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The new log in screen is really much nicer, although it would be neat to see a CQ style screen I do think the load speed factor was a wise choice,

I love the new ships and bought the BP right after patch. The Stratios is easily my favorite T1 cruiser. I've been waiting for a Covert Op cruiser+ that isn't a Force Recon. I love the huge drone bay and ship bonuses along with a nice Grid and CPU. Now if only there were a new BC/BS that could employ the T2 cloak. I like the idea of new weirder ships that are not just straight forward combat ships. I would love to see the "stay undocked and explore" idea with larger ships with larger cargo bays and more nifty non-combat related bonuses.

Also the new warp changes are great since I tend to like those faster ships plus I have a couple characters who use Viators.

To be honest I'm sick of hearing every sound effect get derped up. Everything they touch sound effects-wise, they botch. CCP, stop fixing sounds that aren't broken. If you really must, then get a better team for it?

New MWD sound:
- jumps abruptly into its intro sound.
- does not pan its intro or outro sound like the rest of the effect loop.
- is really unconvincing in trying to be directional.
--- it sounds the same from the front as it does from the back
--- it sounds the same from the right as it does from the back (guessing this is a bug)
--- it sounds different from the left as it does from the right
--- can be heard zoomed way out from the front, but is totally silent if my camera is right in the ship's face, but to the side. It's just so unconvincing, because it has been implemented in such a cheap way.
- is sometimes on when I've just undocked.
- sounds like I'm a spectator at an F1 GP.
- the AB sound comes with squeaking metal.
- is obviously too loud. This is not MWD Online. To make it tolerable means Aura is barely audible.

So regardless of the fact that I'm travelling at 7km/s in space and am expected to believe that it's thanks to some mechanically whirring, squeaking engine, the implementation itself is just amateurish.

How hard is it to make a sound effect that synchronises properly with the speed, and pans correctly, and builds up in a way that makes sense. Like thousands of other games? Is it too hard to make something that the listener can believe is actually connected to what's happening? I could suggest that the sound should change for an overheated MWD as well, because surprise surprise that does nothing to the effect either, but I'm afraid that someone in CCP's sound team might actually do that and stuff that up too.

Of course it's not just the MWD that has me annoyed. They ruined the warp effect. Again, the listener now can't feel or imagine what the sounds are actually connected to. It used to be perfect, a nice soft "boom" and the listener could feel that they are now truly in warp. Nowadays... wtf is going on with warp? Am I falling down a toilet? Can't tell. It used to be perfect.

Stargate effect. Used to be boss. The listener used to understand precisely what every second of that sound meant.
Now it is a big confused slurp, just like the warp sound, with the odd "targetting" sound randomly sitting in there just being more distracting. And that is also obvious.

So yeah, it's not just that the new effect is bad, it's that they keep borking up things in really dumb, obvious ways.

Can we please have the AB, MWD, warp and stargate sounds all returned to pre-Inferno? They were all simply much better.

My mouth is literally hanging open...

You just won Eve.

Ok, after living with it for a few days... I really don't see that you guys had to slow Battleships down so much. More speed for ceptors? Great! But this is just adding more dead game time while we warp. Not needed , just my opinion for feedback. (and I'm usually one of the silent masses of Eve)

No space jam in warp. At top speed, the ship just coasts. No need for the engine until it has to slow down again. Removing space jam in regular flight for the next release? Considering the coasting in warp, how about warp in any direction without requiring a target destination "lock" in order to allow constant coasting during warp?

Sound doesn't change on different - relatively modern - systems, it's just ridiculous. It can depend only on your speakers and only veeery slightly.
A known thing: some people find the screeching high sound of scraping a glass with a metal very unpleasant, and other don't find that sound annoying at all.
And I'm not the only person who hates the new sound, there are a lot of us.

But the picture does?

So the sound is uniquely immune from distortion, but everything else is vulnerable?

I don't buy that.

If a graphics card can mess up the picture I see no logical reason why an audio card can't mess up the sound.

Quite probably, but I repeat: the sound on my system bears absolutely no resemblance to metal on glass (and I speak as someone who cringes at the sound of a knife scraping across a plate).

So you, like lots of others, don't like the sound or don't like it as it is interpreted by your system. Fine, I don't doubt what you say, but I'm simply offering the opinion that it could be due to some sort of incompatibility between CCP's software and your sound card.

No need to get your knickers in a twist.

Here is a workaround for that... Move out of wormhole space!

Wormholes haven't been designed so you can mine risk free. If you're not cleaver/brave enough to close incoming wormholes and then keep eye on the system scanner for new signatures, then you would be better off in high sec.

The thumbnail pictures of command ships with new models still shows the old model on kill mails.

This is minor, but when you dropped the number of slots on the Malediction from 4 to 3, it makes a fully-fit ship look weird. Fit one up with turrets or launchers, and you'll see what I mean.