I disagree with the fact that it is a bad idea... I have been on a few servers who use Mic Battery and it actually works positively... Rather than talking and telling stories to people over the mic the people used chat to do the talking... There was also enought time to talk over the mic for about 10 seconds but it took forever to recharge and you wanted to make sure you had it when you needed it... Arguements would eventually be useless over mic and they would resort to chat cause it was faster and nothing prevented you from talking...

The point is to prevent one person from hogging the voice chat which quite a few people do... A lot of people spend too much time waiting for their turn and eventually lose their patience... one person tries to talk over and then everyone follows... Suddenly everyone is trying to tell them to shut up and headphone users check into the hospital the next day...

Sure... we won't be able to talk to people over chat often... But voice traffic on TNS is worse than 5 P.M. and limiting the traffic is nessisary to help those poor spectators who are forced to use chat to talk... If you won't do it for them then do it for those poor unfourtunates who wear headphones...

P.S. Don't allow admins and donators to disable it... That would solve about none of the problem