Disclaimer: I have no idea how anything works here. I have never once in the years of me playing this game felt the need to use the EVE forums before, until today, that is.

So I logged in half an hour ago to have a look at the new suns, only to find that, curiously, I couldn't hear my warp animation. At first I figured that I had accidentally left the audio turned off, as I sometimes do for more performance in large fights. I was wrong. Turns out that the entire page of advanced audio settings has been deleted, and replaced with a few general basic options.

Why was this not better mentioned, and easier to see?

I heavily used these settings. I needed to have the ambiance low, because the tethering effect of more than 200 ships results in a BRWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM loud enough to shake the house through my subwoffer, legitimately rivaling the THX theme. I needed the warp animation turned up so I can hear it when people land on gird near me.

I understand wanting to streamline things, and remove unneeded settings, but I would have liked to have known beforehand that this was happening.

And I just lost a ******* DST to these sound changes. Thanks, CCP.

NB: You need UI sound level to be above 0, or the Shield/Armor/Hull threshold warnings will not play at all, despite the "Warning sounds" setting being cranked up to the max. This makes it especially enjoyable on an industrial char, where you will now be able to fully appreciate the terribleness of UI click. Or change your sound settings every time you undock.

Also, this whole change hardly achieved it's goal of making the settings easier to understand for new people, as long as there aren't any in-game tooltips that will tell them what which slider actually does.

I've been reading and forwarding points from this thread and Reddit to the Audio Director and to the producer for Team Trilambda.

And not that ethos and pathos arguments are particularly useful in this context, but my main lives in W-space and my playstyle is affected by these changes so I'm personally invested in getting alterations made to the functionality while keeping the necessary backend changes that precipitated this work. Invested enough that I skipped dinner last night going through all the comments to provide support and use cases for iteration.

Speaking of which, thanks Annexe for coming back with more input.

[lots of well-thought-out stuff]

I see why you want to simplify things, but I am also missing some options. I fall into the category of players that want a strictly informative audio. If I want to listen to music, I can turn on my own.
I think I will be able to structure my feedback better if I tell you which sliders you can probably group:

1. Station Interior, Map and Ship Tree, EVE store, Planets, Atmosphere

Well I obviously missed this memo, or else it wasn't publicly announced... but seriously?

Audio:

The advanced audio settings menu has been simplified to offer a more streamlined experience.

We now have 7 audio options? Quit dumbing down Eve and taking away good sh*t

:(

Changes are underway in response to the constructive feedback here.

The Audio Director is working on this directly and expects iterations to be ready for deployment as early as next week. I'll continue to post as the work continues.