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This thread is not about those icons, but if you can elaborate then I can pass it on?

Even better, please enter a defect through the F12 menu and we can take a look.

Bracket and Overview icon changes are up on SISI.

Reduced number of drone icons.
Blue and filled friendly NPC.
Thicker line strokes so 90% should be a little better.

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Except for sentry guns, right? If my eyes did'nt play tricks on me, the filled area of gate sentries are less oqaque when compared to ships.

No confusion on my side, I just wanted to verify that.

But they are only actively hostile if you have been a naughty boy, where the ones in missions and anomalies are just out to kill you.

We are going to leave these as blue just now, but we are thinking we should put the fill on them as well.

Ya know... (I'm sure you've heard this countless times) If you gave us the ability to change the outline and fill colors the same way we can configure our overview, the icon design nuances would be a lot less important because. On fast moving things, color is a much better way to convey information than fine-detail things like icons and text. Honestly, I don't even bother looking at the icon in space, unless max-zoomed out, because even very different icons are too hard to differentiate at high speeds.

Except for some exceptions, our eyes/brains are hard-wired to prioritize our attention in a very predictable manner. Everyone knows that red is at the top, of course. We all totally understand whyhostile NPCs need to be red by default for new players. The problem really becomes important when you start ratting in hostile space. Your eyes are programmed to first focus on that bright red NPC. Once I started doing PvP, I wished that I could change the icon colors. It has been a gripe of mine forever...

I'm thinking that 'blue hostiles' does sound needlessly confusing.

Why do we have 8 icons for asteroids when 1 was previously sufficient?

Part two of two

The rest of this report applies to all the screen tests I did.

The Sensor Overlay has three icons for Signatures, Landmarks and Anomalies, the Signature is very faint on the menu and almost impossible to see when in space, it is only the large circle surrounding it that gives it away.

The Anomaly and Landmark icons in the Sensor Overlay menu are almost the same colour to me and only have a brightness difference when alongside each other.
The in space representation of the icons are different because the Anomaly icon is very dim against the bright icon of the Landmark.

So what would help me, I’m not saying this will help others you will have to wait for their input to evaluate that.

I noticed while testing that frigate icons sometimes have 4 small ‘pointers’ at each corner of the icons, these are very faint, if these could be made bright for none hostile and say changed to the same colour as the ‘pointers’ on the landmark icons for hostiles, now that would be excellent. If they could be added to every hostile ship icon (just for colour blind people) that would help a lot.

The biggest thing I did notice while testing was ‘in space clutter’, most of this was caused by myself not having my overview set up correctly (as kindly and politely pointed out in another thread).

It’s not always the overview that is the problem but the Brackets that cause the problem.

To see everything in space we need ‘All Brackets On’ but this gives rise to clutter.

When we select a selection of ships, objects, whatever on the overview and then save that as a ‘Preset’ then only those icons will show in space, OK so far?

However what we don’t have at the moment is an easy way to save a ‘Brackets Preset’ so we can load an overview Preset setting of say ‘Combat’ and a Brackets setting of only XX ships, to highlight only those ships you need to concentrate on at the time.

I know it can be done but it’s a long winded way of doing it and there are so many new icons that selecting the ones you need can be confusing to say the least.
There are often times when you need something to appear on the overview but not ‘in space’ to reduce the clutter.

I don’t know if it would be possible or feasible to add an icon next to each ship (all items?) in the overview selection menu with a tick box to select it, then a ‘Save Brackets Preset’ with a name box etc would be ideal.

That way we would have an easy way of matching an item with an icon if you see what I mean. And it might/would help the learning process.

That’s it, nothing else to say except good luck everyone, no you can’t have my stuff, and I will keep an eye on the forums to see if I might return in the future, Regards BH.