Please add notification when Duty Finder is ready

[Yuletide]

I do not like the minimized sound because either I"ll have music playing, be somewhere else, watching YT videos, etc. Also, in-town sounds are really annoying and loud and it's too much of a pain toggling certain volume options every single time.

I had this problem too and made a macro for the volume options that I keep on a tiny bar hidden away at the side of my screen. I have a button that mutes BGM, and two more buttons that go from low->high volume and then high->low volume. If you want you can also add another button to mute all sounds ingame altogether.

[Hasrat]

I had this problem too and made a macro for the volume options that I keep on a tiny bar hidden away at the side of my screen. I have a button that mutes BGM, and two more buttons that go from low->high volume and then high->low volume. If you want you can also add another button to mute all sounds ingame altogether.

There is a much easier solution to this.

Open System Configuration Settings.
Navigate to Sound Settings.
Enable "Play sounds when window is not active"
Disable all suboptions, except enable "System Sounds"
Below, enable "Play system sounds while waiting for Duty Finder"
Apply settings.

Job done. Now the only sounds that will play while the window is not active are System Sounds, and waiting for Duty Finder is listed as a System Sound.

Bonus, what also applies is you can tab out while in queue and hear it updating. If you stop hearing it update, you've likely been hit with an error. You can hear when the game loads you into the server. You can tab out while waiting for a rez and hear the notification when somebody tries to get you up.

No town sounds. No crafting. No BGM. No players/mobs moving around. No battle sound effects. The only sounds you ever hear are notification windows.