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Ok then, short and sweet. I simply cannot see the UI well anymore with these new color schemes. The windows get mixed up so as I cannot tell where one ends and another begins, making it nye impossible to find what I am looking for. Please let me again choose the cool gray scheme that I have used for so many years now. I cannot play EVE this way anymore.

Thanks for reset the windows one of my characters. Instead of login in and playing the game i now need to redo my overview and window position. Really not happy about this.

There are many, many more important issues with this release than "clipping issues on Eternity dress tops"

A couple have been addressed, but there are still a lot outstanding. So my point stands.

Bookmark copying on a scale largen then "just 10 BMs" or "one copy only" became nearly impossible in RHEA.

Pre-Rhea when I selected 10 bookmarks and shift-moved them to the container the selection in the Places Tab remained until I selected new bookmarks. This leads to two very unconfortable issues:

• if you want to copy from one folder with more than 10 BMs you loose track which BMs you just copied and from where to continue
• if you want to copy to multiple containers you need to reselect the same 10 BMs over and over before dragging them to the respective container. Before you could just keep shift pressed.

Help?

Because something doesn't affect you and has an easy fix, it doesn't mean you should belittle those with the issue. If we can just get rid of the changing opacity/brightness of a selected window and keep all the windows as "always selected" so that there isn't 100% white text on 100% black background you'd have 99% of the issues gone.

This isn't about how the UI feels, not how it works. It's about how contrast works and that's it. If they implement the change, you would not see a single thing changing in the UI at your end but those who need it wouldn't have ot eat pain killers just to play. As a note, this is how the new UI Actually looks like when you take out the transparency and the blur: http://i.imgur.com/beeLBp8.png and it is painful to look at for hours on end, especially when actions cause 10-20% of your screen to light up brighter and go dark immediately.

To me, the icons are already a lot better than the old ones.

I just started, so I had like a month or so to get used to the old ones- and I still kept clicking on the wrong ones or having to wait for the label to show up.

With the new ones, I'm recognising the simpler shapes quicker, and overall it just looks modern.

BUT having said that..

Colours would definitely help! This idea of "removing colours so you can focus on shapes.." is nonsense- that's not how the human brain operates "oh no, there's a colour, now I can't see the shape.." WTF? No, both are important! Mac OSX perpetrated the same BS in the finder sidebar. Sure you get used to it, and maybe it helps the overall "look" of the OS, but it hurts usability!

Listen, I'm not saying they should be bright crayon-colored icons. Just some subtle colours.. I think someone posted a mockup here already that looked good.

To all the people that said to me (and to others) about the new UI:

"Use it, try it, and then you can comment".


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One week later:


IT'S STILL HORRIBLE.

Sorry.

Would changing the interface back be fair to those of us that like it?
Or do you think everyone is on your side?

Not all, but many.
Read the forum, many asked to add a light background window or RGB color selection.
No need to remove the changes that have been made recently. It would be nice if the developers just added some color schemes, to make it comfortable to play all players.

Yep, same for me, after playing eve for most of this past week.
Yes, the new UI technically works, but my main issues have not changed.

I'm used to the UI now, however, my eyes do still NOT magically see low contrast shapes faster then simple color
"cyan, near top left" will always be faster to locate then "tiny factory thing, near top left"

The slow fade has gone from many areas(thank you for that CCP) but it's still there in others, like when I sell things.

I still don't like the "selected window" transparency change, I still want one setting for everything, so the windows are consistent.(and i wish for nothing to ever change transparency without me manually setting transparency)

Oh, and the color theme options, although very cool, especially the auto ship theme thing, still simply CANT give me the settings I would find optimal, I need TWO sliders for that.

All in all, my biggest issue here, so color, and CONTRAST.

Seriously CCP, I would like an answer to this, if nothing else:
Why is the entire UI now LOW CONTRAST?

I know high contrast isn't always pretty, but it's generally more functional in my experience as a user.

Last but not least, I suspect some dramatic performance loss in some situations with this patch, on my secondary comp, but cant verify because this is an MMO and I cant boot up the old version for an FPS test.