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So after further testing, as well as looking at the tables you provided, I finally uncovered what was bugging me.
It's inconsistency in the icon progression (ships and their 'relation' to each other) plus disconnection of similar behaving entities through vastly different icons
icons, such as Stargates and Wormholes for example.

To illustrate what I mean, let's have a look at the combat ships. Combat-oriented ships have pointy icons that get bigger, as the combat ships get bigger. So far, so good.
I like the line below the frigate and cruiser icon to symbolise destroyers and battlecruisers, respectively. But than, Battleships happen, introducing the chevron shape - totally different from its smaller brethren - just for dreads to be represented by a icon looking almost like the cruiser icon.
Squares for the carriers are fine, repetition of the underlined symbol for the beefed-up version, so called super carrier is good. that's how you repeat a theme.
But then again chevrons for the titan, now two of them. Why is a titan is closer to a battleship than a dread?It would make more sense to me if you switched the dread icon with that of the battleships.
As a follow-up, the newBS/oldDread icon would need further distinction from the cruiser icon. Maybe take the cruiser icon and slap the frigate icon turned upside-down under it, with a short line in between.
industrial section is fine. Maybe the barge/industrial icon could be a little bit longer in the vertical direction, or the mining frigate icon could convey more speed.


Fighter/Fighterbomber/Logistic and to some extend the attack drones are way to similar. I like the attack/ECM/Sentry differentiation in general, so maybe consider the following things:

- only one icon for salvage/mining drones, no big differency here, doing almost the same thing. Not important to discern them on a glance. overview is sufficient.
- logistic drones: center circle, like the ECM/sentry drones, but put two or three brackets on only one side of the circle, with brackets getting bigger the further they're away from the center circle - like so but pretty -> o)))
- attack drones: give them the TIE fighter shape, would be more in line with sentry and ECM but different as well. |o|
- give the shuttle a destroyer/BC treatment - capsule with some line underneath. looks more like a rookie now, but essentially shuttles are secondary plating on a capsule ^^
- possible design elements for identifying drones: small circle in the middle of the icon, geometric lines around them to emulate form (sentries) or function (my proposed logistic drones - resembles the RR rays coming of the drones)



All the other space entities:

- why are the asteroids so odly shaped? They look like a mix between a circle and a triangle. Please decide on one of the two and stick with it. I am voting for triangles in good roid-belt tradition.
- gas cloud looks weird as well. Have you tried going for the stylised cloud (like soundcloud with only three bulbs)? keep it's recognisable and simple.
- POS modules. Not using them much, how relevant will these be after the structure revamp? I'd say an icon for (each) for tower, offensive, defensive, industry and misc. ?
- And finally stargates/ wormholes. The first one still looks odd in its filled state. Right now Gate and Hole share some similarities. On the proposal list they look totally different.
Why not keep them as they are on TQ right now? Fit's even in the new set. Another possibilty I can imagine is keeping your new Wormhole icon and make the Stargate look related. Like a Wormhole with some stuff around (e.g. a torus)
showing that it is artificial? The two are basically doing the same. The icons should reflect that.

Please fill player ship icons interior.I'm using no standing background color.I cannot understand any ship hollow icons.If this new icons will apply, you must replace with new icons in ISIS.

Please, please, PLEASE have an option to turn this OFF. I understand that you are working hard to make things better for the majority of players, and its appreciated, but I literally cannot play the game with the confusion this causes.

I seriously cannot even play the game with more than a few ships on grid. PLEASE have an option to disable this.
The old ones were extremely clear, if not artistic. but they worked!!!

Do not like this change.

Do not want.

I feel like having unique icons for all different drone types puts this over the critical mass for info on screen. Lots of fights are heavy on drones and having to pick them all out just becomes too much. Having the option for users to toggle the detailed icons for Drones / Ships / Deployables in groups would be a good idea.

One thing that just struck me is how these new icons would look in Alliance Tournament

Imagine the commentators trying to find a good view angle/zoom with these

Seriously though would be interesting if some mockup battle on that scale could be
used for reference in CCP, you have a few old commentators on board allow them
to utilize your new icons and see how they find the readability in such a situation.

I liked previous icons : http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/66945/1/Concept_NewOverviewIcons_PlayerShips_V2.png (Filled interior icons include player ships) - http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/66945/1/Concept_NewOverviewIcons_NPCShips_V2.png (NPC Ships). Please bring back to SISI again.

I found this iteration an improvement in general, however I still have some reservations:

- I still find it a problem telling the NPC icons apart from the non-NPC. This is information I need with just a glance at the overview, and I'm not getting it.
- Icons that are filled and not filled with shading - problem is with the opaqueness of the fill. The background colors are changing constantly while I pan the camera around - now your looking into deep space, now at a nebula, now directly at the sun. This changes the effect of the fill shading so you never become a costumed to viewing it. You end up double checking to see is that filled, or not fill, or just the background.
- I still try to warp to a mobile depot when I want to go back to the station. Could a size difference be used to differentiate? Even just a slight difference to better distinguish between the new 3 sizes of "deployables." See the above comment as regards the fill shading.

Very nice.

CCP, make it so.