Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It's about self appointed do gooders who feel its their right to go into a blind man's house and re-arrange all his furniture and demand a thank you as he falls over everything becuase it's no longer where it used to be.
It's about people like myself with certain abnormalities who've adapted to the world around them, instead of crying discrimination becuase the world won't bend to them.

Don't move my damn furniture...and get off my orange lawn!

Nobody's "moving your damn furniture". You either ignored or missed the part where OP said it should be an option. It's about presenting the ability for someone else to move their furniture around if they want to. Maybe you missed the color-blind people in here who voiced support for OP's suggestion before the trolling started.

Excellent, you've adapted successfully to your disability. That still doesn't give you the right to say "screw you" when someone else proposes adding the option for other people to change their interface around in a way that might help them do the same.

Also, nobody's declaring it's "their right" or "demanding a thank you". It's a suggestion. Try to be less oversensitive and indignant, please.

That is exactly what he wants to do. He wants an options that flips certain colors that certain people have trouble seeing around.

So there is EVE color standard that we would play. Then there is an option that changes colors that can be better seen by those who have trouble.

I am not color blind so would simply keep my settings as is.

Almost as easy as porting high res textures that already exist to the community via an optional download...

What I'm getting at is that even the easiest tasks are overly complicated/drawn out by ccp. What would probably take any of us with a modest amount of graphic design know how a couple hours will end up taking ccp months. It's just how it is sadly.

Please CCP, also keep in mind the people without hands, people who are deaf, people who can't speak, people who are partially paralyzed, people who have down syndrome, people who....... you get the picture.


The color blind, the reason why American traffic signs say walk/don't walk instead of just green and red.
Yet at the same time, THEY ARE STILL GREEN AND RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I get it, you are color blind, it is not ideal for you, you'll have to do some more reading and paying more attention to text in stead of colors.
Please stop asking for stuff that works great for the majority, to change for a MIGHTILY small minority.

As for programming, text is generally printed by a function, not as a static image. This function generally got a variable for text colour, so you just need to add a offset if you switch the option on, very simple stuff from the programming pov.

So, while I am not Color blind, I think it is a good idea to give people that are a walk around for the issue.



While I in no way want to defend CCP, and I am pretty sure things could go better there, there is a massive difference if you do something for a couple of hours and work on a pet project or in a work environment with milestones, QA, bug fixes, lists you have to work down, code testing and meetings/team coordination overhead. This is the reason why so many free software projects fail, not because you can't do awesome stuff really quick, but because that awesome stuff is just a very small bit of what you do and once you sit there with multiple people doing awesome stuff you quickly end up in a situation where nothing fits together, because there was no coordination and nobody that did puzzle all pieces together at the end.

In the end you still can say, "sorry I am bad" on internet spaceship forums if things are not done right. If you get paid for that, got a full load of work to do, can't simply go back because you are already working on the next thing and have to defend your work before your boss/team members, it is a bit of a different thing altogether.

Ah, so you want them to completely modify their entire code.
You do know that, things like these effect many aspects of the game and therefore many files will need to be updated to suit to this modability.

Also... a *.txt file, you obviously aren't a programmer and if you are, you should punish yourself.
It is true though, they could just add them to our existing client-side configuration files, but again, this would require changes to hundreds if not thousands of code files.

Do you really want CCP to spend a heap of time, effort and money on something only a % of the player base wants/"needs"?.

What do you have against the *.txt file? .json is as well just a freaking *.txt file, no?

And it's not like I want anything. When I would wish for something, that would be the insight in the code and application to see how did they create it.

If you think that it's changing hundreds, if not thousands of code files then you should punish yourself?

EDIT: This is just another feature and idea from which some could get profit. If it doesn't affect you, then sorry. But we can see senseless topics get open all the time (e.g. AFK cloaking) ... I think this feature is much more valid request than many other out there.

They might be "GREEN UND RED!!!ONE111!!!", but eve definitely lacks the "walk/don't walk" option.

And XML is not text? It does not matter which format they're using. I've written *.txt as generalization because I have no clue what they might be or might not be using. The advantage from XML is that you can write a Schema and block illegal files. Anyway, I do hope they're not attacking their own database with silly requests such as 'text(#).getColor()'.

I don't want to imagine how stuff works there. I would just like to have an answer which discusses the topic. E.g.

We can't change that easily because our code is based on stuff what we've been creating since 2003. On top of that, we have never thought about modularity in such manner and that's why your request is probably not going to get in the game before we manage to fix other MORE IMPORTANT issues.

That's all. Just some way to communicate. You know - take a day in the week where you will pass the "new" ideas and features which have never been discussed. I don't want to speculate, I don't want to guess and I don't want to compare something what I don't see with something what is out there.

EDIT: Moderators should close 'duplicated' topics. CCP should answer on topics like these since we can just guess around. Once when CCP answers, everyone will be happy. No need for speculation, no need for discussions, etc.

I understand what you're trying to say, but do you have any clue how EvE code looks like?