EVE General Discussion

ive been away, and well i see the icons have changed dramatically and for the worse They look terrible and you cant make them out?
Why have they been done like this? I can tunderstand why ccp would release something like this

CCP doesn't understand it either. That's why they keep releasing shoddy stuff like this.


We are getting the old icons back, though. Or to be more exact: Torfi Frans said we would get them back.

They looked good and there was nothing wrong with them. This was of course totally unacceptable to CCP so they "fixed" them.

Also they wanted to attract new players in the 5 - 9 year old age group, thats why they were made cartoon-ish.

Unfortunately having cartoon-ish graphics clashes badly with the graphic style of Eve. One may even say they stick out like balls on a dog.

The turrets are a fascinating example of unwanted and strangely executed iteration. No one was compaining 'damn, those turrets look horrible, I'm canceling my subscription' but a lot of effort was put into making new turrets. While the turrets look nice there is no connection at all between the graphics and what they represent. It's like a bunch of graphics designers were asked to design a sci-fi looking weapon and the results were randomly linked to existing ship weapons.

Let's take a look at small hybrid weapons. Long range railguns used to have a long barrel like look while short range blasters were short guns with massive muzzles.

75mm gatling rail: First, no gatling to be seen. There are two large magnetic coils with no barrel mechanism anywhere in sight.
125mm railgun: two short barrels, both much smaller then the 75mm coils
150mm railgun: a long barreled gun which looks about three times larger in caliber then the 125mm one

Light Ion Blaster: looks like a classic blaster in a retractable mount
Light Electron Blaster: like the Ion blaster except massively bigger. Which is odd as it is uses much less grid and cpu.
Light Neutron Blaster: Smaller then the Electron blaster even though it's the heaviest gun of all. Also it's in a completely internal mounting which is weird for the largest of the light blasters.

This lack of connection between form and function is seen in everything bigger as well. The 250mm Railgun has the longest range but the shortest barrel. The 200mm Railgun has two barrels like the Dual 150mm while the Mega Beam Laser has three barrels. Almost all projectile weapons have dual turrets regardless of type, with the 650mm Dual Repeating Artillery having two gatling mounts while the 220m Vulcan has one huge barrel.

On some occasions the design is correct, credit must be given to the 425mm Dual Autocannon which actually shows two of the smaller weapons combined into one mount. But on the whole it's a mess, a clear sign of multiple teams designing on different paths with no clear plan what they should make.

Guess instead of playing games you should get your eye checked. Could be a serious case of eye sight loss.

Turrets can stay...somewhat.
But a dark or almost pure black turret icon in blackness of space is almost invisible. And that is pointless as it gets.

We have to strain our eyes to see if we even activated our turrets on a correct target, i did have some WTF moments asking myself who am i shooting at.

Some dev recently mentioned that they thought they'd look good (on their dev machines) but they didn't (on mortal machines) and thus they plan to revert them back some time in the future.