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There is one problem with the current icons, the fact that they're right in the middle of the ship which means there is always something obscured. Sometimes it's not too much of a problem, but when you're trying to see which way a ship is travelling at a glance it is rather difficult when all I can see is an icon. I suggest you keep the faint 4 corners around the object / ship but offset the icon to the lower right so it doesn't obscure the actual object. Kind of a halfway point between the new icons and the old brackets. Another nice feature would to have the 4 corners expand as the ship gets closer, so nothing is ever obscured and you have a sense of distance without having to look at the overview.

Regarding the actual icons themselves rather than their placement, what happened to these?
http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/66945/1/ORVAR_1.png
They look a lot more polished and representative than the current icons which seem too simple and a little mismatched.

I read this as sarcasm, but for the literal minded: Support will refer tickets back to the forums, and close them. A waste of everyone's time.


CCP Surge: 90% scaling is invaluable for maximizing vertical text info, especially the number of items in the overview list without scrolling. Although, as screen resolutions push higher toward "Quad HD," it will be used less. You must have data on player's settings. I hope you will / can pre-render a set at 90%.

I agree that supporting two systems will be a pain. FC's will have to know both icon sets, because pilots in their fleets could be using both.

Giving Color options for icons would be great.
Giving back control of UI color schemes, would also be great.

Not taking over the camera, to ram my eyes through each gate jump would also be great, but now I'm going firmly off topic. Its cool to look at the first few times, but that "wow factor" I remember from the Fanfest video presentation, wore off after the first week it was introduced. If I don't need to see space, I take all long trips on the map screen. I think the gate jump animation should be more like the in-system warp tunnel effect, that doesn't take over your camera viewpoint.

For players complaining about drone icons: its very helpful to create overview tabs / bracket profiles, so you only see them when you need to see them. In large fleet fights, drones are usually taken off overview and in-space brackets, to preserve client FPS, and cut down on screen clutter.

Repair tool doesnt work at all. It crashes my launcher. I tried downloading the new launcher and it wont download even 1 Mb.

Thought it was just my computer doing this.... been having problem for a week now

So CCP, like most artists, have created something that they love, but that no one can use or understand.

I think all NPCs should have some color, other than white. Red is already used for hostiles. Maybe yellow for NPCs that are not hostile, but you should not attack, like CONCORD, or customs officers? Green for ones that are friendly?

Yay for Serp skins!!! Black is back. Thanks for listening CCP.

Lots of whining going on about the new icons. Not surprised.

The old icon system had been in place for a decade. If CCP expected anything BUT vast quantities of tears following the change they're either stupid or naive, and they're neither stupid nor naive.

Calm down and take a breather. You will get used to the new icons with time.

To cram everything I need on the screen.

The EVE UI has always been huge. You need space for the overview with all the required columns for PvP, you need to find a place for the fleet window, drones window, locked targets, HUD, chat windows, local, notification widget, cargo (for boosters etc) and after all that you still want to be able to see a decent amount of the space scene.

Now I use a 6 screen setup, so I do have the option of spanning EVE across multiple screens, but that means sacrificing the option to run as many visible clients... and I don't think it should be necessary to have two screens per client just to get a good EVE UI.

The only good option I have found is to play in 90% UI scaling. I activated that feature when it was first introduced, cried hallelujah, then didn't look back...

...until someone decided to make the overview terrible at 90% UI scaling because of reasons.

Very simple:
I scout and look at a fleet gate camping with drones out.
All i sees is a huge ball of very similar icons because drones are especially at high resolutions or on laptops very hard do differentiate from ships.

What would help from my point of view is when drones look very different from ships. The other icons are ok for me.