Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Please bring back the old Dark Opaque theme.

At the moment the most similar theme to it is the Carbon theme. My problem with Carbon is that it has a too high contrast. Here is a comparison between Dark Opaque and Carbon, here is another one the other way around. The lower contrast makes it far less tiring for the eyes.

The Caldari theme is close to Dark Opaque by background colour, but it is blue and not as neutral as Dark Opaque theme was before everything was changed. The main change is just a lighter background.

All backgrounds are very dark and therefor either have a very high contrast to the foreground colour or the foreground colour is red/green/yellow/etc. I just want a neutral theme that is not so stressful for the eyes due to it's high contrast. The data/content ares in inactive windows are much better visible too. Grey/dark grey instead of pure black/very dark black.

I find dark matter theme with 65% transparency and blur off a good replacement for the dark opaque theme its not a completely like for like replacement but it ticks most of the boxes that the old theme used to for me.

This would be the best soloutin of course. But there seem be some limitations and/or "reasons", otherwise CCP would have implemented it straigt with the theme changes or with a later release.


I already tried every possible theme. My main problem is the very dark background. You either have a very dark theme (dark background with dark foreground) or a very high contrast (dark background with light foreground). Only the Caldari theme has a slightly less dark background but it has a blue foreground. So there is no "non racial"/neutral theme that has a brighter back- and foreground.

Another option like this would be great and I would probably use it. +1

I love the dark matter theme too, I just wish it wasn't so painful to see what was selected.

Absolutely supporting this.

Dark Opaque or the ability to just choose our own color combinations, please.

this whole thing was just so ******* fail.

Some good suggestions already here. I use Carbon myself precisely because it is just high contrast enough to be legible. Ok, maybe it could be turned down a bit. Dark Matter is terrible, because the contrast difference for items (overview, inventory, etc) that are selected, unselected, and mouse-over is practically indistinguishable.

So, Carbon contrast is too high, Dark Matter is too low.

Carbon with blur off (it makes overlapping window awful, CCPlease.....) and turn transparency way down, to 20-25 range.

Something I noticed about the Carbon theme is that it actually looks not that bad while playing at daylight. Playing with dimmed lights in the evening or in the dark makes it really tiring as mentioned in OP.