Hello Eve developers,
Why is there still no option to up scale the cursor?
On a 4K 55inch Monitor it looks like a dot so small and many times i just loose track on were the cursor is.
Fonts can be upscaled, any idea to implent this option for the cursor also?
On google i read many complains about this and request to Eve Developers to give us the option to make your cursor size a lot bigger. 3th party software doesnt work the bypass or fix this issue.
This topic periodically appears on the Forum. There has not recently been any statement from CCP, that I’m aware of.
Some folks have suggested that there might be technical difficulties involved, but I find that hard to accept.
I have increasing difficulties with vision (ageing…) which cannot be addressed simply by using stronger spectacles. I use a large pointer in Windows and it transfers usefully to other software I have; but not to EVE.
The developers could treat it as an Accessibility issue, and prioritise it in that way, but it’s entirely up to them. Perhaps…New CSM? New Pointer! Fingers crossed.
Devs have even stated its wrapped up in hard code. You may not accept that, but thats how it is
I dont know what it means that it is wrapped up in hardcode but if you can change font size and scalling screenplay up nd down you can als implement the option to change cursor size. Even CCP must undertsand that is a must have if you playing eve on a 4K monitor. Software ingeneers can fix this easly to add the code for this option. We have almost everyday a patch update to add,remove or fix something in the game.
Of course, but I did write ‘hard’ to accept rather than ‘impossible’ to do so!
I wonder whether they’ll ever do a rewrite? Perhaps it’s not a good idea; we might lose a heck of a lot more than a miniscule pointer!
Hard Code in EvE…
A Dev once stated, imagine the code of EvE, the old undocumented stuff…
As a huge ball of wet spaghetti noodles… pull one in the center mass the wrong way…it breaks…and breaks everything else attached directly to it…
Might i mention PoS Code…and why we still can use them despite Upwells existing.
it’s legacy code that is deeply entwined into everything.
The same reason POS’s are still around… any time CCP tries to remove them, or changes the code behind them…it breaks things elsewhere in the game in odd and horrifyingly unpredictable ways that make no real world sense.
Meaning the code for the cursor is 20 some years old. Most if not all the current devs aside ftom the ceo have no clue how the old code was written, or understand it, and it causes problems when they try to change it or customize it
Weve had several player representatives for years try to get ccp to update it to no avail, because of how hard it is
I feel like rather than try and change the current cursor, just display a larger one at the cursor location over the current one.
Good idea 