Hello, new player. Still in my 8 hour free time (definately going to sign up though). Forgive me if this has been suggested but my idea is simple. At the moment, I'm enjoying mining. I'll find a large asteroid, start the laser, alt-tab and read some internet posts before alt-tabbing back in and if finished, go to a station and offload.

What wouold be nice is a simple "beep beep" type sound effect that plays when your cargo hold is full. At the moment I'm alt-tabbed and the music is still playing so I guess sound effects will also still play. In that case, the "beep beep" would notify me when my holds were full and I could alt-tab back in and sell.

At the moment, it's a bit hit and miss because the time taken to fill up your cargo holds depends on the size of the asteroid you're mining and the heat generated by the mining. I've found it can vary between 2 - 7 minutes. I don't care about the time because it's just nice that it still happens while I'm alt-tabbed, I just would like to be notified via audio so I can alt-tab back in when it's finished, rather than finding out I'm not full yet and just alt-tabbing back out again.

You know, this behavior will lead to your death. You have just been lucky I guess becuase I know there are many pirates that will kill miners who appear to have gone AFK.

Well, being attacked does make noise, so hopefully he'll come back soon enough to run away.

I like DarkUnderlord's idea, if not his strategy.
Some little audio beeps and such would be useful in this game.

All these beeps would be configurable. Default to "on" but can easily be turned "off" later on:

Beep if your hold is full
Beep when buddies sign in or out.
Beep when a PM comes to you
Beep when a guide needs your attention
Beep when someone enters the sector (Perhaps only for enemies when the configurable iff is ready)

Hrm. could be lots of beeps.

I'm with DarkUnderlor and Lebermac. We currently get too little feedback from the game on what's going on, particularly on the HUD. I want a direction indicator to my target when my target goes off the screen, among other things. See the following links:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/10204
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/10204#117973
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v178/Dimpfinator/newscreenie1-01.jpg

Yea. Something like that. I like to be able to see how far it is to my target, how far I have to turn, and target velocity.

Maybe we should have a klaxxon noise when someone starts firing at you/hits you for the first time? :P