Add an Alarm countdown to Abyss

I was doing tis mission and the last gate, I had still my drones out…

I had on time to see how many secs left there were, and I really wanted to hear a countdown so at least at the last second, I could click, abandon drones and get out…

I really had no time diverting attention from the warp out button…

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You have a visual countdown. It takes a fraction of a second to direct your eyes to that, not seconds.

PS. This is all it took me to know it was your thread:

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I meant an Audio Alarm obviously, that’s what a countdown means…

it would be cool to have aAura doing something useful sometime when requested…

We have structure alarm that is Audio also…

I think there’s even more fields where an Audio readout could help a lot in many

garbled situations…

I would like to give my Drones voice commands also…

like … ALPHA ONE, a coded voice shortcut to tell my drones to orbit within 2500mt nax…

At least he can beat the unbeatable Skybreaker now.

HOWEVER!!!: I absolultely support his request this time, because it is actually reasonable, doesn’t hurt, can help vision-impaired players or those who struggle to deal with adrenalin rushes under stress to add audio-reminders at 300s, 120s and 30 seconds. But please, really immersive. You know, like this:

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You hit hit me right in that spot with this…:rofl:

But I think that computer had some problems saying some numbers…

it jumped around or “jittered” a bit too much to my taste…

Imagine a Titan aligning to your fleet and a Voice-over tells you how much angular momentum you’re losing before being cooked :rofl:

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I know what you meant the first time. I don’t see a necessity for it. Makes EVE like some sort of a gameshow contest. You especially don’t need any kind of an alarm man – you need to work on your spatial awareness, not have failsafes to bypass it in order to make you even less aware of your surroundings.

Also, speaking of the Skubreaker weapon, it woul be cool to have some Armor reflective layers, that reflects back at the shooter a percentage of it’s dmg.

Even Multispectrums could get som special “super-reflective” “platinum coated” versions, in all categories, but even just a single T2 would be enough for testing. These guys are really OP..

A “red” version could be made for the triglavian weapon. Normal stats, just absorb more Triglavian rays and make them a little less effective. No reflection this time. It would make Kikis room a lot less stressful, fit both of these, and you’re better prepared to deal with both skybreakers waepaon systems and trigs. Obviously not all ships have enough free mids avail…

Skybreaker do EM and Kin dmg, but it’s a strange charge… Idk… could it impact also normal EM dmg?? They are different nature of weapons, so I guess EM could be left alone and not reflected back..

Sry to go off-topic- this would be a completely different thread… don’t respond to this, I will try make another thread on this separatedly if I feel it.

An audible cue for abyssals is a good idea though man, is my blood pressure ever going to go through the roof. I already get stressed out running filaments and its one of my favorite pastimes.

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What in the AI complete failure of concept just Google an image why on gods green earth did you waste the time and power ■■■■ is this

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This might have been a googled image, the internet isn’t what it used to be.

I know. It fits the thread and the OP, though? It’s why I used this and not a real one. (The idea behind it still stands though – just use an egg timer).

EDIT: I did not make it myself, I don’t use AI. I grabbed it off a search engine. I thought it was funny and should be named a ‘Queotzcatl’s Alarm’ or something.

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Duckduckgo, but it’s the same thing, a search engine. And I have AI (Artificial Idiot) images turned off! But I’m not surprised they’re still coming through – it’s the Ai that controls the AI filter.

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Now imagine the plot twist: It’s actually a working, highly sophisticated piece of art made by a gifted craftsman and we are the idiots to laugh about it. :rofl:

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No. I’m too grounded in reality to even entertain that thought.

Or we’ve become way too cynical/suspicious as a society (and perhaps rightly so)…

EDIT: I was wrong. There it is on yahoo images

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and of course we can trust yahoo :stuck_out_tongue:

You had a good few minutes there. There’s also a warning message that flashes on screen at the 5 and 1 minute mark IIRC.