I'm afraid to ask, but get out your tin-foil hats

Rooster Podunk

Rooster Podunk
{redacted my original question before posting before you all label me nuts}

Location about 20k LY from the bubble...

The TLDR is I'm picking up a sound from a moon while approaching for mapping but before I engage the DSS. It is like a distant power plant humming off in the distance. Nothing on Contacts, nothing on Navigation panel. Moon is landable but unremarkable (so far). System does have geology but no biological signals, and no concentrated or transient signal sources. It sure has me wondering (yet once again) if it is space madness, or is this something other commanders have come across before?

Again, not looking for drama here, but for the life of me the sound only appears at this moon. Is there any game mechanic I'm missing that I should be looking at? The moon is a simple rocky world.
 

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Very likely an Audio bug.

If you trigger certain Audio FX and then exit the screen mode where it played before its playback is complete, it'll repeat distorted and louder when returning back to the screen mode.
Once you catch such an Audio bug and cycle (i.e. into System Map and back), you can keep it playing indefinitely (until you let its playback complete).

Short version : everything out of the ordinary with ELITE is exceedingly likely to be a minor bug

PS.
Moons with Geologicals have a distinct Audio to them from closer Range, but under normal circumstances those you'll hear only in System Map, in FSS or when in Normal Space and letting idle FX set in (~15sec with Ship in Idle/Stopped).
 
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Havvk

Havvk
Rooster Podunk said:
{redacted my original question before posting before you all label me nuts}

Location about 20k LY from the bubble...

The TLDR is I'm picking up a sound from a moon while approaching for mapping but before I engage the DSS. It is like a distant power plant humming off in the distance. Nothing on Contacts, nothing on Navigation panel. Moon is landable but unremarkable (so far). System does have geology but no biological signals, and no concentrated or transient signal sources. It sure has me wondering (yet once again) if it is space madness, or is this something other commanders have come across before?

Again, not looking for drama here, but for the life of me the sound only appears at this moon. Is there any game mechanic I'm missing that I should be looking at? The moon is a simple rocky world.
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What's the question? Because if we don't know, I'll be the first one to call you a lunatic
 

Rooster Podunk

Rooster Podunk
FalconFly said:
Very likely an Audio bug.

If you trigger certain Audio FX and then exit the screen mode where it played before its playback is complete, it'll repeat distorted and louder when returning back to the screen mode.
Once you catch such an Audio bug and cycle (i.e. into System Map and back), you can keep it playing indefinitely (until you let its playback complete).

Short version : everything out of the ordinary with ELITE is exceedingly likely to be a minor bug

PS.
Moons with Geologicals have a distinct Audio to them from closer Range, but under normal circumstances those you'll hear only in System Map, in FSS or when in Normal Space and letting idle FX set in (~15sec with Ship in Idle/Stopped).
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Thanks for that tip. I'm gonna log back in and see what happens but audio bug is something well worth looking into. I'll keep the tin-foil hat close by just in case.
 
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