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Since in your infinite wisdom decided to dumb down sound options to be on par with farmville...please remove the d-scan ping sound and the ui mouseover clickety sounds ktnx. Some of the sounds are crucial to in-game survival, but since they come in the same package with other sounds that are annoying as hell....I'd rather not even play this game anymore.

Thanks for the comment, Arline. You're describing the system working correctly, since sites (missions, anomalies, FW sites) have their own separate music system. |The Combat music option was introduced to bring that type of effect to "ordinary" encounters.

Everyone else, I continue to compile your feedback and deliver it to the audio team. I will keep you informed as CCP Baldur makes additional decisions and changes that affect the menu. Thanks again for coming here and letting us know about your experiences and opinions.

Changes already present on Singularity (like the click slider) should be deployed to TQ at the next update.

CCP explained why this change has to be made in the first post. Anyone continuing to protest that audio settings not change, is (metaphorically speaking) arguing with a brick wall: they do not usually move out of your way.

BS, we are paying customers. Now we do have two choices, we can speak up, or resignate and quit the game.

The meme "Eve has sound?" stemmed from times when Eve's sound was buggy and not well customiseable. I don't think that anybody wants to get back to these archaic times.

Besides from a software development perspective the original reasons given total smell like technical debt in the source code of eve. Nowadays one tries to avoid doing quality assurance manually, one programs test cases for that. You write code and you write the test cases for them at the same time. Then, before any release or even when doing nightly builds, one runs these test cases. Automatic testing => problem detection solved once and for all, no manual labour.

After some testing i came up with results which do not satisfy me but are a compromise between insanity and temptation to throw speakers out the window.

BYE BYE Audio

Thanks to such low granularity my settings show my appreciation to the hard work of CCP's audio guys which effects i won't hear anymore. So yeah, nice little effects you made. Really good work. Too bad they play together with some awfull noice. MUUUUUUTED!!!! Bye, next please.

At least redo all that annoying noice if you want people to listen to it ;-).

This is total BS. Any number of tabs could be added to handle sound and other new options and it would't cost a billion.
If the CCP devs is stating that a problem I could propose give us text interface file with ALL sound settings. If file
exists - use it otherwise default.

Somebody deliberately started all this nightmare with adding D-scan, click, probes, station sounds which nobody ever asked. Players asked for D-scan sound disable from the time of 119.3 patch deployment. Insted of this simple action more sounds were added and AAS revomed. It's a way to drive player insane only by listening all that noise.

EvE main problem is content and now everybody are distracted with restoring sound options. It's also way of "devepolment" but poor one.

After multiple hours of play this weekend I'm still stating the fact you need to seperate wormholes, star gates and stations to their own sliders.

I can't stand the stations/planet effects after multiple hours.

Any progress in getting the old advanced sound settings back ?

So where't the thumbs-down 'Dislike' button on this forum...?

All this "hold off" and "in the current release" sounds to me like nothing but a smokescreen, a way to avoid admitting straight up that that's that, that this reduced, cut back, dumbed down, far less functional idiocy of a non-advanced interface is what we're stuck with for good (or rather, for ILL), an attempt to get the playerbase to get used to it and just accept this significant backward step...

Bad move.

My reaction
It seems very difficult to work in the company that is full of idiots. And even harder to support the company with money when the company absolutely does not hear their customers.