Ambient sounds for natural features (stars, etc.)

Are they audible to anyone?

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In the .xml definition files, stars and nebulae have an ambient SFX specified. I have tried fiddling with the controls, and I can't hear a difference. Starbases and mines and shipyards clearly do (they all sound pretty similar), but do the natural objects? Should I bother modding sounds in for new natural features?

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

There is no sound in space Kappa :sun:

Soz, im not helpful but I couldn't resist lol.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I usually played zoomed out, so I rarely hear any ambient sounds.  I have heard moving ships if I am zoomed in enough, and I have heard a star occasionally.  I just tested what I could hear in my current game, and it wasn't much.  I heard what seemed to be the same sound coming from just a few yellow stars and the same for purple, blue and orange stars.  I didn't check them all, but most did not have sounds.  I checked all of the white stars, and none had sounds.  I checked planets, shipyards, starbases, precursor relics, nebulae and everything else I thought of, and none had sounds.

I had turned off music, turned SFX volume and my computer's volume to maximum, so I shouldn't have missed anything that was making sound.

 

Edit:  and I saw that 00zim00 posted while I was writing the above.  He has probably explained why I didn't hear much.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting 00zim00, reply 1

Soz, im not helpful but I couldn't resist lol.
End of 00zim00's quote

 

Not a problem, I was totally asking for that!

 

Quoting Old-Spider, reply 2

from just a few yellow stars and the same for purple, blue and orange stars. 
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Thank you for checking! I wonder if it is only occasional. I waited on a lot of stars, and black holes, and heard nothing, but I have some major mods running.