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Well, this is a place I never expected us to end up in.

Firstly, Sisi is an improvement, but I find myself sharing experiences with the colour blind users!
Anything (icon wise) smaller than a cruiser, is simply painful.

I have held class one CAA medicals, I aced RAF eyesight tests for fast Jets (path not followed Doh!) and the only minor eyesight problems I ever had were age related in needing reading glasses.

I am now seriously questioning has my eyesight massively degraded? And why only in EVE?

I have an specialists appointment tomorrow to confirm this once and for all!
(Worth doing for anyone as they age regardless)

IF I get the all clear, EVE will be a part of my history, as no way will I tolerate my vision being messed with because of poor design.

That is all.

Ps all my stuff will be sacrificed to BOB.

Bracket and Overview icon changes are up on SISI.

Reduced number of drone icons.
Blue and filled friendly NPC.
Thicker line strokes so 90% should be a little better.

I'm thinking that 'blue hostiles' does sound needlessly confusing.

Why do we have 8 icons for asteroids when 1 was previously sufficient?

Part two of two

The rest of this report applies to all the screen tests I did.

The Sensor Overlay has three icons for Signatures, Landmarks and Anomalies, the Signature is very faint on the menu and almost impossible to see when in space, it is only the large circle surrounding it that gives it away.

The Anomaly and Landmark icons in the Sensor Overlay menu are almost the same colour to me and only have a brightness difference when alongside each other.
The in space representation of the icons are different because the Anomaly icon is very dim against the bright icon of the Landmark.

So what would help me, I’m not saying this will help others you will have to wait for their input to evaluate that.

I noticed while testing that frigate icons sometimes have 4 small ‘pointers’ at each corner of the icons, these are very faint, if these could be made bright for none hostile and say changed to the same colour as the ‘pointers’ on the landmark icons for hostiles, now that would be excellent. If they could be added to every hostile ship icon (just for colour blind people) that would help a lot.

The biggest thing I did notice while testing was ‘in space clutter’, most of this was caused by myself not having my overview set up correctly (as kindly and politely pointed out in another thread).

It’s not always the overview that is the problem but the Brackets that cause the problem.

To see everything in space we need ‘All Brackets On’ but this gives rise to clutter.

When we select a selection of ships, objects, whatever on the overview and then save that as a ‘Preset’ then only those icons will show in space, OK so far?

However what we don’t have at the moment is an easy way to save a ‘Brackets Preset’ so we can load an overview Preset setting of say ‘Combat’ and a Brackets setting of only XX ships, to highlight only those ships you need to concentrate on at the time.

I know it can be done but it’s a long winded way of doing it and there are so many new icons that selecting the ones you need can be confusing to say the least.
There are often times when you need something to appear on the overview but not ‘in space’ to reduce the clutter.

I don’t know if it would be possible or feasible to add an icon next to each ship (all items?) in the overview selection menu with a tick box to select it, then a ‘Save Brackets Preset’ with a name box etc would be ideal.

That way we would have an easy way of matching an item with an icon if you see what I mean. And it might/would help the learning process.

That’s it, nothing else to say except good luck everyone, no you can’t have my stuff, and I will keep an eye on the forums to see if I might return in the future, Regards BH.

It would help me a lot if more colors were added (for use via overview settings) to the backgrounds for overview. By shading neutrals and no-standings it helped a lot to pull tgem out of the busy over view in much the same way as hostikes, in fleet and corp do. The issue is that most existing colors have strong associations already (green, blue, yellow, red and purple all have strong meanings) so a few colors that do not have that sort of existing meaning would help a lot. Some browns, tans and greys would help a lot. Also an option to shade only the icon column and not tge entire name would be nice.

They are only hostile because you have done something wrong.

Ok, not wrong, but something the sentries do not like. So they are now shooting you.