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Looks great but it feel like there is too much of the same color: different colors by widgets could be better ?

Yes, this please. Let us pull elements out of the client window.

I would love some more intuitive control of my spaceship's velocity. The current best methods for responsive control is double clicking in space to go full speed or ctrl+space to stop your ship. To modify this speed you must click on a small bar at the bottom of your screen which gives no visual indication of whether you are slowing down or speeding up.

Currently we have two responsive keyboard shortcuts for velocity control full speed or full off. The accelerate and decelerate shortcuts are not useable in their current form as the user holds down the short cut and has no visual guide as to what speed the final percentage speed change. Unresponsive and guess work.

http://imgur.com/51lAb7Z

My suggestion is to move velocity bar to somewhere more viable, add an indicator to show what percentage velocity the ship will be changed to and . There should be a visual representation of the ship's target percentage velocity so a pilot can visually confirm the ship is responding correctly. As in it current implementation the bar could be clicked to select a velocity or the "target velocity bar" could be to dragged.

In addition to remove the requirement for the user to click on the bar itself I suggest the implementation of keyboard modifier + mouse scroll to affect the ship's target percentage speed.

If possible allow the user to configure the sensitivity of their scroll wheel on their speed so a pilot tune the scroll to their own needs (responsive speed change vs accuracy). Some pvpers may want to use such a high setting that would allow each interval l to modify their speed by 50%. Mean it would take only two intervals of their scroll to get to full speed or stop their ship.

I choose to be positive about this. :)

This has a lot of potential! Can't wait to see your ideas, now and later, and iterations on them!

Also:

1. Have you considered moving from click window to focus to hover window to focus (immediately)? So much more actionable!
2. Maybe come up with a generic way of populating radial menu on ALL combo boxes? E.g. clock-wise, numbered, tooltip equals item text. Thinking of probe formations foremost, but many other drop-downs as well.
3. 19th century factory building is still a bad sci-fi icon 'form' for Industry. Brainstorming now...

Keep up the inspired work!

This is barely different from what we have right now. In fact, it's exactly the same with only changes made to improve speed of access and bring the visuals up to a better state.

It still looks like Windows 95, but now it's Windows 95 that feels like it was made in the future.

yow say that i´m botting ?

This is INCREDIBLE!

I adore this new UI! Fantastic work guys! I really cannot wait to see the final deployment on Tranq

EDIT: I'm editing this in response to a couple of comments.

I really wish you guys would spend more time working on the core game and less fixing something that really isn't broken .

That said, this seems to be well underway and there's probably no stopping it now. So here's some things I'd like to see since you're working on the UI anyway:

- Ability to actually 'pin' windows so they lock and cannot be resized until unpinned. EDIT: Yes, this option already exists. It doesn't actually work and never has as far as I know. Also, turning the windows transparent should be separate from locking them in place.

- The ability to adjust window transparency is great, but I really just want to make them all opaque all the time, please accomodate my weirdness. EDIT: Yes, I know I can do this now. But none of their examples are completely transparent, and I want it to remain an option for grouchy old folks like me.

- Ability to show all UI elements even when they're not needed (some kind of toggle, available through the neocom?) so that they can be moved and resized on demand. (Example: the first time a new character joins a fleet, the fleet box is huge and plops itself right into the middle of your screen. 2nd Example: I'm in a carrier and have 10,000 drones in it. I show the drone UI while docked on purpose so I can calmly sit in station with no one shooting at me and put my drones into neat little groups so I can actually find what I'm looking for later).

- Ability to import and export UI positions similar to overview imports and exports. I have a lot of accounts with a lot of characters, it'd be amazing to be able to set this stuff up once just the way I like it and clone it on demand. This cloning should include UI element settings, chat windows and their positions, Fleet windows, dscan, probe scan, both overview boxes, watch list, the drones window, and hopefully you remember anything I forgot to list here.

- Allow us to turn off completely that click wheel thing. Setting the delay to maximum isn't good enough, it still pops up frequently and once it does it's difficult to NOT select anything. I've never used it on purpose and probably never will, I hate click wheels.

- Add separate buttons for Solar System Map and Star Map instead of it having to be a toggle of the same part of the map UI.

This already exists.

Hint: Settings.

The new look is quite appealing, and shows considerable insight. I do have one concern, but I don't use the test server and can't see how the new UI looks in the areas I frequent.

When missioning in Amarr space it's already hard enough for me to tell if any of my modules are activated. I constantly have to move the view to face the darkest part of the nebula just to see the slight green glow around my modules or try and read my overview.

I like the look of the new UI system from the Dev blog, but I'm also concerned that I won't be able to enjoy the changes due to the brightness of the nebula in Amarr space.

Has your team taken the brightness of Amarr nebula into consideration? Will anyone be able to read their overview in the brighter nebulas?