EVE General Discussion

I too think the windowing is fine.

Here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP0OaUOQGCg

I feel as though I'm in the minority here, but that's hardly unusual.

I'm fine with the new icons. They're clean and functional at high resolution. The old ones were just messy and non-intuitive even for old players.

Ditto for the new UI. It needs a few tweeks, as do most newly introduced changes, but I find it much more usable and visually appealing than the old one.

In any case, it's here now and in a week it will be a non issue. Just like when the undock button was moved and everyone screamed bloody murder about it.

Mr Epeen

You're not understanding what Eraza is saying. It's nto muscle memory, it's a fact that human eyes can discern colors via peripheral vision. This new monochrome BS forces you to look directly at an icon to 'see' it. I haven't rearranged the icons on my neo-com for ages, if it were a matter of muscle memory i'd just go straight to the same location i used to. But without the que you get from something having a color, i'm forced to turn my head to make sure.

This is VERY bad in a fast moving situation (like being in an epic arc and trying to balance your cap vs your shield boosting and wanting to click on the journal to check out the objectives, and that's just a pve example).

CCP is probably the only company I've patronized that introduces things that offer less useability and functionality than the previous iteration of the same thing and calls it 'progress'. Ok, not the only company, there is of course Microsoft doing the same thing lol.

Chribba's simple paintjob fix would 100% fix the issue if you took the time to actually look at it before posting about it.

The lack of color was a conscious choice. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5187521#post5187628

I don't know why they think a lack of color helps people, especially those of us over 40 who are starting to experience small natural eyesight changes.

They made it sound as if it was to help people identify the icons better, but lack of color does the opposite of that. And actually they did it because the code is simpler with one universal color rather than each icon having its own little palette. It doesn't help us, it just helps them.

It's impossible to colourise non-greyscale icons according to user preferences, or very complicated. So your starting point for icons that change colour is to just make them an alpha channel with no RGB at all. Then you can given them whatever colour you want at runtime on the fly by multiplying the alpha value with an actual colour, i.e. you don't have to have baked the colours into them and into the .exe. So I expect that's why they did it. In future they will be able to make the icon any colour you want.