EVE Information Portal

This link brought a tear to my eye when I realized what we just lost.
Varied colors.. CONTRAST.. icons that actually tell me what each button does.
I'm sure I can figure out that the graph line is the market, and such.
In line with that, there are two medieval shield icons.. I thought about it for a minute as a test. and my best guess was:

Uh... oh yeah, the loyalty point store was the top left one wasn't it? maybe that's that one.. uh..
Cant remember the other, so no clue, need to mouse over to read the text..


Things I have trouble with(AFTER going through the trouble of seeing them clearly because they have no contrast)
Test: can YOU tell what all of the icons are without mousing over?

Two flags.
Medieval shield.
Some.. thingy.. in a circle.
A few random dots with lines between.
A box with a smaller box in it and something behind it.
The letter Z.
A star that looks made of text.
A box at a 45 degree angle.

CCP seriously, I will admit I'm no expert at design, but those things are Icons I literally have NO CLUE what they mean after minutes of staring(and the NO COLOR, NO CONTRAST bit makes staring necessary).

Do I really need to state what my opinion is at this point?
I think my utter confusion and EYE STRAIN should make it easy for you to guess what I think.

I'm quite sure that I'll "adjust" by learning what this all means.
Or get forced to learn all the shortcuts for everything.
But that's really an excuse Isn't it?

Here's the thing: I can see those icons just fine because one of my monitors has proper calibration and uses an IPS panel. The TN panel on the other side just displays black. I can assure you that there is an icon which has about 3% white in it to make it barely visible.

It's **** design and expects everyone to sport $500+ monitors.

Uh, wow, I haven't been in combat since before the patch.
The lack of outlines and contrast makes it MUCH harder to use this then before.

I linked a screenshot how it looks on my monitor. I can't see them at all - granted, my eyes are getting old, but that's not the point.

You need to see icons that you can't use so you know they are there, where they are located, that they exist, that those options are available to you at times.

I edited my above post with the following example: I want to change my ship's default orbit. I have to select something to orbit FIRST, then I can see the orbit button to right-click on it and change default orbit. Or I can blindly and randomly hover my mouse across the selected items window until I find the correct button via tooltip...

Because the icon row isn't static and changes depending on what is selected. If you expect the targeting reticle to be on the same location every time, you will be clicking past it when you target different things.

Console games seldom have anything other than sanitary utility icons, they seldom have UI's players can customise either, I smell incoming DUST bunnies.

I like the new UI but I couldnt play the game realy, since my graphic card is broken.
But still, I like the look.

Cons

Interesting how the great majority of feedback comments is about the UI and map, glossing over many other changes. But I'll do no better, so here we go:

• I love the new icons. No more coloured splotches but clear shapes. To the violently opposed: I am confident that in a few days most pilots will recognize the new icons just as quickly as the old ones.


• While a fixed set of colour schemes is a start, I'd prefer to have RGB sliders for some tuning, because depending on ambient lighting and your monitor you want to modify things a bit.


• I like "calm" UIs without flashing or blinking elements because it is restful for my much stressed eyes and because it makes for good contrast to the action filled parts of the scene displayed. I would therefore welcome configuration options to tone down the UI as far as possible while retaining clarity and usability.


• Super shiny ship skins don't look good on all ships, IMO. As pointed out several times already, Ishtars could be mistaken for christmas tree decorations for example, if they were not overall too distinct looking (a.k.a. ugly).

And now the game looks GAY. What are you going for? 12 year olds in the shiny ships? or 60 year olds with the crappy 80s fail retro style interface.

This is not what I pay for, How do you think that by taking away great looking images and visual information tiles and replacing them with the same colour boring icons was smart??

*someone fire that guy for stupidity*

The last trailer was amazing with real people talking and a great cross section view of the game. Every non eve person I showed the trailer video was amazed and loved it..

Now im a little embarrassed to tell people I play EVE and what it is!
Now if they try it out and see how childish it looks they wont hang around and they will laugh all the more about me being a one game 8 year gamer paying monthly.

Oh my God, my eyes. It burns and stings, please make it stop!

Seriously, though.



No. Seriously.