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In the presentation concept they actually matched the UI theme though, they were *discrete*.

The dev blog says they made them white so they would stand out, yet the neocom icons are the part of the UI that needs to stand out the least, the only time they get used is when you're docked or otherwise safe (apart from perhaps the fitting window).

If the bland, out of place white icons make everything so much quicker to find, how come the only one you see on the screenshots at first glance is the red store icon?

Some feedback.

New visuals make windows not transparent for the HUD.
Some artifacts like square shadows.
Colour presets are generally bad idea if they're not editable.
Some presets give bad visual experience, like making text unreadable.

Here are some screenshots:

The HUD is not visible: http://i.imgur.com/dlz8Sze.jpg
"Amarr" colour theme, look at the 3rd tab of the overview, it's unreadable: http://i.imgur.com/MDcJdqU.jpg
Coloured areas of all new themes definitely need transparency: http://i.imgur.com/lNkWqVV.jpg
Misplaced shadows over some windows: http://i.imgur.com/5jtHKoc.jpg

Please, make an editable colour theme, or increase the available variety at least 3 times (not exaggeration). Current choise is too narrow.
Many of us like to customize the game client to their exact tastes, please don't oversimplify things.

+1 to this.

Devs, please look at this: http://i.imgur.com/kYeoMsv.jpg
It's my left control panel on linux. Some groups of icons manually separated by me. The "separator" icon has manually changeable size.
Please make Neocom panel so that it would allow to freely move and separate icons, to change their colours (or at least choose between 2-3 icon presets).

As a color impaired person, I'm for using distinct shapes or distinctly different colors to show change.
The new "compass" is a failure for those of us who have a hard time with red/green in such small icons.

Please consult with your local ophthalmologist or find one of the ~10% of males afflicted with this to learn more. It helps me get out of color arguments with the wife but not in EVE battle...

I actually do more in eve than spin my cynabal in a high sec safe spot. Black on black is preferred because so much of the screen is covered with windows that i want to have an idea of what is behind the windows without a semi or near opaque block of redundant colour there for 'immersion'.

Do not force people to have a ****** predefined colour scheme without something of an exact parallel to the current black/black.

As for the actual changes, they seem so spurious is hard to understand why bother changing them at all. Seems like you guys have a lot of other things to improve, not sure why a slight cosmetic change to the UI and shoehorning ****** schemes on us is a priority.

And the UI flickering when being shot?that better be optional, jesus, i actually rely on what is already a cluttered UI and have no interest in making it less easy to use while in combat.

Some thoughts and bugs:

• Corners on windows, especially the active window are too high contrast. The eye is lazy and is drawn to them unnecessarily.
• The back and forth buttons (really French quotes) look really awful with this new update. It would be nice if they were updated as well.
• Decorations Tab in Character Sheet and Decorations Tab in Corp use different icons.
• Security Status uses the Corp icon with the combat overlay which implies something corporate. Consider a standard concord or faction icon to attach the overlay to.
• Several tabs (Home, Ranking) in the Alliances window use the Corporate icon instead.
• The People and Places icon doesn't really tell me what it does. Consider separating them out and using more coherent icons. Also it's a little too close to the Journal icon.
• The UI is still very inconsistent about when it uses three vertical bars for a menu and when it uses a gear. Consistency would be nice here.
• The fitting tab's headers (High Power, Medium Power, etc.) do not use the header color and blend in with everything else.
• The padding between the bottom of the buttons on the Info window and the top of the button are now off-putting. It would be nice the bottom padding was a little more and they were roughly equivalent. Now it just looks like it's squished against the bottom of the window.
• The menu button at the top, left of the info window is off location and looks a bit odd.
• The default alliance and the no alliance icon still uses the old alliance icon instead of the new one.
• The new flat look to the icons makes the corporation and alliance icons look positively ancient by comparison. It would be nice to have new options that match the new look.
• The use of bold on the info window and character window among others seems to be very inconsistent and could use some work.
• The tabs on the info screen are way too compact and cut off the names of the tabs significantly. Consider at least putting tooltips on the tabs.
• Some buttons (e.g. Agent Finder) have text with a shadow effect while other buttons (e.g. Guests, Agents) do not.

There seems to be an issue with the rendering / layering of context menus: they render transparent, but seem to ignore UI elements that are "between" the context menu and the background. IE, if I have a window open and then bring up a context menu on top of that window, the menu itself shows the background behind it but not the contents of the window that it is rendering "over." It's like looking through a "hole" in the UI. Maybe this was intentional to give you a better view of the background, but it's a little strange looking. Here's a picture highlighting what I'm talking about:

http://i.imgur.com/6kftwDV.jpg

I really, really like the transparency effects, actually. I saw the screenshots in the dev blog and thought animations would be pretty in-your-face and annoying, but in actuality it's pretty... transparent (see what I did there?).

Have you guys thought about retaining the RGB-based UI hue selections? I like a few of the new color templates, but I still think that configurable colors are the right way to go, even if it "complicates" the UI. People can always elect to use a pre-set template if they don't want to mess with their color settings.

Also, have you thought about maybe defining window borders more clearly? When you've got multiple windows overlapping one another, it's sometimes handy to have higher contrast borders so you can easily distinguish between windows. Most modern UIs that do away with defined borders tend to compensate with a drop-shadow scheme. Personally, I find UIs that have neither clear borders nor drop-shadows kind of annoying.

Lastly (for now anyway), I did notice that the neocom icons tended to be difficult to see against bright nebulae. I usually play in nullsec where it's pretty dark, but in Jita those bright, blue-white Caldari nebulae really wash out the neocom and make it very hard to see. I think that icon bar may need a darker background.

Other than that, I think I like the new UI on the whole. I'm not a fan of the icons particularly (I just think they look extremely generic-- like everyone else and their dogs' "modern," flat, monochromatic icon sets these days. They certainly are more easily identifiable than the old icons, though. I think they'll work very well, and at the end of the day functionality is more important than having a unique-looking UI.

Edit: also, you should swap the icons for Journal and People and Places. Currently, "Journal" looks like an address book, while the address book (People and Places) looks like a Journal. #allthenitpicks

Ok, having installed the test server to check, i can say that the windows are just re-skinned and have no meaningful difference in functionality.

Given CCPs tendency to make changes just for the sake of it, with no mind for functionality, this is a relief.

Please, don't install the new GUI or let us choose.

Looking forward to the new UI.

Are you guys planning to merge redundant panels like inventory and belongings for example?
I've recently came back to the game after long time and found it hard to look through all my belongings, compare items, and navigate through multiple windows at the same time ( mostly because I am unable to see windows which are fully covered by focused ones ).

Also please make packaged and unpackaged states more visible! I've felt quite stupid after realising that my items were not stacking because they were unpackaged, I then remembered having the same problem the first time I played as well.

Don't know if this is the right topic, but could you guys look at the d-scan as well? Right now it feels quite inconsistent with the rest of the interface ( types are strings instead of icons), and the whole camera direction is not really clear either.

BTW I would also love to see iconization of ship classes (and maybe even factions?) in the overview panel. Think it would ease learning about ships classes for beginners too.

Thanks.