Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Autotuned Bjork.

Just my 2 cents.

adaptive music would be like that from homeworld or dune II, that changed based on what was happening, if you were building up, attacking, defending, losing or winning the music would change, that is truly adaptive music, what we have right now, at least for me in null, is just a depressing hum all day long.

Agree a lot to this. Very cool.
Mass Effect style. Reporting live things that happens around New Eden.

that would make me a happy capsuleer! i really enjoy your work Jón - especially "below the asteroids".

On the topic of procedural/context aware music: I've said it before, and I'm going to say it again: You guys should REALLY look into doing what LucasArts did with their iMUSE technology, ages ago. Nintendo also did something similar in The Wind Waker as well. It allows for hybridizing procedural/context aware music with traditionally composed music, among other things.

On the topic of people turning off the music: I think one of the main complaints about the music in EVE is that it's too monotonous - I think that's not because the tracks themselves are monotonous, but because the soundtrack is, due to it basically always being the same genre: Dark ambient.

Sometimes fast paced, sometimes slower paced, but it's (nearly always, there are a few glorious exceptions, thankfully) dark ambient nonetheless. And that's fitting for a space game. But it's not the only thing fitting for a space game, and innovating there would be a good thing. You've already previously vaguely defined the various musical styles of the civilizations (Amarr station sounds, anyone?), perhaps you should expand on this.

Imagine what kind of music you would hear coming from the environment itself (not as BGM!) if EVE had WiS and you were walking around a Gallente station. Are you imagining that? Good. Now skip the WiS crap, and move the music design you'd use there right into EVE.

Since we're talking about music which artists are similar to EvE's style? Most electronic music ends up becoming not very ambient.

Such a nice track to listen to when doing something intensive like drawing or programming.

Moah tracks!!!! Keep up the great work, Jon Hallur

The sound was so important before I started multiboxing. I think it would take a lot to get to a point where it was overemphasized. We kind of need a better delivery system in addition to more content though. World sounds could be automated easier than music. Music, sound and rhythm can have profound effects on us. Its become a science as much of an art. Bin-aural beat generators could be incorporated into the world sounds. Minor variations in a tone between the left and right speakers are interpreted as subsonic frequencies that can alter our brain frequencies into many useful states for enhanced learning, creativity or focus to name a few of hundreds. Besides our brains they act on our bodies as well. Its long been known that certain portions of the audible spectrum affect our emotions.

If stuff like that was generated on the fly to various stimuli in world sounds and then overlayed with some new compositions a whole new universe of immersion could become available for us and them.

That's the gripe, being a mission runner/miner, you end up listening to the same few tracks forever, until they just become background noise. It's and incredibly poor and uninspiring aural experience and makes a poor work of EVE's amazing soundtrack.

I haven't heard "Merchants, looters and ghosts" for ages ingame. I miss "My second residency" and was thrilled to stumble on "I saw your ship" (and then waited for it to end before jumping out of system ). Would like to know where do they play "New moon"...

That may be of the most annoying little stupid things CCP has done to my game. If they had to get rid of the legacy code, OK, do it, but then replace with the same functionality and new code... no need to reinvent the wheel and fix what wasn't broken, then claim that customers should use third parties to experience your content.

The new ambient music is nice but I have a few issues.
(I know I can play these out of game but personally I feel these should be game features not something I need to load winamp for)

1. The awe inspiring tracks only play HighSec. NullSec while sounding creepy is just boring! I actually turn music off in NullSec now because there is no music, just one repeating ambient track.

2. The ambient music changing track every single stargate jump really ruins the immersive feel of the music, you can be enjoying Below the Astroids and feeling that nice feeling when you jump and suddenly have Nouvelle Rouvernar Hero playing.

3. Sound options outside the ESC menu for ease of use regarding sounds and music, having to blind yourself from the games goings on every time you feel you want a track change isn't immersive or enjoyable.

4. An option to disable the music change when using an acceleration gate, the few tunes it plays get repetitive and break in with every gate jump.