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Question:

Would you like it if you could scale the overview separately from the rest of the UI ?

Yesterday i let a destroyer run away from a large compound because i was thinking that is a wreck !
WTF you did with those icons? disgusting icons.
The icons can be nice for people that usually stay in station, docked, trading, manufacturing, but PVP or PVE players will never get used to this Shi.. of icon .
Yesterday all mi corp mates decided to end the roam, because of that icons, it wasnt playable at all, it was a mess, big big mess.
I still dont understand why change something that was working good? you sad in one post "because they were never changed",
what a stupid conclusion. I think is time to employ a shrink at CCP, obviously some of your employers need it.

Yes.

I'd also like to be able to colour code it and colour code the dscanner read out :)
It would also help immensely if the chat windows could be border-less (so that only the actual text in would take up space) and some other other solution to displaying who's in them could be found.

something to consider ...

the reaction time of the human eye is limited. the old icons were easy on the eyes as far as reaction time is concerned. when you introduce multiple shapes into a visual environment where reaction time is critical, you reduce the speed at which the human brain reacts, thusly reducing the speed in which it takes the human brain to send a command to the hand to "click".

the old icons allowed a simple and basic instruction set for the eyes to react upon. uniformity provided ease in that reaction time. the player knows exactly what theyre going to do based on uniformity of a set of given shapes.

the new icons reduce eye to brain to hand reaction time due to the increased number of shapes introduced into the visual environment. this causes delays, pause for the brain to think, confusion in the brain causes the hand to delay waiting for a commmand from the brain, which is awaiting the reaction from the eye.

multiple shapes in the visual environment where speed is a crucial factor can, and does, cause eye strain, delayed reaction, reduced thought processing, stress, fatigue ... and all of this can create anger since the mind desires speed and is not obtaining that speed.

introducing multiple non-colored shapes into the visual environment where speed is a crucial factor DOES reduce reaction time since the human brain sometimes doesnt retain in memory too many shapes being delivered through the eyes at one single moment.

proven, large scale pvp is a pain in the arse - too many shapes being introduced in the overview causing confusion and delays in reaction time. the simplicity was removed, complexity was added, thusly the end result is going to be frustration and anger, not pleasure and acceptance.

multiple shapes in a visual environment where reaction time is not a factor is easily processed in the brain ... but again, when reaction timing is critical, those same shapes will cause a slowdown in reaction time.

this entire thread is about frustration, dislike, hatred, and confusion as to why this is being added and that it should be removed.

yay groovy someone got paid to create a bunch of things they thought was going to be cool ... what has happened is something entirely different due to ignorance and a lack of consideration.

what is going to happen here, is people WILL quit this game due to the fact that the human body can only process so much and to introduce factors that exceed that processing ability, you create a negative reaction in the mind. create a negative reaction in peoples minds and people walk away. they might not really want to, but they will.

Exactly, specific and to the point!

icons are bad very very bad i cant recognize ships and structures

Paging CCP Claymore....

Hate new icons. Centry guns look awful with too big icons. Battleship icon too small and looking like a cruiser or BC. Attack drones icon also too big, and look like frigs.

All that and pretty much any other configuration options for the UI would be great. It would also be good if we can save, swap and share those configurations.

Give us the tools to improve our UI experience and optimise for our own playstyle and we will love you for it. Take away such tools after we have been happily using them for years (as was done in all of the recent UI botch jobs) and we will hate you for it.

Also, a more consistent approach to dealing with colour blindness would be great. I certainly support having a default UI setup and a suite of configuration options that is sympathetic to all such disabilities. But it is troubling to be first told that we cannot have colours where we would like them (and have had them for years) because of a disability that we do not personally suffer from and then a few months down the line see another botched UI overhaul which relies on the exact same colour differentiators we were told we could not have before. Configurability seems like the obvious answer to such issues, but configurability doesn't seem to be in vogue at CCP anymore.