Ding Dong... Intercom/Tannoy announcement lady...

[Buick 8]

Suzi has been in that casino a loooong time...

Poor kid has a gambling problem..

Hi, I see from that old thread that apparently there was an option in X3(?) to turn that lady off. Unless I'm missing it, there's no such option in X4.

When I first played the game I thought she was amusing, loose animals vaporized on sight and all, but now she's just obnoxious, thanking me for buying the product every minute or two. There are long stretches when I'm haunting a dock and I'm tired of trying to find a quiet corner where I won't hear her. Sometimes I get into a ship and sit just outside the dock, in order to have it quiet while I work with the map.

Oddly, once in a while when I load a save at a point when I'm already standing at a dock, the dock intercom seems to be not functioning, so all is quiet. But that's infrequent and it's only temporary when it occurs. As soon as I go to another dock she resumes.

I have looked though the game settings and I've tried fussing the sound settings, but no luck. Is there any way to turn this lady off, maybe with a script or something? I'm no modder, but if there's a simple edit I can perform somewhere, I'd sure appreciate knowing about it.


Thanks, now I'll go post on the thread called "X4 Foundations is Excellent".

[leoriq]

this mod looks like it may help you, it reduces the volume of the alert tones preceding the (airport-style) landing area announcements by 10dB.

I haven't used it myself, so I can't guarantee it alters the announcements itself.

[Buick 8]

Thanks very much, I'll give that a go.

Edit: no luck, thanks for the suggestion though.

[z1ppeh]

got bored. Sat on a station and it annoyed me too.

wrote this very quickly and tested it for 5mins with no annoying messages. The bingbongs still happen but thats station sounds

EDITED* see below

[Buick 8]

got bored. Sat on a station and it annoyed me too.

wrote this very quickly and tested it for 5mins with no annoying messages. The bingbongs still happen but thats station sounds

https://easyupload.io/wvwke1

Hi, thank you very much for your offering. I peeked at the script and it read very promising.

But after installing, I'm not able to get a game to load. I've put the unzipped folder in GOG/Games/X4/ extensions, and my current game save gets stuck at 97% on the loading screen, tried twice same result both times. So I thought I'd try a new game start, but that one got stuck at 60% on the loading screen.

I had removed the other MuteMuzak mod from the post above in case it caused a conflict, but I wonder if yours could be conflicting with the X$_bar mod? That's the only mod I have that has anything to do with stations.

As I've discovered other mods which work from here only, I did try it in documents/egosoft/X4/extensions too, but no luck. The game loaded fine but the tannoy was as loud as ever.

Thank you so much though, for your offer.

[z1ppeh]

got bored. Sat on a station and it annoyed me too.

wrote this very quickly and tested it for 5mins with no annoying messages. The bingbongs still happen but thats station sounds

https://easyupload.io/wvwke1

Hi, thank you very much for your offering. I peeked at the script and it read very promising.

But after installing, I'm not able to get a game to load. I've put the unzipped folder in GOG/Games/X4/ extensions, and my current game save gets stuck at 97% on the loading screen, tried twice same result both times. So I thought I'd try a new game start, but that one got stuck at 60% on the loading screen.

I had removed the other MuteMuzak mod from the post above in case it caused a conflict, but I wonder if yours could be conflicting with the X$_bar mod? That's the only mod I have that has anything to do with stations.

As I've discovered other mods which work from here only, I did try it in documents/egosoft/X4/extensions too, but no luck. The game loaded fine but the tannoy was as loud as ever.

Thank you so much though, for your offer.

I am so sorry... I write as part of my own mods and I did a shit job when cutting it out to make a seperate one for you. I C+P the one part that did **** all... yay!

[z1ppeh]

There we go.

https://easyupload.io/be8djp

Sitting here on a station for 30mins with no nuisance. No conflicts that I know of (my error log with loads of mods show no conflict although I don't use xs_bar but the station tannoys are a very particular part that not much else should touch)

[leoriq]

Great job!
I think the time has come for this thread to be moved into modding section

[Nanook]

Done.

[Buick 8]

There we go.

Funny at first I put it in my game folder and had the same result as last night, game got stuck on 97% loading. But this time when I put it in my documents folder instead, it works.

It works a treat. I don't even hear the ding dang dong anymore... it's beautiful. I would have learned to be happy sitting inside a large ship while at the docks, but this is much more enjoyable. Thank you very, very much.

[z1ppeh]

No worries. I turned it into my first release after this as I already had a few other little niggles planned so this coupled in quite nicely

https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/522

[Buick 8]

No worries. I turned it into my first release after this as I already had a few other little niggles planned so this coupled in quite nicely

https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/522

Excellent, those are nice too, I'll probably use that one. No need to stand around listening to the rep's speech every time. Thanks again, really enjoying the peace and quiet.