Open originalfoo opened 5 years ago
Weather could also affect the sounds; for example, people go indoors during rain, so sounds should change.
Potentially, volume of certain sounds could be affected based on city population?
When city is small, some zones (specifically: office, and high density residential/commercial) will get lower volume ambient sounds. As city grows, the volume increases. The max volume (ie. volume set in mod options by user) would occur when city is 750k pop or above.
Result: City gets louder as pop grows.
This is indeed something for a new mod. Incorporating all this into Real Time will make it unnecessarily complex. I will introduce a new label "mod suggestion" and mark all related issues with that.
Splitting this out from #180...
Currently the city sounds are same at all times of day, night, weekend vs. weekday, etc. it would be great if they could change to reflect the RT settings.
RT would then cause different city sounds during the different times of day. The user would be responsible for installing sound pack mods and choosing which sounds to play at different times.
An option for "None" (no sound) would also be beneficial. For example, residential areas could become silent during sleep time. Farms could have distinct day vs. night sounds, and so on.
I think this would really take the RT effect to a new level, making gameplay more immersive and emphasising the distinction between day/night, and weekday/weekend, where applicable.
In addition, the Ambient Sounds Tuner mod hasn't been updated in ages, it's missing lots of settings for DLCs and even base-game stuff.