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New Nebula / Tactical overlay / New Typeface

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Oli Robbo
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#1 - 2011-11-22 17:50:54 UTC


Ok, first things first - the new nebula look amazing, so does the warp effect, great job.

However, what with the background being so vivid, i'm finding it's harder for me to negate range whilst PVPing. I like fighting in small gangs <10 guys and often we need to kite / align / use tactics while fighting (and often running), which means a lot of the time i'm zoomed out from my ship to achieve an overall perspective of the field.

You'll notice that while zoomed out now, it's almost impossible to view where your ship is, yeah it's in the centre of the screen but it's useful to know where you're aligned by looking at your ship without having to zoom in - the same goes for being able to see where gang mates are and also hostiles.

This will also make it a lot harder for FCs in large fleet battles on the flipside of things and is something that needs some consideration if you're trying to boost support ship PVP.

Accompanied by the new typeface in the overview makes micro managing small decisions very hard. Perhaps there is some way you could look into utilising the tactical overlay to help solve this problem? since thats a vastly redundant tool atm for the most part.

On another note, please sort out the new typeface, even the 'small text' option in the overview is still an eyesore. I'm assuming the reason you implemented it is to help assist with stopping people getting scammed in contracts etc, by making the silhouettes of the characters more distinguishable and easier to read (notice the cross-hatch through the centre of the '0' now), but through doing this you're unintentionally ruining a fundamental part of the game by making it hard to interpret information and make split second decisions. Also scams are part of what makes EVE brilliant and if someone falls for one it's a lesson hard learnt, we've all been there.

Oli