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Hey o/

I'd like to talk a little bit more about the improved kill feedback.

So now that you guys removed the "GONG" sound (which is a good thing, the sound itself was way too long, a couple seconds, too loud and didn't fit at all the eve atmosphere, but we're left without a replacement now) I still want to talk about the new ship kill animation (I don't know if this has been mentioned a lot, I didn't read the whole feedback thread).

Much like the "GONG" sound, I found that the animation itself takes way too long: it's something around 2 to 3 seconds of blinking and shrinking and then finally disappearing.
My issue with that, and it applies especially with PvE but can apply anywhere really, is that the target list only updates and move entries around with the same delay.
If I want to click the next target I'm going to shoot at (and that I have already locked), I often find myself either having to wait until the end of the animation to click it, or try to click it really fast before the animation ends, otherwise I'm at risk of clicking the wrong one when the killed ship finally disappear and the next locked targets are shuffled around.
It's not a huge deal by itself, it's just really annoying and would be a nice quality of life change to be able to reduce the time it takes to animate and update the target list.

I'd be happy with an animation taking 0.3 to 1 second maximum, it's more than enough if you're actually looking at your screen.

If you could do something about that, that would be great, thanks!

This. I have to mute the whole client just to be able to tolerate being in my station. Please, make it stop.

buttons left of the UI disappear for no reason, restarting the client didnt help ether

CCP Is it so hard to make the toggle to turn off the ******* X animation????

Great, now the target lock item animation when they get destroyed is unnoticeable faster, but you still have not removed the main issue that makes it slower than the old animation: the blip (the tiny dot that one of your hipster devs probably got from an old tube TV set) at the end of the animation that lingers there for at least half a second. This blip is completely, utterly unnecessary and serves virtually no positive function except for clutter up the target lock area for at least half a second longer. That blip MUST go away!

Furthermore, the target destroy animation has 1 flash too many. It should lose one blink sot hat it gets shorter overall in addition to the removed blip.

Today's patch did reduce the length of the animation by about 25%, but we hear your feedback that it's not far enough and we'll discuss.

Surpassingly so. Read a blog saying the same thing. Poor chap completely went over his allocated bandwidth without realizing it in time.

the same questions about flashing traffic light animation
after big X target should disappear as soon as possible without any fireworks, flashing lights and other eyecandy effects

Hopefully this isn't like the 345 times they said that before and never got back to us. This time it's going to be different right?

I collected your comments on the kill feedback animation and brought them back to the Eve Art and Graphics team, Team TriLambda, where this feature originated.

We have a version of the kill feedback animation that is visually simplified (in particular, it no longer flashes white and does not include the trailing "CRT scan" effect at the end) and shortened to be about as brief as the old kill feedback that it replaced, which was 1.2 seconds in length. We will do our best to get this version to you in our next minor patch.

We're actively discussing internally why we failed to identify the adverse gameplay impacts of this feature before it went live, and what we could and should have done better.

Thank you for the detailed feedback you've offered so far, and please feel free to offer more on the new version when it's released.