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07 pilot here, I have turned on sound maybe once a year. Never left it on more then 2 min.
Maybe I will try Eve online sound next year.

Can anyone on the Dev Team give an indication if the Mega Pulse sounds are being looked at? There are awful now, my kids called it "the wet tea towel flick gun"

This is not a sound that evokes mass power and energy, it's flat and uninspiring.

honestly it might just be best to go and compleatly re-write the whole sound engine at this point and start from the ground up again for sounds.

No they don't. stats says otherwise. :)
You can turn the music down and have your own music playing from a 3'rd party player.

the current system is meant to have specific music playing at specific points in Eden, depending on your position and situation.

How about option in client settings to turn off combat music? I dont mind ambient tracks playing on background, but listening same aggressive combat tracks every single time I do mission makes me sick. Without this option many players just turn off all music and never turn it back (and this means that your good efforts have failed).

Of course you can answer something like "dont like it - dont listen", "stats show otherwise", but then what the point of the improvements to the sound system? Didn't the main reason is to make sound listening for players more comfortable (and not painful and annoying)?

I think the 0.0 sound of a dieing space whale gets boring very fast... I still have it on so stats can be misguiding.

Bring back the old strip miner sound <3 this new one is anemic.

which screeech are we talking about here?
there is a plan to make the system more multiple box friendly, but it needs some coding done which is out of the audio departments hands.

I can see my post wasn't entirely clear, so i'll try to rephrase it.

Every time your non-capsuleer log-off timer resets, you will hear a sound, a warning that you have got this cooldown, the next 5 minuts.

This is not an issue, if you're on a single account killing npc's, because as long as they shot you the cooldown never resets.
However, if you like me have multi/triple accounts running an anomaly there's usually only 1 guy being shot at.
So as soon as the other accounts start shooting, the sound will play, because the cooldown is no longer at 5 minuts, so it "resets" and play the sound.

Once again: I know it's kinda a special situtation, but this could be fixed, if we could just turn off the warning sounds completely.


When you hear this sound three times every 15's sec, you get kinda annoyed after a little while :)

Edit; Another solution could be to only play this "reset" sound when you're more than 1 minut into the cooldown. (ie; there's 4.5minuts left, the sound does not play... later on you get aggro, now there's only 3.5 minuts left, and the warning plays)

I definitely understand where you're coming from, but that sound can be so penetrating, that it in fact achieves the opposite of the goal, to make me turn off even world level sounds, even though at times I need it activated (just so I can hear an activation on a gate or wormhole). Or likewise if you do any PvE content that requires broadcasting is more annoying, since either you have to live with the really annoying timer sounds every few seconds, or you have to bite the bullet and reduce world level so much that you cannot even hear shield/armor/hull alarm soudns anymore.

Truth be told, until such time that the Timer alerts can be configured separately in volume or even whether they play at all, I would rather see them gone for the moment. Something that makes those few people who still have some sounds on turn them *off* just so they don't get annoyed entirely is an unfinished and far from polished product that should be introduced into the game.

Just run some incursions or sleeper escalation for an hour, and you will get that BUZZZZ sound usually once every 10-20 seconds. Disable world sounds, and some people might run into the risk of their ship getting blown up, because they didn't hear those alarms kick off.

:edit: Typo and last paragraph added