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i got to say this is the biggest expansion of EVE ever, my wife gonna find out that I am playing a whole different game!

From shooting Square to shooting CIRCLE !!

Do you want to know what I did before I said that? I logged into my computer at work (since I'm at home now), opened the screenshot in photoshop. Selected the old target, moved it over the new target.
My observations were the following:
- Yes, the graphics are a bit wider now, but the old one had the module icons on the side so that should also count as the width of the targets.
- the height of the old ones is greater, but then I have to add a little bit to the bottom of the new ones because that's where the active modules appear.

which I summed up as " they aren't really much bigger."

And in case you haven't noticed, we made the tooltips A LOT smaller than they were, and we are in fact iterating on them in this release.

Please don't take it as a personal attack towards you, I mean the developers mindset in general. I code for an online game, and I can be bullheaded in what I want something to look like and how it works as well. I have a problem more with the philosophy of EVE in general which states that the players aren't allowed to change things how they want, besides in very limited ways. It just boggles my mind when games like Everquest allow so much more customization than games that came out years later, and should have known that players will expect to be allowed customization.

WE NEED THE SECONDS!
We need to know how many seconds it takes to lock a target not to see a filling circle. What's wrong with you ppl? EVE is about information, numbers and tactic. Instead of making the UI more intuitive and add useful info to it, you guys are going in the opposite direction. Instead of redesigning/recoloring the weapon icons showing next to the targeting UI (cos most of them are really hard to see against a dark background), you did what? Removed critical information from gameplay and made the targeting UI counter-intuitive. Ofc, ppl will get used to it, just like we did with the new horrible inventory, but it is wrong. Stop wasting time repairing what is not broken.

http://oi45.tinypic.com/fa7ts8.jpg

As I said in the blog, this is very much work in progress and we have plenty of time to add one simple counter .
It's def. something we will reconsider since some of you feel so strongly about it, and it might very well make a return

I love and adore this development, I was JUST saying on my alliance voice chat about the targeting system and how it is needing a serious overhaul. Here are my proposals / suggestions:

Color Coordinating and Coding is DIRE!

Blue for shields and give the option to have it a solid bar or a detailed bar that glows like shields do.
A Rusty Gold for Armor. extra detail could be that is is shiny as it is a full bar but becomes broken and damaged as it degrades.
Hull would be Silver I'd think.

Another idea for them is to keep them a solid color as you have them, but as damage is dealt the bar will pulse very subtly with small hits or give a big visual pulse on big hits.

Scrolling Combat Text: Something that is beyond popular and almost standard in so many games can be easily worked to have that EVE online feel; You keep the same font size, but instead of that little box in the middle (which you can choose to have it or not) you instead have the damage dealt to your target bounce off of that ship in clear text (with options for standard EVE Online font, or two or three other simple fonts to move with a player's personality choice)

The damage you receive will be a small font number bouncing off of your own ship status overlay.

Modules that inflict damage will have their damage dealt to the target also appear coming just off of the module icon.

Shield boosting modules, Nosferatu, shield rep, etc. will also have small bits of text bouncing gently off of those modules.

All damage types will be color-coded, combinations of damages will have their color schemes split on the bouncing text, if you do more Heat (red) than EM (dark blue) then you would have the numbers appear where more of the text is dominated by red OR you could simply keep the text as you desire but put the slightest underlining that is color-coded.

Would also be awesome to know the Shield Boost Per Second, Remote Armor Repair Per Second, Capacitor Transfer Amount Per Second, Nosferatu Drain Per Second, etc. in the ship fitting. But that is an optional semi-unrelated suggestion perhaps for other things you folks are working on.

Thank you for reading my ideas, If you'd like a Gimp2 artist creation of what my ideal overview would look like, I could also submit a file in a week, as I now work quite a lot in demolition. But I am proficient with art programs and I could always whip together some jpeg images of my suggestions in this post.

Alright, time to mine.

Circular indicators are not an improvement. There seems to be no intuitive progression. And how bad will this lag my client when a 250 man fleet calls me primary?

edit: Also, now we have to just guess how long it will take to target?

I hope so.
Now on a more positive note, there is one thing I like: the "in targeting range" bracket. That is useful! It would also be nice if the tactical overlay gets some love, maybe some more transparent spheres every 50 km when you max zoom out and maybe tactical information like speed and transversal like those shown in overview, but right next to the ship brackets when in space, so we could see more easily this information, at a glance and not search the entire overview for it (cos most of the time you have a lot of ppl in overview). This info could be shown only when you open the tactical overlay or even better, make it customizable. We like options and customization.

I think less is more.

A half circle consisting of shields, armor and structure from left to right would be more intuitive.

some constructive criticism for u devs btw... :)

http://i.imgur.com/e11vC.jpg

and yes i did put one of the arrows in the wrong place but you know where it should have been pointing!