29-09-2004 01:08									#1
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Lately I've heard some talk to whether people play civ2 with the sounds on or not. It would be interesting to get an "official" answer to the question. So, what do you do? With or without?

Personally, I usually play without, as I think it's noisy and I like to listen to music when I play.

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	29-09-2004 01:25									#2
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Good golly, there must always be sound!

Nothing beats that NAVGUN and DIVEBOMB symphony!

	29-09-2004 01:34									#3
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I usually listen to some music while playing, so the sounds would only distract me

	29-09-2004 01:34									#4
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I want the full sensory experience when I play. Plus, I like editing sounds and making my own. I use Goldwave to edit and modify sound files. Civ2 will play stereo sounds as well, and that adds a lot to the atmosphere -and also to the file size.

A scenario without sounds is incomplete.

	29-09-2004 01:35									#5
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quote: Originally posted by Heresson I usually listen to some music while playing, so the sounds would only distract me

Mp3!!!

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Hm... I didn't know people are so kin on sounds.
Perhaps I should have made sounds for my scns - but it's too late now.
I'd have to redisign all the units, right?

	29-09-2004 01:56									#7
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When I first began to play with and alter others scenarios, the sounds were one of the first things I worked on.

Since then, I always plan for sounds in a scenario. It's important to do so at the outset, I discovered early on, but things will get changed as the tweaking process continues.

Some of the sounds I've put into the slots were so evocative that they really made the scenario work for me.

Good sounds = atmosphere

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quote: Originally posted by Heresson Hm... I didn't know people are so kin on sounds. Perhaps I should have made sounds for my scns - but it's too late now. I'd have to redisign all the units, right?

There's still a lead for 'without'

But yeah, you would most likely have to reasign some units to make them all have the correct sound.

	29-09-2004 01:59									#9
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You have to have sound. Without them the imagination is severely deprived.

	29-09-2004 02:00									#10
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The atmosphere?
Can't I just say You should listen to Carmina Burana through entire game?

	29-09-2004 02:03									#11
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I sometimes make sounds for my scens, depending on my lazyness

Just recently I made some sounds for Blitzkrieg 1942, which I ripped from various other games such as Combat Mission. Found here: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...threadid=115962

I use Sound Forge to edit sounds.

	29-09-2004 02:06									#12
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Lets say You want to have a sound of camelry.
(camel cavalry that is )
What do You do, then? How do You find a sound of a camel?

	29-09-2004 02:20									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Heresson Lets say You want to have a sound of camelry. (camel cavalry that is ) What do You do, then? How do You find a sound of a camel?

Just ask.

	29-09-2004 02:29									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Heresson Hm... I didn't know people are so kin on sounds. Perhaps I should have made sounds for my scns - but it's too late now. I'd have to redisign all the units, right?

Just swap some WAVs around and it will do the trick!

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quote: Originally posted by techumseh Just ask.

Thank You!

quote: Originally posted by curtsibling Just swap some WAVs around and it will do the trick!

Well, I can try it but eventually, some units will end up with unproper sounds if I do not correct their location in rules and units.bmp

	29-09-2004 03:01									#16
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I play with sound disabled and have never bundled sound files with my scenarios. The only kind of sound I wouldn't mind listening to would be built-in event-driven mp3 tracks, and that's not an option.

	29-09-2004 03:02									#17
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Here's some Arab cavalry.

Attachment: allah_charge.wav
This has been downloaded 13 time(s).

	29-09-2004 03:04									#18
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo I play with sound disabled and have never bundled sound files with my scenarios. The only kind of sound I wouldn't mind listening to would be built-in event-driven mp3 tracks, and that's not an option.

My attitude exactly

quote: Originally posted by techumseh Here's some Arab cavalry.

Thank You! Where do You take them from?

	29-09-2004 03:28									#19
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I hardly play with the sounds on, as i generally listen to music while i play Civ.

	29-09-2004 03:40									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Exile Good sounds = atmosphere

	29-09-2004 04:10									#21
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I get them from other games, mostly. The Camel sound is one of FORTY camel sounds in Medieval Total War. I think I got the Allah charge from a Civ2 scenario, though I can't remember. Cossacks and East/West Front are also gold mines, among many others. Most computer wargames sound is still in wav format, though MP3 is being used more often now. It's easy to convert MP3's to wav format with Goldwave software. It's downloadable here: http://www.goldwave.com/

I finish with the Microsoft Soundrecorder program to put the sounds into the format Civ2 uses. It's PCM 22.050 kHz 8-bit. Mono or stereo. Stereo wave files are twice as large as mono.

	29-09-2004 04:14									#22
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quote: Originally posted by Heresson Thank You! Well, I can try it but eventually, some units will end up with unproper sounds if I do not correct their location in rules and units.bmp

ToT can solve this puzzle by giving each unit it's own individual sound WAV!

	29-09-2004 04:24									#23
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I use Blaze Audio. It has a nifty 30 day trial. It rips, converts, edits, burns.

http://www.blazeaudio.com

and there are plenty of free sites out there that have some decent sound effects:

http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/weapons.html

http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/wired/975/

http://www.nationalanthems.us/cgi-b.../YaBB.cgi#links

http://members.tripod.com/~pnkeese/philsnono/

http://www.rcexchange.com/html/sound-5.html

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/warsounds.shtml

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	29-09-2004 04:26									#24
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I use an ancient program called CTWAVE32!

First used by Werner Heisenberg in 1943!

	29-09-2004 04:52									#25
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With you I ALWAYS apply the uncertainly principle!

	29-09-2004 07:26									#26
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I always play with sound on.

Many scenario creators go to a great deal of work to select specific sounds to work with their scenarios.

It's the total sensory experience baby!

	30-09-2004 19:22									#27
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Sound is a terrific way of conveying a theme or adding to the iconography of a scenario.. I really enjoy a scenario with sounds well-made - if a scenario has no sounds its a major turnoff for me.

Find some Civ2 sound fx on my forum at CDG (link in my signature). (the allah-charge sound effect was mine btw - the prayer sound is from the film "The English Patient", mixed with a cavalry charge and army cheering)

	30-09-2004 20:35									#28
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I do not consider a scenario complete unless it has the sounds...

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	30-09-2004 22:48									#29
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Stop that #%&@!?$ racket, I'm concentrating!