Such positive vibes ;)

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I am almost alone on doing all this, we have the smallest audio team on the planet of any game of this size - and it's really frustrating to not be able to change everything instantly.
This is the result of a whole year of working and prototyping for me, it's part of a bigger plan.

so use it to the best of it's capabilities and wait for more to come, and know that I am working hard on making eve a better sounding game and a better sounding experience for all, but like I said, I am basically alone on doing this and three man army, with a one man army just for assets and creation of tools like this, doesn't do much in one day.

Just wanted to let you know that your work is very much appericated. I'm one of the guys to whom audio is more important than graphics (and it makes me really sad that "countless" man hours are put into graphics [which I don't see on my screen, just boxes] while audio seems to considered with such low priority). To me, what makes an entertainment product (games, movies and such) really immersive is the sound. I claim that any place on earth presenting outer space to the public would put a lot of effort into sound because pretty pictures will get you just that far while sound and music can make you dreaming for a very long time. So, you got my full support for fighting the right course. :-) Plus, unlike other I have absolutely no objections with any of the current sounds, I find them quite fitting and nice.

We brainstormed on how we could approach some of the audio challenges in EVE and how we can encourage more people to turn sound back on or avoid having them turn it off in the first place. We also explored how to use sound as a tool equal to graphics and text and still stay within the strict aesthetics of EVEGÇÖs serious business.

This menu allows players to shape their audio experience in the game in a new way, adjusting which sounds you want less of.
In the future, we will continue to iterate on this system and one of the things in mind is a complete new mix of the sounds in EVE, allowing you to also turn up sounds GÇô for now you will have to survive on the option to lower them only.

ItGÇÖs not just about awesome new assets

Confirming ccp WhiteNoise Trash did indeed spend an inordinate amount of time on the forums dealing with the community.
+1 to this man, very open and concise.

With the Kronos release (published on June 3rd) the Audio team presents exciting new features and improvements: detailed audio customization! Advanced audio settings will give you much more control over specific sounds, if they are played and their respective volume.

Read all about these fantastic audio improvements in CCP WhiteNoiseTrash's latest dev blog Audio Customization Coming In Kronos!

ok, Quick update.. it's really late and I have been at the office for 12 hours now.

Because of all the feedback here and comments and opinions given and my own thoughts after having seen this in action. I have made a few last minute changes to this.

and I'll reply to all the replies since my last post later (as they are a quite a few, but I was just too busy with this today - as I got into excitement mode while working on it - and you don't interrupt excitement mode)

1. The ability to INCREASE the volume has now been added.
this was an option mentioned by many, so it is now made so that all the sliders start in the middle and you can lower it completely or mash it to the right, giving it a 6 dB increase in volume.

have in mind that this is on your own risk! not saying that it will blow your speakers to oblivion, but the mix might go slightly over 0 dBFS which you don't want of course. (the option of just limiting and compressing this is the easy way out, but for now this is put in for you to control yourself)

2. The ability to change the volume of dungeon music, separate from general music has been added.

3. Inactive client volume is now called "inactive client muting" to clear some of the misunderstandings about this and the counter intuitive meaning of the checkboxes.

4. the 3rd party warp effect, the new flash and boom you hear, has been added to the list - it was magically gone missing before. and we can't have magic in our game.

That's it... :)
The sliders being in the middle, does on the other hand force the values back to the default value when you turn the system on and off, so you may experience a change in loudness when turning this on and off, so have that in mind if you turn a lot of stuff down and suddenly turn off the system ..

Cheeererio ;)
-CCP WNT . .. and I shall go watch some hockey now!

Can we have music triggers too?

One of the things that has really bugged me is when I'm in mortal danger (getting locked, webbed / scrammed / shot at etc) the music doesn't reflect the situation I'm in and it really hurts the immersion.

I love the low sec music because its all dark and creepy but when I'm in trouble I want the music to become frantic and energized to reflect the mood; but more often than not the same music I'll be hearing while mining is the same music I'll hear while shooting people and it just doesn't fit.

Similar to the volume options you could have different music triggers and the track or type of music to play in that situation; for example:

• While Cloaked
• When Locking
• When being locked
• In combat (shooting or being shot at)
• In a combat zone (ie, anom, mission, incursion etc)
• When a mission is completed / leaving a combat zone
• Entering a exploration site

Does "explosions" mean just ships blowing up or does it include other things that explode like missiles, smartbombs, or bombs?

Under "Volume Level" I understand what Music Level and Master Level mean. Could you please explain what UI Sound, UI Speech, and World Levels mean?

Does the "Engine, MWD, AB" slider also affect MJD sound?


Lastly, THANK YOU FOR THIS! I've wanted this forever, but I thought this was something that CCP just didn't give a **** about. Also, thanks for making it an option, and not forcing any of it on us like Team Tooltips did.

Awesome!

From the UX perspective it would be quite critical to categorize and group these options in the future, particularly if there's going to eventually be more of them.

Is it possible to get a Reset button to reset to default just these audio settings? I can foresee that being useful

I still want to know why 5 people's hardcore qq'ing on the forums got my "turbocharger spool" sound removed from MWD activation.
Most players either liked it or didn't care. Bring it back.

and this is exactly why everyone plays eve with the sound off.

The vast majority of the eve noises are not configurable in any useful way , are annoying and i want them to be turned off selectively. This is a step in the right direction, but its not a whole answer.

Just like with tool tips, jump animations, WIS and site clouds, people want to be able to turn things off. not down, not low, off.

While you may have put a lot of work into this, and it may or may not be your decision to make, this is not going to get more people to turn sound on again for more then the ten minutes it takes to get annoyed at it again.
Allow sounds to get turned off selectively and you wont have to look at it again, keep it the way you have it and no one will hear your work at all except for as long as it takes to uncheck the audio enabled button in the esc menu.