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Yeah, because this approach worked so well last time as EVE-O players can't tell when CCP Devs are trolling

I personally prefer the new design over the old one (being colorblind, it could be REALLY difficult to read at times).

That being said, I think the best option going forward would be to allow people to alter the color palette.

Women like that you know!

This is exciting, but if you're going to touch the log module can you *please* fix logging itself? It's very difficult to analyze logs after the fact because of weapons grouping and the generic text used for each enemy. There's no way to tell the 100th Serpentis Grand Admiral from the first. You have to manually deal with number of weapons per ship, the log text varies wildly by hit type, etc, etc. It's a mess.

Love the notification changes!

Great changes overall, I like the improved damage circles, make much more sense and consistent with your neocom system.

(I kinda said do something like this, so I love that you went with it, not saying that I"m responsible >.> )

Great job

Modules after being deactivated (cycling red) don't show tooltips.

Could you also allow for reactivating a module that is cycling red, for example a prop mod, before it deactivates completely?

Also I'd like to see a better indicator of your ship's direction and velocity when zoomed out in order to get a better view of the battlefield, which is how i think most people usually position their camera. Perhaps a bright red line extending from the origin point of the ship in its direction of movement, with its length being the current velocity of the ship times say five or ten seconds.

Don't plan to be on the test server, looks ok from the pic.

Onto an idea that popped up, often times, players need to double-check their ship's (shields/armor) resistances by bringing up the fitting window - this is very clunky for such a critical information. Granted you don't look it up every second, but there are plenty of scenarios that I think having some sort of in-space indicator to show your ship's resistance will be beneficial. Example : mission runners who forgot to fit the right hardeners, quick realtime indicator to show fleet shield/armor resistance boost has been enabled/disabled, confirmation at a glance when hardeners have been disabled in the heat of battle and extend awareness level of your ship's resistances (as opposed to forgetting your resists since you don't look it up that often).

The main HUD has a deadspace semi-circle just below the capacitor and above the speed indicator which could be turned into a shield and armor resist indicator. It'll be a little crowded though. Another alternative is perhaps to build a custom floating panel (that works like the fps monitor) to display ships shield and armor resistances in-space. This could then be extended to be player customizable to selectively display certain ship stats from the fitting window for quickviewing.

Bottomline, the fitting window is ill-designed for quick information lookup when you're in space. It's also very poor for maintaining your own ship's situational awareness.

Currently, hovering over the shield/armor/hull bars of your target shows you the percentage remaining. This is moderately important for POS shoots and such. I am worried that with the new indicators this quickly becomes annoying, as the circles are what, 3 pixels thick? I tried hovering over them in the image, and it takes quite some concentration.

Very nice work overall, and definitely looks much shinier than we have now. Even if no further changes are made, looking forward to seeing these on the live server. So please don't take offense at what I write below.

If you haven't already, please check this thread for additional feedback. Others and I dislike the layered design for three reasons.

First, the HP layers are too thin, and quickly blur into one another, especially for an armor-tanked target that has taken both shield and hull damage. That makes it very difficult to determine at a glance (1) whether a target is actually taking damage and (2) how much damage it is taking. As a logistics pilot, I will have a much harder time determining whether a locked target still needs reps or can safely be unlocked. Two years ago, you increased the width of watch-list HP bars precisely because they were too thin. It seems like the thin locked target HP bars are a step backwards, repeating a mistake that will have to be fixed down the road.

Second, the layers are too granular, and the little subdivisions are hard on the eyes. When shooting something, a player needs to only be able to ballpark the target's HP to within about 5-10%. For specific values we have the hover tooltip. The granularity is also useless in any engagement of more than sixty ships, because the HP on the locked target stops being accurate. I've had instances where the locked target UI would show one level of HP, the watchlist another, and the ship's pilot would see something else entirely.

Third, the decorative crosshairs provide false reference points.

I proposed an alternative that should be both intuitive and easy to read here . It is quoted below.

Again CCP is messing up with a UI feature like in the Inferno expansion.

For the unified inventory, CCP has decided to change something in a bad way, and to ignore our complaints from the test server. Do so ! After all, that's your game.

But when we will move from 5% to 100% of players putting their hands on the new targeting UI, we will see who will have to redesign something that was known to be quite dissapointing for all the duration of the tests, because of the non-ergonomic reading aspect of it.

Even more sad is the fact that there IS an alternate version for a new targeting UI, as shown in the first Stay on Target devblog.

Or at least, without moving back to the so-good first proposition of improvement, we would appreciate to see hp bars less thin.