Player Features and Ideas Discussion

this is a stealth fire ccp art devs thread.

I would like to thank the guy who brought this to your attention and I'd like to thank you as well for taking it seriously.

You asked for examples.

There are three MAIN examples in the current interface that I find difficult. All three of them are things that happen under time pressure and are PVP related:

1) scanning. When using probes to scan for ships, the little red boxes on the solar system map are very difficult to see. I can usually find them eventually by moving the map into different orientations, moving probes out of the way and studying the screen carefully to see where they are, but they are nearly invisible to me. Moreover, if the red bracket overlaps a celestial then it is literally invisible to me. It makes probing ships very slow despite having a toon with perfect probing skills. I don't have trouble with the yellow brackets, just the red ones. Orange might work better than red. blue would be awesome.

2) red-boxing. It's very easy for me to see if I'm being yellow-boxed but it's difficult to see if I'm being red boxed. I simply can't see the little flashing red brackets around the ship icons in the overview well enough. If I put my face close to the screen or dim the lights in the room while I'm playing then my chances of seeing the flashing red brackets are better but I often have to *assume* I've been red-boxed when i see the yellow-boxes disappear. That can be very hampering in a fleet fight when your overview is full and only 1 or 2 people are shooting at you and you would like to know which ones so you can keep at range of them.... Here too, orange might work better than red.

3) Flying ECM...... I've gotten over the colour-coding of the jammer modules by putting them on my ship alphabetically by race. However, because you don't use the same jammers every time, I usually have to write them on a postit and stick it in my screen to avoid using the wrong jammer. I simply can't see the colour differences between these modules well enough to tell the difference between the racial colour coding. In fact, I didn't even realize there WAS a racial colour coding until a corp mate pointed it out to me. The solution would be to change the appearance to work a shape into the icon. A square, a triangle, a circle, a line....

There are some minor issues but these are the big things that happen under time pressure when being colour blind really inhibits gameplay. The new hacking mini-game with flying red and green cans where you need to only go after the green ones under substantial time pressure isn't even going to be remotely playable.

T-

Me neither, but maybe they react if we provokate them some.