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New Damage Control icon - April fools ?

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Niobe Song
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#141 - 2015-04-07 18:36:09 UTC
New icon looks awesome. Please CCP don't listen to these idjits who hate change so much that even a tiny icon makes them run around with their skirts up over their heads crying like little girls who lost their favorite dollies.

Change is good.
Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
Tactical-Retreat
#142 - 2015-04-07 19:05:39 UTC
A suitcase for a damage control. Seriously? Of course its super cool to see it change!

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Kieron VonDeux
#143 - 2015-04-07 21:04:51 UTC
Amazing that so many couldn't figure out it isn't a suitcase, it's an Eve version of a medical kit. Roll

"Damage Control" on ships is similar to "Triage" in the medical field. The medical field uses a medical kit.


But yeah, the new icon is cool.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#144 - 2015-04-08 01:12:14 UTC
Niobe Song wrote:
... makes them run around with their skirts up over their heads crying like little girls who lost their favorite dollies. ...
I suddenly need a doll sold in the AUR shop thing for my doll in their Captain's Quarters. Blink

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d0cTeR9
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#145 - 2015-04-08 01:18:08 UTC
Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci wrote:
More than anything, the colors don't sit well with me- the white square with the red cross just doesn't match the blue.

I would think something more like this would work P

It's just a quick mock-up, but it feels more comfortable to me P


That looks... GREAT!!!

Been around since the beginning.
Ashterothi
The Order of Thelemic Ascension
The Invited
#146 - 2015-04-08 03:45:06 UTC
The idea of the image as a suitcase matches the "first aid kit" aspect of the modual. (http://www.graphicsfuel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/first-aid-kit-icons.jpg)

In almost every case of artistic review the spirit of the original has been upheld. In this case, you have taken one of the most iconic icons in the game (so much so that it is referred to by "suitcase" instead of DCU) and removing the most iconic part of it.

Chances are in 6 months no one will care about this, but I for one think there are far better icons to change. Please let us keep the suitcase. I will feel... unprepared without it.
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also, make it passive ;-P

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Khimi Harar
#147 - 2015-04-08 03:51:39 UTC
HiltoftheDragons wrote:
Thats actually better than a briefcase......which never made much sense to me.

I vote they upgrade the slave girl to a more appropriate style also. Twisted


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Taisaanat Kotei
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#148 - 2015-04-08 06:22:55 UTC
HiltoftheDragons wrote:

I vote they upgrade the slave girl to a more appropriate style also. Twisted


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Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#149 - 2015-04-08 14:50:41 UTC
Passive Damage Control please, & do whatever you want with the icon, especially if it looks nice like the one linked.

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#150 - 2015-04-08 15:22:45 UTC
Ashterothi wrote:
also, make it passive ;-P
I agree about iconic.
However, I think it should remain active. If you arrange your modules correctly then it makes no difference. I dance my fingers across my Function keys and flip on my tank automatically.

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War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#151 - 2015-04-08 15:32:52 UTC
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Ashterothi wrote:
also, make it passive ;-P
I agree about iconic.
However, I think it should remain active. If you arrange your modules correctly then it makes no difference. I dance my fingers across my Function keys and flip on my tank automatically.


Active damage control acts as a heavy neuting detector. You know they're neuting the **** out of you if even your DCII shuts off :)

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#152 - 2015-04-08 18:39:33 UTC
War Kitten wrote:
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Ashterothi wrote:
also, make it passive ;-P
I agree about iconic.
However, I think it should remain active. If you arrange your modules correctly then it makes no difference. I dance my fingers across my Function keys and flip on my tank automatically.
Active damage control acts as a heavy neuting detector. You know they're neuting the **** out of you if even your DCII shuts off :)
Good thing you are hugging a carrier to swop in a battery at the time, right? P

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Leriss Serenthius
CBC Interstellar
Goonswarm Federation
#153 - 2015-04-08 19:33:42 UTC
This new icon actually looks pretty awesome.
Dun'Gal
Myriad Contractors Inc.
#154 - 2015-04-09 09:13:27 UTC
#savenewdcuicon2015
Sable Moran
Moran Light Industries
#155 - 2015-04-09 09:27:40 UTC
Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci wrote:
More than anything, the colors don't sit well with me- the white square with the red cross just doesn't match the blue.

I would think something more like this would work P

It's just a quick mock-up, but it feels more comfortable to me P


This is a very good idea +1. Make it happen CCP.

Altrue wrote:
A suitcase for a damage control. Seriously? Of course its super cool to see it change!


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Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
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#156 - 2015-04-09 16:12:13 UTC
Factually speaking, it should be the profile pic of CCP Falcon.

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Signal Cartel
EvE-Scout Enclave
#157 - 2015-04-10 14:31:07 UTC
Can't *anything* stay the same for old times' sake? Gee whiz. You took away the awesome old cyno effect, can't we at least keep the suitcase? What?

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Iroquoiss Pliskin
9B30FF Labs
#158 - 2015-04-10 15:18:57 UTC
CCP Darwin wrote:
No, this is not a joke.

Icon art, like all other elements of EVE's graphics and UI, is always on the table for review. As it happens, replacing the "suitcase" with something that better fits the theme of EVE has been on various to-do lists, as I understand it, for several years.


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Liafcipe9000
Critically Preposterous
#159 - 2015-04-10 17:53:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Liafcipe9000
CCP Darwin wrote:
something that better fits the theme of EVE

EVE used to be packed full of weird things and that's exactly what made it so interesting.

in recent years CCP have done everything they can to make EVE logical to the point of it becoming very boring. looking at weird things used to be fun, I remember the old turrets and how they looked badass. now some autocannons look like they're taken out of reality and not science fiction, and laser turrets look like potatoes with bits of metal and LEDs stuck in them.

The one last weird thing (that I can think of right now) is the briefcase icon of the Damage Control. I log on to Singularity once in a while and that icon just doesn't feel right. it looks a lot more like an Intel CPU than a module that has anything to do with damage control. In the mean time, on TQ I know my fits are complete and made just right when there is a briefcase in the fitting window. because when there is a briefcase, you know everything is going to be fine.

CCPls. gib briefcase.
Liafcipe9000
Critically Preposterous
#160 - 2015-04-10 17:56:29 UTC
Niobe Song wrote:
New icon looks awesome. Please CCP don't listen to these idjits who hate change so much that even a tiny icon makes them run around with their skirts up over their heads crying like little girls who lost their favorite dollies.

Change is good.

... while others just want to watch the world burn. Twisted /s

if you wanna see people cry tears, go wardec a carebear corp. EVE is not about your own wish to see people cry.