My Little Things I

Well, it’s been quite some time again, and I will skip talking about that. Let’s just say I’ve been very busy.

Aaaanyway, recently CCP Sisyphus and some of the other CCPers asked for ideas on things not easily accessible in EVE’s current UI. So I suggested three little things, I’d really like to see implemented in the game. Sometimes it’s hard to express yourself within 140 characters or less (unless you’re Asian), so here are my ideas again – this time in a visually more appealing way. What do you think?

Colored stargate icons

How about color coding stargate icons to make it a lot easier to see “oh, there it’s going to low sec!” if you’re just travelling around (e.g. to do some exploration)?

I know these system’s aren’t low/null sec, but I wanted to show off the coloring.

Colored targeting animation

Well, this is more or less just some added “fluff” but it could make it easier to distinguish your current target if friends and foes are close to each other. You could check your targets on the top, but you might be losing time already. The color would be based on your overview (essentially using your overview’s background/highlight color).

Left: Targeting some fleet member (yes, faked). Right: Targeting some enemy.

Easier accessible weapon range information

Well, sorry, no picture here. I didn’t bother trying to modify/fake some tooltip while trying to keep it looking good. Essentially, I’d just add the optimal/falloff ranges of turrets/launchers (or more specific: their ammo) into their (already existing) tooltips. Actually, while thinking about it, having their ranges written right below the buttons (optional/switchable) would be nice to have as well! Just something simple like “800m/67km” in latter case. Hm…