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Color scheme is not very exciting. I miss the ability to set window outline/menus etc. separately from the window background. For example, I used to have medium grey windows with red borders. It made the windows easier to see and more distinct from the background.

Presently the window background is too dark and it's very very hard to see which window is currently the active window. I'm using Plasma color scheme and the active window is a very dark blue; hard to distinguish from the black inactive windows.

I can appreciate perhaps why the developers did this: to make it simple to switch the scheme to match the active ship. That is kind of wasted feature or at least of minimal value.

I'd like to see an option in the Settings window that allows you to set the window background to a separate color.f Right now, the UI is much worse than it used to be. It may be stylish by some opinions, but it is less functional.

could we have a choice if we want the old ones or new ones I think that all people really want

Can you make the Isis browser use the same mechanics as the new map? Having it as a background graphic is really inconvenient as I have to mess with my UI layout to view Frigates in particular.

Dear CCP devs, i have a simple question, and maybe i can get an answer as a christmas present or so.

Are you planning or intending to make an option to deactivate the highlighting of the active UI window?

I am playing eve for 7 and a half years now, but for 2 weeks now im not really playing Eve anymore because i cant with the current UI. Those two weeks i have been waiting for an announcement, reading every single Dev post, but nothing about this problem at all :(
I will gladly wait a week or two more if you say you intend to introduce a solution. But if you dont, please be honest and say so because then i can stop it right here i do not need to wait any further.

Thanks.

Now it's been over 10 years since i started playing this game, but the station UI now looks exactly how i remember it did when the game was first designed to work on dial up connection......

Are you running out of ideas and going backwards as no one will remember it?

I'm working on an animation of this suggestion.

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The market tree needs to be interactable with a modifier key and the scroll wheel. This isolates the item tree and keeps it compressed, saving the viewport while also being more intuitive.

While the market modifier key is pressed, open the market tree at the top level.

With the modifier key still pressed, let the scroll wheel navigate up and down the tree, until the left mouse button is clicked, which opens that tree item. These inputs should "take" no matter where on the screen the cursor was prior to the market modifier key being pressed.

Once an item is selected, expand that tree and collapse the rest of the market items, with nothing below the tree.

At each step, left clicking on the category heading without scrolling navigates up the tree one level. ALT+Left arrow and Backspace (the browser "Back" shortcut can also navigate up the tree one level).

Remove the market tree when the market modifier key is released.

This enables the player to manipulate the market tree without moving their mouse, and return to controlling the cursor in place after releasing the market modifier key. It's time saved, mouse travel reduced, simple.

Holding shift before left clicking could bring up a separate market price window. pressing the market modifier key again should open back to the same place in the tree as the last time. pressing the market modifier key twice in rapid succession could reset the tree to the topmost level.

the price window should remember its position and remain detached from the item tree. the market item tree should also be move-able to wherever the player desires, and remember its position.

I realize not every mouse supports mouse scroll wheel left and right, or mouse scroll wheel press. There would be several options for navigating back: ALT+Left Arrow, Backspace, scroll up and left-click, mouse wheel left, and double tap market modifier key.

I fully agree with you.
CCP indifference to the players causes a reaction of indifference to the game.
Uncertainty kills interest in the game.
If developers honestly say that they are not going to change the interface of the game, I quietly planned to stop playing after the end of the paid period. It is their right, it would be fair, and I would not have claims against them.
But their behavior - it is unfair to the players. Each week silence on the part of the CCP strengthens my conviction to quit this game.

I am fully supportive of usability that doesn't assume everyone has dumped money into fancy peripherals. However, I think it is assumed that we have.

lol. "personal vision" is a compliment m8. so is most of your post. the rest is typical disagreement, so thanks.

and no, I'm not a UI designer. I'm a player, with up to 10 clients in my face, and I know what would save me a lot of time and be an improvement over right-clicking things, and obscuring my clients with huge clunky tables.

here's the first part of the animation suggestion. It takes a long time to do these, so I may not be able to finish the rest of it.

Basically, part II would show the item price window opening in a separate table, along with the normal shift+click behavior.

well there's a name I haven't seen in a while. Hey there.