Very nice. Looks like an improvement over classic brackets, for the most part.

What I think have an I issue with.
-- Different slashes and dots in subcaps. Still think it's too much detail for a bracket. I'd use a single kind of slash (or maybe a dot) to differentiate between frigate/destroyer and cruiser/BC.
-- Titan icon is too much of a zebra. Interchanging 1-2px lines and spaces make it look... more filled than the others and thus deviating from 'non-filled PC icons theme'

Non-combat ships, I don't really know, don't encounter them often enough to have an opinion.

Very nice. Looks like an improvement over classic brackets, for the most part.

What I think have an I issue with.
-- Different slashes and dots in subcaps. Still think it's too much detail for a bracket. I'd use a single kind of slash (or maybe a dot) to differentiate between frigate/destroyer and cruiser/BC.
-- Titan icon is too much of a zebra. Interchanging 1-2px lines and spaces make it look... more filled than the others and thus deviating from 'non-filled PC icons theme'

Non-combat ships, I don't really know, don't encounter them often enough to have an opinion.

day one of the War: Tyler Durden Demolitions vs. C C P Alliance: they choose to stay docked, probably due to crappy icons.

Yes, that would have been a great idea : a contest for the new icons, with some nice prizes for the fun, and most importantly a poll for the players to choose the winners.

But at the end let's not forget the main question : were the icons really the most urgent thing to spend time on ? Did they really need to be changed ? Aren't there much more important things to be done to improve EVE ?

I can't imagine what my workaround would be if I was a new player overwhelmed by the number of ship types appearing in the column.

I mean, look at this. Show this to an independent UX/UI professional and ask them what their reactions are.
https://puu.sh/ielys/69f788c875.png
That's not a hypothetical situation, I am looking at that in space right now.

Overview is actually one of the only 2 areas that already have an option to use smaller fonts (the other is the chat window - for mysterious reasons it won't let you use a smaller font on the user list tho).

Well, it's saturday, instead of having a nice afternoon, early evening playing EVE , I will be doing something else.
I will force myself to sign on before bed tonigt to update PI, but in order to avoid the headaches, I am limiting my playtime. Interesting thing is that With the nice weather, I am not missing EVE as much as I thought.

PS my wife thanks you for the new Icon design, you have achieved what she was unable to.

last message from CCP was a couple days ago:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5794965#post5794965


... not a peep since ...

I don't want to sound rude, but if this is not sarcasm but actual reality, then you might have a game addiction problem.

Bah, did it anyway.

Modified the old brackets and the current capital ship icons. I think something like this would work: Ship Icons

- All subcaps brackets are squares, all capital ships are represented by diamonds (for consistency).
- The dots in the cruiser (solid dot) and battleship (hollow dot) icons are debatable. I added them for all those, who think that the old bracket size differences weren't discernable enough.
- Different orientation of the slash for destroyers and battlecruisers to help keep them apart .
- No brackets for capsules and shuttles, because neither has combat capabilities.
- Rounded brackets for mining barge and industrial to make them stand out more when it gets crowded.
- All combat capital ships have one half of the diamond shaped icons with a double line (titan is two intersecting diamonds).
- Capital industrial and freighter icons have the same interior as mining barge and industrial respectively, to stay consistent with regard to typical ship useage.
- Made sure that icons scale well to 90% (12px base) and 110% (16px base).

i am seriously hoping that something a little like this is happening right now at CCP in reference to the MASSIVE number of dislikes towards the new icons:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS9j_-mqSWc

Also regarding Fozie Sov: Please do not let sovereignty turn into a game of pest play.

hahahahaha ... good one ... i can hear it now:

CCP Pilot1: ok these new icons ... which one is the war target?

CCP Pilot2: the red ones duh!

CCP Pilot1: wait, thats a NPC, im confused!

CCP Pilot2: oh damnit, we should have done this better!



ok that was mean of me ... im sorry ... lol ...

Gaming addiction? No such thing. * downs a Mtn Dew in one gulp *

Just the other day I was chatting with a corpie on coms when this very subject came up. During the convo he was complaining about hearing what I was doing in the bathroom because of my wireless mic. I just told him the wireless mic was necessary because there are some things that a bottle beside the computer desk just cant take care of.

He proceeded to point out that I might have a gaming problem because he overheard my conversation with the city official talking about how tall my grass was and how they were gonna charge me if they had to come out and cut it. Can you imagine the nerve of those people? I think I lost a few million isk on the market because of that interruption and I told the official I was going to look into getting that isk back when next I talked to my internet lawyer friend on Eve.

* grabs tissue to stop todays nose bleed while downing a Mtn Dew *

Anyways, the corpie also pointed out how I lost my job recently. He implied it was because of my forum warrioring while I was at work. I told him the boss was being unreasonable and I was looking for a new job anyway. Just like my last job. They actually tracked my total internet use and came up with some absurd numbers like my spending 6 hours a day commenting on the forums and how I wasn't productive as an employee. Yea, I left that place straight away.

* downs another Mtn Dew *

Haha! Did you see that? What? Yes, I'm fine. Why does everyone keep asking me that?

Gaming addiction. Pfft!!!

Obligatory post saying I also hate the new icons. Give us an option to use the old ones if we want please!!!