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Just a thought, but whatever happened to Aura? Always thought it would be a lot more pleasant (and more fitting) for Aura to announce that "Your shields are low", "You're being warp scrambled" or even "You are being targeted" etc.

Of course that isn't feasible in the near future, but is it something you sound guys have considered?

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can you at least put these on a special slider ? they are much more important than other notifications

ah. could you add a warning sound for cloak failure. like decloaked by an object?

is the whole "fully configurable" thing on the "things we will do one day" list ?

this is one of the main things that really limit my gameplay in eve. i dont care about my warp drive being active, i care much more about it being disabled. i also want to be able to chose a specific sound for it. depending on my playstyle

I was speaking of the various system ambient pieces, I've already noticed that the ships all differ by faction (I'm particularly fond of the Caldari one). Or does system ambient music only change with security status?

what would be some reasons against fully configurable warnings ?

i fully understand time as a limiting factor, but i don#t really see a real reason against doing it one day (luckily there is a team currently working on combat text, but i still want my warnings :D)

sorry for being so annoying about this, it's really important for me ...

I agree with this, it would be pretty cool to have faction space specific ambient music. Maybe one day even extending this to pirate space.

in short, yes. in long, yes, but it will take some time and defo not in the expansion.



I noticed ;) It is important and I'll look into it. :)

Heyy CCP WhiteNoiseTrash! Glad to finally see CCP inject some awesome into eve's sound!

just wondering as a sound guy myself if the audio in eve is mostly samples or mostly synthesis?

and would love to know if you can dispel the popular myth in eve that having sound on adds lag to the game?
(personally i believe those people who think so just have terrible computers and cant tell client lag from network lag!)

ohh and the one thing thats always annoyed me to do with sound in eve is when jumping through a titan with 200 other guys... the multiple voice channels for each sound effect per ship build up to insane levels in headphones, to the point i have to pretty much rip my headphones off so i dont go deaf.

thanks for listening to all of us in this thread and keep up the good work bro!

We are carefully going over all the amounts of voices put into the game, previously there wasn't time to go over all these things, for several reasons. That should limit and get rid of the stacking problem you would experience during such a titan jump.

The sound processing in EVE is pretty hefty, but the sounds themselves causing the lag is slightly overkill. Sounds are attached to events and other processes within the game, so a triggered sound, which seems to cause a lag may be attached to hundreds of other systems doings something at that moment, like warping.

We are trying to implement more, not synthesis, into the game, but rather more granular synthesis, with rather big grains. To have complete control but expand on the variation processes. But a main problem here is that each of such require either pre-calculations or a seperate voice, limiting the amount of sounds available and we are working quite hard on separating your sounds from "other players" to get around this.



It's being worked on.



There should be, depends on which sounds on the drones you are referring to. There have been some changes, but I can tell you as much as basically what all of you mention here, about "more" and "umphf" - more unique sounds and so on, is in the pipeline, but to get it right and make it work without taking the CPU beyond the Eden nebula requires a bit of work.