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The new messy "brackets" finally coming June 2nd
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Samir Duran Xadi
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#21 - 2015-05-30 15:35:03 UTC
Like most things in eve they needed to be updated, you'll get used to them.
Unezka Turigahl
Det Som Engang Var
#22 - 2015-05-30 22:56:59 UTC
We get a cute little gingerbread man icon for the frozen corpses. Best patch in the history of EVE.
Morihei Akachi
Doomheim
#23 - 2015-05-30 23:12:35 UTC
What amuses me is that, on the one hand, we have module tiericide busy cutting down on "bad complexity" (although of course this is "complexity" for a situation where one frequently has plenty of time to theory-craft and ponder the options), but on the other hand, we have a massive proliferation of in-space icons—all tiny and many only very slightly different from each other (for a situation in which rapid recognition of what is going on and instant decision-making can be of the utmost importance). Do these guys even talk to each other?

Which is not a complaint about the new icons. More complexity presents more interesting challenges. We'll cope (or die, whichever comes first). Bear

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Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#24 - 2015-05-31 01:47:42 UTC
They'll take getting used to, but they're satisfactorily iconic: there's a consistent enough design language that you can at least deduce likely identities from similarity to other things (eg., x with four dots means no cynos for you).

+1, though I expect hilarity will ensue until people get used to the new normal.

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Tipa Riot
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2015-05-31 04:06:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Tipa Riot
Somebody with more patience wrote a good summary of the issues http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/37vvvc/can_we_just_hold_on_a_moment_and_talk_about_the/

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Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#26 - 2015-05-31 07:20:50 UTC
They ignored a good suggestion. What?
Good i mean by what was meet with an approval from community. http://go-dl.eve-files.com/media/1505/NoUTVmZ3.png

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!
TigerXtrm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#27 - 2015-05-31 08:49:44 UTC
Calm down, you'll get used to it in less than a week.

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Ferni Ka'Nviiou
Doomheim
#28 - 2015-05-31 08:53:05 UTC
Great. Another UI change I won't get used to.
Delt0r Garsk
Shits N Giggles
#29 - 2015-05-31 09:11:50 UTC
I really like the changes. Hell of a lot better than just the silly boxes we have now. A glance in space/overview give a much quicker impression of the battlefield.

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Celise Katelo
State War Academy
Caldari State
#30 - 2015-05-31 14:51:06 UTC
These look rather good P

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Lfod Shi
Lfod's Ratting and Salvage
#31 - 2015-06-02 14:11:03 UTC
Yeah, I don't like 'em. They're "muddy" and ships look like houses. I don't want to shoot houses. People live in those. What happened to those cool diamond shaped icons? Did I dream those? They were cool and "read" as ships. If it were up to me, which it isn't, I'd take the fill out of the station, gate, etc icons and make the ship icons into those diamond shapes that may or may not be a figment of my own imagination.

Sorry.

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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#32 - 2015-06-02 15:18:51 UTC
The proper name for these icons would be "wing forms" and they are used in RL fighter jets.

It's as if people have nothing else going in in their grass-eating beta chump lives they need something to have "relationship level" resentment or drama over.

Go out and get some sunlight for an afternoon and you'll have zero f**ks to give about this.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Sturmwolke
#33 - 2015-06-02 15:36:16 UTC
The new icons are not bad (after a quick look at the Amarr undock), I was expecting horrors from the devblog they did on these icons*.
It'll take some acclimatization, but these are workable and definitely an improvement over the old.

* if they had brought out these link, much CCP blood will be spilled ;)
Trajan Unknown
State War Academy
Caldari State
#34 - 2015-06-02 15:44:09 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
The proper name for these icons would be "wing forms" and they are used in RL fighter jets.

It's as if people have nothing else going in in their grass-eating beta chump lives they need something to have "relationship level" resentment or drama over.

Go out and get some sunlight for an afternoon and you'll have zero f**ks to give about this.



Second post today that pretty much sums up what I was about to write. :)


I personally welcome these new icons a lot! I don´t even need to learn them because they are familiar (ships) and I can sort the stuff in my mind way faster than before. The old ship icons were simply ****.
All the other icons make sense to me so far but I need to get used to the new stuff. Shouldn´t take long I guess because they are pretty much "self explanatory"

Thanks CCP great job as I thought when I saw them on the blog.
LordofWars
Eternal Clade
#35 - 2015-06-02 16:08:13 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
The proper name for these icons would be "wing forms" and they are used in RL fighter jets.

It's as if people have nothing else going in in their grass-eating beta chump lives they need something to have "relationship level" resentment or drama over.

Go out and get some sunlight for an afternoon and you'll have zero f**ks to give about this.


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Carrie-Anne Moss
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#36 - 2015-06-02 16:13:03 UTC
I would like ccp to add a mandatory 2 question survey that must be answered in one weeks time upon logging in after next tuesday sowntime.


1 do you like the new icons or the old icons.
2 do you pvp or pve more.


See if there is correlation being pvpers hating new icons (theyre main reason for implementing them is to quickly recognize sifferent ships in space)
And the people that like the new ones not pvping.

I bet 75% will pick the old icons
Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#37 - 2015-06-02 16:15:34 UTC
EVE with brakets on looks like a frikkin game of space invaders. They honestly look awful.

What pressing need was there to change something that was simple and therefore useful? Did Microsoft buy CCP?
Alrik Craven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#38 - 2015-06-02 16:17:14 UTC
I don't what to complain to ask for the old one icons.

But just the one we have here on the dev blog few mouth ago...
What happened ?

Those icons was far way better and clear

DEV Blog : http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/ui-modernization-icon-strategy/
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#39 - 2015-06-02 16:23:32 UTC
It's like I'm psychic or something.

I knew exactly how the usual forum regulars would post, and they did exactly that. There are still a few that aren't up yet but I have faith in my mental abilities.They won't let me down.

Some of you are just not happy unless you are unhappy. How sad your real life must be.

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Eli Stan
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#40 - 2015-06-02 16:30:05 UTC
I like the new icons. I spent a few hours PvPing on SISI over the weekend and found them very useful.