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Enough with the tricorders!

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
I havent' posted this before, but my tolerance has been reached. Enough with the tricorders, already! You can't take three steps anywhere in the game without being continuously assaulted by that high pitched tricorder noise. It's got to the point that I have to turn off my speakers because it's actually giving me a headache.

Enough, already!
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    i never really noticed. i guess i probably will now someone has pointed it out.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    It's the big dilemma of the 24th century. We never just stop and smell the the pretty flowers like Spock did in the olden days. We must use our tricorder to tell us how aromatic or how non thorn shooting they are. :(

    When will we learn?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    nm /10char..
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    TBH, it is kinda annoying to be doing your respec or banking and to constantly hear that sound. It wouldn't be a bad thing to tone it down a bit.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Pikoy wrote:
    It's the big dilemma of the 24th century. We never just stop and smell the the pretty flowers like Spock did in the olden days. We must use our tricorder to tell us how aerobatic or how non thorn shooting they are. :(

    When will we learn?

    Perhaps we should take the time to learn how to turn down the Ambient/Background/FX Noise in the Options Tab...

    ...as well as smell the flowers. ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    OH! I get it, it's living theater! Ok ok ok....AH!

    I really can't stand all the warping around! As soon as I leave Spacedock it's warp in warp out. Every 5 seconds somebody is warping around me! *flail* I finally had to turn my monitor off. :mad:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    DaveyNY wrote: »
    Perhaps we should take the time to learn how to turn down the Ambient/Background/FX Noise in the Options Tab...

    ...as well as smell the flowers. ;)

    Options tab? I that located on my tricorder? Wait lemme check.


    Beep beep boopp rrrrrrrrr errrrr errrrr beep bop.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    DaveyNY wrote: »
    Perhaps we should take the time to learn how to turn down the Ambient/Background/FX Noise in the Options Tab...

    ...as well as smell the flowers. ;)

    Except that turning down those sounds is the same as turning off the speakers. You can't turn off the tricorders specifically while keeping other sounds.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Scanning...no _intelligent_ life forms detected.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    DaveyNY wrote: »
    Perhaps we should take the time to learn how to turn down the Ambient/Background/FX Noise in the Options Tab...

    ...as well as smell the flowers. ;)

    Perhaps we know exactly how to work the sound options?
    Perhaps it is not best to mute the drone at the expense of all other ambient sounds?
    Perhaps it would be a very easy fix to tone down the constant drone or at least break it up?

    Perhaps we should take more time to smell the flowers - especially those lilies on Lahra Prime (the ones that make a pleasant hum). ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Mojo wrote: »
    Except that turning down those sounds is the same as turning off the speakers. You can't turn off the tricorders specifically while keeping other sounds.

    FYI. I made some jokes but in all honesty I can understand. Doesn't bother me but its like being in a casino and hearing those awful slot machines.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Pikoy wrote:
    FYI. I made some jokes but in all honesty I can understand. Doesn't bother me but its like being in a casino and hearing those awful slot machines.

    ..or going to a NASCAR Event and having to put up with all those Revving Engines.

    ..though it is a really cool way to demonstrate the Doppler Effect without having to buy a Vertically Striped Costume....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    You think the tricorder noise is bad? Try doing you exchange business at Qo'nos with that constant 3 second loop of blips and blood in the background without going crazy!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Mojo wrote: »
    You can't take three steps anywhere in the game without being continuously assaulted by that high pitched tricorder noise.

    +1 The tricorders are WAY overdone, and it does get to be extremely annoying. I have turned down my FX sounds so that it's a little less noticeable, but I don't want ALL my FX sounds to go away, so I keep the volume just barely there. Still, that shrieking is piercing, even when that quiet.

    If I'm chatting with a friend on STO or looking through available missions, I will intentionally seek out a "quiet" area to do it. Yes, tricorders are around and being used in Star Trek... but not as much as in the game. Any chance we can get it reduced some guys?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    It's canon! :p

    i'm certain starfleet officers (or at the very least, those who served on voyager) can't even take a dump without first taking readings from the bowl. even basic stuff like checking out some rocks they whip them out, they're just freakin' rocks!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Oh, but it's not just Starfleet. My Klingon crew is always using them. I was on Defera talking to the Ferengi and several Deferi came by and whipped out their tricorders for a random scan.

    I swear, if I was a Ferengi, I'd be selling tricorders, they're the most ubiquitous thing in the game.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Let me see if I have got thei straight. Any time I see a character with the @Mojo I am to run a quick tricorder sweep or 4 or 5, correct?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Why not, all the NPCs do....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Mojo wrote: »
    Why not, all the NPCs do....

    Jojo. Deal with eeet.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Tricorders are the cellphones of the 25th century.
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