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I had the same though actually, as an upgrade later on. That being the option to have EVE automatically chose the UI color scheme based on what would contrast the best with whatever space you happen to be in at the time.

Space backgrounds are much too bright. It is becoming more difficult to find a camera orientation where the background is sufficiently dark to make certain that transparent UI elements (ex. capacitor) are easily visible.

Technically speaking, the black levels look too high - like a bad transfer from old NTSC video.

Have the usual..."whatever it is, I want to be able to turn it off"

and , "Rhea has totally ruined my game dude, so I and my zillion alts are going to rage quit"

made any appearances yet?

In my waning days of playing EverQuest nearly ten years ago, Sony allowed the players to create elaborately pretty interface settings. My bard had a musical flavor, my druid had a forest designed flavor, my shadow knight had a dark, death themed flavor, etc: all designed with a full color pallet plus under the sun. Fast forward to today and it seems to me we're moving backwards. This monochrome color scheme is cold and sterile. What is the point of having a new lighting systems to brighten ships when the surroundings are dull and flat?

Perhaps I've been ~spoiled~ growing up watching gaming systems bragging about brighter color schemes in greater and greater pixels While I have not kept up with today's newest gaming machines, buying old computer games through GOG and watching an ancient color pallet work on these classics without all the pop-ups, tool tips, and other modern conveniences telling me this button does this because that apparently is the new style now-a-days. Are gamers regressing or do developers think gamers are too stupid to remember what something does without being told in a cold, dull, monochrome, tool tipped pop-up?

I prefer my older games to this "new" stuff.

I spent some time last night going through all the nebula maps and identifying several regions' nebulae that are problematic for UI interaction. This list has been passed along to the right people.

As far as black levels, please submit a bug report and include a screen shot. You can add my name to the bug report and I will take a look.

I certainly have not seen black level issues of any kind with our nebula maps, and I do know what to look for, but a picture would help me recognize what you're identifying as that.

OMG the background for the map actually is space proper! Just travelling and realised that - LOL

The new UI gave me dizziness, then motion-sickness, then a headache... now I'm completely paralyzed for life. My corp says the same, some of 'em been rushed to the emergency room as we speak. Thanks CCP.

Who you callin' a lily-livered hypochondriac?

We are starting to get used to good stuff at each release. It is hard to keep posting without sounding like a CCP fanboy, but I must say I like the new look and feel of the UI, and the ability to have it automatically adjust to the ship you fly. Bravo again for the removal of clone updates! Love the new Falcon and the new ships look and feel, and I am looking forward to explore the shattered wh and Thera... I also really like that you can now really see the nodes that are blocked during the hacking minigame.
Overall another A release!

"My kid played your game in the last 4 hours and I found him on the floor with foam on his mouth"

This is the same drama people were screaming when the jump animation was added. Lawsuits! Seizures! Get a grip. If the slight fading of a box is going to send you into a mouth-foaming seizure, EVE isn't the game for you. The jump animation is far more disorienting. How does someone who faints at a box fading even play this game? Or operate in a fleet? If some guy in a battle is going to fall out of his chair at the first sight of flashing lights, I hope he's on someone else's team. EVE is filled with dizzying effects and flashing elements. The fading UI box should be the least of your worries. Imo.

So far, I'm enjoying the new UI. Were I given the option of a sidebar with icons in color vs. the monochrome I have now, would I go back to the color version? Yeah, probably. I don't dislike this version. It's just new. If you had your sidebar set to the smallest setting (like I did) the sidebar icons sort of all looked like identical squares post-patch. By widening the bar by just a bit, the icons are much more distinguishable. It's less painful now. My favorite thing about the new UI is the performance. I don't know how or why but everything across all my clients is (so far) much smoother. There used to be a lag sometimes but since the patch everything has been working effortlessly. Give me something that works well and you can color it whatever color you want to. I'll click on an icon of a chocolate cow if it works best.

I like the color schemes. I'm using different schemes on different accounts based on the histories of the characters.

I like the map. A lot. I do wish my route was more easily ascertained. Once it's fully-functional, it appears superior to the old map in every way. It also happens to be beautiful.

And since I'm mostly in Amarr space, flying Amarr ships, I don't even dislike the lighting. I think it looks rather good on my ships, actually. I've seen a few shiny Gallente ships though that gave me pause and some Caldari ships like the Golem that do, unfortunately, look a little plastic.


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Hello,

I've been trying to use this new interface for a little while now and have concluded it is useless.

First, how in the world does regression to a 1950's Black and White scheme make it better?

Colored Neo Com icons provide contrast, somethign for hte eye to rest upon, while hte new black and white ones just all blend together, making it difficult to locate one item amongst the clutter. Think of it like a whiteout in a blizzard - I think you get enough snow there to know the effect I'm describing. That doesn't work in a UI - it makes the eyes tired trying to differentiate one thing from another.

By eliminating the color themes and our ability to adjust background colors as needed, you have also removed our ability to provide contrast between the backgrounds and the text. This makes it really difficult for people like me with tired old eyes and bifocals to set the text so that it doesn't blur due to too much or too little contrast. Adjusting the transparency does not help, as the flat blackish grayish background color doesn't work.

I used to use a blue themed background and I could read most of the text on items and numbers and such - it was easy on the eyes instead of hard to read and process the information quickly.

It was CONFIGURABLE. This abomination you have saddled us with is not.

I also noticed that changes in the Selected Item menu when in space. With the new black and white icons that seem smaller than the old ones, and which do not have borders, I suspect that this will make selecting the correct button a LOT harder in the middle of a big fleet fight or small gang PvP where a split second and hitting the right button means the difference between living through the fight or sitting in the station in a new pod.

PLEASE just roll back the UI, give us the old one back, LISTEN to our feedback, MAKE the appropriate changes and then, at a later time, roll out a new UI if you must.

For now, though this UI change makes the game almost unplayable. For someone like me who has played along time and pay cash money for numerous accounts, it really makes me think my money and time would be better invested elsewhere.