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I personally hate the new UI, it looks absolutely awful on all bases, Please don't change it! leave it as the current TQ one!

THANK YOU - EVERYONE.

Dear CCP,

Please don't go through with these UI changes. They are painful to the eyes, unintuitive, and don't add any information. The yellow and white don't fit in with EVE's design. We have no need for such a giant portrait of our character and vertical text is difficult to read.

Thank you.

I do understand that refreshing the UI is sometime needed, especially in light of the f2p extension. However it would be nice if you didn't put those changes live. They simply look horrendous and are absolutly not functionnal. They are the opposite of what an UI should look like.

My first reaction was literally "MY GOD MY EYES". Now I do accept that there is often a reluctance to change and that it does take time for us to get used to a new presentation or method. But this is possibly the worst case of designer-tunnel-vision that I have ever seen.

The vertical text is just beyond belief. Who could possibly have approved this design? Did senior management see this design from early ideas through to final stage and approve them or did a lone dude design this in a vacuum and present it as a fait accompli? Humans do not read vertically we read horozontally - you know like in the old presentation.

Sure jazz it up if you must (personally I think it looks cheap and nasty but w/e) add functionality where you can, delineate between clone states and functions etc but it must be useable and preferably intuitive.

I would honestly not release this as is - if it cant be reworked due to deadlines then delay it.

Roy

The new UI is F2P cancer of the worst order. It's pushing omega status in your face so blatantly, facebook games would be ashamed.

Yeah, last time i logged in into SWTOR they came f2p (I had only trial earlier), I played only for few minutes because the game was like "GIVE WALLET! PAY!" Stapled on everything. Uninstalled and not bothered since.

Maybe if CCP would take some slasses in advertisement, they would see that if something is obstructive it does not make it more profitable. It only makes you look worse in someones eyes.

Oh come on guys.. what is with this clutter. And that yellow...

Grey out the skills for alpha clones, and show it like regular to the omegas. Done. Don't need to do all that yellow stuff..

true, having a double meaning is the worst thing a UI can have. However, before the yellow pee lines, people would just pull stuff from a ship and get a disable-capable warning of becoming suspect.

I think at some level, due to UI clutter and gameplay and immersion, the training wheels need to come off. I don't really like the whole yellow round stuff thing altogether. We already have a dot. if you can't glance at the colored dot to make sure your safety is on, then you should risk being shot by the owner.

Remember when safety dot wasn't even a thing? Those were good days. People were self-reliant.

I think CCP is bending to the spoonfeed/hold-my-hand subgenre of gamers and that's actually awful for gameplay.

A little more info as I'm playing around with the character sheet.

Related to the icons, when the text is collapsed to provide more space for skills and the queue, not all of the icons are intuitive.

Engineering looks like something that would be related to science, considering the whole "atom" motif of it.

Fleet Support is... going to take a bit of getting used to, after using the three chevrons since forever. It makes me think of a fire fighter insignia.

At a glance, Gunnery and Missiles are way too similar, especially being right next to each other on the bar. I suggest changing the Gunnery symbol to something more akin to the artillery symbols used in real-world militaries to better-differentiate them.

Rigging looks too much like a shield. I suggest using the same or a similar icon as is used in the market. It looks less like a shield, and creates a bit of familiarity between the two.

The icon for Subsystems is too similar to the Settings icon used everywhere else, both in EVE, and in so many other programs and websites and electronic tools in the world. The market icon for subsystems is fairly similar to a shield, however, so I don't think that using it in the place of the gears icon would be wise.

I have lesser concerns with the Neural Enhancement icon, though the gears, being quite prominent in it, may still be problematic.

I would actually suggest using the Science icon for Neural Enhancement, using the Engineering icon for Science, and trying something new with Engineering. Preferably something that avoids the gears and wrenches that get used for many real-world Engineering visualizers, as again, those are also often used to indicate settings in software and websites.

Agreed. The current system is very clear and at-a-glance. Those new colours... not working for me.

As someone who's been an 'Omega Clone State' for over 8 years now, I hope you have a system that does not force me to deal with the Alpha state.

Also: constantly 'reminding' your user they should upgrade is reminiscent of Microsoft Windows. It is terrifically annoying to be enthusiastically reminded to upgrade 50 times per day.

What you really want is a softly pulsing "Alpha Clone" icon that briefly lights up every time the user wants something the Alpha Clone cannot have / do.

The customer should not be reminded time and again that they really need to upgrade. The environment and content should be compelling enough, by itself, that it inspires people who only thought they'd get their toes wet, to suck up a great bunch of air and take the plunge in this the most wondrous online experience in MMO history, of their own accord.