Test Server Feedback

Hi guys,

Just wanted to give you a heads up to expect more big changes to your favorite tiny overview and bracket icons that will be going public in the next update to Singularity.

We've listened to a lot of your feedback on the original project to update these:
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/ui-modernization-icon-strategy/

Last time we decided to hold off publishing the completely new ship group icons, because as you collectively and wisely :) showed us, they weren't quite ready for prime time and after testing in mass public fleet engagements.

We're now ready to try out another family of icons on Singularity and see what you all think. We really hope these address much of the pain points of the previous set, and in addition are designed to be super readable and function nicely alongside a completely new set of Structures and Celestial bracket icons.

A few important things to note when you give feedback on these:

1. We've redesigned every bracket icon from the ground up to fit with a new set of cues for quickly identifying between categories of items. This includes some pretty classic icons that have been in the game for years such as stargates, warp gates, containers, and more. While we tried to maintain the likeness to some of these icons in spirit, others have been overhauled completely.

Now there will inevitably be some amount of re-learning, some re-configuring of the gray cells ;) to get accustomed to playing with all-new brackets. If all goes well the initial learning curve won't be that bad, and hopefully in the long run the new icons will work much better for quickly reading situations and making decisions. In the meantime I'd just like to ask when giving feedback on these to try and maintain a 'big picture' mentality of how the new icon set works as a whole, as opposed to individual icons from the old set that you just can't live without.


2. To try and head off some questions about the grouping cues ahead of time, here are the primary groupings we wanted to make super clear with these new icons were first: what the entity is: 1) a mobile ship, 2) an immobile structure or celestial body, and is it A) player-controlled or B) NPC-controlled.

The general strategy for how we're differentiating these subgroups is:
1) Ships have a triangular profile
2) Structures have a rectangular
3) Celestials have a circular profile
4) Player controlled/created entities do not have an interior fill (wireframes)
5) NPC entities have an interior fill

Again, look forward to seeing these on Sisi with the next update and let me know what you think here.

Thanks everyone

Known Bugs:

• Wrecks are using the old icon in the Overview
• Sansha fighter bombers are using the wrong icon
• Ice and Asteroids are using the wrong icons
• Circadian Seekers are still using the old red cross
• Deployables icon is incorrect
• Some POS Modules are using the wrong icons
• ISIS icons don't match the new ship brackets

Known/upcoming Aesthetic Fixes

• Revamped stargate icon, maybe that isn't so large
• Improving anti-aliasing issues on icons with non-90/45 lines
• Drone icons have less visual weight than ships (at a glance)
• More new icons for different deployables, POS modules, Sov structures

[Edit 5/5/2015] Sorry about the delay, some other features preventing the build from going live to Singularity today. I edited the title to reflect the new icons will be out there as soon as it's ready.

You should have your name switched to CCP Cliffhanger.

Edit: Or CCP Tease

And you can be CCP Striptease.

But yes, ICON HYPE

Oh god these are going to take me a while to get used too

There is a chance due to unforeseen circumstances that these will not make it to Singularity today.

Please be patient and we will get them out as soon as we can.

CCP Striptease is teasing us even more.

*Does double take* *Realizes there are two bald guys posting here and not one* *Should really start looking at names rather than avatars*

Also icons on map should change to reflect the overview.

i have to agree with this point. i fought a frig which launched drones. and the drones looked by far more important than the little triangle of the frig.