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Feedback:

1. The gradient oval-ish glow on the Browse button for example on the very first picture in the dev blog looks a bit out of place. It's to be expected to draw focus, but just looks odd to me. I just wanted to point that out.

2. The neocom icons are iconic. I would prefer to keep them. But if you really must, I could get used to it. Can you add color to them? I would prefer if they weren't all grey.

I really really like you guys at CCP. You're cool.

BUT this is one of those moments where I genuinely doubt you have a grasp of the situation at hand.

I don't understand why you would think that the coloring of the interface was an issue - ever?

It's not.

When people (myself included) complain about the interface they mean things like the drone UI or things that pop up out of context like cargo or minng scan results. Also ridiculous drop down trees. Or that the map can only filter for one thing at a time, excluding the option to look for sec status and industry level at once for example. That the overview is bad when you have 200+ objects on grid you have to look through to find what you want. That tracking speed isn't in the tooltips for guns.

That means we were complaining about FUNCTIONALITY that we miss from the UI.

Not graphics.

Sadly these "changes" change nothing at best.


tl;dr: Yaaay for the new rendering.

Loving it, especially the blur effect and the new icons.

Question: while you are working on the UI, any chance you could make the combat keyboard shortcut not requiring the focus to be on the overview window to select the current target and just automatically select it?

Right now, when the focus is in space, it ignores the current target and you must select one manually, it's pretty annoying. The only option is to first hit the shortcut to focus the overview and then hit the shortcut you want to use. When you do a lot of Approach, move camera around, Keep distance, the extra key to always focus back the overview is cumbersome.

Wow I just fired up Sisi and I love it!

Some nitpicks:
1. You definitely need a theme (themes) with higher contrast than the ones you have.

2. The dynamic opacity stuff is cool, but if a sun or very bright area of nebula is behind a transparent window, it needs to be more opaque than it is now. In particular the old UI has more opacity on the overview when pinned.

edit: #2 is talking about when the camera isn't being dragged, so the panel is in the intermediate state, not t-rex vision or selected. But in particular the overview needs to be fully visible even if not selected, and most people want to keep it pinned so it can be locked from accidental drag / resize.

Absolutely love it. Keep it up!

I remember when CCP last tested a set of new UI elements for brackets and ships on the overview. They consisted of odd numbers of amorphous dots arranged in equidistant geometric shapes they were very difficult to distinguish due to their small size. One could tell the difference between a frigate and a battleship without too much trouble. But not between a cruiser and anything else. The current big red PLUS of a BS rat is so attention-grabbing compared to other things.


@CCP, you know, there is nothing stopping you from using different geometric shapes like squares, triangles, and circles. Basic shapes are very easy to distinguish. Military HUDs and detection displays do this very well.

Singularity is giving me validation errors, so I haven't been able to poke around for myself. From the screenshots, though, I like what I'm seeing.

One thing I would suggest, though, is giving the neocom the same background color as the windows. With the simplified icons, the mismatch makes the neocom look like a placeholder. (The icons themselves look good, it's just the background color.)

You should try clearing your cache through the launcher.

Hopefully this will stop the validation issues.

One thing you guys need to decide is if you are going to continue to passively support the metacode in your UI, and maintain the advantage players that are skilled with technology can gain from the current UI.

Let me explain a bit:

Right now, when your UI windows are not set to transparent, you can use software like autohotkey for example, to detect a color change on the UI. For example when someone enters local and a new line appears, or when a new ship enters the overview. This allows someone that is partially afk to set up alarms and react to what is going on without having to stand behind the computer.

This is something that is less talked about than isboxing but is still another metacode advantage linked to the way the UI currently is, and makes it easier to bot.

It is up to your UI design choices to decide if you want to continue supporting the capacity to use the UI in that manner or to actively make UI choices that make this passive metacode detection impossible to do.

My personal opinon is that you guys should either incorporate alarms into the new UI, so that when a window change, the player can be warned if he choose to, and not leave this ability only to people with some technology skill, putting all the other players at a disadvantage.

Furthermore, automated warnings is so much more sci fi (another example is the UI requiring spamming d-scan click where any modern radar would automatically warn of a new ping... but not in the future that is Eve :roll:)