Because it's new. That's the simple answer here. CCP made changes and many people are not able to deal with changes. Text like here in this post/thread is also looking the same all the time but when you start to read it it becomes sense. Same with the icons. Get familar with them how you got familar with the old icons. If someone would completely change your GUI layout you would feel lost in the first minutes. Using a GUI is becoming intuitive when you get used to it like knowing where menues are or simply to the order of your icons. Beside that people have a different taste for design. Fair enough. I swear if we had the new icons before and now the old one we end up in a similar thread.

I've previously commented on the new PBR feature to some extent, so I'm not going to go into much detail other than to echo the majority of sentiments expressed here: Ships are either now too shiny, too matte or too 'plastic' - and they all share a loss of detail due to the new PBR process or outdated textures. Since it's been relayed that this is just the first pass, I'll reserve final judgement until the next update. In the interim, several unanswered questions:

1. When are we going to see ships rendered with high-resolution textures as an option?
2. When are we going to see a prototype of the ship painting/customization feature?
3. When are the new battleship skins going to be released?

Well, what can I say? Good job! Rhea is awesome!
New UI, new map. Many graphical improvements! And I love new icons!
Rhea is a successful step.

[quote=Misunderstood Genius]
all joking aside, I suffer from migraines quite a lot and over the years have managed to cut down on these by watching what i eat and also by cutting down on doing things which ive found bring them on. Since the changes to the UI in Rhea, ive already noticed that im starting with the initial symptoms of what if unchecked, will develop into a migraine attack..

Now i do agree that some comments about the UI bringing on headaches and eye strain etc could be a bit OTT, but I do also know from personal experience that some of these complaints will be genuine. I also think that this is something that CCP need to look at closely before the proverbial sh*t hits the fan so to speak.

Turning the new UI off bumps my FPS up by about 20. Seems fairly resource hungry for an interface.

[quote=Signal11th]
Also something in it is causing headaches for me, but I cant spot what yet, maybe someone else knows.

There's one part of this update which I really hate with a passion. In fact, it's so awful that I don't know why others haven't noticed it, but apparently I'm alone in this (so far)- the gold on the Amarr ships looks tacky, and the white/grey parts look dirty. I could not be more dismayed at this if they'd bedazzled the Amarr symbol with rhinestones.

In short, the Amarr ships looks like a Dubai Billionaire had a gold version made.

Here's what I mean:
http://i.imgur.com/vUk3GaT.jpg

I'm still hoping maybe I have a setting wrong somewhere to be seeing it like this. The gold is just way too shiny- it needs to be subtle.

and btw, I don't hate all gold. But there's decent, tasteful, subtle use of gold.. and this is not it.

LOL, except for the edges, yeah!

also- it's so shiny it turns green in fitting window
Maybe I should start skilling a different race >.>

Physical based rendering and the new UI have both been the right move in my opinion.