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I sent the Dev in question a mail. He actually responded in a simmilar fashion to another user here:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=6708912#post6708912

If anyone else wants to take this further here is the profile of the Dev in question:

CCP Falcon

https://forums.eveonline.com/profile/CCP%20Falcon

Well I will say one thing about CCP as a collective whole, their dev team does have good interactions with the community via Twitch, discord and slack, atleast they do try and talk to the community to gauge the mood about some changes. There are obviously times where things aren't great and the community and players butt heads, but I'll honesty admit that I've got a few devs I would happily buy a beer if I went to fanfest again.

Why should we pay for something they broke

You are everything that is wrong with gaming these days.

So, I have some problems with the new Aura voice, and some suggestions on what could be done to improve it.

This game has always been one of the most relaxing games I have ever played. The visuals, sounds, voice, and music all played together to create this perception of absolute tranquility. Sadly however this new aura is completely out of place in this tranquil universe. She speaks too quickly and with too much urgency.

Imagine a star trek scene if you would. Your the captain of your ship and your sitting back in your chair, sipping on some tea as you command your ship. Old aura was like a Vulcan, no emotion or passion in her voice. She was calming and added to this sense of tranquility. Even in the most dire circumstances she was always calm. Now replace her with this new voice, and rather than the calm vulcan that adds to the serenity of your ship, you have this new ensign who panicks over the slightest thing. She disrupts the calm of your ship with every word she says, and there is never any calm in her voice. Yes you can shut her up, but then the universe around you is even more lonely than it was before.

My suggestion on how the new aura can be improved is simple. Guide the actor to be calm and relaxed. Speak slowly as if she rarely gets to say anything and she wants every word to count. As an additional point, I notice that whoever did the sound tried to replicate the reverberating sound of the old Aura. But sadly this new Aura just sounds muffled.

I truly hope you can fix aura's voice to be less annoying, as like I said, space is lonelier now without Aura talking to me.

+1

There's a lot of things they could have fixed instead of giving us that disaster of a UI.

Yeah, lovin' the responses CCP is providing in this thread....

so far, i have to say it is nice to be able to play eve again. however i see a couple of mistakes in my opinion on the limitations for alpha clone.

1. mastery level for ships are way to limited. most cases you can maybe get mastery 1 even 2 at most.

my suggestion would be to allow all alphas to at least reach mastery 3 on all ships they can get the skills to pilot.

2. mining limitation of ships for alphas are set very poorly. frigates only? that is basically saying oh here have a trial account forever. not very incising for new players to want to get a sub, not to mention the difficulty for some of us old time miner that had moved on to barges now have to reacquire the frigate. i can understand the lock out from the industrial and capital ships even the high-tech variants of ships but he barges not so much.

my suggestion would be allow the barges to alphas at least.

for now that is all i have to say other then thank you for the first time attempt at setting up a free to play system in this awesome game.

I'm still just pissed off about the change of Aura's voice. And the way CCP is (and isn't) responding to it certainly doesn't help.

I realize that you guys at CCP most likely have an attitude of "nobody likes changes, but they'll adapt" right now. But I can assure you, it is much more serious than that.

Have you any idea what kind of an impact it has on the game when you get annoyed every time you warp or dock a station? Especially when, at times, you do this every couple of seconds?

In the end I decided to just mute her voice because I came to realize that most of the time I was feeling more annoyed than ejoying myself while playing this game that I have come to love so much. Not at all the way I would've liked to solve this, of course. And I can't imagine you feeling good about your players doing this either.

By now I have, kind of, come to terms with the fact that you had to re-record her lines. I understand why. But why did you have to do such a shoddy job at it? That I don't understand. Because these new recordings simply just don't sound good. Not at all, in fact.
I mean, come on... Right now it sounds like two different women saying "Docking permission requested" and "Docking request accepted". Who in heaven's name OK'ed this?

If you had to hire a different voice actress this time, for whatever reason that might've been, then couldn't you at least have done your best to make these new recordings sound as similar as possible to the previous ones so as not to change the overall atmosphere and sound of the game? Couldn't you at least have done us that favor?

If that is indeed what you were aiming for then I'm sorry, but you have failed miserably. And I demand (I believe I can make demands since you expect me to pay you) that you either re-record it or fix the current recordings.
If, on the other hand, you purposefully went a different direction with regards to the sound of her voice, then I demand an explanation as to why exactly you thought this was a great idea.

I sincerely hope that you will have the common decency to give us a (kind and proper this time, please) response on this matter. Especially since such a vast amount of your customers have shown themselves to be dissatisfied with this.
And I can assure you, it's not just us on the forums who are dissatisfied. I have spoken to enough people in-game to be able to conclude that we are just the tip of the iceberg. The ones who are at least taking the time to make themselves heard.

Finally, I would like to end on a positive note, and say that I genuinely am happy with pretty much all of the other changes you have implemented. Some will take some time to get used to, sure. But they don't bother me.
So thank you for that, and overall I think compliments are in order for taking the game through this rough transition.