Please add a separate volume adjustment for tool sounds. Pretty please.

My father owned his own vehicle repair and machine shop that I grew up working in, and I myself worked around heavy equipment and construction for a number of years so I understand the real sounds of tools and equipment quite well. The annoyance of the sound of a grinder for example is captured quite well here in the game. But I'd like to suggest that this is in fact a game, and while having uber realistic tool sounds for some might be part of the experience they desire, it is in fact quite painful to others. To the point they will not play the game, play with the volume so low it takes away from other aspects of the game sounds quite a bit, or they will only play where they can use the quiet tools mod.

I'd like to make a suggestion that I don't think would be hard to implement guessing by what I've seen in other games and the fact that these tool sounds can be modified at all. Please add a separate volume slider adjustment for the tool sounds themselves and perhaps another for sounds such as refineries, assemblers, and ship sounds. I quite enjoy most of the other game sounds, but after developing a sensitivity to certain sounds as part of an ongoing health condition that I am dealing with, the tool sounds are to me quite obnoxious and I can't deal with them for more than a very short period of time on a good day. I quit playing on Keen official servers because of it and moved to servers that used the quiet tools mod. I quite enjoy playing on the Keen official servers wish there was a way to compromise somehow. Like either these volume adjustments, or allow personal mods, that would be on an approved list, that do not effect the gameplay of others nor give you a ridiculous unfair advantage, like a HUD mod that just changes how things appear or of course the quiet tools mod.

I don't know why this hasn't been addressed yet officially as people on the autism spectrum for example usually do have pronounced auditory sensitivities. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6483953/

You would be doing them and people like myself a great service by just allowing the choice in whether to have the more realistic tool sounds or not by including a separate volume slider or adjustment for the tool sounds, ship sounds, etc. I hope you will strongly consider making this addition officially part of the game. Thank you.

p.s. Love the new DLC and updates. Please do ignore any straight out haters without good criticisms, as I will always gladly pay you for your efforts in continuing to improve and add to a game I very much enjoy. I used to pay $15 USD for a single League of Legends character skin without thinking much about it, because I played so much. I will quite happily support your time and efforts with some extra cash if I feel it's worth it. I will say I thought it was quite brilliant to have this release be half n half so to speak. With some updates free of charge and others in a DLC. Beautiful idea.

Steven Schulz

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