SIC signal loss
Notifications when Signal is lost.

I am really sorry if this has been brought up but I couldn't find it anywhere using the search functionality with "SIC, "SIC Notification." or "Signal loss."

I think it would be really nice to get an IC notification when you lose SIC signal when you're stationary in a room, sort of like typing 'who' and moving into another room you get a notification saying Signal is Lost if signal is not present in your new destination.

I find it regrettable at times I am having an engagement over SIC and I don't realize SIC has gone out unless I regularly enter 'who' as a sanity check.

It may seem like a minor concern, but I think it'd be a nice quality of life improvement. I understand that losing signal is part of the living conditions on Red, but it mostly feels like OOC inconvenience rather than IC inconvenience when I can't tell that an onslaught of thoughts is no longer present without manual intervention with commands.

Thanks for taking the time to consider this. I'd love feedback!

I don't really think about the IC signal loss as OOCly inconvenience, it's a problem to solve that encourages movement or investment in IC equipment, I like that. The OOC part is just not knowing information I should know, which is an insane amount of ambient mind-traffic disappearing suddenly and without any indicator to my character that the ambient effect has disappeared.

I don't think there's any cause for getting upset over this though.

It HAS been brought up before.

No new ground is being covered here.

But this is like asking the playerbase to 'respect ambient population' as we're constantly told to do, but also saying if there was some effect where everyone on the street suddenly disappeared your character shouldn't notice....just cuz.

It doesn't make sense thematically or from a game design POV except 'we've always done it this way way, so ehhh'.

we can have 'realism' in a way no one really likes or wants or cares about that isn't interesting in any thematic way for some trivial bit of balancing of in-game mechanics (traffic) but an actually realistic thing that would be a QOL improvement for everyone in a system that is already spammy and a UI nightmare (SIC) and....well.

Silence, just silence, until you as a player notice the loss that your character is feeling?

Or

DING You've just lost SICNAL CHUMMER!?

One is loud, and goes against the purpose of the effect. The other is quiet, solumn and reliant on the player to feel that effect.

You may want a cue as a player, but you already have the cue if you choose to notice it.

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From what I've tested this is the absolute lowest latency method to check if there is signal IC with the least amount of feedback to process back to the player.

I don't feel in danger when I realize my SIC signal is lost. I go "oh." and I move. But if I was told, I might not just feel absentminded and instead rather actively respond to it, and being alerted and compelled to actively respond definitely feels like it would be more adrenaline inducing in a situation where you feel that SIC signal is critical.

Sorry and thank you all again.

I understand everything is usually designed with specific intent in mind and can respect that there are decisions made for reasons that we may not be able to know, or for reasons that benefit the 'game' aspect more than they benefit the 'realism' aspect.

As others have said, I just feel that with some kind of active notification would help the ambience of the SIC and the OOC representation of it correlate better.

I understand that there is no interest in making that kind of change so I humbly concede and I will still enjoy the game regardless.

Thank you!