<se.#> toggle

A simple request; please add the ability to toggle the <se.#> sounds on/off independently of system sounds. As someone with an auditory processing disorder who loves pvp, having ~5 people in a frontline double posting their macros all at once with sound effects quite literally shuts me down and makes it hard to do anything. I had one earlier with 48 sound effects within a minute and a half. I understand these people are trying to help, and I don't begrudge them for that, but it would be nice to be able to toggle the sounds off and still be able to read their messages instead of filling my mute list with folks. I also don't like having all of the system sounds off. A change like this would be only positive, and allow people their accessibility without asking others to change their macros.

I have asked people to consider using fewer sound effects, and never once has the response been kind.

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Originally Posted by a_little_bunny

A simple request; please add the ability to toggle the <se.#> sounds on/off independently of system sounds. As someone with an auditory processing disorder who loves pvp, having ~5 people in a frontline double posting their macros all at once with sound effects quite literally shuts me down and makes it hard to do anything. I had one earlier with 48 sound effects within a minute and a half. I understand these people are trying to help, and I don't begrudge them for that, but it would be nice to be able to toggle the sounds off and still be able to read their messages instead of filling my mute list with folks. I also don't like having all of the system sounds off. A change like this would be only positive, and allow people their accessibility without asking others to change their macros.

I have asked people to consider using fewer sound effects, and never once has the response been kind.

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Agree with this.

The problem is particularly bad with some shot-callers who seem to think that making as much noise as possible is helpful.

SFX in FL can be extremely useful, but when overused I've on occasion just had to leave.

And yes, a simple request to tone down the noise will usually get the rest of the shot-caller's premade hurling a stream of abuse.

Upvoted. +1

This seems like a reasonable request, +1 and I hope they'll take a look at it.

I see nothing wrong with this. I probably won't use it, but I can see how <se.#> spam can get troublesome for some people, even though it can be useful particularly in PvP.

I don't really do pvp but I love to do raids and trials. Between the rare person having a countdown macro with soundeffects and the more common healer with a raise macro, I'd love to be able to mute those noises, too.

As someone who pretty regularly makes <se.#> calls in large-scale PvP, I strongly agree with this thread. I too get irritated when they're excessively used, because it just causes people to tune out shotcalls, and builds negative sentiment towards other commanders that don't abuse the system. I'd go a bit further too:

- It should not be possible to layer multiple sound effects in one line/call, especially multiple of the same sound effect.
- If someone is muted/blacklisted, you should NOT hear their sound effects. (Didn't the old system work this way? Yet another failure of the DT blacklist.)

As an addendum, you can put /systemsounds on a macro (or type it in chat) to temporarily disable the sounds, but this will also turn off sounds like LB charge unfortunately. It is at least a half-solution, but we need better.

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Originally Posted by WutWut

As an addendum, you can put /systemsounds on a macro (or type it in chat) to temporarily disable the sounds, but this will also turn off sounds like LB charge unfortunately. It is at least a half-solution, but we need better.

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Yeah I tried this, but I really need to hear my LB-ready sound.

And I agree those commanders that overuse sounds are deepening the hostility towards commanders in general. I recently had a DRK commander using a 5-4-3-2-1-GO macro with a SFX on every line.

Boosting in support! Great idea!

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Originally Posted by Mawlzy

Yeah I tried this, but I really need to hear my LB-ready sound.

And I agree those commanders that overuse sounds are deepening the hostility towards commanders in general. I recently had a DRK commander using a 5-4-3-2-1-GO macro with a SFX on every line.

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It could also potentially help to turn the volume down on system sounds when doing Frontline, but again this is just another stopgap, when we need a real solution to the problem.

https://imgur.com/a/uNyw0d8

A sound effect every second leading up to drk pull, every time the LB was up, on top of constant <se.#> for everything else. I want to know when drks are pulling, it's really helpful, the constant sounds aren't. At least, not when it comes to auditory disabilities.