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most of the sounds in EVE are from when the game was made. in 1997 and released in 2003.

Well... I was talking about audio controls being from stone age... not the entire system. Generally it works fine.

I am surprised that no-one has mentioned the mission music to you. Most people I've been talking to seem to agree that it would be nice to have _option_ to keep them on even for example station music is still off.

Perhaps some people do not even remember/know that they exist anymore. This would not be great surprise as I can say rather safely that most multiboxers have permanently turned the music slider to 0-volume after you guys removed the jukebox and forced us to listen music on station on every client regardless did we like it or not. You can imagine how it sounds when 2+++ different tunes play on top of each other. So... obviously after this all the mission musics, character selection musics and related are gone for good also. And yes - you should check some stats how many of us actually do multibox 2+++ clients. Should give some nice fresh perspective to feature planning. Adding button to disable station music (only) would be great start already.

No I haven't read this thread as I came here just to give quick feedback about stuff I think is missing or what could work better. This is not the 1st time I mention these things over the years and probably will not be the last either. My plan was to leave the post and be done with it in 10 minutes. However your initial answer did kind of force me to start arguing (again) and apparently some ISD truncated my feedback to more compact form for easier reading.

Yep... I do want the option to disable station music (or other easy way to turn it off). This is correct. However I didn't want the stuff what forced me to want the thing in 1st place :-)

...and it is nice to hear that you've been working with some stuff already. Thank you.

...and finally to get back to the CQ flat screen audio thingy (which was and is really the most minor issue of them all as you prolly guessed) - it doesn't really matter who implemented it. There is always room for fixes, improvements and upgrades which someone can make. In ideal world you could stream live video/html through that, but obviously that would be whole different issue. I've been asking for volume slider since it was released just because it sucks to normalize all .bik files to certain audio level (more about that behind link which is in my signature) which sounds good in CQ.

...but like I said this is really minor thing and really doesn't affect the gameplay at all. Just a thing what could be there in ideal world to save some time while converting the videos. Anyways here is proof of concept and lovely presentation with fixed audio levels and echo effects: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1312/CQ-audio.mp4

This, seriously, never heard of it.
One problem is that players may be talking about something privately, but that never reaches me.
suggestions, thoughts, etc.

Send me an EVE mail and I'll be very happy to look at it.
I don't promise to customize EVE to whatever people want, I'm just saying that if I'm not told what players think, I might overlook things and not get the idea.

an idea from a player that I can iterate upon would be awesome.

So, how is that what i was asking? Unless you've recently changed that setting to be persistent with each individual ship, and not a global setting....

That is what i was asking, for a way for it to not-exist on my armor ships, and still be there on my shield ships.

ISD, i apologize if stating facts was considered a personal attack. I guess i will refrain from using them in the future.

ok. so regarding this looping gate noise. Maybe you could just remove the sound effect on TQ till its fixed? I asked around and everybody i asked could reproduce it. and its very annoying. I basically warp to safe and restart the client while in warp to make it go away.

But something could have gone wrong in the previous patch, we had a memory leak which we fixed and that new patch is going in on tuesday, if it's still there afterwards - I'll remove it.

That would be a graphical issue, and not an audio issue than ;)
yet it affects audio, then there is nothing I can do about it, if the it's the graphics that spawns the instance that makes the sound occur.

Yet, it is quite odd, because that would mean that the 3D instance of the graphics should occur on top of the camera, to make it not change with zooming in and out, and that has yet to be reproduced and proven,

There's a horrible buzzing and clacking sound whenever I zoom in on my ship. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with whether I've jumped through gates or anything like that, just a constant BZZT CLAK CLAK BZZZZT CLAK that never goes away unless I zoom all the way out.

I've always played EVE with the sound on but this is ******* awful, I'm going to have to mute it if it's working as intended.

EDIT: Actually maybe it is gate-related, it went away briefly but returned as soon as I changed systems.

well, I went over this with the guys here - and since it's "official" that you can do so. of course there should be an option on this.
but it won't happen until summer for sure.

Another thing is also that very few players actually use the CQ, not that I will let those few players down, but I can't fix this, before so many other things - so this is for summer for sure.

don't worry. it's very annoying this one.
because it not reproducible here, not even internally and not even when I play the game myself (and that should actually have the same problems as everybody else)

but don't fret.
the previous patch, had some problems, (some merging and a few things might have gone wrong, we are not sure where in the chain) - and there is another one coming in tomorrow (Tuesday) at DT - which should contain the final fixes and everything missing from the first patch.

it's crucial that you all let me know if this problem continues, after tomorrow.