Current ambient audio and musics lack immersion. There's lot division into this suggestion so I decided to keep it in a single thread:

:- Station related ambient:
-Add suitable ambient, so that when docked it feels really like a crowded space station.
-Add some basic audio similar to air traffic chatter, i.e. "Requesting docking permission.", "Docking permission granted." etc.

1/ https://youtu.be/7BABfeQa83A

:- Ship related:
- Current engine sound is too generic and plain for a space engine. Adding a bit of realism to it shouldn't be a problem.
- Same goes for weapon sound too. Currently it literally sounds like "pew pew" coming from children's toy. It doesn't correspond with the magnitude of a contraption capable of destruction.
- While in cockpit aka flying, there's plenty of scope to increase immersion. Radio chattering, adding radio-like audio while player to player messaging and hailing, adding suitable sound for turbo/breaking/weapon group change/selecting something or someone in radar, these are some example.

1/ https://youtu.be/VN6IxFvJdeQ
2/ https://youtu.be/-12d3J60VPc
3/ https://youtu.be/MwDTzSkHGeI

:- General ambient music:
-Some people find current general ambient music enjoyable and some don't. Adding more immersive spacey ambient audioscape is always welcome.
- Adding atleast one representing music exclusive to a system.

I've added few links to make it easier to understand what's presented in this thread.

That's it.

Yes, the game is overdue for a major rework of sounds and effects. We're also likely to update the actual game-engine sound-system around the same time.

In some cases, there are actually new music and effects already sitting around, waiting, but integration is unlikely until after we complete the new UI and localization efforts.