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The feature is working as intended.

I very much doubt that it was intended that players should create bounties just because they can in the purely random way that's happening now. (See above ^^^)

It's stupid, pathetic and juvenile and has no connection whatsoever with policing.

Once again, just going to reiterate how much more difficult the new targeting UI is for me to use.

I didn't like it from the start, I rageposted about it, and now I've gone and used it for ~2 days in active combat situations flying t1 cruisers (which are great btw, nice job), and I still don't like it.

My issue is that number one, it's very difficult to see at a glance how much hp they are missing. particularly the shield and hull bars becuase there is very little contrast between that bar and whatever you are looking at on screen. I.e. if you're looking at the sun, it's harder to tell. The armor bar is ~ok~ because it has bars of white around it, but overall it's significantly harder to see how much damage somebody has at a quick glance than the old interface.

This is further compounded by the fact that the damage appears in a circle. I've said this before and I'll said it again--humans read in straight lines, not in a circle. When my eyes see the point between the white and the red, I first try to look for a horizontal bar, not a circular bar. It's simply much more difficult to do a quick check on how much damage they have taken--this is especially annoying and relevant when they are active tanking. This is already difficult for just looking at one client, but we all know that many people run more than one at once--and I personally regularly run 3 clients in combat situations all at the same time and being able to alt-tab quickly through them and gather quick information is a must. On that note, I've also noticed the damage seems to lag sometimes on the new targeting ui--not accurately showing how much damage they have taken--sometimes lagging out for a couple of seconds.

My other main issue with the UI aside from the fact that it is less readable than the old UI is that it is also bigger. It takes up a significant amount of room and in a game like eve where I need to have my chat window, my local window, my d-scan, my overview, my fleet window, my drone window, my watchlist, and my hud all setup on the screen, this increase in space taken is not helpful. It is most noticeable when doing targeting ui intensive activities like salvaging in a noctis.

CCP, it is extremely frustrating for me to use the new UI. I will grant that yes, it looks cooler, but in function it is worse than the old UI. It probably works fine for people that don't fight in combat situations where they have to manage ranges on multiple enemy ships, watch multiple ewar situations while taking quick glances at the targeting icon to see damage, but for people that do this, it is simply subpar.

Please don't let your pride of your new system get the most of you, please give us an option to use the old one, it's frustrating to login to the game, excited to play and then have my excitement slowly wane as I keep having to double check and triple check my targeting icons because I couldn't manage to see the damage or the shiptype (as noted in other people's posts, the ship icon is harder to see as well).

I would really appreciate a CCP response on this.

+1

It is a very stupid idea and should be fixed/reverted. What is so game-breaking about cloaky HICs?