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This is very, very simple: Fill the NPC icons with the same color as the outline. Solid white/grey for nonhostile, and solid red for hostile. Done.

As far as overview stuff goes... would love it if you guys could get sort-by-icon to work properly. It has never worked before, but with the icons for cruiser/battlecruiser and frigate/destroyer being distinct from one another it's even more obvious that it is broken.

Edit - first! \o\

Maybe make the NPC's a solid filled icon instead of kinda filled as they currently are to give more distinction between players and NPC's?

EDIT: and a bigger clearer cheat sheet we can print or have as a pdf while we relearn all of them, even at expanded size the screen shot in the blog is still hard to actually see the icons.

The VAST VAST majority of your player base is sayimg NO we dont want these icons. Give us optiom to use old til you fix it!

Just like the map team! They are smart.
Just like the corp title switch people. They are smart.


These artists? LoL


Give us an option to revert and not use your terrible new icons.


From SiSi you had thousands of replies with negative feedback.
From Carnage release thread you have thousands more negative icon-hating feedbacks.
Im sure this will be the same.


Dude just give up and give in?




WHY CANT WE HAVE OPTION TO REVERT TEMPORARILY?? JUST TIL YOU FIX THIS STUFF?
WHY NOT?
WHY?

It first sorts based on the icon's "flag" and backgrounds , so it will sort the list so your -10 contacts are grouped together and the -5 together, etc. And within those groups it will sort based on ship groups and categories.

Love the new icons. Please don't listen too all these fossils complaining and keep them!

You still haven’t answered the question for me, how are you working to update the icons for colour blind users?

What does it matter what colour my ‘in space’ (not overview) icons are coloured, only I can see them, it matters not if I have bright orange as ‘hostile’, blue as ‘friend’ and white as ‘I don’t care what you are’. Only I (that’s me) can see them, it interferes with no one else, but I can’t.

But these small (as in tiny even at 1080p) icons are so damn small that even in the overview I have difficulty working out what they are and in space well it’s a no no from the start.

Sadly colour blindness is not classed as a disability in the UK (I believe some countries do class it so) so I can’t wave a sheaf of paper under your noses to get something done.

That’s it, I shall say no more on the subject.

As i know this is sarcasm, i will point out that PCU count =! subscription numbers. And as ccp has that information and should, in theory, be working accordingly to keep that information going up, or stable, i'll place you in the 'i have no idea what i am talking about' category, because unless you work for ccp, you *gasp* have no idea what you are talking about

a small example why you have no idea what you are talking about. I have 4 accounts, all paid for a year. i use 2 every day, and the other 2 only when needed. they have over a year of skills training, so i have no need to log in. I am sure others are in the same boat, or even on a break while there char still trains. This would in no way effect sub numbers but would effect player counts. A better gage of how healthy eve is will be towards the end of the year, after the sov changes are in and moving (maybe phase 3 will be done too) and hopefully phase 1 of new structures will be in. Then you will see if some of the old stuff being fixed and changed will bring people back. For all i know, there are several thousand accounts waiting for fozzy sov to hit before coming back. but meh we will see. Anyway, you still have no evidence to support your sarcastic claim.

Just add the ability for us to use custom icon packs.

This is the sort of thing that falls under "completely not obvious or in any way visible to the player by any sensible means" - I doubt many (if any) players could have said that is how it worked before you posted that just now. That said, if that's how it works, it seems to me that while it might work intentionally in one manner to you guys, it's certainly not working in the manner the players intend or expect it to when we click on the header to sort by icon.

Which is why I'm mostly agreed w/ Casey here - we're looking at two different user requirements here, and so a toggle to turn the standings sort on/off within sort-by-icon would be nice. That said, I'd even go so far as to suggest properly splitting the two requirements from each other and add a standings column that could be used to sort in exactly the manner you describe. Don't need it to show anything, just the colortag for the entity.

Like I predicted in the other thread, this blog post turns out to blame players for everything. Look at how insulting this section is on its own:



This is what they think of the player-base apparently; easily-confused, bumbling around accidentally shooting the wrong thing.
You may have us confused for.. almost any other MMO's player-base, but not EVE's?

There's nothing to "adapt" to, CCP; many of us were already extremely familiar with the new icons before they were released on TQ, and are still unhappy with them. Terrible blog post.

Also re: blog post grammar, that is not what 'imminent' means.


Edit: Can we at least have the 'sort by icon' behavior on the overview sort things by size or some other logical order, not lexically based on the type of the entity?