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Allen Miles
Caldari
The Miles Corporation
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Posted - 2006.09.30 03:04:00 -
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 Originally by: 0lly
Sorry but in reply to the OP .
Of the 2000+ people who visited Here
And of the many hundreds who had contacted me personally before the site . I never heard of one who had been banned.
Regards
0lly
lol, that wingdings one is hilarious.
It would be scary to actually learn to play in that font! 
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Shugo Kazuma
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Posted - 2006.09.30 05:22:00 -
[62]
Originally by: Exiled One
They play wow, they compare wow to eve, they want to bring **** from wow to eve. You want a dumbed down version of eve?
Just because someone says game A has this really amazing feature that might be a great addition to game B doesn't make it bad. There may be other reasons that it isn't a good idea for another game, but it could also be something that tweaked around a really nice addition to the game.
That aside, letting the user pick from a range of fonts sounds like a decent idea. Or at the very least an option for user input fontsize (ie, rather than small and large, 12pt, 20pt etc) for use on the multitude of different screen resolutions people play at.
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0lly
Minmatar
Wheel Of Time Ltd
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Posted - 2006.09.30 10:14:00 -
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You are quite right Locke - Name calling never wins anything. And for that I apologise .
Yes the font is my pet hate :)
Regards
0lly
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Vladimir G'orkin
Minmatar
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Posted - 2006.09.30 10:30:00 -
[64]
Yes please improve the font situation. It is very annoying to play the game if you have trouble reading the text :(
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Ithildin
Gallente
The Corporation
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Posted - 2006.09.30 10:34:00 -
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I think, if you are having trouble reading the font, send a bug report. Do so after each client patch, really, since it's a recurring bug. Be mindful to also submit your screen resolution and describe what letters are hard to separate, etc. If you can get an optician's opinion in there, do it .
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Toros Revoke
STK Scientific
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.09.30 11:05:00 -
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Edited by: Toros Revoke on 30/09/2006 11:05:02
The font broke my eyes I'm sure of it whats wrong with Times New Roman, or Verdana for that matter? do we really need a "Sci Fi" font, escaped from a late 80's dos program, where a simple D is easiliy a 0 or an O, not to mention &, that could be anything!
Whine ends.
Originally by: INNOMINATE NIGHTMARE
Besides, tea must always take precedence over war....
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Za Po
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.09.30 11:09:00 -
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I don't think anyone has ever been banned for changing the font, and I doubt anyone ever will. Unless he goes and makes a big spectable out of it.
Technically, it's against the EULA and is grounds for banning. However, it doesn't give you any unfair advantage, and I'm almost sure that CCP cannot easily detect that you are using a modded font.
That said, it's against the EULA.
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Amee Tindre
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Posted - 2006.09.30 11:12:00 -
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Originally by: 0lly
Sorry but in reply to the OP .
Of the 2000+ people who visited Here
And of the many hundreds who had contacted me personally before the site . I never heard of one who had been banned.
I was at the site but there are only shot and no downloadable content there or I am missing something? I think read in another thread something about CCP changing the way fonts work in a patch some time ago making it impossible to change it? So I guess I am stuck with the impossible to read making your eyes bleed and head hurt font for the foreseeable future?
I was so happy to see you are still around Olly and pushing the font agenda because its needed! I'd just hoped you still had a workable solution on your site.
ALSO,
I am very pleased to see so much action in this little thread I created out of frustration yesterday and it seems there are lot of frustration not just about the font in EVE but also around the UI itself. Let's just hope that CCP read this thread and take into consideration all the issues brought up. I would however like to see the focus of this thread stay on topic which is the FONT issue. If you are very frustrated with the UI please make a UI thread. :)
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John McCreedy
Caldari
Eve Defence Force
Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.09.30 11:49:00 -
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There's a really easy way to solve this issue which, let's face it, has been in since going retail. Give us multiple font settings. Even in low res with expanded font, I have a bad time reading it 
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Aqua II
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Posted - 2006.09.30 11:56:00 -
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Originally by: Amee Tindre
Originally by: Dark Shikari
However, there's an easier solution: play at a lower resolution with the Expanded font option.
That wouldn't work for me, I have a hard time finding space to put all my chat windows and other windows at it is. I just want a new font. I have no clue why on earth they don't allow us to change the font to whatever we feel like or at least BOLD and set SIZE to whatever we like?
Signed. Also it doesn't work because I play in windowed mode, because I'm doing other things at the same time (on the second screen). Switching to a lower resolution only helps when you play in full-screen mode.
It has been like this since I started playing the game, with nearly every patch the font gets even worse. Some devs say they test at 1600x1200 resolutions, which really makes we wonder what brand of magnifying glass they use 
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Aqua II
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Posted - 2006.09.30 12:10:00 -
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Originally by: spurious signal
Originally by: Xorus
Theres nothing wrong with the UI itself
Er you are kidding me right? Have your interface designers never heard of iterative design? Have you guys seen useit.com? You've heard the name Jakob Nielson yeah?
The EVE interface is, IMO, *terrible* in a 100 different ways. I pray that one day you'll redesign it with some attention paid to human psychology, modern interface design concepts, extensive user testing and observation and by collecting clear, specific feedback from your playerbase.
Signed for truth. I don't think I've ever seen a game, or for that matter any application except many media players, that has a worse interface design. It's a wonder it's still this playable, says a lot about the "goodness" of the game in general that people even bother to play it at all with such an interface. Seriously. (The complex economy is what makes Eve tick, for me..)
The UI is utterly unresponsive. The UI should run in a thread that is completely separated from any actions taking place in game. The right-click menu's, don't get me started. The non-standard behaviour of a lot of UI elements (i.e. different than they behave in Windows). Inconsistencies all over the place due to not using a decent widget toolkit, but rolling your own (I'm not saying that a decent one was available when you started developing the game though).
PvP (other than 1v1's or very small groups) has been an utter disaster for more than a year now, due to lag and other interface-related issues.
Indeed I don't think I'd have a hard time coming up with 100 first class "WTF's" in user interface design by simply clicking around the eve client for about 10 minutes.
(And that's even after I have used it for 2 years...)
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Doxs Roxs
White Wolves Defence league
E.R.A
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Posted - 2006.10.02 11:51:00 -
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Lets give this baby a little bump for attention.
Please give us a proper customizable UI!
XML based or whatever technique you think works best, but it needs a PROPER overhaul.
Once that is done, changing font will be a cake. If you are worried about supporting other UIs, then dont. Just do what other games do, if problems arise with the client, make sure there is a simple option to start the client with the standard UI and refer the user to that if they have problems with the custom UIs.
Regards
/Doxs
After almost half a year, why is my face just a '!' ?
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Taram Caldar
Caldari
Acheron Vanguard Armada
The Shadow Ascension
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Posted - 2006.10.02 12:19:00 -
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I don't care much about a new UI... but I would like to see a new font... Tahoma would be phenomenal.... the current EVE font SUCKS at high resolutions.
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Zhecao Vai
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Posted - 2006.10.02 12:34:00 -
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Originally by: Exiled One
Originally by: Hyo Velka
Originally by: Exiled One
Ok. Amazing, a wower, now enjoy your ban.
Oh sorry, thought you were the OP poster. But you're still a wower.
So you discredit a perfectly valid point, simply because he plays WoW? Some people are painfully ignorant, and I'm happy to inform you that you've just joined the club.
They play wow, they compare wow to eve, they want to bring **** from wow to eve. You want a dumbed down version of eve?
No way can this guy be for real.
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