Test Server Feedback

Please do not dumb down advanced audio settings. They are the only reason I can play with sound on at all since there are some very specific sound effects that get on my nerves.

I don't mind or like my ugly toon face on the side of my citadels, but I do mine losing my Captain quarters. Since we are all moving to citadels soon, we should have offices and quarters in them. AND I would love to have a conference room to sit with my bros and discuss tactics, and a bar to buy someone a beer. Now the question is why in a space fighting game. Well this game is about friendships as much as fighting. And when I rent an office, there should an office attached to it. AND DONT TELL ME you don't have programming resources for it when you have time to redo stuff no one complained about.

Here are some other issues I suffer with ;
Installing Blueprints takes abnormally long with only a few bp to search through.
Bring back in the in game browser, then people can get more creative about tools like Dotlan that used to work.

Apart from this, the new designs look great. Performance is mostly good, even if I fly mostly with linux. I left the game for years after you took out support for linux. I came back and the IGB was gone. No walking in stations and now offices will be slowly moving away.

NOW as fanfest is approaching CCP consider this, since you describe your company as customer centric, let your customers not only play the content but design it. CCP grow the universe by adding features not tweaking things out for short term benefits.

CCP learn to give people more, not less. Don't take out features. Give more in APIs, and even let corporations define their own skins, at reasonable prices. This stuff that CCP has to control everything and put ridiculous prices on stuff is wrong. The prices for skins are higher than ships many times.


BTW, I play with the sound off, because I don't have enough granularity with them. Most sounds get too repetitive after playing for hours anyway.

The phrase "eve has sound?" became a meme for a reason. Are we going back to the days of terrible audio? Even at its best, EVE sound isn't good. It's occasionally "moderately acceptable" at best. And even at its best, imo muted is still better. You really wanna expose the true character of your mad sound skillz?

I would agree with Ransu, that 3rd party warp is one setting that I need to have turned on while I turn off the rest of the atomsphere sounds.

When roaming it's nice to have the stability effects of the wormholes enabled, but tend to turn down the buzz of the gate static atomsphere, cause really it doesn't matter, only the activation sounds are critical when in k-space.

I do like having some module sounds turned up on the ship and I fully disable the warp effect from my own ship.

I typically leave things like my modules at 20%, ship ambience around 30% (I'll admit, I like the transition effects of the animated warp enter/exits) and alot of the other settings are set to 15% or below as I don't need the background noise.

If I could I would turn off the probe scan(cube drag, ambient static noise?) / tactical camera/ incursion audio if I could figure out which slider you've bound that to, if any.

Thanks, Antiquarian! Looking forward to further updates on this one.

Please keep us posted when a new build is live as I check SISI maybe once or twice every other week when time allows. Perhaps a broadcast could be sent via the launcher for feedback.

Sadly won't be able to make it to Fanfest this year, hope everyone has a blast.

Antiquarian - Can you speak to any possiblity of any camera changes in the near future or even if its being considered? In my previous posts I mentioned the parity issue with the old vs. new camera and the lack of custom tracking postion, removal of advanced camera options etc.

Would love to see some enhancements made (speaking as a video creator). I know alot of folks would probably be on board with this if it was to be an option CCP was looking to roll back in.

It was also nice being able to set a custom tracking position while watching a wormhole up close to activation. Typically I would offset my left and right monitors while sitting with my view right on the wormhole itself so when it fired I would be able to instantly tell which hole fire I heard based on left ear vs. Right ear directions rather then having to pan all 3 instead of having to wait for decloaks and hope I can get to the client in time to get info.

The in-game camera system is maintained by another team (Team Psycho Sisters) and we're not really able to speak for that team in this thread. If there's not an active thread for camera feedback right now, I recommend posting your feedback in one of the general feedback threads.

Thanks for following up Darwin, I have previously done this, but I believe the related camera threads were closed. I'll find the current general feedback thread but I just want to make sure it's not being buried in other issues for a specific patch.

Posting to latest stickied general feedback thread:
Here

Third party warp, please :)

Hey Dominous, sorry for the delay in reply, things have been pretty busy over here.

CCP Baldur (audio director) has been looking at the usage statistics and at the comments here. He's got a few potential changes set back to alter some of the sliders, but wants to offer the current set up to the general public first before changing it.

So what is on Singularity now will be going live on the 9th as planned, with modification after deployment in either patch or release form following additional player feedback and response.