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In almost all fleets, scouts have a near-total license to speak up and talk over people when they have intel to report: this is one of the privileges of the role. You are the eyes of the fleet: feel able to cut in if necessary. If cutting in, say "break-break" or "check-check" at the start of your report to get everyone else to shut up.

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Voices on voice comms do not always come with labels: different programs have different overlay options, and inevitably some people can't get their overlay to work. If there is any chance of ambiguity about who you are, refer to yourself in the third person.

Corporations and alliances in EVE often have members with very different accents; some people will be communicating in a second language, and variation among first-language speakers can also be a problem (differences between British and US accents, for instance, can be quite confusing!). You can use the [[Voice_procedure#Phonetics|NATO phonetic alphabet]] to spell out any crucial information which might otherwise be hard to grasp. System names, for instance, can be stated naturally and then phonetically: "Local spike in ''emm aitch see'', seven new neuts in ''Mike Hotel Charlie''."

Stay alert to easily-confused words. The [[Ares]] and the [[Eris]], for instance, sound very similar in many accents: an FC needs to know about both ships, but they present different tactical problems. It helps to say "An Ares, interceptor" or "An Eris, bubbler".

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In larger fleets with many moving parts and multiple scouts, a private conversation channel shared between scouts, or shared between scouts and FC, can be an excellent halfway house space, where info which is valuable but not immediately pressing can be linked or typed.

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== Further reading ==

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 In almost all fleets, scouts have a near-total license to speak up and talk over people when they have intel to report: this is one of the privileges of the role. You are the eyes of the fleet: feel able to cut in if necessary. If cutting in, say "break-break" or "check-check" at the start of your report to get everyone else to shut up.
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+Voices on voice comms do not always come with labels: different programs have different overlay options, and inevitably some people can't get their overlay to work. If there is any chance of ambiguity about who you are, refer to yourself in the third person.
+Corporations and alliances in EVE often have members with very different accents; some people will be communicating in a second language, and variation among first-language speakers can also be a problem (differences between British and US accents, for instance, can be quite confusing!). You can use the [[Voice_procedure#Phonetics|NATO phonetic alphabet]] to spell out any crucial information which might otherwise be hard to grasp. System names, for instance, can be stated naturally and then phonetically: "Local spike in ''emm aitch see'', seven new neuts in ''Mike Hotel Charlie''."
+Stay alert to easily-confused words. The [[Ares]] and the [[Eris]], for instance, sound very similar in many accents: an FC needs to know about both ships, but they present different tactical problems. It helps to say "An Ares, interceptor" or "An Eris, bubbler".
+[info about voice channels in bigger fleets]
+In larger fleets with many moving parts and multiple scouts, a private conversation channel shared between scouts, or shared between scouts and FC, can be an excellent halfway house space, where info which is valuable but not immediately pressing can be linked or typed.
+[incorporate other good info from existing article here]
 == Further reading ==