Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I've completely stopped playing the game as I am not physically able to look at the screen during this animation. In an incursion, that results in not looking at the screen at all and logging off. I haven't played the game since Odyssey because of this problem. It's due to a hereditary eye condition that makes my eyes extremely light-sensitive. Funny that this is the only thing in the entire game full of blinking lights that sets it off but there you have it.

The new animation is jarring, painful, and unnecessary. If you want to know if something died just look for the wreck. If a notification really is needed why not just text in the combat log?

I was told to post this in "features and suggestions" because technical support was unable to help. Apparently there's no way to turn this off. Unlike the sexy jump animation that's also making many people sick, it's a little more critical to be unable to look at the screen during ANY combat at all.

If there isn't an option to turn this off, I literally can't play Eve anymore. No missions, no incursions, no pvp if there's a chance of me winning the fight... no fun.

Please give us an option to turn it off or revert the death animation to pre-Odyssey so I can continue playing this wonderful game!

If not, yes you can have my stuff. It's that bad, I'm not joking or exaggerating. I haven't played since Odyssey because of this ui graphic. I'm so sad right now that I can't play this game over one stupid graphic change!

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Solution at reduced functionality, shown in google docs with a picture!

Pros:

Can play the game again because the blink is reduced
Can see which target my guns are on, which targets have already taken damage, and which the drones are on
Can pin and unpin quickly to verify I’m not about to get Concorded by accidentally the logi - and can choose WHEN to unpin based on damage across all the targets

Cons:

Can’t read text of what I’m shooting
Can’t unlock targets quickly if the fc changes their mind (maybe can set up a hotkey for this?)
Can’t drag targets around to reorder them quickly (no hotkey possible for this) so must always select the next target via overview

Notes:

EVE ui skin: black; transparency set to 225
Monitor contrast 40% brightness 0%
Medium lit room (indoor lighting, “warm” part of spectrum)

Thanks. Did post in those already, as well as posting in the thread about the UI changes, and the two threads about this new graphic in my signature:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=245931 Target death animation causing target switch lag
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=243517 Target death animation flicker causing eye pain

Will check out the nearest CSM member I can find, thanks for the suggestion!

Do you mean the circular target thing that blinks 3 times when someone is killed? I can not believe that you have a contition that triggers off of something so specific that you do not also have immense trouble getting through your day in general, let alone play eve at all.

And if you do, I would really like to know what condition it is. These things do in fact interest me, but it sounds a bit unbelievable to be honest.

If it is photophobia which match up quite well to your symptoms, it's not actually an issue with your eyes, but something underlying that you should get checked out, and it would also trigger on light in general, so it can not be that. In such a case you would need to wear special sunglasses at all times anyway which would negate the effect of the blinking.

It can't be epilepsy, or you would have seizures as well, so please enlighten me.

So what you're saying is that you can handle the flashing lasers and you can handle the exploding ships, but you can't handle the target flashing. I'm not saying that you're making it up, but it doesn't make a lot of sense. The flashing lasers, especially large pulses, are more intense than that target flashing could ever be. I say this as a person who has a sensitivity to light and frequently unpins my overview to block out the sun with it.

It doesn't make sense to me either.

OR, the OP actually has some medical condition that is triggered by exactly what they say. WTF is wrong with people who constantly want proof that a person is disabled or isn't as "healthy" as they are. My Father is disabled and it ticks me off to no end when "healthy" people turn their nose up at him when he has difficulty doing a particular task. Walk a mile in someone else's shoes before you open your mouth!!

For those of you who are healthy and have no medical issues, be happy. There are conditions that exist where 99% of your life you have no damn clue that you even have it, then one day and some strange occurrence and it rears it's ugly head.

Spoke with Mike Azariah about this, he suggested blocking off the targets with another menu box, which is brilliant. So I now have my inventory covering most of the targets. The blink of just the text underneath (and whatever icons for guns and stuff are on it) is still super annoying and I find myself closing my eyes a lot still but no headache this time!

However it's difficult to be a contributing fleet member when you can't see how much damage the unmarked targets are taking. Oh well. I can play, I may be able to plex. It's not nearly as enjoyable as it was before Odyssey and running incursions has become rather more a chore for isk than a pleasure, but I guess that's how the devs want the game to be now. I got out of mining when it became a chore after 2 months, now it's incursions.

This is my screen now:
system info ---- hud & weapons ------------ drones box

targets covered by inventory stretched out --- selected item box
ship name ship name ship name ship name etc (still blinky and jarring)

chat/fleet --- empty space --- overview/dscan

It does still strain my eyes after a while but it's not instant OMG PAIN anymore, I just can't look at targets that's all. Reduced functionality until they fix it.

That would make more sense than the current implementation I think and fades are usually not a problem when I watch movies and stuff.

Just a matter of CCP making the fix.

How would you like to play the game with your inventory (at 100% opacity) in a long thin bar over your targets for the rest of the time you play this game? I dare you to do it until they implement a fix.

Of course, it's likely that people with my particular problem aren't playing the game at all due to all the other flashing lights and I'm the only one seriously put out by this. So far the feedback I've received is that others find it annoying but I don't see anyone else in actual pain.

Guess I'm not important enough to keep playing this game then. May as well quit now instead of putting up with a terrible temporary workaround and hoping that CCP will care about one person who used to love their game.