Player Features and Ideas Discussion

My wife has tolerated me playing eve for almost a decade now, and last week she hit the if you cant beat them, join them phase and bought a year subscription for herself. Now, with that, she is slightly vision impaired. Luckily you guys have been kind enough to allow players to change the colors of the box's and sizes of fonts etc. which is great for low vision players. and with that she is having a great time playing eve, and it has done wonders for our marraige, (strange right?) but as of this past few days she has decided she wants to be a hauler/miner/trader toon. and now she is getting frustrated with the game because when she sets her destination for her autopilot, and is trying to find the next gate she needs to warp to, it is yellow, which has very little contrast to the white, so she cannot tell which one is next to jump to or dock at, i have tried going through every setting i can find to see if i can change its color, or to make it highlight the whole box with a color besides green red yellow or purple. and i was totally lost.

Gm smiley was kind enough to get me pointed in the right direction with requesting a feature change, so here is what i propose a simple solution, easy to intigrate and no more than a few lines of code ( i am a developer myself ) so i know this wont be complicated.

When an autopilot route is set, instead of having just the gate or station symbol set yellow, make it highlight the entire box flashing white, kind of like how a criminal is flashing yellow or red. easy peezy, problem solved.

This isnt really even for my own personal gain for my wife. Eve has been listed several times through the national Blind and low vision centers as a "low vision" friendly game with its high contrast options, and ability to change color of anything important. i am sure there are dozens of other vision impaired people out there besides my wife who would fiind this feature a great releif.

PLEASE LETS NOT MAKE A HUGE DEBATE ABOUT SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS A FEW LINES OF CODE TO HELP A FEW EVE PLAYERS AND LETS JUST GET IT DONE.

If its going to be a huge issue, i will write it myself and e-mail it to you all at CCP so all you got to do is copy and paste. just send me the e-mail address.

+1 from me this does have to be done. In the mean time I do believe there is a way of setting up your overview so that the next gate to jump through is always at the top, maybe you can play around with that to see if it helps until this gets sorted?

Thank god OP put "devs please read" in the title. Otherwise how would they know he had something to say.



Anyway I support this.

Something real quick,

If you have the autopilot route open on the left side of the screen, right click the far left box and click "jump". Don't even need the overview and since the next jump is always the one on the far left no need to rearrange anything. Probably not as fast as using the overview but it does work.

You can also just right click the name of the system and bypass the little boxes. Either way, same result.

While I don't want to bring up a big debt, but... as a programmer... you know, one of those guys/gals that sit behind a five different computer screens, and spending 8 hours a day punching at the keys on a keyboard.... I can say for certainty... When it comes to video games, nothing just a few lines of code.

Just wanted to clear that something up, cause as a programmer you have know idea how much it pisses me off when people say.

"I want this change, and it only a few lines of code, so give me this change!" So, while yes I'm always up for changes that benefits the player base as a whole it just on the next suggestion, please don't bring up that you are a game developer then post something as stupid as what I quoted it only weakens your argument, thanks, and I wish you luck on getting this feature put in. =)

This would be great. Sometimes I have trouble with the next gate showing up.


On a side note, sometimes I have seen on the over view, the selected item part, the entire gate is yellow. Is that a warning that concord was called in? Not all the gates will show up with the yellow box covering the gate.