EVE General Discussion

Aw man, don't be sad dude. I love the music in EVE and I have it on pretty often. Not a noob here either, been around awhile and love the old (and new) music.

Just 2c from a guy who DOES keep his sound and music on in EVE, most of the time.

So far I gotta agree with the "random step backward" sentiment.

Can someone explain why anyone thought this was a good enough idea to spend any time on?

I love EVE music. I really do.
But after Retribution I had to turn off music volume to zero because there is no way to turn off "combat tracks".

Two features that I like to see in client settings:
Turn off combat music option. For my taste combat music is too intense and it wont stop playing when you warp-out from deadspace pocket.
Mute sounds when client in background option. When you run two clients at once from one folder, sounds will mix into the cacophony.

Say, CCP..... ^^^^^^^^^^^

"As part of building a cohesive experience, marrying graphics, design and sound, we want the music to play in context of where you are and what you are doing."

okay .. I get that you're trying to build a sound scape to match the scenery. BUT... "we want the music" we're the paying customer so its not about what you want but what we want. (lesson still to be learned)

I love music. I love the music in eve. I love variety as well. I will no longer have that variety in eve. So if your plan was to cause players to WANT to disable the sound ... I think you will succeed.

"Maintaining an mp3 player inside EVE, while there are much better media players out there doesn‘t make much sense to us. Keep in mind that all code in EVE needs to be maintained. UIs are upgraded, codecs need upgrading, code is refactored, defects need to be resolved. By removing redundant pieces of code from our codebase, we free up engineering time to maintain, iterate and develop other features which are more important and core to the spaceship game EVE. As we move forward with EVE development, iterating and adding features, we have to be ready to cut off dead branches and prune our garden so to speak.

By placing the music on Soundcloud, we are providing those that still want to customize their own playlists with the existing EVE soundtrack the ability to do so. We opted for that route rather than maintaining two systems, both the new system and the jukebox, as that is an extra development effort, again, taking away resources from more important things. Like always, your feedback is important to us. Let us know if you agree or disagree with this move. Remember though, by removing extraneous functionality, we have more time to work on other things."

Well its a good thing we're close to snow fall ... my snow shovel was close at hand. What a load of horse manure !

I do not buy any of that for a minute as a valid reason for the Jukebox removal. It simply got in the way of >your< "sound scape" so you took it away, banking on a majority having the attitude "what , there is sound in eve ??" and not noticing. Ooops !

Is there a way to obtain the full setlist of EVE songs ?? For download ??

If I'm not mistaken, the album only had a handful of the songs (no We Fight Proud For The Holder, too).

Don't worry Real, I like the music.

Microsoft did it with Windows 8. They have failed.

Ok i understand that maintaining music inside the client needs resources and maintenance. I know that placing music outside the client is much better and removes the need to maintenance it. But is it possible to make controls for it ingame?

You know, music is outside the client (soundcloud) but controls for it (jukebox that controls soundcloud) are inside the client. I think that this solution should "feed both sides". No maintenance for devs and no "alt-tabbing-to-select-track" for players.

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The long and the short of it is, laziness. Pure laziness, I realize coding is hard, so hard in fact that I don't do it and have never tried, but the reason for it is because ITS NOT MY ****ING JOB, it IS however CCP's job and they didn't do it. They cut out a useful feature in the game, cause it made their job easier.

Imagine if ford just quit putting radios in mustangs, hey they got rid of some wires, and it took less time to put the car together! well good for you, unfortunately the customer suffers, but CCP knows how much the eve community likes to suffer, so its not that much of a worry to them, just an easier job.

uhh sad panda.

I like the music...especially when it runs simultainiously on three clients but timeshifted...
Its like sitting in a cave with psychodelic drugs