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An Audio related issue: The ship specific sounds seem to be completely muted down or even missing. It is a bit shame as those sounds are really well created. (Ore ships specifically are muted down a lot, those sounds made mining much more imerssive as well ;).) The sounds I am talking about are the ones when hovering over ships in ISIS they emit.

Hah! Already seen your face man, looking forward to the interview!

Right. never tested PI from a station.
makes perfect sense that they are missing, I'll write that down to fix it.

Did anyone actually see the thing?

Finally I will be able to turn off station sounds plus some other things that i dont like / need (especially when running few clients at the same time) while leaving important sounds on

I will once it gets up on youtube if it was recorded.

Live in HD of course.

But without sound.

Nah, just kidding ;)

yep. but i couldn't find the "acceleration gate soundtracks" checkbox :)

We are not, but this new thing can sort of be used to sort some of the problems between comms and audio.

Fanfest 2014 is over, I have a massive hangover and my lever is like visibly bulging out from my stomach! so if there is an aarrrrrrrrr in some of the coming sentences, please understand.
I don't want people to have "more options" in the sense that it will make the game more confusing.

but in this case, it's needed with more options. One thing that I have learned by working on EVE and playing EVE, is that for every player there is a new way of wanting to use audio or not at all.
Not playing with sound on, is a choice one can make, I don't judge you (I only have a poster at home I throw knives at when I think of you)

Now, not seeing a slider that you think does exactly what you want is one thing, trust me there is a way to turn down anything you want, but there is a limited about of space in that damn menu.
I'm not so much cheering the point that you can now turn down stuff individually, I cheer for the thing to the very right of the picture - the inactive client dampener (I will have to come up with a new name for that)

Which allows you to have an unlimited amount of clients open and have music on and tick the checkbox called music and have the music only play one instance instead of the same unlimited amount of times as clients.
Perhaps you can't be bothered with the shield warning of a specific toon and you can manually turn it down with the slider, but you can also check the corresponding checkbox called "shield warning" and not have it play from any other client than the one that is in focus.

Client one has to do something, client to has 40 jumps of autopilot. Let client two do it's thing and choose to only hear warning, so you don't hear all the jumps or anything.

Camp a gate or a wormhole, choose to not hear anything but the jump.

All the sliders! If you don't like station sounds, turn them down. if you setup is weird and for some reason gates are too loud for you, turn them down. you don't like the turrets? turn them down.

exporting as XML is of course, at the moment, not something that will happen.
but it's a good idea, but getting this through from idea to part of the game to begin with was a really big thing, so asking for exporting and importing of settings may cause a few programmers to flee away from me, like some already do.

and of course, I will write a dev blog about this really soon, when I can actually spell correctly and be slightly more coherent and when my physical form is actually in shape where I can walk without every step being a knife straight into the side of stomach. (getting too old for this ****)

The videos that CCP Scarpia didn't show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-BBsP_b1w&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgwB3cinXmU&feature=youtu.be

they are quite simple and of course they don't show how this can be useful in many situations, they only show the basic principle of this.

so the video with the boosters going away is just to illustrate what happens with any given sound if you click it's check-box and leave the client.

no matter if that is checking your email, facebook or whatever - or another client, it doesn't matter, it goes away.

Standard setting would most likely be to have music checked on all clients and what you want for the rest of it, is entirely up to you.

now go play with it, when Kronos comes out.