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I have to admit my eyes widened a bit when I read the part about the low cap audio que. Thank you, CCP! It's about damn time...

Overall, good read. Procedural sfx sounds pretty cool. And things like ship idle sfx adds a nice touch.

Personally, the removal of the jukebox isn't such a big deal. What CCP had was a pain to use, why even bother using it when you can have your own choice of third party apps that handles everything so much better. The jukebox (for me) was 99.9% redundant and ANNOYING at times when it turned on automatically for some inexplicable reason(s).

Now, I play EVE with sound mostly turned off (unless I need to use voice), one feature I'd like to see is the separation of background effects/music and battle effects (e.g turret/impact/missile sounds etc.) so that you will have 2 separate toggles in the option to turn on/off. It's common sense and not an unreasonable request. Why? Imagine playing Beethoven's 9th Symphony (or whatever other music) with your favourite player while your titan's blapping some poor capital in a fight, complete with all the battle sound effects. That my dear fellow, is bliss

I have some comments but please note that these are strictly from me as a player!

I am really excited about these changes - For one thing, ship environment sounds make a ton of sense and it's something I've wanted to have for a while. Just add actual crews that modify the ships stats and we're gold :P

I understand the soundcloud initiative; but does it have any impact on people with a limited data plan ?

In the same feeling; can this impact on players with limited bandwidth who perhaps play eve and listen to other online streaming services like EVE-Radio ?

The jukebox vs media player comment is relevant - but don't forget that adding a jukebox and having the ability to play your own MP3s in the thing are not date related at all. If this is not going to be an option moving forwards, will we be able to export our current playlists ?

Sound made when finishing a mission - I hope it's a Ding! :Þ

Otherwise, I really can't wait to hear (pun lol) from you guys

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE scrap and replace the login noise, it is a bitter and harsh high-pitched screech that I'm sure nobody enjoys.

sounds when I complete a skill or ....

okay does this sound to any one else like a move towards "Mon-mon-mon-monster killlllll !"

Someone mentioned/requested an adjustable cap warning level.

remember, you can't be taking away things that you've given us and you can't tell us, "we want the music to play in context of where you are and what you are doing" its not about what you want. Its about what we the paying public want.

Some of us (me included) will like a majority of the sound changes ("upgrade" would be too subjective) but I think (imho) that these changes will seal the fate of "eve has sound?" (non usage) for most.

warningThreshold = 30%
soundReset = 10%
playWarning = True

if shipCapacitor < warningThreshold and playWarning is True:
warningSound(capacitor)
playWarning = False

if playWarning is False and shipCapacitor >= warningThreshold + soundReset:
playWarning = True

Tada!

I will really miss the old soundtrack that I heard everyday since seven years ... But I must admit that this changes are certainly good ones. I can't wait to hear the result on TQ :).

What I'd love to have access to are the more exciting bits of music that play when you enter a mission. For ages I've been wondering how I could get my hands on those. By far some of my favorite music selections in the game with the driving industrial sound.


Anyways. Cheers!

Dear CCP Developers.

Please make it so that the jump bridge does not kill my ears every time I use it.

Thanks.

CCP, any chance the soundtrack on soundcloud could be made available for download? It'd be nice to put it all onto my mp3 player.