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Also the numbers get cut off in Station Services. http://i.imgur.com/u4E4LwT.png

Sweet!

But please really make sure this is ready for HighDPI-Screens, especially scalling the UI to 200% -without getting blurry icons. because of too low icon resolution. Also, please make EVE truely Retina-Ready on OSX, so we can run it windowed (without getting eye-cancer)

Keep up the good work!

My 2 cents:

- I think we should be able to modify the icons ourselves... create and exchange our own skin packs... (like in any other modern game).
- I think we should be able to change le look and feel of each and every window In Game, through our own xml files (add columns, remove columns, add fields, remove fields, add locally calculated fields based on available IG variables and personal constants, like (amount * size / mass) or whatever we choose to display locally;
- I think we should be able to share those settings between players;

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Also, I'm quite sad that in my ship's cockpit, there is only one 24'' display available (I mean I spend millions of isks, and all I get is a small screen to give me feedback or interact with my ship, team mates, corps mate, market, industry etc...). Even at the start of the 21st century normal people (not even capsuleers) had 2 or more screens on their desks, connected to a vast array of computers through a network called the Internet. (I have like 5 screens right now on my desk!!).

Wouldn't it be nice to have a front screen with all the flight /pvp /combat data, a screen to the left with the realtime starmap showing a specific type of data like the podding during the last hour, another one on top with the current system starmap that I'm scanning, a screen on the right with the social interaction : local, intel, friends, current mission, and one screen above it with the current market situation in the region next to some other info like industrial stuffs in progress? (or any other way to organize the screens...).

The way I see it, could be for example to have a main process responsible to interact with the server, cache the data, and as many other child process as the user wishes , each displaying whatever data the user wishes (this way you could even decide to look in front on the main forward screen, look right on the screen on the right, look left on the screen on the left... should you choose to and should your hardware allow it).

You know, the model view controler pattern ... ;-)

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I find it just riduculous how we are flying hi tech ships in space and are not even capable of displaying the data we need, the way we want it, on the screen we want...

Note, I don't want to multibox... I'm not interested in having multiple accounts running at the same time (which we can, of course, do, to monitor different type of data on different screens) which is a stupid way of achieving the same result.

(BTW I _did_ find a way to achieve part of all this multi window/screen thing using a dummy virtual large screen, displaying all the data on it, then using a third party software to grab part of that virtual screen and displaying it in different screens... I just find it stupid to have to do this kind of thing... )

Good point! One of the key reasons to move to iconic icons was to be able to draw them and store them in vector format and apply the effects they use through batches or dynamically in the client. This means all icons can be scaled infinitely to any size and taken through the batching process and will therefore be ready for 4K screens or other awesomeness the future holds.

Well done! It's about time. I like the current plan so far, especially with replacing colours with shapes. I often struggle to find the right ico (e.g. between market and people&places; between journal and contracts; and sometimes between map and fitting), even though I do not have colour-blindness.

I came to split the Neocom into two - those that I have shortcuts assigned will be dragged off the Neocom. What stays on the Neocom are distinctive enough and are less used, hence those do not need a shortcut and can sit on the Neocom. If you guys have gathered data on how players arrange their neocom and assign their shortcuts, you probably would have noticed this long ago when you started to allow customization of Neocom.

So yes,

+1 to shape-based icons (and the lovely glow)
+1 to the window transparency logic

May I suggest that if the player is in combat (i.e. with active target locked, firing, or under fire), add a glow around the edge of the screen? This is to give an overall visual feedback to the player telling him that "hey you are under attack" or "hey you are engaging a target".

E.g.

While having a target locked or got locked by NPC/Player - Screen glows yellow
While engaging or getting engaged by NPC/Player - Screen glows red


If this doesn't make sense, we could also turn it into a visual incoming damage feedback indicator (in addition to the audio beeps):

Shields getting damaged = blue
Armour getting damaged = yellow
Structure getting damaged = red


This would allow a player, who may have had to open multiple windows for reasons like changing fitting, browsing jump network or looking at other 1-million-and-1 things to still be aware of the exact state of matters.

This would come into player when player is actively looking at other windows instead of the action in the background. Once the player minimizes the window and has a clear view of space, the glow would fade to a minimal line along the border to continue to indicate the "state of combat".

While I kinda mourn the old icons already, the idea and pictures so far are good, although a wide color selection range seems very necessary. I vote for dark purple!

Very cool, I like the futuristic feel. However I think some of the icons need to be redesigned. The wallet and mail icons are pretty intuitive, but if I didnt know Eve then I'd have no idea which button to click to buy something off the market. I'm guessing the star represents Corporation tab? If I'm a new player I would assume the star is for missions or Concord, not my "clan". I like the new simplified style though! Might want to revisit the exact icons to help with NPE though :)

Actually quite nice, I'm shocked. Just shocked.

Things which annoyed me:

* Window borders are perhaps a bit too thin and useless, and the brackets in the corners look stupid when they disappear when the background happens to be the same color. This is even more pronounced on a high-res display (2560x1440, 27").

* The transparency switching between active and inactive windows just seems awkward (while the camera movement mode is great!). How about only switching to a more transparent inactive state when no windows are selected?

* I'd quite like to adjust the transparency, but I saw you already planned to do that.

* Whenever some section of the window is loading (char sheet being slow, for instance), it looks kinda dumb. Add a loading spinner or something.



Also, new icons are largely fine (market icon seems kinda wrong, though - how about a set of horizontal bars, matching the spreadsheet nature of the window itself?). Some of the color schemes are delicious - it'd also be neat if it could auto-switch depending on the race of station you're docked in (optionally, obviously).


All in all, A+ for effort, and a solid B for implementation.

Hello,

looks nice but I have a few concerns about readability:
- is it possible to tweak font size and transparency like before ?
- the noise we see on the background is due to space behind, or is it the windows ?

I have vision issues so if there's too much noise or if the letters are not distinct because of background I will have trouble reading :s

I was sadpanda when the icons that actually looked like turrets were redacted. I really liked them. Less reading more looking. Now that Launchers are 3d as well there should be no inconsistency either.

This looks really good as far as I can tel. The highlighting on the active tab is a bit .. stark compared to what I'm used to but I guess I'll just have to get used to this.

Caldari 2 - cause black on black
EDIT:
Black and Minmatar do look good as well. Caldari too. The rest ... colour is just to distracting for me.


Uhu ... my charsheet allways loads slowly. This could get interessting.