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Cheers for the followup;
I'm really not joking, If i set all my sound sliders to 100, except for the music one, I can barely distinguish an engine sound. Only if I play with the camera angle I am able to hear the change in engine-'grumble' (switching between a camera facing the front of the ship VS. looking straight up the engines) but without spinning the camera around I wouldn't be able to hear it at all to catch the change. I also need to be zoomed up with the ship covering my entire viewport for this, any zooming out to get a bearing of your surroundings and it will already be too far from the ship to hear.



Celestials stations and gates sound as loud as I expect them to be; but they do drown out the whisper of the engine sound.
Engine/ab/mwd really needs a buff compared to everything else.


This is all from Sisi, on TQ I can't hear a thing engine wise.

Any chance of turret weaponry sounding different based on ammo in the future (like with missiles)?
Conflagration has a sizziling effect after shooting, or radio some sort of echo-effect, something like that.

Yea, I noticed it too.
I'll look into it. they are not supposed to be like that of course.

Don't know what happened on TQ, I certainly didn't change anything that took this away. (sending eyes to my coder!!!!!!)

Uhm. when you say, the last sound of the battleship beam laser? do you mean the one that was there before winter 2012? or has it changed recently?

I don't know about the strip miner sounds changing, I haven't changed them for sure. let me check on those.

And thanks for liking our stuff. ;) I really , really really, appreciate it.

no that would be a step back, right.?

Sound =/= Music

If you don't want to use the ingame apaptive music then just turn it off and play the music, or any music, in whatever jukebox/music software you want.

CCP supporting and upgrading the in-game adaptive music makes sense, supporting a jukebox does not.

I'm definitely an "EVE has sound?"-er. I tried turning sounds back on a few months ago, but I just couldn't take it. I think my ideal sound situation in EVE would be for the sound itself to be much more subtle. Something like a quiet rumbling of the guns rather than a RATTA-TAT-TAT. Maybe a pronounced "ka chinc" sound after ammo's done reloading. A quiet wind sound for propulsion mods that is no less obtrusive than the engine and wind noises while riding in a car or a jet liner. Pretty much everything that runs on automatic should fade easily into the background as white noise, and save the higher registers for sounds that urgently need attention. Things like the sound of incoming fire hitting hull should be higher volume and pitch than fire hitting shields, for example. As it is, sounds in EVE distract from what's happening instead of emphasizing it.

I'll wait until Summer then to try sound out again.

There's a reason why "EVE has sound?" Is a meme. It's the same reason why in sci fi movies the space battles are only a couple minutes long. They bombard you with light and sound in an attempt to overwhelm you with the futureness of the future. In something where the user is expected to be there for possibly hours, it needs a different approach. I'm all for guns being bass'ier, in fact that's exactly what I'm talking about Bass sounds fade into the background more easily, (they make themselves more noticeable by their absence when they stop.) With an "ammo's done reloading" gun cocking sound to punctuate that it's time to start shooting again, the gun sounds would become something that actually communicates instead of just being distracting noise. The concept extrapolates to all sounds.

I know one person's point of view is unlikely to change a developer's direction. But think of how other platforms (games, music, movies, etc) handle their sound. The majority fades into the background. The hum of air conditioning might emphasize where the hero is. But a slamming door indicates something's about to happen. Urgent event = urgent sound. When breaking that pattern, it always makes the listener uncomfortable. In some cases that's the desired effect, but in the case of EVE it

and one more thing. if you can't make it to Fanfest.
then if you want to know more about what I am presenting and so on, there is no stream from the round table, but I will be on EVE TV - on the second day, may 2nd.

at 3.20 local time. so that's GMT straight up, with no daylight saving.
5.20 CET.

then you can also put a face on who this moron is (perhaps that's not a good thing)

Audio issue:
Planetary Interaction environmental sounds still doesn't work when docked in a station. They work without a problem when in space. In space everything else but PI sounds mutes down to background as it is with ISIS or Star Map. Should be the same in station with PI.