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1. Logging into the game after update: "Woooo, new interface, cool !"

2. Chosen one of the colors I liked, starting doing some market orders...
... noticed something weird it in the first 10 minutes of clicking on market stuff... strange sensation. Vision become blurry and I became dizzy and vomiting sensation for no reason.

3. Exited the game, sensation dissipating.
Resumed EVE 10 mins later, same thing happening.

4. Went to the forum to see what the people are saying.
SURPRISE ! (or not). A lot more people are complaining about the same thing.
After that I started posting. And you know what ? There's a LOT of people confirming it...

Maybe it isn't affecting everyone, but it is certainly affecting plenty of folks !
A game change that is causing nausea and headaches to a lot of people should certainly raise a big alarm signal for the developers ! This is not a matter of preference or "liking". It is something that needs to be addressed urgently !

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Crybaby ?

I'm not complaining about CODE. blowing up some Retriever, I'm complaining about the game MAKING ME SICK IN REAL LIFE. Spot the difference !

I'm very pleased that drone health is now visible in the drone bay and that clone upgrades have been removed.

However:

When I was at last able to log in after a marathon download and my screen opened into my hangar, I physically flinched at what I saw. There was my trusty Magnate dressed up the in the most hideous bling imaginable.

Desperately hoping that this was just a glitch on one ship I switched to my Prophecy but, alas, it was just the same. Ah, the humble Amarr shuttle will surely be more presentable . . . but no, the horrible, glaring bling was everywhere.

PBR on Amarr ships is a disaster - please dim it down by several dozen notches. Previously, these ships looked like what they were supposed to represent: massive chunks of solidly-built space-going hardware weighing thousands of tons. Now they look like small lightweight plastic toys weighing a few grams and painted by an over-enthusiastic 5-year-old.

Also, the turrets used to be colour-matched to the hulls, but now they are all a uniform silver-grey.

Some Gallente ships have come out a little better (e.g. the Algos looks pretty good), but others not so good. The polished chrome needs to removed or at least toned down a bit and some of the individual ship skins need tweaking.

The larger CreoDron ships need their green base colour toned down to match the Ishkur, and the Roden ships need to lose that highly polished bronze to a slightly flatter shade.

All the Caldari and Minmatar ships I've looked at so far seem fine.

I would have preferred to keep the old UI icons but don't object greatly to the nature of the new ones except that I think that some of them could be more intuitive. Recycling, clone bay and character customisation are fine, but a spanner ("wrench" for those across the pond) for repair shop? No, no - spanners are for fitting things, you need a welding torch for repairs.

And what's with the Rifter silhouette to denote a ship? Most newcomers won't even know what a Rifter is. If you must have a ship symbol why not use the generic one from the 'look at my ship' button on the camera radial menu?

Personally I would rather have the mini-thumbs back in my inventory.


[Edit] Forgot to mention that when I pin a window I expect it to be transparent and to STAY transparent, not switch back and forth willy-nilly when in use. And why should my chat window or overview randomly turn opaque when I close my scanning window? What sort of nonsense is that?

I find the new interface very confusing.
I mentally search for things by COLOR,
the monochrome style of the new icons is very hard to tell apart without actually focusing on them.

Also, I would very much like the old sliders back, I just cant seem to get opacity like the way I want it


Seriously though, it takes me MUCH longer to tell icons apart by shape then it does by color, and I have to look DIRECTLY at it, instead of being able to use my peripheral vision.
I cant by any means call this monochrome change an improvement.

I am a well known crybaby.

make it so right click menus are not transparent or i will cancel several hundred accounts.

Im actually serious. Ive been able to circumvent all these other UI changes so i can ignore them, But i need right click menus to be opaque so my experience is as it was before this worthless patch.

Nice blackbird though.

When clicking on a pilot on the watch list, there is no difference in shading to help you know you clicked the right person.

Then why remove it? I have always been a fan of change for the sake of improvement only. If you're going to change something only to make it worse, then you are better off not changing anything at all.



I agree that relying on color alone is something that can be improved on and/or may not be the best design decision. I am not against improving things. But since when does that have to translate into making lifeless, colorless, kindergartener-like UI schemes??? What I do not understand is why it is necessary to go back decades into the past as far as design when we have come such a long way over decades??? Why is it necessary to simplify the UI so radically to the point where icons are almost indistinguishable, you can't tell where one window starts and another ends, you can't tell where one column starts and another ends (overview)?? Why did CCP (and nearly every other software company for that matter) suddenly all decide that we should now have UIs that make you feel like we are all back in pre-school or just all color blind? Why???

This makes absolutely no sense what so ever.



And yet, if the shape/form is the issue, why does that have to automatically equate to turning the icons/ui into this stale example of UI design? Why does that mean you can't have well designed, well thought, colored/image icons that are both simple/easy to understand and yet very aesthetically pleasing to look at?

I wish I could give this more then one like.
This explains really well everything that has been bothering me with the new UI.

Now I think I will pray CCP is mature enough to admit fault and at least let us choose between the old and new..

Absolutely love this release. The ships look great with sharp detail. The neocom icons look a little basic but that is fine. The beta map looks great. I really really like it. Great job overall CCP! Now where are they selling that destroyer. None in Jita yet. Thera was a cool place. There was a station camp but easily avoidable. May become my new home soon. Again great job love the map. Keep up the good work guys.

i know christmas is gettin close but sheesh my eyes ...my eyes ...
opt out of new ui let the people choose what they want to use and ill give it a +1
paid for nice game not this holiday spirit user interface
as for the new lightning n colors on the ships they looks way to plastic n shiny mbe i should ask my kid for its barbie dolls to put em in the ships as pilots.

So your assumption is that if someone doesn't say anything on these forums it means they like it all and have no comment, right?

Let's see...
- Over half of the user base does not speak English. This basically excludes them from these feedback forums, they probably don't even understand what's going on since they were unable to read the Dev blogs.
* Edit - I see that some stuff is posted in Russian and German but the amount of responses is rather small
- There's a lot of people who are not socially interacting at all (for various reasons), or do not consider forums a good way to express themselves ( They are the ones usually filing petitions )
- There's a lot of people who just don't care. The interface or the game could look in any possible way, as long as their lasers keep drilling those rocks, it's all fine. Maybe they like it, maybe they don't, they just don't give a f**k.
- There's another lot of people who are maybe afraid to speak out, due to the harsh nature of this game. They rather stick in their little corner and do those missions and try to be invisible... Not that hard to search someone in game and wardec/grief them, right?
- There's other people who might have tried to voice their opinion in the past and were shut down or ignored ... and then they went into the "Whatever, f**k it." mode where they just don't want to waste any more time if nobody listens.

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And then there's the rest of us, who DO GIVE A F**K about what's going on.
And even if the rest of us are just a small minority of the TOTAL population of the game, the fact that in THIS minority 80% or god knows how much say that it's a change for the worst, statistics rules say that PROBABLY the same pattern applies for the rest which were not interviewed/did not express an opinion ( YET ).

And you're saying that we should just suck up to whatever trash is being dumped on us and "adapt" ? Ha ! Good joke.