Chat <se.> Sounds - Please Let Me Turn Them Off

[nopurposeflour]

I am coming to the forums to bring light to a small annoyance I have had since playing XIV, and it is the alert noises that players can use in chat windows. They are cute sometimes and I even have fun with using them in little /em macros to use with friends, but when they are spammed it can get to be a bit of a headache. I would love to have the option to turn them off, or at least a way to not have them play when you have the chat tab you are in not play them if the selected chat type that they are playing in is turned off. As of right now if someone uses an alert noise in party chat in my chat tab 1, but I am in chat tab 2 where I cannot see party chat, it is still played. I am not sure if that is normal or just a bug or something, but I would love to have the option of if I hear these chat alerts or not. I know it is not a big deal and I don't think about these noises 99% of the time I am playing, mainly this is an issue I have in frontline when people spam a lot of macros to direct the party on what to do. These macros are helpful but when I am getting an alert for a 5 second countdown on each number of the countdown, and then a bunch more alerts afterwards from multiple others in the group, it can be a bit distracting. I wonder if anyone else has taken issue with this or if it is just me

Image of some of the chat from my frontline match that sparked me to post on the forum:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...842710044488e&

[OliviaLugria]

<se.> sound volume is controlled by "system sounds" in the audio tab. This does affect a few other things in FL like the LB ping, but you're probably net benefiting. I do wish they'd split these inton2 categories, but alas.

You can also make a macro to easily toggle it on or off, or learn the /command for it, so you don't have to fiddle around in the settings before every match.

[Mawlzy]

<se.> sound volume is controlled by "system sounds" in the audio tab. This does affect a few other things in FL like the LB ping, but you're probably net benefiting. I do wish they'd split these inton2 categories, but alas.

You can also make a macro to easily toggle it on or off, or learn the /command for it, so you don't have to fiddle around in the settings before every match.

Since you're one of the chief culprits when it comes to spamming se.X in FL, the easiest solution is just to blacklist you.

[nopurposeflour]

<se.> sound volume is controlled by "system sounds" in the audio tab. This does affect a few other things in FL like the LB ping, but you're probably net benefiting. I do wish they'd split these inton2 categories, but alas.

You can also make a macro to easily toggle it on or off, or learn the /command for it, so you don't have to fiddle around in the settings before every match.

I am going to take this suggestion and put it on my hotbar for frontline, thank you for the heads up I didn't think you could control the volume in chat ^_^

[TBerry]

That looks like spam to me.

[Bonoki]

That looks like spam to me.

On one hand, it may seem like spam, but from another angle, it offers crucial and beneficial information. Your interpretation depends on the mindset you choose to adopt.

[UkcsAlias]

On one hand, it may seem like spam, but from another angle, it offers crucial and beneficial information. Your interpretation depends on the mindset you choose to adopt.

Outside of a general boss mechanic ping, i havent seen any single use that realy needs sound effects.

And even for that boss ping... i have party chat always make a sound to never miss that information anyway.

[kaynide]

Outside of a general boss mechanic ping, i havent seen any single use that realy needs sound effects.

And even for that boss ping... i have party chat always make a sound to never miss that information anyway.

I use /echo with sound effects on macros that need more than 1 macro push, or if there is something I need to do post macro. Useful when I’m not really paying attention and watching Netflix while cranking out a dozen or so widgets. Mostly we are talking crafting or hot bar swaps.

[WantlessYoYo]

On one hand, it may seem like spam, but from another angle, it offers crucial and beneficial information. Your interpretation depends on the mindset you choose to adopt.

While in situations like on PVP comes handy, there are others that while less common happen to be a bigger annoyance at times, say rezz macros or simply emote or even combat ones

I don't see why putting the optional option to purely mute them would be a wrong idea single it'd be just toggled to everyones preference





And no, the problem here is not the text macro, that you can just hide the chat window and move on, but sound being something you cannot causes the disruption

[LianaThorne]

While in situations like on PVP comes handy, there are others that while less common happen to be a bigger annoyance at times, say rezz macros or simply emote or even combat ones

I don't see why putting the optional option to purely mute them would be a wrong idea single it'd be just toggled to everyones preference





And no, the problem here is not the text macro, that you can just hide the chat window and move on, but sound being something you cannot causes the disruption

What am I even looking at here lmao