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Final Continuation of shared opinion a bit more reactive:




Initially I undocked from jita while reading all the shocker replies in here hoping to get a view of the majority and than see for myself.

I noticed that yes this would take some time for the brain to get used to and get to the point of quick glance response times when leading a fleet but as i've previously quoted this isn't the case. Almost 10 years in the game and with this change it seems like most of what I'm looking at is different sized incomplete shapes that override the use and hard work of the ship skins and overview tab selections.

Having a UI icon change that basically copies the old school space invaders game isn't what you want. Atleast the old icon setup was original and wasn't referenced and now seen as another game other than just EVE.


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http://images.contentful.com/kvd74o0q2fjg/2uSgE3niC8SII8wmGUkSgM/8984203842d475c24c86e0cb2419698c/NewOverviewBrackets_Legend.png

Here is the complete new icon list.

Since this seems like the Icons thread...

Like:
Ship icons
POS batteries
Frozen Corpse

Meh (could live with):
POS modules
Celestials

Dislike:
Wrecks are horrid
Drones wtf?
Everything else.

If it is all-or-nothing, I choose the old icons.

-1 for too much change all at once.
Undocking = fatigue.

call to arms destroy jita for the return of classic icons
major uprising only seem to get attention and response in this game

logged in, undocked, still saw those ****** monopoly icons ins space, logged out

General feed back from rus com.

Original topic from http://forum.eve-ru.com/index.php?showtopic=113538&page=7#entry3072769

Phew, I spent half a day, but still wrote his thoughts.

Strange that I'm trying to explain to people the truths that are professional, kind of like, engaged in the development of computer games. Although it was not written for them, they are unlikely to read and take note ...

Let's start from the beginning - from the existence of the word "visualization". Izdrevna man tried to visualize the mess, which was packed with his head. He drew maps and wrote lists and sketching diagrams, sketches and drawings, charts and graphs. All this is just to visualize and depict what is available, what he logically arrived. And characteristically, he guessed not draw stopyatsot conventional icons, he expanded the significance of each icon and came to refer to it is not exactly a particular action, but only to point to belong to a certain group of sense. The man at the dawn of its existence gradually passed from hieroglyphics to alphabetic characters. And the alphabet, offers several great level of abstraction produces a much larger amount of information. However, the text is not a panacea. Probably because 90% of the information people receive through vision and images. And the vision is the fastest and most flexible provider of information about the world.

The same conclusion was reached by our contemporaries. All the breakthroughs in the field of the computer connected with the presentation of information in a user-friendly way - as schematically indicated some action. So there were the "roll", "expand" and "close" to the windows and Makos, icons for iphone and tablets, website and dashboards. And then there was the concept of "UI modernization" of the CCP. Frankly, I do not know who owns the idea of ​​"innovation", and do not want to know, but for the future of eve-online and CCP would be very desirable to throw them into the cold, and quickly, even if they work for polzarplaty. Man wants to see as much information conveniently and individually assembled and located in a certain place of the workspace. And do not want every time to start to establish your "desktop" from scratch, restoring communication and head anew peretryahivaya familiar piece. But this is what was done. You are forced to force users to give up the idea of ​​"generalized signs" in favor of some sort of idiotic concept that long ago buried all able to look at things sensibly. It runs counter to all the concepts of progressive user interface, pretending that everything is simple zashib - top short-sightedness. And this folly will destroy you in the end.

Strictly speaking, the short-sightedness at the CCP has deeper roots. It is expressed in the boundless greed and excessive pride. After all, most recently by the standards of the game world was Incarna. Everything has been forgotten? And it was the greed and arrogance, have given rise Incarna and the events that followed. "Greed - it's good?" No, stingy always pays twice. You once paid twice (or even three) for Incarna. Now ponabirali ad for "cheap game designers" and "specialists to work with the community"? But the employees' competence has never been and will not be cheap. And this is your "UI modernization" - a clear result of savings of qualified personnel.

But pride ... pride will not allow you to admit that you spend time on this crap you throw in the trash. Already we are thrown. It is a fait accompli. You'll cling to it (this crap) until recently. If you remember, just as was the case with "new icons tools developed by our leading designers" who were more like dried-up ****. And if not then-outcry Incarna, they would have "decorated" interface so far. Only a paroxysm of self-flagellation Hilmar totally insincere, by the way, was able to pull them down the toilet, and came back ... the old interface icons.
And this brings us to the climax of pride - to work with the community. I will not speak for the English-speaking, everything is a bit different, but work with community-ru - a poster "Do not do that ever!" Billboards, like pride destroys all the fruit on the vine, which can give the tree of mutual interest. But even Mohammed realized that the mountain will not come to him ever, and he'll have to shove the mountain. But who is Mohammed, if the old Russian tradition of "I - Head, you - fool". Here sits the proud chief of Communication on its offorume, talking to himself. There is no one else but him, a couple of newbies, but the losers who do not prizhidis on ivrukome because of their narrow-mindedness. But if he is really interested to see, hear and draw conclusions, he would not wait until the community itself will come to him. No, the community will not come to him, he does not need a community, the community looks at it as a ****. And he will not come here. Pride will not. And the opinion of the community about the "new interface" is not heard and the conclusions will not. And then ... and then everything will be even worse. And it gets worse, while again not break the abscess does not stand on its hind legs users not unsubscribe, and the corn zalagayut remaining, shooting monument.

Guys it was a joke with google trabslate. I could not imagine that somebody post this.
But if you undetstand this... Well... :)

Just ran a fleet with plenty of entosis action, would definitely welcome a way to see a numerical timer for each service circle. It was a bit difficult to match our final cycles with the proper times. Lots of geusswork used.

Yesterday I did again a little PVE and I am still the opinion that the idea of new icons is nice, but there is room for improvement.
The hierarchy shown in above picture is ihmo far better to understand intuitively than the actual.

While I personaly think there is no need to change the color of the icons, you maybe should consider to complete fill the inner of the icons for NPC.
NPC = solid red icons would be nice. That way they have the same size information as player icons and are easy to distinguish from them.

Another thing people already mentioned is "less is more". I think this hits especially for the structures.
Maybe you should consider only one Icon for structures and differentiate them with letters for their size (S-M-L-XL).
Sov-related structures should be excluded from that, i think they are fine now.
With so may different icons for the structrues ist like you implemented for every ship a own Icon. it's plain not necessary.
For the ships now we can see "Oh, look. it's a frig. Let's take a closer look which one it is". but like every structure got tis own icon?
And please think for the future, soo many sutructures you want to add to the game...

At least: please, please, pretty please don't confuse "get used to" with "like it". It's like you can get used to high gas prices, but you still don't like it...