Player Features and Ideas Discussion

One day, CCP will fix blob, hisec ganking, power projection, make EVE Crysis-in-space graphics wise.

But before that, they will add a nice modification to the Covert Cynosural Field Generator I icon that makes it different from the normal one.

Yeah, come on guys, it's probably not that difficult. Pretty please? I will love you long time.

(And no, I have not lost anything to pushing the wrong button yet so I don't have a lossmail to link. If I could I would so you all could laugh.)

Edit: now with a thread in Assembly Hall!

Edit2: I am bad at forums. This link pointed to the wrong thread - now fixed!
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=300801&find=unread

This is not a bad Idea. A blue ring around the edge would work just fine for me. But yeah anything to make them separable.

I support blue cyno icon for that.

Come on, Fozzie and gang, we know you're watching us among the sea of terrible AFK cloaking fix ideas and marauder change crying.

More shiney, less pilots losing their eyes in freak cyno accidents.

Pink cyno icon!

Jokes aside I support this product/service.

I think we need something more manly than pink...

Maybe... purple?

Well it really doesn't matter, I suspect CCP has a big UI redesign on the table anyway (going by the Fanfest concept vids - some of those HUDs looked nothing short of amazing compared to space excel) and is hesitant to poke the existing one with a stick due to the upcoming rework.

That said, it's probably not scheduled for Rubicon or the Summer expansion - and that's plenty of time for many, many Cynosural Field Generator I and Covert Cynosural Field Generator I users to die horribly due to work accidents involving said modules. (And this is why insurance on recon ships is so bad - no insurance agent is willing to put money on a ship that may explode due to its pilot pressing the wrong button).

To put it in a suitable equivalent example, imagine you're working at a nuclear missile silo. You are equipped with two buttons: one fires ze missilez, the other explodes your ass. When the time comes, you're supposed to fire ze missiles - but sadly, some government-issue mutton ordered the buttons to be exactly the same in shape and colour. The only difference is a small label that appears after you look at the button for a while - which isn't exactly something you're focused on when **** hits the fan and you need to fire ze damn missilez.

Also replacing those is probably a 20 minute job in whatever graphics design suite CCP uses. I mean, just crank up the blue channel and call it a day if you're replacing it at some point - it may look crap, but at least it'll save lives.

Open icon file: 2 minutes
Crank hue bar to the left 50%: 2 second
Add new icon as resource: 10 minutes
Dying anyway because your blops got bumped: priceless.

It's gona be like batphoning saints

You know, time's a-tickin' till the expansion and we're getting new covert cloaky toys.

I think this should get kicked to the front page, unless ISD disagrees horribly.

(Or CCP gives us a yes or no. Then we'll politely stop screaming and go away. Unless it's a 'no' then we'll organize a protest. Sadly, since the protest will be composed out of space-ninjas it won't be seen.)

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I don't use the cyno, but i think as even if their function is the same, they are 2 different things. So a easy way to tell "Cyno" from "Covert Cyno" would be nice to see, and i don't think it would take too much time to change 1 icon.