Player Features and Ideas Discussion

/signed. The jukebox was always one of my favorite features.

One of my favorite tracks, and one that always gets me in the best "Eve Mood" is Times of Sanguinity. That track kicks ass.

I will have to try the soundcloud thing, wasn't aware of that. Seems a bit more of a pain in the ass, but I'll give it a go.

Please do!

I want the Jukebox back too. Was it an important feature? Not really, nor is the Notepad, calendar, calculator, and the animated login screen I still miss. However they all added to the quality of Eve in a small way.

And Please don't harp on me when I say using a third party MP3 player in the background is not a viable option. For one, first off the only method in which that works is if you completely mute Eve. (Because there is no turn off music button I can find ingame.) Which means when playing via said MP3 I do not hear sound effects of my actions. Like say if I was mining some asteroids to build something I wanted. And some Jack ass shot at me but I wasn't looking at the screen when it happened. The sounds I didn't hear wouldn't warn me with enough time to get the hell outa dodge or fight back.

And you may not think it's a big deal but changing music playlists and tracks out of window makes me a hell of a lot more vulnerable to PVP'ers when I'm not in a PVP mood. Using a GUI may have took your eyes away from the majority of the interface but minimizing and changing MP3 playlists makes you full blown blind.

The last thing I want is to play a guessing game when changing music. "Will I be fine when I switch back to the Eve Client? Will I bed dead? Or will I simply be halfway dead?" That's not fun! Look it's one thing to be attacked when your able to react and realize and at least have the chance to decide "Fight or Flight?" That makes the game exciting even for non PVP'ers. But nothing is fun about being ganked simply because you couldn't decide "Fight or Flight?"

Last the Jukebox added immersion to the game. Okay explain to me. Why would star ship captains all be listening to the same exact Music? And don't tell me the Jukebox is additional work. The only thing they did was remove the GUI which means they're committing the same amount of work to it either way! You lose nothing in extra features from the GUI being reenabled! Your PVP features and ships are not threatened.

I may not be a dedicated PVP but I do engage in my fair share from time to time. And When I see somebody I am going to fight I love to have "This means War" By Nickleback playing, or "Die ************ Die" By Dope, or "War Pigs" By Black Sabbath. I got music for everything I do ingame. I have music for when I'm mining or manufacturing things. I have music for when I'm helping out buddies with their missions. I have Music for ratting, for cargo running, and yes for PVP. Heck I even have a playlist for revenge PVP. (For when you get killed and you know who and where to find them.) In which case I'll play "The Revenge Song" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3vkwmhzenM.

Look if you don't use the feature fine. But that doesn't mean you should come here and say. "I don't use the feature anyway good riddance." I get it you don't use it. But you don't have to be rude about it. I might not take part in the features you like. Would it be okay for those features to be removed simply because. "Meh I don't use it anyway." As it's been stated they're still coding the engine! They're not committing less coding they simply disabled the GUI! You don't gain anything by the feature being removed. Second by the logic. "Oh it can be handled by a Third party app." That means about half the features should also be removed.

I will not launch any personal attacks on anyone. Everyone is entitled to their opinions. Quite frankly I want the Jukebox back. That is my opinion! It's an cherished feature and a selling point. I actually enjoyed that enhanced my gameplay experience. It wasn't a gameplay element like ships or weapons or other similar content but it added immersion. I'd imagine the little characters would listen to their own Music. I could imagine a Minmatar Rebel listening to some war music when entering Amar space to attack the Amar. Or some Caldari Merc listening to some classical music well negotiating some contract to earn alot of money in his office. Etc. I'd imagine all the individuals of all their different paths and political affiliations would have different tastes. So of course the Music should be on an individual basis. And unfortunately the best possible way to do that is a feature like the Jukebox that allows the player to choose their own play lists. We all have different opinions on what the Minmatar listen to, what the Caldari Listen to, the Amar, and the Galente. Though many of us may jokingly say the Amar listen to some overly religious garbage. We will all have different opinions. Amar fans may tell me otherwise and they are entitled to their opinion.

And said Amar fan may make slave references and similar remarks towards me but that is not the point.

TLDR;

People do like the Jukebox! They still code the engine for the Jukebox but have the disabled the GUI so the work towards maintaining it hasn't changed. Other features are not going to be pumped out faster just because the GUI is disabled. Stop trying to surpress our cry to have the Jukebox restored. I don't go out of my way to make sure they remove the features you like. You don't use it fine but don't force others to be unable to use features just because you don't use them your self.

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Gief!

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I never hear any of my favorite songs anymore

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The Jukebox isn't coming back. It's been said multiple times that it is permanently and utterly dead.

The old jukebox was full of old code that couldn't be supported anymore. The choice was to either build a whole new jukebox from the ground up or scrap it entirely. Nobody has time to build and maintain a new jukebox with all the other more important things going on, so out went the Jukebox.

Seriously, how much risk are you at alt-tabbing for literally five seconds? All modern MP3 players (as well as Soundcloud) automatically advance to the next track for you anyway.

Adapt or die.