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-I do not like the new icons and want the option to revert back to the old ones. This quote feels like a half-hearted apology that the dev team didn't test the new icons for the a scaling issues that are happening, nor listen for any player feedback about them. Rather they just pushed out the update without thinking. Now with so much negative feed back on it they issue a half-hearted apology with a big "F. YOU! If you don't like it or agree with us." Tacked on the end of it.

Yeah rigth, If CCP was really fond of this than the distinction between icons would be based on agression state of the ship and it's owner.

So an player that has a GCC timer would have a big red cross instead of a white diamand for example, and for npc's other icons based on agression state would be needed. This way only half a dozen new icons should be learned not dozen as is at the moment.

You really messed up the UI and also convoluted instead of streamlined the new player experience here, this is a bad call CCP

Regards, a Freelancer

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I would be thrilled if they would have come out with the option to set the icons yourself and keep the old as a default, somewhat like overview customization. They don't however, they put out a pile of junk and then tell us to deal with it.

I have seen several dev blogs done correctly and given a ton of praise because they are well thought out and well tested, but this junk looks like something that was in the beginning of development, put on the back burner due to lack of interest, then shoved into the expansion at the last minute to say they did something. Poor planning, poor playtesting, and poor development.

Dear CCP Developers,

The devblog is really insulting and very immature.

Whatever big the idea is, yet it absolutely does not work as intended.
Hundreds of players had already offered their constructive feedback and offered dozens of suggestions and options for your review. Grown up people might negotiate and find a compromise solution, like enabling the old set of icons while refining the new one, or allow players to load their custom sets.
Unfortunately, your devblog does not offer any compromise to ease tension. That's sad.
From my humble perception, you have convinced yourself the job is done well and trying to convince us, players that the new “fancy” icons are great. However that is not much easy, because, unlike you, we do play EVE Online. And we are trying to help you to make game better. The blind denial of all the alternatives normally leads to nowhere.

Technically speaking: the size of the overview sprite is to small to accommodate hundred easily distinguishable different glyphs, so it is possible to return to minimalistic concept or increase sprite size (which is not always a good option, because of the laptop 1366x768 fixed screens where even 90% UI scale seems to be too large).
Overview strongly needs way more foreground and background colors.
The ability to immediately distinguish between neutral player and neutral NPC is crucial.

Please, stop behaving like a capricious child. Good or bad, the new icons are still the issue, causing a massive protest. It's time to look for compromise to make players satisfied, instead of trolling like a kids.

Thanks.

This sounds scarily plausible tbh.

Edit: post above me gave me a good chuckle!

Some refinement is in order - make them more "contrasting", i.e. sharper and more varied angular shapes.

Some of them feels very uninformative & blob-like - the industrial section for example.

Frigate to Destroyer, and Cruiser through to Battleship difference doesn't appear to be enough, since a single chevron can be lost in the sea of targets.

Use hexagons at the very least!

I think the limiting factor is the height of the Overview entry line, because they do feel cramped from an artistic & functionality perspective.

It's really simple. Option for old Icons at least until the new ones are workable.
80 pages of feedback in the other thread.
Really. Damn. Simple.

Edit: I was about to go search for this post of mine that Louanne Barros linked *snickers*

So I just finished reading the devblog, finished reading the new posts in the other topic, and all comments here.
I'm thrown completely off balance by the ridiculousness that goes on on the side of CCP, and of some people trying to defend the wrong cause.

Dear CCP, I thought you were crossing the t's and dotting the i's ? Nothing what you wrote in this devblog required any amount of effort to pull together. Still it took you more than half a week? Where are the promised explanations that have not yet been heard? I don't read anything new. Where are the promised explanations HOW to fix things? I don't read anything new.
Everything in this devblog was known to you since the icons were introduced to the testserver.

May I politely ask you, what was your intention to accomplish with this devblog, if it is nothing but regurgitating the known?

Now, since I have to go to bed, I only have time to mark out one thing, so it will be:
You are reading a different devblog than I do.
Then again, I have not see you post a SINGLE time in the other topic. All 90 pages of it. You have clearly missed the detailed feedback objective feedback that was forwarded to CCP. You have also clearly missed the amount of feedback on the sisi topic regarding the icons. You also pretty much ignore the positive things FROM the same people who heavily criticized the new icon set. And you... well. It seems you're not actually understanding a single thing about this entire fiasco?

If I knew CCP would be so dense about the feedback on the new icons, I would have spoken up there as constructive as I did in the other topic. But something tells me this would not have changed a thing anyhow.
Oh and... can I report CCP Surge for insulting other players? Because that is exactly what he did in that devblog. Sarcasm is one thing. Fueling the fire intentionally and willingly, is another.

Your only option is to bring old icons back.
Plain and simple.

There is no other option.