Langbaobao
Tr0pa de elite.
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2015.06.19 01:53:27 -
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TBH I find the new icons annoying and a needless over complication of something that was working ok, however I doubt you will listen to those who are asking for a return to old icons, either directly or via a button that can toggle between old and new icons.
However tbh the biggest annoyance for me is the fact that I can't differentiate at a glance between rats on a gate and actual player ships in space. Before it was simple: crosses are NPCs, squares are players, ergo you point them and shoot them. Now I have to fight with the gazillion of different icons which I struggle distinguishing between NPC and players. So far it hasn't brought about a ship loss but one of these days it will for sure. I will not mention drone icons which are also annoying. There are so many different drone icons that it becomes impossible to distinguish them at a glance from ships. This s really annoying. I dunno, maybe reducing icon size for drones would reduce this annoyance, but tbh the simplest solution would be to have only one type of icon for all drones like we had before. Before you knew, x=drone and not some ship. I can judge easily what type of drones are in space by how fast they move (or not move), I don't really need 10 different icons for all the different types of drones. Alltogether I would say the biggest complaint I have is that it's not easy to distinguish between ships (the really important thing) and NPCs+drones at a glance and this is highly frustrating.
I know you guys went into this with the best intentions, but unfortunately I have to say that you've brought about an unnecessary complexity in the icon system. I don't blame you, I blame one well known blogger who advocated this change and fueled the hype. He probably infected you with the hype at the last fanfest (I remember seeing him there) and you said, why not? Still, there's no point crying over spoiled milk. Knowing how CCP functions, I doubt we can really go back that easily. This is a big change to the UI and such big changes are difficult to revert. We will probably have to end up living with it but you could at least reduce the complexity of the new system and hopefully we'll adapt with time. Granted, I'd love if there could be a toggle that allowed me to turn back to square brackets for player ships but I am not holding my breath. Would be nice if I was wrong... |