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The New Turret Icons
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mkint
#21 - 2011-11-03 16:38:15 UTC
icon = a symbolic representation that stands for its object by virtue of a resemblance or analogy to it

The new "icons" are not icons. Yes, the old ones are really 1990's ish, but the new ones fail to effectively communicate what is happening, and were another example of CCP's failures in UI design. Let's get the old useful ones back as place holders until we can get some actual GOOD icons.

Maxim 6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#22 - 2011-11-03 17:51:37 UTC
Twisted Alice wrote:

This game really is stuck in the mud, don't envy CCPs task whatever they do they won't win.
No. They just have to not screw up by replacing functional icons with nonfunctional pictures.

It has nothing to do with learning - it had to do with functionality. Specificallt that the new pictures didn't have any - they were not icons. You could have achived te same functionality by removing the pictures altogether for all the value they had as UI elements.
Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#23 - 2011-11-03 17:57:04 UTC
The problem with the pictures is that they are terribly pixelated from their true look, so you get some hideous black spindly thing instead of a gun.

At the least, the old icons didn't hurt my eyes.
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