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How about those as ship icons?


http://i.imgur.com/Y3CYv9t.png?1

Simple, easy to distinguish with a glimpse of an eye, and already a part of the game . Add some color, maybe a frame for player ships and they could work quite well

I would absolutely love the ISIS brackets to be used in the meantime.

The new icon concept for the overview is excellent - http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/66945/1/UIModernization_Blog_Screenshot.jpg

My wish, however, is to have colour added back to Neocom icons, as it is impossible to differentiate between the icons no matter how long one has used them.

Here is the old Neocom icons as an example - http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/63565/1/Inventory_Neocom.png Clear icons, high contract, even colour-coding is present: People always knew that a green-ish would be either their Fitting Screen or their Wallet.

I've no idea why it was changed, rather than refined, in the first place. Horrible.

I vote for squares with increased thickness by ship class. Experienced players can sort by ship name and eyeball the remainder of the ship composition of a gang based on a glance, so the icons aren't super important. But for newer players I think a simpler size association system would be better.

The size of the icons doesn't bother me like it might other players, but my vision is practically bionic, like 20/13 - 20/15 on a bad day... so in this case I'd take players' word for the complicated shape and small size of the icons needing to change. You just don't see icons that small in other games except on (maybe) a minimap.

Hi,

I would like to link a post I made on a possible improvement/solution to a new overview icon strategy.

Carnyx Overview Icons - Round 2


Just so you know, I like the new icons. It's a step on the right direction. But they are still a little hard to read at high resolution and 90% UI scaling. I'm just seeing if it could be improved even more.

If all else fails, let us scale the overview's row height which in turn would scale the font sizes and icon sizes.

Cheers,
Wilj0

I think changes like icons should be released in a trickle. One ship, one structure, one deployable at a time. That way players have time to get used to them one by one. One cap, one subcap... etc. As many as possible at once but with just enough grouping to start making associations slowly and not get lost in the sauce.

At each release, maybe. A week between changes, at least. Maybe completely disconnect things like icons from major updates.

The shapes themselves are appealing, and symmetrical, etc. They look good together on a chart. The problem is they were a complete reset of my awareness.

Trickling icon changes would help avoid what happened last night... I was forced to play using overview. I knew everyone's distances but I couldn't tell hostile icons from structures, etc. Nearly complete wipe of awareness.

Station services and their large circles are way too big. The rings dominate all other icons around them.

Exhibit A Look at how big the station services rings are. They're important, but can you make them more compact please.

The colorization turns into a blob. Can you reduce the coloring too, perhaps make the icons colorized themselves, and remove the colored haze

At any zoomed-out view distance, the relative size of status indicators are huge. Is it possible to make icons scale with zoom, to become smaller, or reduce in number... so that at 250km zoom, a group of cruisers becomes just one cruiser icon. ...and when you zoom back in, it becomes a more granular bunch of icons.

http://i.imgur.com/biAt6LC.png It's hard to see what else is near those icons, including the station model. And icon.

I love the new icons!

Besides that, I encountered a bug today, when launching 2 drones - one of them was lacking the color it should have (green) and by that it's ownership was not 100% clear. Just imagine what could happen if capitals suddenly have no color and are floating in space next to a titan from a coalition that is known to blow up blues if there is any chance to explain it.

Once I joined a fleet both drones switched to the standard purple, so it was nothing permanent, here a screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/3zfQNnE.jpg

Is this thread still being monitored? I'll chance it:

CCP: PLEASE, the old icons worked JUST FINE for more than a decade and they were simple enough that they made the tactical and overview work well. Now you have NEEDLESSLY complicated them to the point that they are not even usable. Honestly, NO ONE needs to see the variation in drones, and if they do, they can check overview and pop that ECM drone or whatever. You have 'fixed' what was not broken!

At the very least, please give us the option to opt-out of these changes. Let us have our old icon set back and give the new icons to those who want them (which I believe are very few).

So there I was again ... trying to find Elmo.... squinting at my overview yesterday trying to tell whether there was a triangle or a house among all the traingles-with-dots and squares ... when a solution occurred to me.

Why not have two thin overview columns where we now have one? One column for gates and pocos and asteroid belts and stuff that can't kill you. And the other for things that can shoot back.

That way I can stop puzzling over whether there's an enemy on grid. (Btw. I have a nice expensive 27 inch monitor so that's not the issue. The issue is that the time it takes for the human visual system to process a collection of similar objects is a linear function of the number of items to be scanned. The current icon set has no pop-out effects built in except for the red NPC ships. And those, I don't really care about.)

Oh, and of course the other option is to add a colour to the player character ship icons. But that's too obvious.