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The New Icons Are Terrible, I Miss The Old Ones

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Cyborg Girl86
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2015-06-08 14:30:18 UTC
Hey everyone,

Just my 2 cents here, take it for what it's worth...

The new icons for the ships in game are godawful. I remember before the changes being able to quickly look at my overview or simply spin the camera around and instantly know what kind of ship classes/interactive objects/misc were surrounding me at any given time.

The old icons used for the ship classes both in-game and in ISIS made sense, looked good and provided quick info and situational awareness when flying around in space swiveling your camera or glancing at your overview. But now they've been replaced by gross looking triangles, triangles with lines underneath them, super tiny triangles (for pods? Really!? seriously wtf man!) and chevrons of all things.

I know it might seem like I'm bitching about something insubstantial, but it has really made the whole "being aware of your surroundings" thing a complete mess. A perfect example is when you go to a busy system with lots of traffic; the new icons for the different ships classes seem to either blur into each other or create a jumbled mess of lines that makes it hard to differentiate between what's out there.

Hell, even the new cargo container icons make it hard to know whether they've been emptied/looted or not.

I seriously feel this change was completely unnecessary. Anyone else have thoughts on this? Please keep it constructive.
Hallvardr
#2 - 2015-06-08 14:41:28 UTC
"I know it might seem like I'm bitching about something insubstantial, but it has really made the whole "being aware of your surroundings" thing a complete mess"

No, not really since there are many other posts with many hundreds of users voicing their similar feelings .. doubt anything positive will be done about it.
The Slayer
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#3 - 2015-06-08 14:48:10 UTC
Oh hey look its this thread again. If only there were a thread where you could post feedback about these changes.
lord xavier
Rubbed Out
#4 - 2015-06-08 14:48:57 UTC
My big issue with them is how similiar the majority look to one another. How NPC (Site) and Player (cyno) beacons are the same, still. Destroyers look like Old wrecks. Before players were able to tell a player from an NPC because we were fricken boxes. Now, its like "Is that an NPC.. a planet.. a site beacon.. a drifter.. or is that Jon Snow?"

It will take alot of getting use to since alot of people who PVP have been playing for a long time. For new players the transition wont be hard, but it will be for alot of us.
Cyborg Girl86
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2015-06-08 14:50:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Cyborg Girl86
The Slayer wrote:
Oh hey look its this thread again. If only there were a thread where you could post feedback about these changes.


Yeah I know this was probably already posted somewhere else, sorry for the redundancy P

If anything maybe the increasing volume of threads about this topic will give CCP a hint.

I appreciate your sarcasm. It actually made me laugh Smile
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2015-06-08 14:59:16 UTC
Cyborg Girl86 wrote:
The Slayer wrote:
Oh hey look its this thread again. If only there were a thread where you could post feedback about these changes.


Yeah I know this was probably already posted somewhere else, sorry for the redundancy P

If anything maybe the increasing volume of threads about this topic will give CCP a hint.

I appreciate your sarcasm. It actually made me laugh Smile


They won't "take the hint" because you happened to be a dumbass and could not find the feedback thread so decided to pull off a special snowflake move of creating your own thread.

Go post here
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#7 - 2015-06-08 15:04:03 UTC
In the absence of Unsuccessful at Everything I'm here to provide this Icon thread with our benefactors treatment

Unfortunately my scource material is somewhat lesser but still worthy of your time.
https://youtu.be/oTrv_vg9AFE

Mandatory comment content: there is a feedback thread atop the information subforum for this exact thing, think about posting this there.

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

=]|[=
Jenshae Chiroptera
#8 - 2015-06-08 15:05:56 UTC
You will get used to the new icons the same way I have not become used to the Neocom being so lifeless, do not worry. =P

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Otso Bakarti
Doomheim
#9 - 2015-06-08 15:07:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Otso Bakarti
Cyborg Girl86 wrote:
The Slayer wrote:
Oh hey look its this thread again. If only there were a thread where you could post feedback about these changes.


Yeah I know this was probably already posted somewhere else, sorry for the redundancy P

If anything maybe the increasing volume of threads about this topic will give CCP a hint.

I appreciate your sarcasm. It actually made me laugh Smile

Yeah, nothing like a complaint about something clogging up something else in a post that's clogging up...well. Cool

Oh, and:

I like the new icons. At last you can tell a destroyer from a frigate, and a cruiser from a battleship. It may even take more intelligence to use the symbology. I like this as well. The IQ rate of new players is rather low...let's have a big WOW! for THAT one, eh?

There just isn't anything that can be said!
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#10 - 2015-06-08 15:08:53 UTC
Cyborg Girl86 wrote:
Hey everyone,

Just my 2 cents here, take it for what it's worth...

The new icons for the ships in game are godawful. I remember before the changes being able to quickly look at my overview or simply spin the camera around and instantly know what kind of ship classes/interactive objects/misc were surrounding me at any given time.

The old icons used for the ship classes both in-game and in ISIS made sense, looked good and provided quick info and situational awareness when flying around in space swiveling your camera or glancing at your overview. But now they've been replaced by gross looking triangles, triangles with lines underneath them, super tiny triangles (for pods? Really!? seriously wtf man!) and chevrons of all things.

I know it might seem like I'm bitching about something insubstantial, but it has really made the whole "being aware of your surroundings" thing a complete mess. A perfect example is when you go to a busy system with lots of traffic; the new icons for the different ships classes seem to either blur into each other or create a jumbled mess of lines that makes it hard to differentiate between what's out there.

Hell, even the new cargo container icons make it hard to know whether they've been emptied/looted or not.

I seriously feel this change was completely unnecessary. Anyone else have thoughts on this? Please keep it constructive.


This will probably be locked and you directed to another thread. But yea, i still dislike the new icons with a passion. "you'll get used to them" they said, and I have. Still hate the damn things. The old ones were simple, the new ones almost overload you with information, and they don't 'mesh' well in a big fight.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#11 - 2015-06-08 16:18:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Unsuccessful At Everything
Another Icon thread? Well, seeing as Ralph already posted some Platypus content, I might as well post another. Please enjoy this fight between 2 cartoon Platypuses... Platypus...Platypii? Who cares... 2 of the Platypus species, of the cartoon variety, are battling it out.. for reasons.

I want a new class of Stealth Bomber, just so I can drop knowledge bombs like this:
Wikipedia wrote:
There is no universally agreed plural of "platypus" in the English language. Scientists generally use "platypuses" or simply "platypus". Colloquially, the term "platypi" is also used for the plural, although this is technically incorrect and a form of pseudo-Latin;[6] the correct Greek plural would be "platypodes".

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Dradis Aulmais
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2015-06-08 16:36:29 UTC
I want a giant lock image posted on this thread when its Closed,. but at last ISD cant do it CCP is hoarding the tech for it so

IBTL

Did you know

The female platypus lays a clutch of 1 to 3 leathery eggs. She does not have nipples, but instead secretes milk from two round patches of skin midway along her belly.

Can you imagine ? No nipples!

Dradis Aulmais, Federal Attorney Number 54896

Free The Scope Three
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#13 - 2015-06-08 16:38:25 UTC
Dradis Aulmais wrote:
I want a giant lock image posted on this thread when its Closed,. but at last ISD cant do it CCP is hoarding the tech for it so

IBTL

Did you know

The female platypus lays a clutch of 1 to 3 leathery eggs. She does not have nipples, but instead secretes milk from two round patches of skin midway along her belly.

Can you imagine ? No nipples!


Have you never experienced that glitch on the female avatars yet?

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Wedge Man
Doomheim
#14 - 2015-06-08 16:42:13 UTC
Agreed. Just awful. The worst is making ship icons look like wrecks.

Really?
Jenshae Chiroptera
#15 - 2015-06-08 16:43:03 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
... Have you never experienced that glitch on the female avatars yet?
My nipples are on my knees. It is why I wear long trousers.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#16 - 2015-06-08 16:55:47 UTC
Hahahaha, platypodes...That's fantastic.

That's what I shall be referring to these types of thread as from now on.

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

=]|[=
Wedge Man
Doomheim
#17 - 2015-06-08 16:57:27 UTC
If you click on an asteroid belt it makes a :o face
Dradis Aulmais
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2015-06-08 17:04:38 UTC
i never seen the glitch and i would be devisated if it happened. i love playing with my nipples.

Dradis Aulmais, Federal Attorney Number 54896

Free The Scope Three
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#19 - 2015-06-08 17:18:08 UTC
If there is one thing that I would like you all to take away from the Icon debacle, is that the Platypus is a very interesting creature, and any time you spend learning about it will not be wasted.




Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Otso Bakarti
Doomheim
#20 - 2015-06-08 17:25:57 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
If there is one thing that I would like you all to take away from the Icon debacle, is that the Platypus is a very interesting creature, and any time you spend learning about it will not be wasted.

For a post that shouldn't have been posted...you sure are having fun with it. No?

There just isn't anything that can be said!
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