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Yes good point, I agree that the 'Esc' should be reserved for "go out of this view or option" and Settings should be a feature in the Neocom. It will not go out with these changes in December, but we have good plans for the Settings menu and making 'Esc' work as expected.

How close is close I guess is the question, I dont pretend to be a developer or anything, so maybe i'm talking about the impossible, but whenever you guys make significant UI changes, or move a button that been in one place for the existence of the game (like the dock button), it throws a number of the older players into chaos due to purely muscle memory of where stuff is. It would be nice if we can keep the oldn'busted version if we so choose :)

thanks for the response

Please please also have a look on performance!
Currently even small things like chat blink can drop FPS by quite a notch and hiding UI improves it like night and day so please consider performance.

Other than that it looks really nice, gonna try this out in wine asap.

Performance testing is happening as you type.

We are very conscious of making these changes and that not all players are running quad sli titans. We will be striving to have the best possible performance for min spec machines.

OMMMMMGGGGGGGGG NEEEEEEDDDDDD
i rarely post, but dudes, this is the kind of stuff i've been waiting for a long time

NOW eve will feels more 2014 than 1993

<3<3<3

much love for CCP on this one

p.s: what would be a great adding to the game is the fact that will the ISIS system you guys setup, you could replace the "thumbnail" ship picture when you target someone and use those sweet 2014 ISIS ship thumbails/icons...

The screen capture has no chat windows. Really the chat windows and scan or fleet windows are what clutter the screen and reduce the immersion.

Meanwhile, how about toning down the nebulae in mission rooms or sites etc. And then there is the big one. Dim the suns. When we are 20 au from the sun it should not be saturating half the screen.

I am simply speechless. New UI, at last. Of course Eve iz dying and dumbed down bad CCP!

I love it!

Unfortunately I am unable to log into Singularity at the moment to test it, but I have two concerns right off the bat:

1. Some windows are key even when they are not focused, e.g. chat channels and overview. These need to be easily legible in all three states. I know the UI team is not a huge fan of the overview in general, but until something better comes along it's extremely important that it remain usable.

2. Some activities involve switching between windows repeatedly--for example, when updating market orders I generally have my wallet open on the left side of the screen (where I have the Orders tab open) and the market window on the right (to see competitors' orders), and every order I update (100+) involves switching from wallet to market and back. In cases like this I suspect the repeated changes in transparency will quickly become annoying.

As for how to fix these things: a delay on the transparency change (so if a window is focused, loses focus, but then regains it within, say 10s, the transparency doesn't change) would help for the second. For the first, allowing windows to be pinned in a less-transparent state, or some kind of system where windows near the center of the screen get more transparency than windows near the edge of the screen--but this is a more complicated problem.

I really like where this is going. I know this is likely not easily achievable but if you let me pull off UI elements onto my second screen while in windowed mode I would love you forever. Imagine having your second monitor in vertical position so you can see all of local or all of overview and have your main screen unobstructed?

Will I need to install MS FrontPage 97 extensions to get those buttons to work?