W33b3l
Wolf-Monkey Bastards
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Posted - 2015.06.03 02:06:59 -
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OK now that Ive had some time to play with it.
The first priority needs to be fixing the 90% scaling issue before anything else. I have to disable scaling to even remotely tell what the icons are and that is a SEVERE issue for me. Ide rather the new icons where not released with this issue but since they where, please work on fixing this first so we can all at least get used to them as fast as possible.
I havnt came across a Cap ship like a carrier yet, curious what those icons look like, but from what I have seen, ship wise, I adapted to the new icons fairly quickly sitting outside a trade hub station watching things fly by. Im actually fairly fond of the new ship icons (but only the ship icons) although again.. please fix the scaling.
Its is very hard to tell the difference between an NPC and Player ship by the icons alone. I can see that the NPC icons are shaded but I have to look really close to tell. The shading needs to be much more prominent.
Wrecks are also confusing. Flipping the icon for the wreck is a nice touch but having the diamond overlay on the top (while easy to see) obscures the ships icon too much and using the old method of just shading in the wreck icon would be MUCH more preferred.
The icons for all the different types of drones really needs to be removed. We all know the drone names by heart and this level of variety on the overview Is just too much to take in and process at once. It would be much better to either use the old icons, or settle for something more simple that just shows the size of the drone instead. aka small, medium, large, and possibly sentry. All the other types of drones say what they do in the name anyway. This is a very common complaint.
The new icons for the different types of asteroids is a nice touch however the triangle for the belt was better then the 3 dots (another common complaint).
However besides that, most of the other icons in space (except for the sun and planets in system) are just too confusing, aka all the complaints about POS mods and such. The icons for mobile depots look like they should be ships also. If you could revert the large amount of icons for all the deployable structures (including gate guns and billboards) back to what they where and fix the few issues with the rest it would help out a lot while keeping the player base reasonably happy and still implementing the reasons for the changes in the first place.
I like where you're going with a lot of the new icons, you just WAY over did it to the point of making things too confusing. Which seems to be a common theme in this thread.
Thank you. |