Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It is obvious that CCP has been putting a lot of work into making the game look better. Some of the ships in this game look like mechanical works of art. While others look like burnt rust buckets that I wouldn't trust with the life of my pet slave hound. But they are supposed to look that way... I think. Point being this game has a visual fidelity that the designers of this game could not have anticipated back when the original ship icon and target bracket system was devised.

I think it might be time for CCP to revisit this system and tune it up for this new decade.

I would like to see target brackets that scale with the ship so that they don't obscure the ship. After all they are pretty.

The ship type icon should not be centered on the ship but should display on the outside edge of the target brackets. Again this is so it doesn't obscure the pretty ships.

This will make the game seem more like ships fighting rather than a series of red boxes throwing damage numbers at each other.

Oh and could we get an option to put the damage numbers into a chat channel rather than display on screen? It would still be nice to have the warp scramble warning on screen with some kind of audible alert.

Having options to enable or disable these new features in the options menu would also be nice for those that want to keep the legacy look.

Thanks for your time and I hope this issue gets the attention it deserves.

Edit: It would also be nice as these larger brackets get closer to the ship and fill up more of the screen if they faded out and became more transparent. Lets face it with the ship in close view you don't really need the bracket to tell you where it is or the icon to tell you what class of ship it is any more.