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Another major issue is no differentiation by weapons systems - the old varying in size icons gave hints straight away what you'd be dealing with.

This would also function in the same manner http://i.imgur.com/RYBmrkG.png / http://i.imgur.com/0XNw6FC.png



Can't confuse small turret/LM frigates with cruisers here, and of course cruisers can sport RLMLs, so a down triangle can spell both an easy kill & trouble for frigates.

The rhombus = Large turrets/missiles plus Heavy neuts of course.

In an engagement, the information is best read from the left to right - Icon, followed by distance, type & velocity, unless of course the enemy sports a uniform fleet that you have the intel on in advance.

The underlying feature is CONTRAST.

Thats actually the core of this whole debacle...... If there was a need for it (that i personally never felt or heard of) the old iconset could have been easily polished to give the desired "additonal information" without loosing any of its grown functionality.

But ofc its much cooler (and personally more satisfying) to reinvent the wheel ..... ok, in this case it doesnt roll anymore for some of the vehicles, but anyways the job is much more profound!

Imagine your boss asks you what you have done for the past 6 weeks:
A. " I completed a whole new icon set of 200+ icons, held endless focus groups for it and tons of meetings with the art department! It took us around 300 man hours!"
B. " I added a very little dot in the middle of the otherwise unchanged frigate icon to distinguish destroyers. Took us 15 minutes, including the testing."

Case A gets the coolness points and the promotion for activism.
Case B gets a working solution without any friction with the existing system and playerbase, but no coolness points.

Can we have more than five overview tabs now? Please?

I maintain my own overview pack, and I'm not scared of geometric shapes.

I'm not old but my eyes are a wreck. I already had issues telling faint yellow from faint gray, and now those isues are same or a bit worst since they've become tiny faint yellow vs tiny faint white. Certainly there is no improvement for me in the new UI, but so far It also hasn't hit my gameplay since asteroids are mostly harmless.

Overall I feel that the new icons are a solution without a problem, whereas some actual UI issues are not fixed and some new have abound.

"Change" is obvious, "improvement" is moot.

I wish i were.

I am not sure why some of the icons are what they are. I get it, people want to work and update pixels, fine. But I wish there was some better logic to ship progression. It would have been really helpful to allow us to use colors to fill in the icons in the overview, not the background, but the actual icons only.
I don't want to nit pick on icons that are irrelevant to combat, but I would like to see the ship icons improve a bit. The ISIS sample that was featured a long time ago in a dev blog had much better icon progression, the bigger the ship, the more complex the icon.
And to be even more constructive, I even spent a few minutes in illustrator to draw something up that I would find easy to work with.
The current simple carrier icon is almost the same as the POCO icon, on small screens with low graphics this could be difficult to work with/ get used to.

http://imgur.com/lMAkjjX

The solution that I would like to see the most is to allow us to use custom colors on each icon that represents a ship type. If that was available, I could care less what shape the icon is, my color coded overview would tell me what I need to know. (ps: sorting by color should also be implemented to make it even more awesome)

@Cleanse

Your idea of color coding ships is not what I was talking about.

Frigs would be ...- pink .....
Destroyers - orange
Cruisers - navy

etc

corp/alliance/fleet I do not need to see in my overview, everything else is something I can shoot at.

If I am logi, I don't need to see the enemy in overview.

CCP never seem to learn from the past. Same mistake, different situation.

I long ago gave up bothering, as pride always seems to get in the way of great change.

May I suggest that ccp update the icon for 'capsuleers in local' on the local window to the new icon, to avoid confusion.

Even this example has too much information & similarity for combat between 4 classes of ships that all use different-sized weapons systems. The carrier one I like, if it gets differentiated by size like the old icons, but it might as well could be a rhombus or a pentagon.

Not quite sure why people stop counting at three angles. There's a threshold of redundancy, especially in PvP combat, when additional information becomes noise and is discarded - an extra angle on a geometric figure is easier to read than some minuscule chevron, or a dash on the same triangle-house across all major sub-capital spaceship classes.

The chosen concept is at fault here - wrecks competing with PvP spaceships for the best icon concepts.