And the compelling reason to do this?

Anything that screws with the general order of TeamSpeak usage, should IMO, come with a CBA. (Cost benefit analysis).

I.e.
- The cost in time to setup / Get others setup
- Will players who have not set this up be able to get quickly connected?
- Will players who have not set this up be able to talk to those who have?
- Are there any negatives when this is enabled (i.e. in arma, TS was totally locked down and if you were in game, you could not talk to anyone else outside the game or vice versa (total deal breaker for me personally)).
- It's hard enough to get the average player to join our TS. Adding an extra requirement gains us what exactly?

What problem are we trying to solve that can't be solved by whisper channels?

This seems like a solution looking for a problem that we don't have.

This has been brought up on TS a few times... I've posed the above questions and concerns to those who were in channel to which none have responded with a compelling reason. A one worded "realism?" response doesn't cut it

Realism is all fine and dandy, but if you make it so real (and such a pain in the ass) you will find yourself the only one in TS completely defeating the whole point of the TS to begin with.

You didn't address a single question I asked. You just added an "immersion" to the same argument.

I had written a TLDR response pointing this out and asking again..

but decided to take another look at the ED thread to make sure I understood what he was offering. It seems like some of my concerns are actually addressed in that post.

This seems like a slightly different animal then my Arma / TS experience.

I would not be against 'trying' it or hearing back from those who do.

I'm building out another server for DCS soon. (so we can run both vegas and cacus at the same time) I'll try it there if no one else beats me to it.