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Have you tested the new "healthcircles" with setups where there is a lot of movement?
F.e. with a alphafleet on the one side and shieldlogis on the other. Might not be so easy to see what is shields when all bars move at the same time up and down. Or a handful of ships beating on a x-large ASB sleipnir.
Also the new locked targets look bigger, like everything else in the UI got bigger. There are people who don´t play on high resolutions and are already running low on actual room to see something. Now try it with 10 locked targets and the new aggressionflags... Please don´t force us to get better hardware just fo rsuch little tweeks.
Another thing is "how visable is it if you are breaking something´s tank or not?" Atm we can use things like the text below the bars to measure the movement. Not possible with the circles. Please try it with stuff like a large DEDbooster tengu or carriers.
The locktimevalue no longer displaying is also a bad thing.
For the notifications: A lot of players already use colourcoded notifications where the different things are in different colours, so for example you just look for red if you want to know who is doing something, green for what he is doing and blue for whom he is doing it to. Maybe incorporate something like this.
Overall I have to say: Needs more work please. And don´t just go with it because you already put in so much work.

Maybe something similar to the 'hit icon sequence' pulsing animation but in green or blue? It could become more intense as you receive a larger rep amount per cycle.

I only just noticed the new DevBlog before heading to work(+10GMT its 8:20AM Local Time) First reaction is Love the new In space "Brackets" and Hate the new Locked Target information. Seriously Which indicator is Shield/Armor/Hull, with the old one it was Top Down which is easy to see at a glance.

I'll Probably Make a new post when I get home from work and back on the net.

No, no no no. Shield is in top right, then go clockwise from there for armor and structure.

I'll attempt to offer my feedback bit by bit, but overall there's not much here I really like. It seems to be "change for the sake of change" and that usually does not breed a very useful outcome. In the grand scheme of things, the present targeting UI is completely sufficient and does its job adequately, and there are far better things that could be fixed in the UI (*COUGH* DRONES *COUGH*).

On the "who is damaging me and how hard" indicator: In theory it sounds neat but honestly I'm not sure how useful I'd find it. One of the skills every Eve pilot learns is target assessment and pretty soon it becomes second nature. For example, someone earlier stated they'll always know an Ibis is tickling them but a Megathron will be laying the hurt much harder. Maybe that's not particularly clear to a complete newbie but I think by a month everyone has pretty much figured it out. To me, it'll just be a bunch of additional distracting blinks on the screen.

On the circular target reticule: This change I don't like one bit. Sure, it looks subjectively cool, but at the cost of intuitiveness and clarity. There is nothing wrong with the reticule at present: shields at top, then armor, then hull. It makes perfect sense. With the bars surrounding the circle it's not quite as clear. Your response so far has been "Well after you play with it for a bit you'll get the hang of it and it will be clear which is which." Why learn something new when what we have works just fine? Additionally, the compactness of the current S/A/H display makes it much easier to see at a glance how damaged something is. If you think of the current display as one larger rectangle broken into three sections, it's quite easy to glance and see "hey, half this ship's rectangle is gone." Whereas with the new system, your eye has to look at three different parts of the reticule to get the same information. That takes more time, which is a backwards step. You've said it will likely be an option if desired to turn off the new damage and in-range indicators, so If you insist on rolling out this change at least give us the option to choose between square and circular reticules; this seems to be a fair compromise.

On the new bracket changes: Personally I prefer the "square" aesthetic myself for the targeting and aggressing brackets, but I understand it's to match the new circular targeting reticules. I've already voiced my displeasure of the circular design overall. Again, if it could be an option in the UI to have a circular or square design I'd be fine with that. I do like the idea of the "in targeting range" graphic. Oh, and for the love of everything in New Eden, please do not lose the "time to target" box!

You can't seriously be redesigning this without adding an indication of the target's capacitor level, can you? If you don't add that, this amounts to fluff nobody asked for. Again.

I would prefer if you could fix things that are really broken first
like tactical overview or the mega menu if you are fleet boss where you have a hundret option
something like you could configure your tactical ov or the menus

How does :18months: sound? Or are we up to 36 now? Do I hear 48?

Love the new changes. However, I was hoping for possibly adding capacitor state to the target lock. This is something that's been asked for again and again. We can see shields, armor, and structure hitpoint percentages, but we cannot read the targets capacitor. I think adding this will go a long way for those who like to neut. I know that I don't neut a lot because I'm unsure just how effective I am at disabling my target. Having this information will mix up pvp a bit.

I don't like the loss of the "timer" to lock indicator. Although the completion circle communicates well, I want to know if I have another 10 seconds to lock or another 2 seconds to lock the target.


To resolve the "which is shield" - I really like the symmetry of the bars. I think the real issue is just adding a little icon in between the shield and structure that indicates this is where everything "Starts and ends".

So at the top of the circle, put a >< image between the 2 bars, or a Shield Image, or a Little Dot or something to indicate the start and end.