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Oh there's more. Just seen the "Blue i" How is that more usable than "agent conversation with X" along the bottom of the screen?

If I click on an agent's image in the right bar when docked, do you think i want to talk to that agent or gaze lovingly at their portrait? On 99% of websites if you click on an image, you get content associated with that image not an enlargement -- unless the image is clearly part of a gallery (e.g. carousel, image thread). Why? because user research shows people naturally click images rather than say a textual link clearly associated with said image. Look at any news website.

The channel icon blink when anyone says anything in a channel is very annoying, yes.

The new neocom is horrible. All you did was group up some existing buttons and put them in a folder, and left blank useless space below the remaining icons. Why not just have all the icons on the bar?

Is it so we can minimize things and they go over there and become a non-identifiable letter i?

LET ME MINIMIZE THINGS LIKE BEFORE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

We all have dozens of chat channels and not all of them are important to constantly check but i still want them to blink, and be able to see which ones are blinking at any time. Does this mean i have to go click the chat button to see which ones are blinking like every 20 seconds like an obsessive compulsive? We have enough activities like that. Double clicking chat bars to turn them into that little bar is unacceptable, as a tab is still selected and one blink. And what about any other kind of window I wish to minimize?

LET ME MINIMIZE THINGS LIKE BEFORE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

And can we do something about that X to close chat channels. Oh look i just closed 15 tabs in a single window cuz i accidentally clicked an X that shouldnt be there.

GET RID OF THE X FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

Incarna 2.0? Ok its not that bad but i cant get past the things that i dont like to even enjoy the positive changes, so it feels a lot like it.

I find the new attention seeking, thus never stopping "bling" thingy very annoying over time periods >5 seconds.
Maybe its just me but even blinking starts to annoy you over time and yesterday the "blink" on the neocom stopped blinking after 3 or 4 seconds and did the only thing left to do - highlighting in a white-ish manner.

If you don't give your narcissistic client the wanted attention, it won't give up until to hover over or click on it.
Please make it just highlight the section of interest again.

This would be nice ... if it were TRUE. But it's not.

When I click on the date to open the calendar, it currently says "JANUARY 2012" in nice huge bold letters. The only way to determine today's date (in game) is to peer at the day boxes to see which one has a tiny 1-pixel highlight around it.

Painful.

So I felt the need for a THIRD post about this Neocom because it's starting to bug me again. Removing the character's name at the top and replacing it with the stupid portrait/skill bar might have seemed like a good idea, but have you tried this set up with the resolution turned up high? The new portrait becomes a tiny little square of unidentifiable "mush". Making the little skill bar even more useless. If you want to fix this you must scale your Neocom up. Which is quite annoying because your other buttons become way too big. When you decide to play around with (unnecessary) UI changes, try them out at different resolutions first please. Once again, please revert to the old one. Go back to the old module and ammo names too please.

I think the missile renaming is largely ok, the actual names chose could have been a bit better as you point out but at least we now have some consistency.

But the AB/MWD names they've picked? Doubledumb. Try again, do better.

I did not get to test anything on SISI before going live because i just dont have the time these days and while i had kept tabs on the changes i have to say i hate the new way windows minimise.

Please learn having to take more clicks to get to what you want is always a backwards step

Before when i had 3 assembly arrays/corp hangers/whatever open but several minimised the one i wanted was just clicked the right tab for the hanger i wanted now i have to click once to get up a list which i then need to read through before selecting the one i want. This is clearly a backwards step.

Same goes for the chat windows i don't want to have to look down a list to select a specific channel most of the time i just want to view the channel i had up previously. Even if i wanted to change a channel it was still quicker opening it then clicking on the right tab than clicking on it looking through the list of channels then selecting the right one.

The other related issue is that if i have 2 windows with the same icon open i have to mouse over to work out which one i want names are far far better than icons

I'm the sort of person that never has similar windows stack on a task bar because i want to be able to choose the one i want with ease i am sure there are more efficient ways but its still better than clicking on the tab then having to choose from a list afterwards. And because the new neocom acts like a start menu/task bar/desktop all in 1 there is just not enough space on it realistically to host all the windows (having to go to another tab of it is again time consuming). so perhaps i am being greed but realistically the old functionality was better.

A better improved iteration would have been the possibility to choose where we wanted windows minimised to (bottom of the screen, or to or perhaps some other options) and i do not mean possible future iterations of the neocom which can go across the bottom of the screen i mean separated from the neocom as windows were originally.

Perhaps allow windows to be pinned to the Neocom by the user but otherwise have an option for the old style of minimising.

Finally on another slightly related note while it may not be feasible it would be nice sometimes to have the options for 2 market window to show at once and to be able to display several bits of data at once such as current market data and a small version of the price history graph and/or table.

(also what with the trend for huge oversized buttons on new OSs/Programs like windows 7 with giant images do they think images are more granny friendly?)

Hate the new neocom.

Why does everything have to be a destructive change? Why can't you look at the neocom, see how people are using it, then incorporate that into your new neocom?

Why can't I minimize local anymore so I can see at a glance how many people are in channel and quickly maximize it when I need to? Sure I can double click it to collapse the window, then move that collapsed window to the bottom, then everytime I want to view local I can double click it to restore then drag it up so I can see it.

Are you going to render everyone's portraits to the various sizes used by the new neocom or are we stuck with an ugly picture staring at use every minute of game time? Why can't we disable the portrait? Where is the customization?

Good point - I forgot that.

I have several accounts and in most cases, three characters each.

It really helps to see the name of the character. It is also nice to see the portrait. You did all that work to give us better looking avatars, it takes ages to load the CQ unless we turn that off, so at least show us a decent portrait.

Better still just give us an option to revert back to a normal size of Neocom strip, with icons, labels and a proper portrait.

Not tried any of the other new stuff yet as you chose to reboot almost as soon as I logged in this evening