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Old Aura voice:
New Aura voice:

Please, please, PLEASE bring back the old voice. The old, dark, sexy voice!!!!!

Don't be so sure about that. For once you don't know what version has been presented to CSM, but you can be sure it wasn't the final version. And then CCP has ignored feedback from players on such a regular basis (like all the opposition to the new Aura voice on SiSi forum), that even if all CSMs had been protesting, it still might have ended up in the final version.

They did give us a choice, it was called a testing server. I assume that you know how to log on to Sisi, so why didn't you? Those of us who did told CCP that the new voice was not up to the old one. They did change some of the pronunciation on "Docking request accepted" but as far as I can tell that's about all.

Please, next time CCP has a big upgrade make sure that you use Sisi to wring out the bugs. We need a loud voice telling the devs. "This bit is wrong, please fix it out."

The old voice was slowly but the new one is to fast.

Maybe we should choice ore voice (like the settings from a GPS)

Request option for Classic AURA.

Guys, I propose a little experiment : all people who love the original Aura, let's downgrade to Alpha . Eve has become free-to-play, right ? So why pay CCP for stuff we hate ? We won't die a few months, but it remains to be seen whether we can say the same about CCP...

CCP, you have been completely silent about this, you are ignoring veteran players' voices who have been playing this because it's "something else", more than a game . By fiddling with the core of Eve (yes, even "a voice" is part of that core), you are slowly turning this into the MMORPG around-the-corner... it's like Friends with one member of the original cast replaced .. It makes me not want to be a part of this anymore and it makes me genuinely sad. I know, I am free to choose something else, I am just saying I am sad for how great Eve has been so far and that this unique experience is starting to fade into something "for the masses".

You don't have to try to compete with Star Citizen or other evolving MMORPGs to create a comparable NPE or just "compete" with them, Eve is Eve and has to remain this way, unique. Old Aura and small, "spartan" tutorials were just fine. This was the charm of the game, Think for yourself: what can YOU do to survive or make fortunes? Watch Youtube tutorials, read secrets and valuable information on sites (like Evelopedia which you took down), try to be ahead of other people with what YOU learn. Eve was/still is a game of thought.

You will see beautifully crafted ships and missions on planets in Star Citizen that Eve won't ever have with the current graphics engine, but it doesn't need them either. On the other site, you won't see 3000 player battles and fortunes vanishing in minutes in any other MMORPG than Eve. Follow the core path this game asks for itself and that you have built and held in 13 years or so, not other marketing "feats" which rise and fall over time.

Thank you.

• My leadership skills have been removed and replaced with different skills under a stupid new "Burst" system that doesn't allow the same tactics I trained the skills for. I paid for those skillpoints. Since you replaced my skills with DIFFERENT SKILLS, I should get my skillpoints back, and not this skill injector crap (70% deduction for being a loyal customer).


• The Requirements window is unclear and unhelpful, the info buttons on skills are missing and replaced with useless "counting blocks". If the required skill says "Electronics III", why do I need three blocks to show me what the number 3 means? The info button was way more useful; the old Requirements window was way better.


• Omega yellow on everything is annoying and ugly. I paid my subscription so don't ruin my inventory with yellow outlines; it makes this look like a crappy browser game.


• Aura recordings replaced with terrible re-recordings. Why?!! Basic audio processing is simple, there is no excuse for this kind of crap. Any decent sound engineer would tell you the same. Or anybody with ears.


• The new character sheet is horrible. It is WAY harder to see what is going on at-a-glance, and this arrangement is the worst possible way to utilize window space. I couldn't make it any worse if I tried.

Please just stop with the updates. I prefer a game that stays the same when compared to this constant stream of crap that seems to flow from CCP Seagull's "new gamer environment".

Coming to think of it:

The Aura voice has changed for consistency reasons, due to the new NPE, but the following are happening:

-The existing customers strongly dislike the new voice.
-The new customers are unaware of what they are missing, and thus probably won't care that much of the new voice.
-The new NPE is not available for existing customers.

The only inconsistency I see, is that the Aura voice has changed for no apparent reason, and it doesn't match any new content voice for existing customers.

I believe an eagle-eyed problem solver can spot a possible middle ground among the above...

Suggestion (to be in line with the lore and reality that the original actress can't do the NPE): have Aura "struggle" between the voices. "After the accident, Aura has had trouble with her voice. Sometimes we can hear the profound , epic voice that lead our ancestors to New Eden, sometimes it shifts to a metallic, new voice, which she can't control but loves nevertheless ..."

And you can bring in some mixing audio effects for the original voice to blend it with the new voice. Have a random chance to hear the unchanged original, sometimes the mixed and sometimes the new. The new content can be only the new voice. Just my 0.02.

That means someone could bring down all Ice supply in New Eden with a single Harvester Drone? Muhahahahah....