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The old icons are still in the game, i just saw a Guristas shuttle and it still uses the old icon. Reverting is easy, let us have the old icons while you work on fixing the new ones.

Lol?? At least we have SOME red crosses left. legacy for the win!

CCP, give us option to turn new icons OFF!

Unfortunately, they're worse. But coming back to EVE/CCP, it's only been a Monday. There does need to be a meeting on removing or reworking this change. But they should have enough of a response by now to determine the playerbase feeling on it. Just because they eventually stop complaining after such a strong response doesn't automatically mean they've accepted it. It likely means that they're giving up on working with CCP and moving away from EVE.

One reasonably only bangs their head against a non-responsive door for so long.

Dear CCP,

We know it is only monday afternoon in Iceland, and that things are probably still underway on how to deal with this scenario. I hope we're going to get at least a message that you're still debating what the best course of action is. That would be at least better than nothing.

We know you left some old icons in the client, it has been mentioned and spotted often enough since launch. But that's not so bad, you know? There are probably a lot of database entries that need be changed and overwritten with the new icons. That's okay, nobody is perfect, mistakes can happen. Though I'm not sure if this is an indicator that all old icons are still in the game. My educated guess is; no, it was just an oversight and those icons should have been overwritten by different ones.

I sincerely hope you are working on a quick solution to make the icons optional, and notify us that the "new icons" are now a beta feature to opt in, so that more people can give you feedback based upon them. This will give you more time to gather feedback while not disgruntling your players or rendering them impossible to play your game.
Also, please let us know that you are working on it if you do, and don't let us keep starving for information.
If you are unable to deliver such a change in a reasonable timeframe, then it would be in your best of interest to either rollback the icons, or start a very large survey. The forum is not enough.
Based on this feedback, you hopefully will make an informed decision of how to deal with this situation next.

Your reasons why you wanted to change the icons are known and I'm sure a large portion of people will at least understand where you are coming from. But the direction you took is less than ideal.
And even IF you made astoundingly perfect icons, and even IF there would be no issue with the scaling, it STILL would have been better to be on the safe side and implement them as beta feature first.

There are a lot of people who don't like the icons and still play the game because of the social bonds they did there and because of the activity to be in eve online itself is still enough to keep them there. But this connection is wearing thinner with each huge change you're bringing that is that is to a players dislike.
But there are also people who like the icons. Now it is important to find common denominators of why people like them and why people dislike them. It will not only depend on their physical ability to see things or their mental ability to change, but it will also play a large part in what the are doing in the game. There are many people who only care about ship icons.

In turn, I have never seen anyone explicitly saying the new player structure icons are bad. Does that mean there is nobody disliking them? No, it does not.

I urge you to implement an ingame feedback tool very, very soon. You have a very good ticket system. You should use a similar system for feedback. This will allow you to reach a lot more players than those who go to the forums, or elsewhere.

You know pushing the starmap as live default was a mistake, but at least you kept the old one in there.
You know making opportunities a default despite the negative feedback, and deleting all Aura tutorials (even the one previously accessible through F12) was a mistake. Both are undeniable facts, and any attempt to turn them around, will be squashed and countered by a lot more solid evidence in return.

I don't need to be a rocket scientist to look at the annual player counter history to see where you did something wrong, and indicators are huge that you're on a very declining trend currently.

That dip at mid 2011 to 2012 was Incarna for a good amount, by the way. You learned something from that. Please, learn something else from this situation here too. We don't want our Eve to be wrecked by bad marketing decisions :c
The fast paced update schedule was already a risky idea to begin with.

Here's a little visualisation that perfectly sums up how I see CCPs latest work, especially with regard to overview icons, ingame map and UI icons:

CCP at work

I would like to add the only thing i dislike is the visual change of the rocks/asteroids. They look from WoW or warhammer and dont fit into this imo. at least more variations of texture and shapes, the old ones were kinda special, "spaced out", some shiny metals in the cracks, cratered surfaces and so on. Thise new ones are just ugly, boring and depressing (thank god im not a miner)

Well hello.

I don't know is it only me, but in "old map" after switch from solar system to star map, control panel goes off, can not find it. so I'm no able to scan my wh. I would have to use new map which is good only as star map, as a solar system map is laggy and makes only problems.

Is there anyone with this same problem?
I've sent petition on 4'th june and I'm still waiting. Even reset all settings didn't help.

Regards

First line is the lesson - Beach Balls is my vision of Devs hard at work

Great history lesson. My question is - Why didn't CCP learn from past mistakes?

Still don;t get the issue with the new icons, i ran a sleeper site last night had had no issues figuring out what was what. But i guess change scares people. meh