Assembly Hall

Good Day,


In game I am known as Evelathia. I am 25 years old and a Heavy Duty Mechanic, I live in Alberta Canada. My father is known in game as Xalderze he is in his 60's Alberta Canada, He works day in and day out, for hours and hours, I can remember a time I did not actually see him for 2 days because of his job he was not allowed to leave his post. but after all that he still comes home to play EVE and relax with a big old glass of coffee and his magnifying glass.


I have seen the announcement about the new UI changes to the Ship icons, I my self like them, but for my father this is going to be tough, I love being able to play this game with my father, I may not do the same things as him in eve but we chat and enjoy our time on here. HE LOVES this game as do I.


I am more then concerned, that with this change he may not actually be able to play this game anymore which is an absolute sin and would leave me heart broken.


My father has a medical condition called Rod Cone Dystrophy which allows him to see some peripheral vision but not right in front of him unless he uses a magnifying glass, this condition has made him clinically blind since he has been the age of I believe 8 years old, he hasn't legally driven a vehicle, nor had the vision to see the world as me and my sister have, I have never met a stronger man in my life that shows no pain about it and does not ever get himself down or upset because he can not do certain things.


All my life we have always had a hard time doing things together because of this blindness he wasn't able to just take me out camping or just hop in the truck and go on a mans day shooting guns an such, but I managed to find gaming and it interested me, I started off with Wold Of Warcraft when I was much younger and he enjoyed my stories, so he looked and looked and looked for a game that interested him and he found eve back in 2006, I enjoyed watching him and all the things he was doing, so I started playing in 2007 with him.


We have had our fun made corps together, went to wormhole space together and then we split ways, I went to try null sec life and pirating, he has a difficult time with the pvp aspect cause of the fast pace and the magnifying glass doesn't slide across the screen very fast at all, so not to worry he stuck with Industrial side of eve, we chat all the time in game, and most of our phone calls in real life always depict some sort of craziness about eve in them, from oh my god no why would CCP do that, to the usual goons again go figure.


To have this game has been the most amazing thing for me and my father for 8 strong years now. We have been to Fanfest once and are coming again this march, its our Father Son get away together.


I am asking you CCP please work on a visually impaired UI for EVE so I don't loose my amazing father from a game we enjoy to play together and spend hours on together, that has given us the ability to finally connect so much better and have that bonding time with each other. Again my father would definitely not ask for something like this as he is a strong man but I know this will not go well for him.

Closed.