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I wish there was a way to have the old UI back. The new UI seems a lot flatter and it's harder to tell where the boundaries between buttons/etc are.

Feedback: UI

• I HATE the new icons. No color, no borders, no information, just bleh. Here I have this gorgeous game full of sexy space ships and technicolor nebula, and now there is pixelated monochrome clip art sitting there next to it. I take that back, clip art had color. And art. The new icons look like Microsoft Word in the Win95 era. There is nothing positive to say about them. Every CCP employee that touched these icons should be embarrassed.


• The background blur in the UI is cool, and even mildly useful. Well done. Minor issue, there seems to be an odd fade in delay when opening a new window. Its mildly distracting.


• Highlighting the active window by making it's entire color brighter is really annoying. I use multiple windows at once, having one of them be a different color is distracting. Using a border highlight is more then enough; don't change the contrast and readability of the entire window.


• The rest of the UI update is a complete failure. We actually have less color control now (although what we do have is easier to use), and none of it served any purpose I could identify or even makes anything look better. Some of the themes are nice, some are in contrast hell, and some blend in with the scenery so much that I just set everything to black again so I didn't have to keep changing it when I jump to a new system. And don't get me started on those "Office Space Chic" icons again. I think this was really just spinning wheels.

CCP what is wrong with you???? Have you forget Incarna and mistakes you did. Why you did not read sisi feedback section? There were a lot of negative posts about new colorless UI. First ship renders were good enough except some gallente frigs, but then something happened, second week with plastic minmatars and camo pirate ships were terrible. 3 months of work for nothing.(at least for me)

I don't want all the icons to be the same color.

All the "theme" choices do is change which color all the icons will be. Generally uninspiring muddy pastels to boot.
Now add simplified rather abstract reduced detail icons...and tired people end up searching a bit among new (or accidentally changed) arrangements. Even having to use tooltips to confirm what icons are right now.

Yeah yeah eventually I will learn to select without looking again. "Muscle" memory of the UI (counting/estimation of distance down list). But then that would happen eventually happen with TOTALLY FEATURELESS icon squares too as long as tooltips worked and nothing got rearranged for long time.

Not into the blind UI navigation bragging bit myself.

And besides I occasionally want to rearrange or add to icons on Neocom too. Not so great in other panels like Industry either. Its just faster to eye to use different colors to start navigate toward key areas of UI. As long as you aren't totally color blind( and they don't know what they are missing :)

As one of those who have developed some vision acuity issues over the years (in other words, I'm getting old), I am finding some issues with the UI changes in Rhea. Overall, I really like the look and feel of the new UI, but I am having some issues with contrast, definition, edges, etc.

To be more specific:

1. The new icons are smaller and the edges are fuzzy and hard to detect/differentiate between, unless you resize them significantly. I had to stretch my neocom out to the right almost double it's previous size in order to be able to see the icons and differentiate between them. The old icons better "filled" the space they had in the neocom, the new icons have a lot more "whitespace" around them, making them appear significantly smaller relative to the old icons.

2. +1 for adding the ability for us to selectively color some/all of the new icons on the button bar/neocom. I like the new icons, they are much more intuitive, but in the heat of battle or whatever, I want to be able to quickly just click on the red button or the blue button and not have to stop and "look" for a second or two for the right icon. The new icons are an improvement over the old ones, but the ability to selectively color them for our own purposes/needs would be a major improvement.

3. I'm finding it very difficult to read most text on the windows, especially text with highlight/flash behind it (such as the chat room tabs). It's like the blur/transparency effects (which overall I think is really cool!) is blurring the text (especially the text edges), making it difficult to read/differentiate the letters. Text is not crisp, especially the edges of text. I'm still fiddling with the settings so that I can read the text, but in doing so I'm loosing a lot of the coolness of the new effects :(

4. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring back the ability to define our own color schemes - the RGB slider! Yes, the new presets are very nice, but the inability for me to tweak them a bit this way or that for my own needs is driving me nuts!

As to the new map.... LOVE it so far. I assume the fact we can't actually see and/or differentiate between the different stars when we select specific statistics is something that is coming Soon™? Meaning... I select kills in last 24 hours, look at the map, and it is essentially unchanged (no big red circles over Jita, for example).

WASD rocks :)

I love no more clone upgrades! Would love some graph porn on pod stats before/after Rhea eventually :)

Ships look beyond ugly when using lowest graphic settings. They almost look like they were drawn using crayons :( On the other hand, lowest possible graphic settings are much more responsive than they used to be... ;)

Keep up the good work, loving the new direction of Eve!!

GG

No, my deduction is that the people not saying anything on the forums don't give enough of a **** to do so. I don't make assumptions, it's just not that hard to figure out.

I'd really like a reorientation button/option of the new starmap after I move it around a bit an mess it up :P Don't forget a tactical overlay for the solar system range of the map for us d-scanners (or at least a NESW bearing circle at minimum).

Borders around buttons/lists need to get a bit stronger. We once tried to fade them away and brought them back into the game, now they're going away again.

A bit iffy with the white neocom buttons, I never had an issue with the colours of the buttons but at least now I don't mix up the Market and Ship Fitting Button. The in station buttons could have been the same size as before with the current designs at least.

EVE is its own filter against the weak. If they don't wanna speak out, that's entirely their own problem, and if that's the case, then they're probably going to quit anyway.



Posting in the wrong forum is, as above, their own problem.

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Again, people with nothing to complain about usually won't have much to say. Your '80%' is about as meaningful as my left shoe.



Did I say that? I actually don't remember saying that. Just like with your percentages, you're very quick to make things up on the fly aren't you.

That guy who's claiming that the EVE player base as a whole must be really upset about the UI change isn't really taking into account the fact that people are always much more likely to voice their displeasure over a change than their approval.

Define 80% of how many EVE users? The haters posting and yelling at CCP in this thread? Tbh, these guys are not really representing the majority in EVE. While they post their wall of hate text all the time 80% of the players are playing the game. People are complaining about well designed icons and missing color wheels? Come on. Are they bored, frustrated or mad?