's a little bit like if you took Mumble, combine it with Skype, and then threw in some good UI design.

Some of my favourite differences:

• Good apps for all platforms, desktop, mobile, and even web.
• Persistent text channels, anything written remains in the history, you can even see messages from when you were offline.
• Direct messages and calls to users.
• You can see what games any connected members are currently playing.

The only real downside is that you need to create a Discord account, but all that is required is a username, email, and password.

Getting started

Start by heading over to the Discord website to create an account and download the app. You can use whatever username you like, you can set a nickname on every server.

Once Discord is installed you can connect to our server using the following link: https://discord.gg/b3eNHHNx4Y

This will connect you to the Kestrel Minority server and give you access to the public text and voice channels. They're only public in that anyone connecting can access them, an invite link like the one above is required to connect.

After I or another one of the officers have set your role based on member rank you'll gain access to the member only channels as well as the ability to see the chat history of all channels.

After connecting I recommend you set your server nickname to be the same as your username here on the site, if your discord username isn't already the same that is.

Some other guides to help get you started:

• Voice Input Modes 101
• Notification settings 101
• Enable or disable Push To Talk Activation Noise
• How to disable auto-start

Should you need it there are many other guides in the help center.

The Talon now is fully opened OOC.

I made a fast calculation. All together we collected about 700 mill credits to make this happen from the time somewhere two years ago, when we started to collect credits for the Talon itself.

I would like to say special thanks to Corvinius and Leibe, who believed in making it happen, and helped a lot during the long time, to Seth Altair, Rantiria and Mistaahh who kept us going, and to Hawk who joined us relatively recently, still put in IC and OOC support to get to the final part.

"Hey folks,

One of the issues we have seen brought up quite a bit in this thread is storage space. Although we aren't adding new bays at this time, one change to help with storage is that any item which previously stacked to 99, will now stack to 9,999. This change is coming in Game Update 4.1

Thanks!

-eric"