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CCP Punkturis,

I like the blog and I have a request and a question.

1. When you make font comparisons, please make the choice of the background colour scheme the same! It is very difficult to make a valid comparison when one is basically black/transparent an the other is kind of grey/translucent.

Please can you change the blog to show both font samples with the same colour scheme? If i had to choose one, I would go with the black scheme.

2. It feels that the new font has been 'streched' vertically somewhat, it makes reading it uncomfortable... very odd. Has the vertical to horizontal aspect ratio been tinkered with or is it just me?

Tedric.

oops sorry! Those are screenshots from two different clients and I don't have the settings exactly the same.

The esc menu screenshot is taken last Friday, we already have a better looking version, as I said, this is still work in progress

Why couldnt you have added an extra paragraph in the previous dev blog saying that you have a new font. You just seem to be stringing this out just a little bit too much.

tbh, i could care less about a new font. You know what, i can open microsoft word and there are feckin loads of fonts in there, its not special.

Words dont fly my spaceships!

channel your talents and efforts into something we can all enjoy, a spaceship game.

more devblogs featuring changes and fixes to spaceships please

Ok this new font idea is all well and good but why are we addressing fonts when there are real bugs to sort out like..... IDK ships turning into cloaky harbingers, or blues removed from overview suddenly showing up as neutrals. Shall i go on? Oh yeah and those lovely errors that got swept under rug like t3 not being able to jump through black ops with cov ops anymore that was "supposed to be fixed"... not to be a troll but seems like everything is always directed at fixing useless **** rather than real issues. The next expansion should be called all the stuff we haven't fixed since 2005 that should be sorted. Example people still showing logged on in your address book who are logged off, this bug still makes me laugh all these years and still broken.

Cmon CCP don't you get the simple fact quality over quantity will assure better numbers. Now i digress back to the font subject... Oh wait is this a bug being fixed for blind people??? Please sort out game play issues before wasting time on Fonts and pretty outfits. While i am happy ship spinning is back i find it amazing that the option to go from your standard hanger to your captains quarters wasn't there from day one... Seems like common sense. Im still waiting for modules that are out of balance to be fixed, idk like officer modules that are crappier than pirate mods, i.e caldari navy BCU vs Mizuro's Modified Piece of crap.. i can keep going on and on about real things that should be fixed but ill stop and turn it over to the flamers to flame away....

the new font looks kinda UGLY

This is going to cause so much confusion in 0.0 when we realize the system we've been calling II5-BG for years turns out to really be 11S-86 Long overdue though, can't wait to see it.

Not trolling and perhaps I am wrong.. I am not an optomitrist or a medical doctor.

I wonder how old you are ?

My understanding is that there is a very distinct change in the eyes at 40,, usually not 38.. it comes on quickly at 39 or 40 and goes continues for a few years from there.

My understanding is that POOR vision at a younger age is different.. you needed classes but you still had the abilty to quickly change your focus.

When you get older the problem isn't just your over all vision stregnth but the abilty to jump your eyes around and bring new things into focus and at different distances. Adjusting from 17 inches away to 26 inches (I've got mutiple monitors but even on one 24 inch there is a difference beetwen the distance of my face to the center of the screen and my face to the top right corner of more than a few inches takes time and glasses are designed to correct best at a certain distance....

Well anyway.. I hope that makes sense to you. If you had good vision up to 40 and needed subsequently worse glasses for a few years afterwords and find your glasses help you just as well at various differences, perhaps we do have different eyes.

Gee another person with glasses not reading carefully and figuring sense they can read fine there isn't an issue.

Short sidedness is not the same thing as what people get when they get older.

when you are younger and need glasses you have a genetically wrong focal point based on eye shape.

Vision loss due to age is because a portion of your eye hardens making it difficult to focus quickly and basically at all close up.


The experience of a 25 year old using glasses and doing just fine and an 45 year old using prescription glasses and struggling aren't the same.

There is a diferent underlying problem.

Hyperopia vs Presbyopia

if you want to "get" a sense of it, think of using a zoom lens on a camera with auto focus.. .. the lens correct for the distance but you still need to focu.. the auto focus slowly brings the image to focus.. thats what we experience.

Loooking up from a book or looking from one edge of the screen to another .. or to another monitor meens that i need to wait a bit before it sharpens up... and for older people

... and you will ALL experience this as you age

making improvements to font legibilty (and ideally as discussed by others, scaling size) is a very CORE , not cosmetic part of the game.

I 've been able to play fine.. but its a bother, a strain, and an uncessasary one.

And, I'm in the pong generation... a large portion of people who played when they're young are going to keep at it.. older players will be an increasing segment of the customer base as time goes on.

Really?
How about: CCP spends years trying to redevelop the wheel and ends up with one with a flat side to it because you can't adjust the size of the font in most places in the the game, which ends up being unreadably small on large monitors.

Or how about: Spends years re-developing the wheel, when there are plenty of FREE fonts out there that are easy to read that they could just have used.

Or how about, why not spend the time allowing the user to choose the font to use.

Still, you've got a job out of it, which is to be commended really, but frankly shows that CCP is willing to fritter away money when they don't really need to.

Sorry to be a party-pooper, but the new font is largely useless to those of us that use a large monitor if you can't change the size of the text on many parts of the UI.