Ships: unique sounds/fog horn

[Dire Venom]

Sorry to once again clutter up the suggestion page, but ive had another idea :D!!!!
I know realistically, there is no 'medium' (for most of space) for sound (well most of it) to travel through space.
However, in starmade we already have have sounds which would break this realism.
So I propose a new feature for player enjoyment: SHIP HORNS!!

Heres the gist: Each ship has a built in horn (activated by pressing a certain key, changeable in settings).
This horn will emit a sound of a certain frequency with some drop off.
The frequency will be dependent on the size of the ship (big ship have deep bass sounds, smaller ships more like a whistle)
It can only be used ONCE every few minutes or so to prevent spam.
Players can disable horns and horn sounds from other players in settings if they want to mute them.
Players in the same sector as the ship can hear the horn.
Players could even be able to upload unique horn sounds (after the sounds be approved by an admin, for whitelisted servers only as an optional feature etc.... )

I feel that this would add some more fun in the game, as a way of signaling you presence in a sector etc.... letting other players know your ready for battle, to intimidate the enemy etc.....
If your going to whine about the 'realism' we could say that its just a broadcast over the ships coms or whatever.......

It would be great for role-play as well, and It doesn't seem to be too code-intensive.
What do you guys think?
Would you like to see this (or a variant) in starmade?

Cheers and Fly safe,
Dire_Venom

 

[RavenWT]

40k's Titans style i loooove that May be we could add message inside with chat restrictions off course to avoid insult

 

[jayman38]

It would definitely take the game in a funnier direction. I think the overall attitude of the community is to have this be a relatively serious game, but I could be wrong.

For now, I think this suggestion is premature until sounds are more fully integrated into the game.

 

[nightwalker_007]

But there is no sound in space... in space nobody can hear you scream.. :p

So yeah this would be kind of silly to add... and cause serious space-nerd rage.

 

[RavenWT]

But there is no sound in space... in space nobody can hear you scream.. :p

So year this would be kind of silly to add... and cause serious space-nerd rage.

Just have to imagine an audio system hack and data-flow thrown to your inner ship speakers... happy? :D

 

[Dire Venom]

But there is no sound in space... in space nobody can hear you scream.. :p

So year this would be kind of silly to add... and cause serious space-nerd rage.

I did explain about that in the actual post....... Starmade already has multiple sounds which break this realism of 'no sounds in space'.
Plus as RavenWT said, it could be explained as ship com broadcasts

 

[Ithirahad]

This would be hilarious.

*Charon warps in*
*BWOOOOOOOOONG*

 

[Dire Venom]

Other aplications: rigging ships up on logic and using it to play a song. E.G a Miley Cyrus medly lol!!!

 

[RavenWT]

This would be hilarious.

*Charon warps in*
*BWOOOOOOOOONG*

Ahahahah! And imagine an entire float warping in xD BWAAAAAAAAAH ! xD