Test Server Feedback

I think the changes are great, however I am dyslexic and i love having a transparent chat but ATM i am having trouble reading some text unless I have the window unpinned, and then it's a block colour and not transparent.
so can you add a slider so i can adjust the transparency of the windows?

I'm not sure how removing the color and detail on the icons is considered an improvement.

Nor do I understand how making all the icons look more similar to one another will help players distinguish between them.

Seems like wasted time and resources that do more to detract from the look and feel of the game than to enhance it.

Really like the new NeoCom icons, but I agree with people who argue it needs a little something more. I love the minimalism, but then again I'm a modern kinda guy.

Tough to decide how to add something without adding too much though. I was playing around with the icons on Photoshop, and I feel like my colours are too discordant with each other. On the other hand, I simply added some white lines to some icons (I especially like the email one), and I feel like maybe those lines aren't enough, or could be coloured.

As for the windows (haven't checked to see if this was already brought up), some themes such as green, Gallente and especially Amarr make tab text (chat window tabs, overview tabs, station services tabs) nearly unreadable due to the glow from the selected tab.

Finally, for the station services tabs, the number for number of guests seems to be cut off.

How is adding flare, adding gradients and making things 3-5x larger "minimalism"? It's bloat and the UI is now full of it. Minimalistic user interfaces exist because screen real estate is a luxury in some cases and this new UI is going away from it.

- Every window is bigger, or cannot be made as small on Sisi ocmpared to TQ
- Every button is larger and has either gradients, "3D-like" button effect, extra wasted space or all 3

Only way to make this change worse is to announce that some of the windows we currently have are going away because they couldn't fix the POS code and just by dropping a new skin to the UI they broke probe scanning and contracts.

That UI is dreadful.
First things first: right from the start player can see new glow on selected tabs. It could have been nice but name of the tab is written in white and now it's kinda unreadable. Then i tried to solve this issue by changing UI theme... and all of them but two are so brightly colored that they almost caused my eyes to bleed. With "black" theme selected i finally logged in and... there was more bad news for me. New icons are all the same color, not many of them are self explanatory and some of them look pretty much like items you can by (Inventory - reinforced bulkhead, journal - skill book) which only adds to the confusion. Not sure if i can ever remember what all of this gray smudges are. Then there was new transparency. Like with tabs names some of different windows contents became unreadable. Also this new feature applies to previews of ships and other stuff. How can anyone enjoy looks of lets say boots he wanted to buy if he is constantly distracted by something in the background?
Here's some ideas:
-Leave icons as they are now. New ones are difficult to remember and they badly fit to old ones.
-There should be a button that turns this transparency off completely.
-Make it possible to close the gaps between windows completely. For some people they are annoying.
-Add settings option for every window so player could select which corner of a window to use as an anchor, to what side of the screen can it be anchored to and at what distance in pixels.
-In D-scan window make those arrows to work and actually select distance in AU. 1 AU per click and 0.1 AU per shift+click.
-In industry window make this blueprint icon smaller, input materials icons bigger, "job runs" field bigger and wide enough for 6 digits, add a new field which would show number of runs you can do with materials you have and a button for copying this number into "job runs" field.

Prolly already reported, but I'm having real issue when right clicking in space and going over menus which then overlap the overview, can't read anything since it overlaps with same opacity settings (letters from menu blend in with letters from overview)

Same goes with autolinking stuff in chat, if you have any white text in channel in the background, like white motd, its really not readable.

Maybe add option for right click menus to have a bit less transparent background when they are crossing on top of the other windows?

If you are surprised by that, then you are setting your expectations far higher than CCP provide.

How can I make the Neocom non transparent. It acts as a border for icons in space.
New colour palette preview is nice, but maybe make a border around it. It is nearly imposible to see the darker colour properly. Same for black colour in the overview settings.
Please add a colour theme like "Dark Opaque".
Smaller icons in station services are really nice. \o/

The transparency slider doesn't work.
EDIT: It works, but only with post processing on high. Pinned windows are still to blurry with transparency at 100.

IMO it's bad design to bind the general look and feel to the post-processing setting.

I know CCP feedback threads are here for CCP to decide what NOT to do by purposely ignoring everything anyone ever says, and i know ive said it before.

This might seem like a small issue to many of you, but it is not.

Im really very worried about invisible brackets beind windows. I like to nano at high speeds while outnumbered, a situation that is pretty common in FW space. Manually piloting is the only reliable way to achieve this. Given the amount of space taken up by the UI, removing brackets behind windows simply represents a huge and crippling loss in situational awareness.

Removing brackets for the sake of a slightly flashier UI feels like a slap in the face.

I dont mind if the brackets are slightly blurred while behind windows (as long as the targeting reticle is still clearly visible).

If brackets are removed from over half my screen, mostly in the useful periphery areas im thinking its time to take a break from eve and CCPs shallow production priorities.

You are making an assumption there my friend. The hiding of brackets was clearly intentional. It even makes sense as it helps keep the UI clear of clutter. I suspect this design decision was made by someone whos focus is solely on making a nice UI they didnt consider that some clutter is essential to gameplay.

'having a chat with the team' =/= 'its an unintentional artefact of beautification'. Sounds to me more like revisiting a deliberate design choice.

If people dont voice their feedback about things in feedback threads it can have a detrimental impact on CCPs design decisions as it has in the past.

FYI, this is a feedback thread for eve online, not a feedback thread on peoples feedback in a eve-forum feedback thread. Thanks for your utterly valueless post though.