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Eye Candy or Arrows ?
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Red Ora
Doomheim
#1 - 2014-12-12 07:49:32 UTC
To undock into the exciting and unknown space, leaving the station with my shiny new (or old) ship, starting a new adventure, I have to press 3 big orange arrows. Wow --- how exciting Roll

Whoever made the icons and approved them lacks imagination. Why not make it animated icons that displays a hangar door that opens with some lights etc., you have enough space for it CCP - 3 orange construction arrows - ROFL


And to enter the captain's quarters, I click the same stupid construction arrows that tell everybody: DON'T GO THERE.
Get on it - the arrows really look like s_hit Blink
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2014-12-12 08:16:47 UTC
Because a complicated animation thingy would get viewed once before everyone just clicked straight away and ignored it entirely?
Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#3 - 2014-12-12 08:31:11 UTC
A button is a button is a button.

I personally prefer simple and functional to overblown, pointless and annoying.

NBSI shall be the whole of the Law
James Baboli
Warp to Pharmacy
#4 - 2014-12-12 09:18:10 UTC
I have no objection to it getting prettified. Its also a tiny section of the UI, with a fairly functional and intuitive icon. Don't change the few intuitive icons in such a way they aren't intuitive.

Talking more,

Flying crazier,

And drinking more

Making battleships worth the warp
Aiyshimin
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#5 - 2014-12-13 10:13:50 UTC
There was some talk about docking sequences when they released the new star gate session change visuals. However, I can't actually remember what CCP said :D

I'd really like a short animated sequence like the gate jump, which is basically just a very nicely implemented loading screen.
Aiyshimin
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#6 - 2014-12-13 10:15:20 UTC
Lol, this was about the icon. Well, I don't use it so can't really tell what it even looks like.
Celthric Kanerian
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2014-12-13 14:51:44 UTC
This seems more of a rant than a constructive idea...
Iain Cariaba
#8 - 2014-12-13 16:32:58 UTC
Celthric Kanerian wrote:
This seems more of a rant than a constructive idea...

Not enough 'grrr goons' to be a true rant.
Joe Risalo
State War Academy
Caldari State
#9 - 2014-12-13 16:38:27 UTC
I would much prefer a fancy undocking animation, as opposed to a loading screen...
Kinda like the changes they made to jump gates.

I can see ships flying in and out from my hanger.... why can't I?
Caldari 5
D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. S.A.S
Affirmative.
#10 - 2014-12-13 18:37:36 UTC
Frankly I like the icon as it is.

The only thing that I'd like to change as a whole about un-docking in general is changing the default camera to be facing the direction of travel, not looking at the rear-vision mirror as it were.