I've been looking for advice all over, but nothing seems to exist so I figured I'd ask the DSers. As the topic states, we have a face to face group that meets Saturday nights, but every now and again someone can't make it physically, but CAN play over ventrilo. It's easy for me to setup the interface with speakers and mic, but we have a problem with the functionality.
Whenever someone in our group speaks the words get to the remote player with a slight delay. Compound that delay with that player thinking about what to do and him talking and having THAT delay and we have a problem. I'll be describing a scene and ask if anyone wants to do anything, one of the local players will chime in and start to tell me what they want to do when the remote player will suddenly chime in over the speakers. It takes us a while to sort out who talks and who waits.
Has anyone else tried to do this and had any success? I suppose I could change my GMing style so that I ask SPECIFIC players what they want to do, but that's a bit convoluted. Any advice?