Funny but annoying new quirk of Photon: If you sit in a place with lots of people moving about, like trade hub station, the scroll bar in the Guest tab keeps flashing every time something in the list changes. Same goes for chats like Local in those locations. The old UI does not do that (it only resizes the bars unnoticably) and I don’t see any reason why the UI should flash the scroll bar every time something changes even though I am not even in that window, and it only does it if the scroll bar is not at the very top of the list. This another instance of useless, flashy UI clutter and UI noise that serves no beneficial purpose and is inconsistent because why would you not want a flashy change indicator when the indicator is at the top of the list…
Photon IS NOT READY.
The human interface sections of the user (a human, in the intended case) interface look as if they are designed by 2nd rate mobile/tablet designers.
It is laggy as hell compared to the original UI, and provides LESS information yet takes up MORE SPACE, and with less options for customization.
The key issues continue to be ignored (usability, more clicks to do basic things, responsiveness) and the simple “move the box a few pixels to the left so the text doesn’t clip” are half assed in a way that adjusting the UI scale breaks things again. Removing functionality and replacing it with additional clutter hidden behind separate layers of menus is not an improvement. It isn’t worthy of being called an alternative – it is an objectively worse UI in key aspects, from information provided to the player, to the amount of effort the player needs to put in (clicks, menus, etc.) to perform the same tasks through the UI.
The original UI needs to remain until all of these key, major issues get resolved.
More button inconsistency. The left button should be facing the other direction. Just like the buttons in the contract window’s search window that face in opposite directions.
Look at all the useless padding. This list is now 3x as long as in the old UI just because of all the white space.
Same window (same height) in the old UI:
@CCP_Swift
Photon UI still feels like piece of unfinished unprofessional crap (( There is no synergy, its harder to spot elements, they are out of proportion and blantly take more space for no reason.
Here: Example, reported a while ago:
Search field was INTENDED to be that small and aligned to the right I assume? or was mislooked in the reviews? the wider the box, the further the search is.
and it not just the case… its just making you asking yourself WHY? every time.
why not make players click BIG NICE Reward button? Lets make them click this small, insignificant button underneath! For god sake!
More issues with Photon, just for record keeping:
One of the main problems which photon was meant to fix was “inconsistency” in the UI design.
IT
IS
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WORSE
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THIS
THAN
WHAT
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HAD
BEFORE
How does anyone at CCP think that’s what “ready for launch” means? Because no it isn’t. I don’t care about your promised timelines. If this is your deadline to settle on the UI to move forward with, SCRAP THIS HEAP OF TRASH AND KEEP THE ONLY UI THAT CURRENTLY WORKS TO AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL. If today is the day you have to stop working on photon, THROW IT OUT, IT ISN’T READY. Add the very, VERY short list of new features that actually work (like multiple overviews) to the old UI, where they belong. There are improvements the photon UI has made, but there are many, MANY more severe screwups that make the game experience objectively worse for its existence. If you’re not giving up on it, then until photon is actually ready for launch, DO NOT push it live without an option to opt out. That means, right now, while it’s VERY DEFINITELY NOT READY, let us roll it back like we have been able to previously.
PHOTON
IS
NOT
READY
FOR
THIS
YET.
and thi is “compact” mode??? On previus I had here 7 rows!
FFS not everyone has 2k+ monitor
Look over here I even did some quick job for you. Mb dev team should play EVE Online instead Fortnite dota or what ever are you doing there!
and even more - if you move all those funny pictograms with probe grouping into one DROPLIST
как отключить этот кал?
only one question. WHY???
CCP FORCING ITS PLAYERS TO USE A UI THAT THEY HATE ITS REALLY LOW !!!
EVERYONE PETITION PLEASE !!!
WE HATE THE PHOTON UI, ITS NOT USER FRIENDLY AND REALLY DISTURBS THE GAME PLAY !!!
ответ от службы поддержки: никак. Мне так и написали
Despite all the complaints that have been brought forth by numerous players including myself during the last months CCP forces this nuisance upon their customers.
Well, every company is free to ruin a former good product as best as it is able to.
Старый интерфейс: хочется играть и интерфейс помогает в решении задач, приятен, удобен, не давит на глаза. Играешь сутками, наслаждаешься игрой.
Включили фотонный интерфейс: 2 часа игры, а дальше унижение, страдание, боль.
“Чувак у тебя были глаза? Сходи купи новые.” - Это ФОТОННЫЙ ИТЕРФЕЙС! Ты будешь унижен!
я все понимаю, мир EVE Online жесток, холоден и неприветлив. Но не настолько же…
Old interface: I want to play and the interface helps in solving problems, it is pleasant, convenient, does not put pressure on the eyes. Play for days, enjoy the game.
We turned on the photon interface: 2 hours of play, and then humiliation, suffering, pain.
“Dude did you have eyes? Go get some new ones.” - It’s a PHOTONIC INTERFACE! You will be humiliated!
I understand everything, the world of EVE Online is cruel, cold and unfriendly. But not as much…
Please allow us to keep opting out from this terrible new UI for just one or two more infinity.
It’s supposed to be the user interface not the devs interface, and the user keeps telling you it’s utter crap yet you force it on us.
Don’t like the new Photon UI. Stop forcing it on us. Why did you have to fix something that wasn’t broken?
I’ve cancelled subs. Forcing a worse UI on users, when devs receive such robust, practical, but negative feedback, is the final straw.
So you ■■■■■■ up our UIs. Great.
Now can we at least have an “export” feature so that we can duplicate our settings across accounts and characters after we finally spend enough time making this garbage remotely usable?