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You are correct . Granted all of the game function is unchanged, however actual gameplay (obviously for many people) is diminished and performance of player impeded. For some people it made no real difference.

And no, CCP is not in business to "make the game we want", however it is the right and interest of the consumer of any product to have reasonable expectations that the services will at minimum stay at the level at which they bought in. However, Eve is REALLY the only game in town...at least right now.

I am not saying that CCP is not trying to improve the game, but "ask yourself this": What did the change in icons "improve on"???
Obviously it has some drawbacks. It seems as though the normal development process of weighing the pro vs cons what bypassed? If it wasn't broke why spend the money on that specific issue when other real problems exist in other areas with some real simply dumb functionality problems exist? I guess I am really questioning the judgment and quality of some of CCP decisions, and as a consumer wondering if this is just some bad calls, or a trend.

I see on one of the startup screen banners something to the effect of "Rhea - Embrace the change". May not be nothing, but an odd choice words. In my experience in the real business world this buzz phrase as stated, often used as dominant directive----Sit down, shut up, learn to like it, don't ask questions. Again, coincidence or trend, I don't know.

To be fair I an finding this to be the case though still not loving it. No doubt I'll get used to it eventually.

On a positive note I love how the background behind the windows blurs. Looks very nice.

This is a good post and CCP should maybe read it.

CCP / DESIGNERS PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS FEEDBACK.

I am seriously curious what "you" CCP will say to the feedback (727 posts)

Only two main complaints regarding the patch, both of which have been discussed at length here already.

1. I'm really not a fan of the new UI and consider myself in the "please give us an option to use the old version" or "please stop removing basic functionality options and let us set custom color schemes" camp. It doesn't hurt my eyes and I manage fine with it, but I didn't have any problems with the old UI and I'm disappointed even more development resources were wasted (in my opinion). Who is making these resource allocation decisions?

2. PBR is an interesting concept, but the rollout you guys have coordinated was abysmal. I actually really liked the look of the ships before, and my client ran without a hitch on high settings. The ships look less realistic now, to the point where it almost breaks suspension of disbelief. It was easier to imagine myself in space when I didn't think a giant plastic figurine was glued to my monitor. My computer has now overheated twice on high settings, FPS has consistently dropped since the update, and I'm left with playing the game on two brand-spanking-new settings: 'Plastic Hobby Kit Spaceship Models' (medium settings) or 'WTF is going on here is it 1995?' (low settings). I'm unaware of people clamoring for redesigned assets, and now we're in the middle of a beta testing assignment for "further improving" the ship models. This quote from Mankiller is particularly telling:

"PBR shows the state of our assets far more accurately than the simple model we have been using up to now. We used to rely on the physically inaccurate numbers to avoid certain display problems, but now we have to tackle those issues directly. Accordingly, many assets will only be perfected through additional attention."

I don't care about the equation creating light effects on my ships, and I've never said "Oh god, did you see that pixel over there? It was slightly different than a true physics model would have displayed it pffffffft goodbye immersion." I wanted a spaceship that blended in with the art design of the game and that looked fairly cool; you guys had already succeeded at this without spending money on any changes at all! I'm playing an online spaceship game, I have an imagination. If the assets weren't ready, why release them now? Why sell ship skins to players for real money, then completely change how those ships are rendered a few months later?

Overall I feel the new patch schedule has been a failure, and I would like to see CCP return to the 6-month schedule sometime in the future. It feels like you guys are unable to keep up with patching your own patches, and they're coming so fast that it's just becoming frustrating as a player. On the bright side, taking a break from Eve will let me save up some extra cash for a computer that will allow me to play it on high settings again.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I think CCP Karkur should be promoted to the equivalent of "head decision-maker of improvements" because everything she touches turns awesome.

The new icons look bad for me, they are too small. I can scale the sidebar ones, but the station ones are fixed size and that's bad. It's just a bunch of small buttons that have little conection to their meaning in the place where there used to be an easy to use interface. I don't understand why they used that tiny symbol to symbolize a ship in fiting, I've seen it also in my ships in the hangar and every time I see it I need to make an actual mental effort to connect it with the ship, always thinking it's an status.

There's a push in design for flatter design that it's ruining everything in the web. The depth used to mean "This is a button". Nowday all is flat and part of the interface language is being lost because of it. Modern does not always mean functional or better looking. It just means modern.

I am kind of conservative and I like the old User Interface better. I would like to see an option to opt out of the new interface and stick with the old one that we are more familiar with and it is colorful with pictures. I do like the ability to make things transparent and change the colors, however I don't like everything to be completely transparent.

Why would you want to fly a loop outside of an atmosphere. Being able to swing about in any direction while travelling along your original vector is what makes pretend space combat so cool.

They didn't have the problems the current set does:

The meaning on many of the current icons isn't obviously linked to the idea they're attempting to convey.

You've chosen to go with mostly outline/shape as your primary method for people to recognize the icon, but you've lost picture texture, dimension, and color which also convey meaning and aid in recognition. Not everyone recognizes things the same way.

The lack of color and "flatness" doesn't match a game so rich in texture and color. In fact, this current set looks distinctly out of place in this environment, more appropriate for an old PDA like the PalmPilot or an office software suite.

The transparent background (which doesn't obey the transparency setting) washes them out even worse, sometimes making them non-viewable when in a bright environment in space.

Ok so after a few days adjusting the new UI colors and settings, I have to admit that overall I like it a lot.

BUT

As everybody's saying, that (often) annoying fade and brightness change effect REALLY needs to be optional.