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Rat Scout
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.06.20 07:35:35 -
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I am not sure why some of the icons are what they are. I get it, people want to work and update pixels, fine. But I wish there was some better logic to ship progression. It would have been really helpful to allow us to use colors to fill in the icons in the overview, not the background, but the actual icons only.
I don't want to nit pick on icons that are irrelevant to combat, but I would like to see the ship icons improve a bit. The ISIS sample that was featured a long time ago in a dev blog had much better icon progression, the bigger the ship, the more complex the icon.
And to be even more constructive, I even spent a few minutes in illustrator to draw something up that I would find easy to work with.
The current simple carrier icon is almost the same as the POCO icon, on small screens with low graphics this could be difficult to work with/ get used to.
http://imgur.com/lMAkjjX
The solution that I would like to see the most is to allow us to use custom colors on each icon that represents a ship type. If that was available, I could care less what shape the icon is, my color coded overview would tell me what I need to know. (ps: sorting by color should also be implemented to make it even more awesome) |
Rat Scout
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
10
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Posted - 2015.06.20 08:54:53 -
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@Cleanse
Your idea of color coding ships is not what I was talking about.
Frigs would be ...- pink .....
Destroyers - orange
Cruisers - navy
etc
corp/alliance/fleet I do not need to see in my overview, everything else is something I can shoot at.
If I am logi, I don't need to see the enemy in overview. |
Rat Scout
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.06.20 09:36:33 -
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Cleanse Serce wrote:Rat Scout wrote:@Cleanse
Your idea of color coding ships is not what I was talking about.
Frigs would be ...- pink .....
Destroyers - orange
Cruisers - navy
etc
corp/alliance/fleet I do not need to see in my overview, everything else is something I can shoot at.
If I am logi, I don't need to see the enemy in overview. wether its for alliance/corp or ship class, it is still colors that we're talkin about right ? 
Or potatoes, maybe call me? As if it matters what you and me are talking about. |
Rat Scout
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.06.21 06:39:20 -
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@Torgeir
I agree with your assessment, I merely tried to bring up the issue with the icons that I have, which is inconsistency. I believe that even if they didn't follow your basic rundown on how to create good icons for a large number of "stuff", if they at least made the same categories to use a base shape ( as I tried to use the triangle in all my ship icons ) and have something that is easy to differentiate between them, then people would not be so irritated with this change.
Change is inevitable but it should be progressive in the positive direction overall. If some of the POS icons were confusing, or we had the pacman gates while the ship icons made perfect sense, people wouldn't be so upset, and I am willing to bet Avrue's Token on this. |
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