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I want Minmatar Background and Carbon UI elements (basically Dark Opaque from TQ)!!! And I want it now!!!

Still no RGB color slider for the UI?

RGB sliders must return. The only choice we have is dark, dark, dark... It make the UI hard to use for people like me.

I prefer a gaming experience who is confortable, than a gaming experience who is coherent with itself. The dark themes are coherent with the dark feeling of the Eve Universe, but it is the players who play the game, not the game itself.

So please, the dark themes should remain, but return this options as fast as you can to offer alternatives to everyone who can't tolerate them.

Some very nice improvements guys! And for a moment you had us worried. Tsk tsk.

Now for some last pieces of feedback before you wrap up for the release:

1. Customization is always good. I'm personally a fan of the dark color schemes, but options to customize your own primary and secondary color would be great. If it's not an option to get that done for Rhea, at least consider it for the next release.

2. The transparency slider is a great addition, but it would be even better if we could also control the transparency level for selected windows and the Neocom separately. The functionality of a selected window becoming more opaque is very good, but controlling just how opaque it gets would be a very user friendly addition. Again, probably not for Rhea, but something to work on.

3. As cool as the new blur effect is, personally I like the ability to make windows fully transparent much more. In a way it creates more screen real estate where the blur effect does the complete opposite. And even at full transparency pinned windows aren't hard to read at all unless you're staring at the sun. I think that's the greater improvement over the blur effect, ironically enough.

4. Most of the icons look good now. Despite a lack of color I feel they are growing on me and becoming easier to find each time I check Sisi. So good work there. There are some icons that still need work though and I would advice to get this done before Rhea's release because changing icons around later is not the best way to keep newer players who have enough to learn as it is.

Particularly the icons for the Fitting Screen, Cargo Hold and Ship Hanger, which all use the top-down rifter icon, really need to be looked at again. As mentioned before the Rifter simply isn't recognizable as a ship in those icons. And unless a new player starts out as Minmatar and a Rifter is the first ship they see, newbies are going to be utterly confused by it.

And Aura really just needs to be redesigned all together. She still looks like some sort of alien, which is particularly confusing for lore loving newbies since this is a space game but it has never actually featured any aliens. Personally I think you can get away with the original image for Aura perfectly fine. Maybe adjust the colors to match the rest of the icons, but the shape and look of the original image wouldn't stand out immensely. More importantly it would allow Aura to retain her 'character' as an AI instead of being reduced to a simplistic alien icon in the Neocom.

One of the icons used in the Ctrl-Tab windows hasn't been modernized.

I haven't had a chance yet to really poke at the new UI, but so far it looks like a huge improvement. Certainly it's much more of a visual treat, and I had a much better sense of what the active window was. Modal dialog boxes (*spit*) are highlighted especially well.

The only remaining problem is that when I undocked in Amarr and looked "up"-- ouch. All those white reticules and circles just disappear, and especially in the Amarr theme it can be difficult to make out the white text in, for instance, the overview, or the system information in the upper left corner. The word "Domain" is almost impossible to make out.

I still have decent vision. If I'm not comfortable, it can't be good for people who don't.

Dear CCP, the glow on selected windows is horrible. Why does an 8th of my screen need to change colour to indicate that I've selected the window? It's getting disorientating after a minute or less.

Old: http://i.imgur.com/7AAO8LZ.jpg
New: http://i.imgur.com/wqTOsAk.jpg

On top of that, windows still do not sit flush and they have gaps. Why can't the snapping feature understand that I do not want 2px padding around all windows?

It's good that we can now turn the blur off.

Bit of a shame the interface has regressed in terms of customization functionality with the loss of colour sliders, though.

Looking better but two things:

1. Icons on the Neocon should match the ones in the station services window for recognition - they are the same in the old/Current UI, in the new you have to sets of icons that are not the same - I would suggest you use the version of one or the other on both windows to keep it consistent, if recognition and ease of identity are the goals.

2. The Amarr theme - you took the one that matches the hangar and ships and left us with "burnt orange" - really? really CCP... burnt orange is the Amarr theme? - that is pumpkin color, the other was at least complimentary to the whole Amarrian hangar.

Are neocom icons and themes still negotiable or not?