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Well I do not know what changed your thinking. Yes I love most of changes in EVE since I started to play gate jump effect, wh effect, new look of ships etc but new overview makes it messy and it's no only my opinion. It's not "Well, this is EvE, carebears, adapt or DIE".
I will give a try because my subscription is still on, but I think I will pack my POS , place it on station until patch giving a choice of overview.

There's throwing your toys out of your pram and then there is this.

Don't force electric light bulbs on me, I want candles.
Don't give force colour tv on me, I want black and white.
Don't force money on me, I want to trade in livestock.
Don't force clothes on me I want to die of hypthermia.
Don't education on me, I want to be stupid.
Don't force transport on me I want to walk to Spain for my summer holidays.
Don't force geography on me, I want to believe the earth is flat.
Don't force a change that "requires the brain to adapt", I prefer to stay a brainstem.

They made the change, in part, to help new users - there are less icons than ship names. Learning ship types by name is counterintuitive.

Spoiler: the fact you lost your ships were not down to new icons, but rather the fact you are terribad at eve.

Evolve? It's a icons evolution dead end to me.
Or do you mean reversion herbivorous panda style evolution?
Evolution don't necessary mean a good thing.

I find this post expressing my own thoughts very well.

Icons in the overview should communicate the CLASS of an object as efficiently as possible - and the old ones did the job perfectly fine (with details available through mouseover or in the Type column). Small NPC ship, medium NPC ship, large NPC ship, small player ship, medium player ship, large player ship, drone, full wreck, empty wreck... it was all there in the icon column and I could tell in an eyeblink if there was anything to pay close attention to (I move around a lot and my most often used tab preset is "all"). Now for the same kind of information, I have to look elsewhere, because the icon column is just one big mess making my eyes hurt. Especially the fact that you can't tell NPC ships apart from players' ships just by checking the overview icon is an extremely serious deal breaker for me.

From the aesthetic point of view, the new icons are a disaster, at least with the UI scaling I am using (125%). Ugly as hell.
From the functional point of view, the new icons are a serious downgrade from what we had before. They do not serve the purpose.

And I have already played with the new icons for several hours, so it's not like I am overreacting after seeing them for the first time. I have been trying to use them yesterday and today - and it appears that the best course of action for me is to find a way of playing the game without looking at the overview icons at all.

If you really can't do better than this, CCP, then I totally support an option to use the old overview icons. I have never felt they were lacking in functionality and while looking fairly ordinary, they were aesthetically still MUCH better than the new ones (again, with the UI scaling I am using).

New overview icons are awful. It's near impossible to understand situation on a battlefield if there are more than 10 ships in grid. With old icons I could clearly understand - there are blob of drones, there are blob of ships (I don't care distinguishing shiptypes if there are 100+ blob of them). And what I see now - it is mess of different icons and I could not understand if there are piloted ship or jettison container or wreck - they all look the same.
I think I should cancel subscription on my two alt-accounts until the icons become more or less usable.

I really, really like the concept of new in-space and Overview icons.

I really, really, REALLY despise the execution-- as did the 30+ pilots I flew with yesterday, as evidenced by the constant litany of "space AIDS" and "eye cancer" expressed by all.

(A personal favorite quote-- "It's like Pythagorean theorem in space-- here's the enemy Fleet; solve for x.")


Quite literally, you have taken many years of practice learning to read the grid and not only thrown it out of the window, but made it even harder than it was before. So many others have gone into the details that I'll save the time by not repeating them.



Building on the existing system is a much better option-- someone suggested earlier crossing lines and letters and additional "bumps" on the icons to REALLY get into specific ship classes. That I like-- as per a military mapping system, for anyone familiar.


In the meantime... how about a toggle, pretty please?

Cheap demagogy ended with forever young "mine is longer' .

Booooooring.

Icons,,, good god, what were you guys thinking? It used to be that you could tell at a glance if you were facing a battleship or a cruiser, now everything above a frigate looks the same at first glance. CCP, put your ego aside, admit the new ship icons are bad & go back to the way it was.

Dwarf fort in space?

well good job of trying to reinvent the wheel....... Think i'm like a few others time for a eve vacation....... null changes -2 % player base ... stupid changes -3 % player base.... ur like new coke going backwards on loyalty