Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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They aren't complicated textures like mapping them to 3D objects, they aren't huge like space backgrounds, I see no reason why they aren't be included with minimal effort.

With a little bit of time spent putting oneself into the shoes of various colorblind folks, it can be discovered that making a colored UI that is also color-blind-friendly is not particularly difficult. In fact, it is surprisingly simple: you just have to consider the visual impact of any color both to someone who detects its base primary colors and to someone who detects it only with rod cells (luminosity only). This works not only for humans but also for your mammalian pets, should you want to get them involved in interacting with your screen.


For humans: almost all humans have up to three distinct types of cone cells (color receptors): red, green, and blue. There is a fourth cone cell (in ultraviolet range) stored in human DNA but it is extremely rare for it to develop into a functional state. You don't need to consider the impact of this fourth cone both due to its rarity and to the fact that computer/electronic monitors have just three colors: red, green, and blue.

To determine how a colorblind person may see your color, check its constituents. As an example lets use some of that rusty brown you see on Minmatar ships, as I was discussing it earlier. The most strongly-colored parts have a lot of red, with some green and even less blue. The grayer parts are closer to even on color distribution. The most distinct difference in viewing experience would be for someone who is red-blind, and this is one of the most common forms of colorblindness. A red-blind person would see more green than blue on the brown parts, making them distinct from the gray parts. Furthermore, the use of all three colors ensures that folks of all types of color vision can distinguish the bright parts from the shadows. Thus, it can be assumed that red-blind people and all other types alike can see Minmatar ships alright, although the red-blind people may feel that Minmatar ships are distinctly darker and/or more bland than other ships.

Here is another example, this time a ship that actually would need fixing for color-blind folks: the Widow, or any other Kaalakiota-painted ship. The dark hull contrasts with the moderate red stripes moving diagonally across it. If you are a red-blind person, you probably feel that the stripes are very dim and only barely stand out from the hull at all. They are just slightly orange, but to make a red-blind person see these stripes more, they need to have a green/blue balance differing further from the background color. One easy way to do this is just boost both the green and the blue in the red stripes--basically adding some grey for most of us. It'll make sure the stripe is distinctly brighter for everyone who sees it, including your non-human pets, should they care or be interested in stripes for any reason. (some are) All in all, the stripe is reasonably bright so, to the best of my knowledge, shouldn't be too difficult to see. But it could use a little more brightening if CCP wishes to be more inclusive of the color-blind crowd.


I'll end this tirade with this: if you want to see what an image looks like to a colorblind person, load it up in Photoshop or Gimp, or a similar photo editor, and toy around with the color balance options. If you remove all of the red, for instance, you can see something similar to what it looks like to a red-blind person.

Good grief! Are they having a month long meeting about this? All I want is the icons as they are now with a bit of colour filled into them. Then make an option to flip between current and colourful icons.

Really small in terms of all the things that are made and a HUGE difference.

It simply takes more time to identify (and thus interact) with icons purely based on shape, compared to shape and (some) colour. Especially so when focus is on other things like PVPing or whatever. The whole minimalistic UI concept sounds cool but it made it less obvious to interact with, which is a step backwards.

Page 8 onwards. Despite first page feed back in their thread on the GUI, there is no mention of the lack of colours.

I am pissed off. This disrupts EVE for me a great deal, like driving a car that keeps slipping out of gear.

I know one person that quit. They hate the whole GUI. It was just a last straw for them with some other things.

A TESTie never backs down from a rainbow or a pony!

These fractions of seconds add up and can get us killed.

Did you just create NPC sidekicks?

Lydia, "I've got a bad feeling about this".
Me, "Quiet this gank is going to be great- prepare to haul my loot to Jita".



Can we not get hover over sounds then as well? A voice saying, "Fitting" for example when hovering over the one ship icon that is the fitting window.

Also can we get templates of all ships to create our own my little pony paint schemes that can be submitted to CCP via account management (with a fee) for use in game?

This and now planned SOV changes.
If you are trying to get rid of me, you could just ban me CCP.
No need to spread so much misery.