Those sounds are annoying, should have a different softer tune. As they're now give a sense of danger, I always think something is targetting me, or I'm going to explode.

IB4 "eve has sound?"

This noise causes me physical pain if I have sound on.

Legitimate post otherwise, but this is highly doubtful.

If so, have you heard of a volume button (slider) ?

I gotta say, pretty much this. Frankly, I never hear the beeps unless there's absolutely NOTHING else going on, and I wear headphones when I play, so it's right in my ear. I simply fiddled with the in game volumes until it was at a level where it didn't bother me any more.

Don't worry

It's just EVE telling you that you do too much PVE

Don't worry

It's just EVE telling you that you do too much PVE

Legitimate post otherwise, but this is highly doubtful.

If so, have you heard of a volume button (slider) ?

1. When you activate a module on ANY NPC ship that is not agressed on you.
2. When you activate a module on ANY NPC that has only yellow boxed you.
3. When you are locked by an NPC from having no aggro at all.
4. When you are cap transfering someone else who does any of the above.
5. Same as 4 with shield transfers and armor transfers.
6. When you lose aggro from NPCs. (probably just #3 I'm hearing here)
7. When you're cap transfering a logi who is repping someone doing #1-3. (this one could become a nightmare in large chains)

You are talking abou the "dental drill flag alarms", right? It hurts my ears too, as in pain.

That sound suXXors. Needs to be ditched.

Another part of the problem is information overload. I am an ICU nurse IRL, and we have alarms going off all the time. We must learn the sound of each alarm and what it means. SInce life and death is at stake, the alrams are all perfectly meaningful.

The new sounds and alarms in Retribution are only confusing. It took me quite a while to figure out the cap alarm. And it alarms where I usually run my cap .... so for me, it is totally useless. Combine that with the many other pointless alarms and you information overload that, once again, suXXors.

I play with sound off now... An entire dimension of the game that is not usable.

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You know you can change the percentage of the cap warning right? So you can set it below your running point at ships/fits you use. Or just turn it off,if you find it's useless for you (which goes for all warnings). And since you used a RL analogy,badly I might add, our UI is more "flexible" to cater to a bigger audience rather than follow a rigid,tested,single purpose infrastucture. If there are aspects you find no meaning for, then don't use it. In other words, you are responsible to find which of the informations the UI provides is useful or not for you and organise them accordingly.

Also. I have never...ever turned sound off in EVE since I first started. If I don't want to hear something or the sound of 100+ ships, just zooming out 3 rolls works fine for a few seconds. Seriously, you guys throw an entire "dimension" out just like that?

I think it's pretty clear CCP didn't playtest this feature.

This.

Personally, I particularly like the alerts. They're clearer, and every time one goes off, I know why and what it's telling me. I have the cap alarm on set to 30% so I know when to shut off my shield boosters, the shield warning set to 25% so I know when it's time to think about hitting the GTFO button, the alarm set for armor to know when it's really time to GTFO, and the hull set to 99% to tell me to GTFO or I'm completely f-ed. The aggression and and other flags tell me when I've been locked, etc. and even though I PvE, I've never heard too many beeps.

I find all these new sounds have only enhanced my situational awareness and helped me monitor my systems all the while focusing on other things that are more important at the moment, like making the other guy go boom.

I really just think OP wanted to find something to complain about. Most of the changes haven't been an issue or have made things better. Although, if you're going to throw a fit about something, then there's always the bounty notification system and how it currently never STFU, particularly if your target is the popular type. But I digress... I'm getting off topic.