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CCP RISE Tweet on new missile icons. Seriously? Guys check this out!
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Solairen
Matsuko Holding
#61 - 2015-06-25 00:32:22 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:
Now, the "any change is a good change" types are probably going to float all up in here and proclaim that if you don't like them, you are just against change. Now that everyone is warned:

Those things look stupid as hell, the current icons work fine and look like missile launchers, those things look like "sails". WTF is wrong at CCP these days?


Those things are ugly as hell, looks like a 1st Gen flat Panel Sat dish.
Solairen
Matsuko Holding
#62 - 2015-06-25 00:34:45 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Bigger view of some of the icons. The squares actually look like radar dishes, but you lose the details with the smaller icons (and because of the mini-circle overlays.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_CLlTV8bSxNSjJJaUxuSkJDMlE/view



Meh, I think they still look like flat panel receivers. I.e. Poop
Don Pera Saissore
#63 - 2015-06-25 01:21:13 UTC
Its bad, sadly this is not the first bad thing the so called design team threw out.
Primary This Rifter
Mutual Fund of the Something
#64 - 2015-06-25 02:29:15 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:
Now, the "any change is a good change" types are probably going to float all up in here and proclaim that if you don't like them, you are just against change. Now that everyone is warned:

Those things look stupid as hell, the current icons work fine and look like missile launchers, those things look like "sails". WTF is wrong at CCP these days?

It looks like a directional radar antenna. Seems rather fitting.
Unezka Turigahl
Det Som Engang Var
#65 - 2015-06-25 02:38:39 UTC
"Yo, we heard you wanted more spatulas (missile mods) on your spatula (Barghest)" - CCP
Samuel Wess
Doomheim
#66 - 2015-06-25 02:54:17 UTC
Maybe old overview icon set and modules classic set will be available to buy
in AUR store, than it makes sense.

Walk into the club like "What up? I got a big cockpit!"
Empyriah Lunawrath
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#67 - 2015-06-25 03:13:43 UTC
Rawketsled
Generic Corp Name
#68 - 2015-06-25 04:33:05 UTC
New icons add uneeded complexity.

It's just an extra thing for new players to wrote-learn. CCP has talked about wanting to remove stuff like that, so I don't know why they're going to add these.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#69 - 2015-06-25 05:07:44 UTC
Rawketsled wrote:
New icons add uneeded complexity.

It's just an extra thing for new players to wrote-learn. CCP has talked about wanting to remove stuff like that, so I don't know why they're going to add these.


New players wont know what the old ones looked like.

Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#70 - 2015-06-25 05:21:56 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Actual pic: https://twitter.com/CCP_Rise/status/613343491859587072/photo/1




Interesting...does that mean we can now tracking disrupt missiles?

That said:
New Icons...wohoo..."content"

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Barrogh Habalu
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#71 - 2015-06-25 06:51:45 UTC
Maldiro Selkurk
Radiation Sickness
#72 - 2015-06-25 08:53:54 UTC
Any possibility we could consider these icons the path you took before you completely switched gears and you came up with the cool ones we all fell in love with?

Yawn,  I'm right as usual. The predictability kinda gets boring really.
Barsetka Mef
Northen Tactical Academy
#73 - 2015-06-25 09:15:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Barsetka Mef
My new BCS version http://i.imgur.com/6Q6dCM3.jpg Lol
Why new icons look like antenna (actually like fly's face). How antenna could affect on missile damage or rate of fire of launchers?

Other weapon upgrades icons look like "here is the gun, and here is improvement for it in left-bottom corner (accuracy or firepower)"
Seven Koskanaiken
Shadow Legions.
SONS of BANE
#74 - 2015-06-25 09:42:57 UTC
Barrogh Habalu
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#75 - 2015-06-25 10:38:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Barrogh Habalu
Seven Koskanaiken wrote:
Gonna be hard trying to find a real life warp scrambler.

People still prefer fantasy analogues to real life things to look at least vaguely like those real life things. Kinda makes them more familiar, and when it comes to icons, that's important that you should be able to tell immediately wtf it is.

That said, old icons did the job well - for BCUs at least. I'm all for different mods being a bit more distinguishable though.

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Lady Mister
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#76 - 2015-06-25 11:04:16 UTC
Seems we need to get back to longer Patch cycles which implement more new stuff instead of 'fix all those small things' so the Art Department gets something to do instead of 'fix all those small things People like about the look of eve that does not look like Random MMO 52031'
Chan'aar
State War Academy
Caldari State
#77 - 2015-06-25 14:04:48 UTC
Darth Terona wrote:
But changing icon graphics is safe and easy and so ccp can say "look at what we did" and hide behind it instead of doing something meaningful.

Also been trying to like the new map. It's pretty but missing features of the old map.
Been trying to get used to new brackets, again pretty but suck.


This really.

CCP have got to the end of the list of easy things to fix and rather than fix the hard things they search madly around for something else to fix.

Module Icons are not important fixes
Overview Icons / brackets are not important fixes

Was there anyone in the community that was asking for these?

Where is the corporation management re-write?
Where is the POS Roles / replacement for POS re-write / replacement.
Lan Wang
Princess Aiko Hold My Hand
Safety. Net
#78 - 2015-06-25 14:10:24 UTC
do people really think the art department deals with everything in the game, do you think the art department deals with game balance and fixing coding issues? i highly doubt it, so while the art department make visual changes to things another department will be working on something else, so just because art department redesigns a few icons does not mean ccp are ignoring every other issue within the game.

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Nevil Oscillator
#79 - 2015-06-25 14:53:38 UTC
Lan Wang wrote:
do people really think the art department deals with everything in the game, do you think the art department deals with game balance and fixing coding issues? i highly doubt it, so while the art department make visual changes to things another department will be working on something else, so just because art department redesigns a few icons does not mean ccp are ignoring every other issue within the game.


I don't know, it might be organised like that, I will wait until something in game changes that I don't like before complaining about it.
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#80 - 2015-06-25 14:57:01 UTC
Barsetka Mef wrote:
My new BCS version http://i.imgur.com/6Q6dCM3.jpg Lol
Why new icons look like antenna (actually like fly's face). How antenna could affect on missile damage or rate of fire of launchers?

Other weapon upgrades icons look like "here is the gun, and here is improvement for it in left-bottom corner (accuracy or firepower)"


Well it could increase damage with a new antena system being better at guidance thus reducing the space needed on th emissile itself thus allowing heavyer warhead.

You could increase the rate of fire if the added antenna enable you to track targets with more missile at the same time.

As for a counter argument for the sake of it, I'd like to know how a gyro stabilizer affect your damage on a gun and not just accuracy and potentially RoF by keeping the gun on target after each shots...

Antenna makes sense unless you think the missiles in EVE are fly-by-wire or dumbfire rockets...