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ok, Quick update.. it's really late and I have been at the office for 12 hours now.

Because of all the feedback here and comments and opinions given and my own thoughts after having seen this in action. I have made a few last minute changes to this.

and I'll reply to all the replies since my last post later (as they are a quite a few, but I was just too busy with this today - as I got into excitement mode while working on it - and you don't interrupt excitement mode)

1. The ability to INCREASE the volume has now been added.
this was an option mentioned by many, so it is now made so that all the sliders start in the middle and you can lower it completely or mash it to the right, giving it a 6 dB increase in volume.

have in mind that this is on your own risk! not saying that it will blow your speakers to oblivion, but the mix might go slightly over 0 dBFS which you don't want of course. (the option of just limiting and compressing this is the easy way out, but for now this is put in for you to control yourself)

2. The ability to change the volume of dungeon music, separate from general music has been added.

3. Inactive client volume is now called "inactive client muting" to clear some of the misunderstandings about this and the counter intuitive meaning of the checkboxes.

4. the 3rd party warp effect, the new flash and boom you hear, has been added to the list - it was magically gone missing before. and we can't have magic in our game.

That's it... :)
The sliders being in the middle, does on the other hand force the values back to the default value when you turn the system on and off, so you may experience a change in loudness when turning this on and off, so have that in mind if you turn a lot of stuff down and suddenly turn off the system ..

Cheeererio ;)
-CCP WNT . .. and I shall go watch some hockey now!

Awesome changes. Many thanks.

The sliders to the far left, are a leftover from the old way it was - the only things you could change.

just leave them basically.
UI speech is practically Aura, so it does exactly the same as Aura does in the new sliders.

UI Sound is all the clicks, interaction stuff in one slider.. so consider it an overall UI slider.

Pretty sure the MJD is under modules and not Engine...
the explosions, are explosions of ships and other things - so missile impacts and those explosions goes under impacts, if I'm not mistaken. (I don't have the system open,, so I can't double check)

yea, it's one of the things I'd like myself.
or perhaps even storable settings so you can quickly change between your combat and industry sound settings.

when you say off, you mean in a different way than just taking the fader all the way to the far left? which is the same as off???

Personally, I don't ever see this happening, as there's too many variables to accurately guess what sort of tanking you're doing. Is it just the presence of the modules, or how much they contribute to the tank? There are dozens of armour modules that are not "active armor rep", which means assessing all sorts of combinations.

I could fit shields or bulkheads to an Abaddon, but the base armour amount may still be greater - which has precedence? The total HP? The number of modules or the amount they boost HP? The greatest resists? A DC2 might imply you want to hull tank it, even if you have plates fitted. You're asking the game to "guess" your fitting strategies, which could be brilliant, or could be "under the influence". Undocking is slow enough as it is - I wouldn't want more checks added to that process if it can be avoided.

Perhaps user-profiles would be more practical, as explained below...


Having user-defined sound profiles could be useful, perhaps with a keyboard shortcut to cycle between them, so in addition to your combat or industry profiles, have an armour or shield profile, or a teamspeak or solo-play profile.

Also consider the ability to import/export these profiles, whether as part of the audio options, or as part of a complete EVE client settings export (which I don't think exists right now, does it? ).

I've been playing with this for hours on the new build - Excellent work!!!!!
At the end, parked outside of station listening to the pops of ships entering and leaving warp. A roar of engines slowly built and faded as a ship eased past me - just great work.
Go and have a drink!

Awesome Work!

I haven't gone through all comments here, so I'm gonna throw this out there:

For the Purpose of the Multiboxer or just saving in general... Can we have an Export/Import feature of Audio Settings?

Keep up the Good Work!

How about the sound of them coming to take you away because you can hear things in space!

Can't wait to try out the sound and thanks for the hard work.
I don't know about Valium, but if I get the chance, I'll buy you a bottle.

As we all sit here waiting 'til we can download the update....
I just realized what my office is going to sound like with 6 or 7 people playing Eve with full sound on and cranked.

Maybe we'll let the service answer the phone for next few days.

PS. yes, I let my employees play games at work, as long as they get their code written and written well.
Something about programmers, their a 'unique' bunch.

PSS. Will be sending CCP a bill for lost profits