EVE General Discussion

Fantastic news, thank you!

Now, I just hope that this also includes Tractor Beams; magnets were the perfect 'icon', for me at least...

My apologies for the tone of my previous posts. After reading four pages of what seemed like an incredibly inane argument about a trivial matter, I was quite exasperated. Thank you for getting me up to speed on the topic of icons and their importance to EVE's overall usability. I had never given it so much as a thought prior to stumbling upon this topic. I was unaware that icons are such a popular issue, and feel that today the desired outcome of the majority has been recognized and will be implemented to the benefit of all. Thanks to CCP t0rfifrans and the rest of the staff involved with the change.

Yaaaaaaaaaaay


Great move!

Excellent,

Taste is in the eye of the beholder but differences in usabilty really need to address problems of large minorities.

If say, 30% of the population don't like the looks of new artwork, things really don't need to be prioritized to fit their desires.

However, if 30% of the user population really had difficulty quickly disntguishing the new icons and found the game play taking more squinting and clicking because of it a change really needs to be a priority . (unless a percentage of similar magnitude struggled with the old ones and had the struggle removed with the new ones)

I wear recently prescribed glasses but that doesn't mean they correct perfectly and especially doesn't me they can quickly refocus on differen parts of the screen. The glasses work fine for a book held at a consitent distance with my eyes gradually training along... jumping from one corner to the other corner of large screens or mutiple monitors requires a flexibilty in focus that diminishes around the time people hit 40 .

I'll be darned..
Now can we keep this thread and just change the title to: "We want to keep the new turret icons!" ?

No but seriously, I guess it's the best solution for now seeing how many having trouble with them.
I for one wouldn't mind some sort of facelift though, new flashy icons!

This

When I was doing some private forums layout work, I took a bunch of normal icons from the game that are still in use even now, like the ones for corporation, alliance, fittings window, courier packages, etc.

I used these icons to actually depict each forum section, i.e. the Market section was the Market icon from the game, the Ship Fitting section, was the Fitting icon, and the Logistics section was a Courier package, etc. you get the idea?

Anyways, some guy comes to me, and he is very VERY distraught, he has no idea what any of the sections mean because there are no big titles in bold text to tell him (they DID have labels, but it was bolded 10pt font)

When I brought it to his attention that the icons were literally taken from the game and meant on the forums exactly what they meant in the game, he got even more confused. "What do you mean they are the same as the game?" he would ask me. I told him, well... if you see a fitting icon, that is the fittings section of the forum where people post ship fittings.

His response was, "That doesn't make any sense at all!"


The best part? He was NOT trolling me, he was dead serious...


So with all you guys arguing over form and function of the icons in the game, I have to say, I understand where Tippia is coming from, there are people out there who didn't even get the icons that already existed, let alone new more intricate ones.

Some people just seriously, are slow. Others, like myself, prefer something that is easy on the eyes if I have to look at it a hundred times a week, I would prefer a silly cartoon icon of a magnet with squiggly lines than some dense intricate picture that strains my eyes.

I think you should try eat soup with the fork. After all, that stuff hasn't seen any changes in a what, thousands of years ? Change is needed for too long already.

Soon™

I have recently dealt with this same thing at work.

I created some speed buttons, put some generic icons on them that made the point of what the function of those buttons actually are. Someone decided to let the girl that likes to play with photoshop make up her own icons for those buttons. Now no one knows what the **** any of the buttons actually do because she tried to make them super detailed pictures that you just sort of scratch your head looking at them and say "huh?"

So now I'm stuck with these gawdy, oversized speed buttons, with icons that don't tell the user one tiny little thing about what their actual function is.

This always happens, and all the people that keep thinking this is a good idea come back and say, ok what does THAT button do again?

You would think they would stop making these stupid ass icons and forcing me to use them eventually...