Test Server Feedback

Could we have next to targeted items shield, armour and structure percentage remaining.

i.e. when sov grinding or shooting capitals would be nice to see that are indeed at 50% armour not trying to guess where we are actually at.

I don't think we need the SH, AR & ST just the percentages would be good.

Thank you :)

I will only add font color change option with different shades of pink

(and no, we won't add that - sorry )

Aahhhhhhhh

All I see is a majority people telling them the new font is too large, and all they keep saying is well people want it larger, and they can't make everyone happy. They best learn to make all their customer's happy, or at least the majority, or that slope of active subs is going to keep declining faster and faster. It is the idiotic fearless corporate culture we have seen for the past two years that continues to perpetuate these poor game development decisions. Less fearless, more fearful, concerned, discerning, etc.

The font is too large. We do not like how it looks. Do not implement it as it stands. Rework it, redo it, and come back again for approval. Until you have it, do not go live with it.

People have played Eve for over 8 years with the current font. If it was "unreadable" people would not have been able to communicate in-game that entire time. This is obviously not the case. CCP needs to stop misrepresenting player sentiment internally to produce and change things which very few actual paying customers want or not, and moreso, do not want at all.

This font is terrible, and will affect all players way more than the CQ, or any other terrible change CCP has made lately. We can avoid docking, and turn off the CQ, but we will all be forced to see this terrible font wherever I go, whatever I am doing, and I can not stress enough how much I hate it, and many others do as well.

Not many people are currently aware of this new font, so the outrage has been relatively minimal, but almost entirely negative. Just wait until it goes live. It will be just like ship spinning. CCP will buckle after months of complaints and be forced to do what I am suggesting now. Rework it, fix it, and make something MOST people think looks good, is an appropriate size, and is "readable".

To be honest there has been quite a few positive replies also, but they are in different thread than this. However the font isn't live yet and as we all know, majority of players don't even read forums.

I for one have done very excessive testing about pros and cons of this update. I have weighted them and unfortunately there is plenty of more cons than pros on the table. Playing on 20" 1600x1200 resolution and font being too small hasn't been any issue so far - some single fonts have been little too similiar.

After this new font goes live, spinning numbers with variable width font will be horrible experience and I for one have been (and will be) dealing with those numbers on daily basis. Perhaps the ui department havent been playing with market orders too much? Having the wallet tabs as they are in test server at the moment pretty much proves the point... Have you even opened the wallet? That will be game breaker at least for me.

What comes to spaceflight this is how my ui changes from current. Picture isn't really too easy to interpret so lets just say that to keep all the windows what I use to keep open, I'll lose half of visible cargo slots, half of visible local names, all my chat windows will be slightly smaller and have much less and shorter rows in them. I won't be able to keep log open anymore and center "opening" loses about 3cm width. Game will still be playable with these modifications but I can honestly say that this is not an improvement - it is HUGE recession to my overview. This is the main reason why I still believe that when this well thought and executed font update goes to tranq - the reality bites back.

Lets say that half of the players think it is really good, nice or mostly ok. Quarter thinks there is something to fix but will live with it. Remaining quarter thinks that the size and other issues sucks ass. Is that a successful patch? How many percent were complaining about too small font? How many people were ready to write these kinds of "customer feedback forms" to make it better? Are there less sad pandas then? This is what I wait to see... :/

I've written few too many posts related to this already and I am truely sorry that I even have to. I am also sorry that specially you, Katrín, have to be the one reading stuff like this. I'm sure you have done your share really well and without any bad intentions. Sometimes things just end up differently than can be expected. Obviously there is always someone we could point finger to, but that would not solve anything. Stuff go to tree butt ahead and learn that described activity was only recommended while coming down. Regardless of the method of learning and 1 week headache, the lesson has been learned.

I may be the guy in that tree and bark at the wrong reason (font in this case) now. If that is the case I'm twice as sorry about these "feedback"-sessions and will keep my remaining sad pandas to myself. After the head-ahead-ache vanishes I prolly see the font in better and more shining light also. However if this ends otherwise, make sure you got plenty of warm milk, understanding, consolation and place to start a zoo .)

Person can only be as good she thinks she is. Being proud of things she does is a good start.
Keep up the work you're doing - that is what we (all?) want in the end.

-grey

I too hate the new font as my eve went from something that all the text seemed to "fit" to now everything seems to be creeping into the next windows area and some I think may be over extending out of the window. While I think that having all caps is stupid, at the current its better than this font and if It goes live I am not sure I could continue to play eve as it slightly hurts my eyes to currently look at.

A whole lot of this "new font versus old font" angst would be completely avoidable if CCP would just make the whole UI scalable, including the use of industry-standard font rendering APIs with user-selectable fonts and font sizing.

Personally, I like the new font for the most part (yes, including the larger size!), but it does still have issues and I hate to see so many people fret over it. I could actually live with the old font for awhile longer if CCP needed time to rebuild the UI so it could render fonts and windows the right way.

I have just updated Singularity client in order to see new changes in effect.

As for the fonts, I just plain and simple don't like 'em. Yes, it is more readable than the previous one, fixes some issues as well, but it somehow looks wrong, and I don't think it has to do with getting used to it. I have 1920 x 1200 resolution and it looks too big.

Text changes on POS modules when you are on-lining a module at 1 minute remaining and lower.

Proof