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All the new icons are much easier to distinguish than the old, which were nothing but pixel vomit.

Also note that most people use the keyboard to open windows, and keep the Neocom hidden.

The overall feel of the UI is dramatically improved, to the point that it even feels faster.

However two things that needs tweaking:

- the lightbox effect for modal popups is too strong. Having the whole screen darken during combat is unacceptable. Ideally you would get rid of all the unnecessary modal popups like downtime notification (yes, it is nothing more than a notification and should be treated as such, and not a popup that requires interacting), but at least tone down the darkening effect.

- the active window brightening works well when flying in space, but it is very disturbing when updating trade orders in station. It's like a disco between Wallet and Market windows, two flashes for every order row.


It's sad to see so many people here openly admitting they like the tacky faux-3D design of the nineties.

My peripheral vision works by color, not shape, I don't need the complex pictures, however without varied colors, I cant find the icons anymore without looking at them FIRST, and THEN searching.
I strongly suspect this is the problem for many, with a bit of hyperbole added.

Not everyone likes change, that was to be expected, however, the monochrome thing is not just simply about the art style

Seriously though, people need to cut down on the hyperbole, like the guy that threatened to cancel "hundreds of accounts"(don't remember his name)
that just makes it hard to take this seriously..

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The new UI is really, really bad.

1. Who thought it was a good idea to tie the transparency slider to also include the right click drop down menu? When/why would you ever want that? Now I am forced to choose between completely opaque black monolith windows covering up my screen that I can't see space behind, or transparent windows like before, but with a completely unusable right click drop down menu that bleeds text into it from the menu behind it and makes it completely unreadable.

1.5. Why are there little white "corners" on every window?

1.9. Why does transparency set to 0 really mean 30 or 50? I shouldn't be able to see anything behind any window if it is set to 0.

2. Why can't I set the transparency for the Neocom, or why isn't THAT tied to the transparency slider? Now I have a Neocom that's hard to see with any sort of lighter background behind it, but my little character picture at the top is completely opaque? Looks bad and is functionally bad.

3. Why are the Neocom icons all flat 1990's monochrome and the same looking? Very hard to use my peripheral vision to select things without actually looking over which I could do no problem before. The colors before gave each icon distinction which lead to better and quicker functionality.

4. The new map looks great, and is very pretty and customizable, but also very sluggish. I understand this is still in beta, and I really hope this gets addressed before you integrate probing into the solar system version of the new map, because if not probing will be a very sluggish and laggy task.

5. In the new solar system map when you are warping around, the "you are here" icon doesn't smoothly move like it does on the old solar system map, but instead updates in a rigid like laggy or "jumpy" way. Once again, hoping this is just because of the beta status of the map.

6. Chat tabs blinking are hard to see with the new UI, and broken. For example, if 4 tabs are blinking and you select the first tab you want to read, all blinking for all other tabs stop.

7. When selecting a module before locking something, the crosshair used to follow the mouse, now it just hangs near the modules and doesn't move.

8. Please give us an option to use the old UI. How anyone over in Iceland thought this UI was an improvement in any way boggles my mind.

9. WASD moving ships is kinda cool as a gimmick, but sluggish to respond. As of right now I only use it to make my ship do funny moves in a safe spot while waiting for my probes to finish a scan cycle. With how slow it is right now, I can't really see it as useful in PVP or PVE other than a gimmick. For example, If I am hunting someone while cloaked, I would never use the WASD controls as they are now to avoid debris or an asteroid. I would simply do what I did before: Stop ship completely, do a 180 with the camera, and make the ship turn instantly around with a mouse click. The problem with the WASD controls is that they will never beat the fact that mouse clicking can make your ship do an instant 180, or 90 degree turn. I don't know if this sluggishness is intentional or not.

I jumped on last night for some exploration/PVP in a wormhole, and was only on for a few hours. The points above are some things that immediately stuck out to me. If I find more worth mentioning I will come back to update this post.

Edit: One last thing. Change just for the sake of change isn't good change.

why isn´t this http://i.imgur.com/gW8z61T.jpg a thing?
this color scheme looked awesome for serpentis ships ... instead we got that fugly gray
#dissapointed

The UI:

• looks and feels great;
• the option to automatically switch theme based on the type of the ship I'm flying is brilliant:
• I love the new minimalistic icons, but it wouldn't hurt to have them colored as well. Here's a link of an idea of how it could look posted by Chribba in another thread: http://i.imgur.com/Hgb2EYw.png

Textures:

• Every ship now feels more solid with that metallic hint made by the new rendering model. I really like it;
• Ships are now brighter, which is great;
• The only negative side is that Erebus seems to have lost its green and replaced with silver. The rest of the Gallente ships seem to be good;
• Nugoeihuvi edition ships are not that ... how do I put it... unpleasantly looking as before. The new rendering model really helped the textures a lot;

Ship models:

• Incursus family didn't really need an update in my opinion, but the new models look great;
• Blackbird family is in line with the new Caldari design philosophy, which I like.

NES:

• love the idea of apparel sets. However, I'm not changing the Gallente one that I have now at least until Intaki Syndicate gets its own set ... I am a slight role-player

Space expansion:

• always great to have more unique environments to explore;

All of the "small" stuff, like drone damage in bay, is continuing to massively contribute to the quality of the game.

And last, but certainly the best which I must write in caps: THANK YOU FOR REMOVING CLONE GRADES

edit: double post... sorry

Funny facts: We mentioned exactly this Problems with the UI, it was said it was give to the Devs as Feedback.. and what happend? Nothing it has exactly the same Problems some even worse Lot of pepole i meet plaing was Complaining too - but they dont post here because i heard often: "Thats CCP - dont make sense"

Realy i tryed it but i get every time Headcache, witch is realy not funny!

You know its MMO, not a shooter. It will be slow like now or farewell one server for everyone. The sluggishness is inertia. You know there is something like that, and no one ever said that ships larger than Boeing 747 can be easy to maneuver like your bicycle.

start from page 1 and read them all again , thanks

Maybe you will get it this time.