Also add the option to turn off unit acknowledgments. When SS is compared to something like Starcraft, we would issue far less orders in a day than an SC player does in an hour. I wouldn't want to turn it off, but some people will.

Variety is good too, if slaves always say the same exact thing for an order it will get annoying fast.

Those games have many different voices for different units, as well as utilize a wide variety of voice-acted lines for even those simple commands in order to avoid pure repetition. It's probably out of Star Sonata's both budget and needs to pay voice actors to perform all of these lines. And if only a single line is used it would probably become quite annoying to hear after a while.

Ah, but in Star Sonata we have the control bots. This means you can use the same voice (someone has a monopoly on 'bots I guess) for all ships. As for variety, I could just make a number of acknowledgements for each order.

For example:
[X] Attack My Target
"Attacking target!"
"Affermative!"
"Engaging!"
"Target locked!"
"In pursuit!"

[X] Dock and Deactivate
"Beginning docking procedure."
"Entering docking pattern."
"Preparing to dock."

And so on.

I understand that it makes sense. The issue is in that it sounds like it'd get annoying hearing a single thing every time a common command is issued to a slave. Additional lines could be given, but that requires voice-acting lines and post-processing the audio.

As nice as it would be, it seems to me to not be worth the time and money to get it right considering Star Sonata's budget.

Do you read? Copernicus is practically offering to do it... probably means free.

Apparently not because I missed the entirety of page 4.

Apologies to Copernicus.

Weeeeeeelllllll, I don't expect to be paid since most, if any, of the devs are not. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut I'd not argue against a free sub for a month...

But yea, if I keep at it, I might be able to modulate my own voice to sound like various bots. Maybe even short sound bites for major AI characters.

You arrive at East Vindia and open a mission file. A voice greets you saying, "Call me Ismail..."

In the game Escape Velocity, AI escorts would say "scratch one" whenever they killed something. That was always satisfying to me.

Anyone else want to help with this?

I don't want to promise anything since I'm learning the software as I go, but I won't say it's impossible either. It would be neat...

The functionality for something like this is already possible in the game, I added it when I wrote the code that allowed us to do boss scripting. We would just need to add a few lines to the boss scripts either in place of or supplementary to the galaxy shouts, and record and add the appropriate sound files to the client. I don't really feel comfortable doing this because we don't have any voice actors, and shitty voice acting would probably take away from the game more than it adds.

It is a possibility at some point in the future, but I don't see it happening right now unless Jeff decided to make it a priority.