posted on April 10th, 2024, 5:07 am
This is a change the devs made to Fleet Ops a very long time ago, I think either 3.0.0 or shortly after. It's because they wanted to have combat notifications "your ships are under attack" but these are generated as regular sounds, meaning you won't hear them if your screen is far away. They decided to change the behavior so sounds don't fall off across the map, so that these alerts could be heard anywhere. The cost of this change is that mining sounds, for example, can always be heard.
I believe this is an engine issue, which can be changed relatively easy somewhere. But I don't know where, and I don't think it can be changed in the configuration files. I've made mining sounds a little quieter in TM to try to compensate, and I might make them even quieter in the future.
I'm pulling this out of my memory from a good 12 years ago, so it's possible there's another way to do it, or that the sound falloff can be changed in the configs instead of modifying the executable.
