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Weren't all the icons *just* redone a short time back?

lored2deathlored2death Member Posts: 6 Arc User
edited January 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I'm not understanding why anyone took the time or resources to change them yet agin. The old ones (not the originals) felt clear and you could make it out in no time. Everything now seems to have circles and squiggly lines, like incomprehensible blobs of color that you can barely make out at times.

I mean, could that time and labor have been put into something a little bit more useful and a whole lot less confusing?
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  • gonaliusgonalius Member Posts: 893 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I don't think the icons have ever been changed.

    The new ones. Some I think are clearer, some are worse, pretty much all will take some adjusting to. My complaint is that they now look too gamey. Too cartoony, whereas before they were semi-serious and I felt fit in better.
  • colonelchenchuancolonelchenchuan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    ive never ever known what most of them are supposed to be. When my tray gets messed up I have no clue what anything does if it isn't in the right position.

    Just have to get use to these again but honestly I cant decipher what anything is without a mouse over. Apparently there is actually some code to the icons
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  • colonelchenchuancolonelchenchuan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    gonalius wrote: »
    I don't think the icons have ever been changed.

    .

    yes the icons have been changed 3-4X. LoR was the last major over haul.
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  • lored2deathlored2death Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    gonalius wrote: »
    I don't think the icons have ever been changed.

    The new ones. Some I think are clearer, some are worse, pretty much all will take some adjusting to. My complaint is that they now look too gamey. Too cartoony, whereas before they were semi-serious and I felt fit in better.

    They've been changed several times now since launch. the ones you're referring to were from the last update to them so even those weren't the originals. At least the last update to the icons was very good and made things very clear and simple to see. These new icons have the complexity of a mahjong playing piece and seem to all blend together outside of colors.

    So they've changed these things at LEAST twice before and this last batch is really, really bad imo.
  • vsilverwings1vsilverwings1 Member Posts: 572 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    You're probably thinking of the console/equipment ones which were also pointless and worked fine for the years since the game launched but that's Cryptic for you, giving us what we don't really want but quite capable of giving us what we don't.
  • medalionemissarymedalionemissary Member Posts: 612 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    No, the icons were NOT redone awhile back... you are probably confusing the Legacy of Romulus revamp, but the icons themselves are the same.

    And no, the original icons were NOT intuitive at all... the only reason you are complaining is because you were used to knowing what they mean, and now you have to re-learnt hem all over again.

    To the average person who has compared the icons, most people admit the newer icons are intuitively more clear of what they are to represent.

    You are most likely in the minority here.
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  • mrspidey2mrspidey2 Member Posts: 959 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    medalionemissary wrote: »
    To the average person who has compared the icons, most people admit the newer icons are intuitively more clear of what they are to represent.
    This. They are definitely more intuitive now. Rally Cry is a flag that is being waved. Target Optics is an eye, Security Escort has little security dudes, FAW Displays multiple beams etc..
    You have to get used to them first but they do make a lot more sense now.
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  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited January 2015
    Last icon change was when they went from colorless (greyish) to color coded (red/blue/yellow).
  • janus1975janus1975 Member Posts: 739 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I remember the color change and that both made sense, and improved their legibility. This new change is a failure, both in terms of legibility of the icons, and in terms of the new delay and jittery countdown animation.
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  • imruinedimruined Member Posts: 1,457 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    mrspidey2 wrote: »
    This. They are definitely more intuitive now. Rally Cry is a flag that is being waved. Target Optics is an eye, Security Escort has little security dudes, FAW Displays multiple beams etc..
    You have to get used to them first but they do make a lot more sense now.

    Yep, when you see them all together on your action bar it looks very busy at first, because they are definitely more intricate I have to say, but the icons are far more clearly representative of what actions they perform now...

    Once the initial shock at the dramatic change to some of them, I personally feel that the new icons are indeed a significant improvement, regardless of whether they had been changed previously or not...
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