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The new console icons are too detailed for their image size, do not match the theme of any other aspect of the game, are not intuitive because of all the colours, and are unnessesary. There are plenty of areas to improve in the game, the old icons were not one of them.
The armors and plates are difficult to distinguish, as are the beam weapon damage boost consoles, and the many other icon problems show that no thought were given to quickly distinguishing consoles. You have to look a few times, give up, and wait for the tooltip to see what it is. Every aspect of the new icons is confusing, functionally counter-intuitive, and aesthetically amateur. How am I supposed to distinguish my torpedo consoles? That tiny little symbol that doesnt take more than a few pixels? its a waste of the rest of the icon.
"We are sorry you feel that way but we and many other gamers like it" is the first standard PR corporate response to expect. To this, I say, hold a poll, and put your money where your mouth is. You're wrong and it will be made clear in a vote. Also, standard PR corporate answers only come from bad people.
The armors and plates are difficult to distinguish, as are the beam weapon damage boost consoles, and the many other icon problems show that no thought were given to quickly distinguishing consoles. You have to look a few times, give up, and wait for the tooltip to see what it is. Every aspect of the new icons is confusing, functionally counter-intuitive, and aesthetically amateur. How am I supposed to distinguish my torpedo consoles? That tiny little symbol that doesnt take more than a few pixels? its a waste of the rest of the icon.
"We are sorry you feel that way but we and many other gamers like it" is the first standard PR corporate response to expect. To this, I say, hold a poll, and put your money where your mouth is. You're wrong and it will be made clear in a vote. Also, standard PR corporate answers only come from bad people.
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Tough choice.
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As do broad absolute generalizations. :P
Such as what I posted HERE....
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
Or how about new canonically accurate icons that aren't all identical and that people can easily identify like those old lazy icons. :P
Right on!! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the same thing.
When LoR was first launched there was a minority of players calling for the original UI to be brought back because they didn't like the new one. Where are the threads for the old UI to be brought back? They are no where to be seen, Why? because players have got used to it, it is exactly the same for the new icons.
Give it a week or two an you won't think anymore of them.
+1 but they aren't hurting anything, but they were a waste of time IMO
Lately they make all icon images HUGE, almost filling the entire image. Its meant to somehow be clearer, but in reality it just makes it all look the same. Total waste of resources, if they have to find something for the UI guy to do have him make the lunch runs or something, making him do busy work that isn't needed or wanted is not only a waste of time, its detrimental to the player experience.
Did no one in Cryptic look at these things before they were changed?
Every other item in my inventory I can determine the rarity of by a glance, except consoles now. Uniformity in design, especially visual design is extremely important even if not always noticed. Their is a reason all google UIs, and all Apple UIs look similar within the brands.
And this is just the new addition to the inconsistency list. Why do some missions drop a box and others dump the reward directly into your invintory? Why does the method used to start the Sha'mar daily mission differ from the Alehna one? Minor I know but irritating.
The only thing I do not care about is the pastel colors used in them. Aside from the color pallete used i think they are a welcome change with consiole fitting a family so you know that icon represents a tac console and not a science or engineer.
"I'm drunk, whats your excuse for being an idiot?" - Unknown drunk man. :eek:
There is nothing much wrong with the new icons, they are simply new to what people are used to. The exact same thing came up with the new UI. some people hated it and wanted it reversed. Give it a week or two and you will get used to it, just like people got used to the new UI. You need more than a day to adjust to them so dont make snap calls to have everything change back.
Some may require a tweak here or there, but call for that after a few weeks when you can be objective about it.
The only reason I can think of for them to even have bothered changing these in the first place is that it's part of the overall Fed graphics update and tutorial overhaul they were talking about.
But its pointless to whine. If they did eventually change them back, you people would complain again because by then you'd already have gotten used to the new ones.
I for one didn't know there was any changes being planned until I suddenly found myself staring at new icons. :rolleyes:
And what about people who have bad eyesight (like colorblindness)? What about people who has computers the display those icons in such detail they honestly can't identify by just looks?
You honestly telling those players to "deal with it"?
If the Dev Team honestly expects people are just blowing off steam, like any other change, I'll be really disappointed they ignored the plights of the visually impaired.
I would tell them to put the cursor over the item and read
I don't know if the new icons are "canonically" accurate. Here's a quick example:
Run a google search for "relay images." Now compare the results with the old and new phaser relay icons. I found that most relay photos had square transparent box-shaped enclosures -- this more accurately matches the old phaser relay picture as opposed to the new-style soda can icon.
The old icons were also far easier to differentiate since they all looked unique. The new ones look like they were copy/pasted and recolored to match the corresponding energy type hues.
Given the above, it's a no brainer -- give me back the old icons!
EDIT: BTW, if some here don't already know, the STO community response to the new icons has been overwhelmingly negative. I seriously doubt that Cryptic will leave the new, largely undesired icons in place long term.
are the new icons better or worse for colourblind people? i would definitely say they are worse. if its an issue for players to the point where its impossible to distinguish then fine, some changes may be in order.
The forums are always negative about everything, it's pretty much the same whine tune as always when something changes.
Plus the overall number of the players on the forum is massively smaller to the overall number of players the negativity regarding this on the forum is the size on an atom compared to players overall.
I know it is only another snap shot, but when I was on the chat was overwhelmingly negati9ve in the area of the new icons. It was appreciated they did the work but they failed on the outcome. Basically it boiled down to getting an A grade for effort but an F for implimentation/execution.
Likely not going to happen, though. It's like asking them to put up a poll for whether people rather see bug fixed than yet more new things: they fear the outcome.