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I am frustrated today that I get on and I cant tell what is what on the Icons. I lost my custom color schemes which was black on black. I am finding it hard to read the text now in Minmatar space due to the grey washing out my chat with the white lettering and how bright the systems are. I cant see the flashing for chat windows either. I use to thave my right side black outwith windows connecting and now my OCD is driving me nuts since I am seeing space in between the windows and I cant fix this. All the White arrows on the corners need to go. This is annoying also. I pick Black and I have white arrows. Messing with my Eyes.

One thing I am grateful for, You did not reset my UI layout.


Please fix, this is almost unplayable. At least I can fly around but I cant talk to my fleet over your mistake.

Thank you
Kith-Kor

P.S.
I have Patch fatigue. TO much changing and to fast. I am glad we are your beta testers for the rapid changes.

Initial thoughts:

CCP, you may seriously want to start paying 3rd party professionals to do usability studies and provide feedback before making such broad changes to something as important as the UI. This should probably include testing for color-blind users, and users who suffer photo-sensitivity. Since you would be paying for that feedback you might actually be more inclined to act on it.

The new NeoCom icons are not very intuitive IMHO, and the lack of color seems to make them a lot harder to distinguish from each other when set to smallest size. When they are set to be large, it is a little better, but that's not a solution. They are awfully bland/dull looking either way given what year this is.

Also +1 to bring back the RGB sliders. Most of the new "theme" choices make my eyes bleed, they are all pretty terrible as were many of the defaults previously. That's why a lot of your customers customized their themes.

The new ship skins/textures are shiny... literally. Since I aim to misbehave, it's good thing I only show up as a red X to most other players.

The new Map is very cool so far. I'll probably spend a lot of time fiddling with this.

And... is that a headache coming on? Since it's Tuesday morning and not Saturday, not bloody likely I am to blame.

look i have no problem with 'new' or 'improved', but most of the ships looks like they got dripped in a glitter bucket after getting over polished.. I really dont think eve must be all shiny and glossy, dont know who came up with the idea but old colour palette was nice and simple, you guys could've improved graphics while not breaking the general old snob dark depressing look of eve.

i am too old for swimming in glitter and shoe wax, have pity.

UI looks very playstation-like to me, old icons had some weight in them but new icons looks 'casual'.

i really hope you guys tweak these stuff a bit more, at least darken the general looks a bit, dont make us feel like barbie dolls.

this is not a puppy, this is eve, no need for makeup.

I play EVE in windowed mode and when my client initially loads after logging in it's standard in minimized mode. However after maximiziing it to full windoiwed mode my character selection screen goes from colour to black. So i have to guess where my clickable character's face is to actually log in.

The new UI is pretty horrible. Especially because there are no colours in the NeoCom liked mentioned earlier. Even with transparancy at it's lowest the game is still too transparant. Maybe it's some getting used to, but at the moment it's horrible to play. Some of these 'forced' UI changes add nothing really to overall gameplay. For example the compass around the HUD that constantly pop ups when your mouse get's too close when PVP'ing. The ideas behind these changes are good, but they should remain ideas before thinkign about it's practical uses. Another example why you should use 3rd party to give advise on these subjects and not just say 'Hey go use it on SiSi, so you'll get used to it before it goes live'. That's no way of getting valuable feedback from the actualy players.

Keb

Hmm.....if only there was a big long thread about this somewhere weeks in advance saying this should be fixed before the release and giving CCP a warning that this would be the response from the community!

Hai, your internet service provider's inadequacies are the problem, not CCP's patch size.

The new UI is far too washed out for some items. Allowing us to adjust the contrast of tabs (inactive ones) and set individual schemes for NEOcon buttons would help a lot.

What I mean is, you have a nice cool red B for the beta map. Why not have the ability to colorize each button individually? Green scheme for wallet button, blue industry etc.

+100500

Nothing to do with my SP.

Downloading from other sources isn't anything like that slow.

I haven't checked it but I assume pinned windows will still utilize the blur. A good reason for not disabling it automatically when its set to 0. Personally the blur destroys my frame rate with lots of windows open so it's off for me anyway.