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karrea
Caldari Minmatar Mafia Black Hand.
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Posted - 2008.11.15 10:05:00 -
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now its not that i have a fetish with lowercase letters or anything i mean i like how all the uppercase letters make it look cool and stuff but... let me stop myself before i completely get off topic...
the following letters (while in the internet browser they look differnt) on the system names look nearly identical... O 0 D 8 B (maybe) 1 I now imagine your the fc of a fleet flying around in 0.0, which has system names full of seemingly random numbers, letters, and -'s. it gets very annoying when you have to link the system in the fleet chat and mess up over and over again.
this is a example from the map theres o's and 0's and b's and 8's and d's everywhere... Please visit your user settings to re-enable images. now im sure you can all tell the differences when your close up and looking at it closely, but what about when your in your 1280by1024 screen and your being chased through 0.0 it gets rather hard to tell the differnces between these names.
anyone who has played the game for a long time (year or two or more) must have come across situations like this before, and gotten anoyed by it.
now i purpose a quite simple and elegent solution, remake all the system names to (drum roll plz) lowercase.
ok thats enough from me. lets hear support against the thing that i hate in eve the most. if the image didnt work http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f273/wnxnorad/examples.jpg |
Yesukhei
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Posted - 2008.11.15 10:44:00 -
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I'm not sure about MMORPG, but in single player games fonts usually can be simply changed. Maybe, a little program can be written to replace font in client, and everybody will use their favourite.
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Xindi Kraid
Caldari Cerulean Sky Fire Industries
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Posted - 2008.11.15 10:56:00 -
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*raises hand. I've done that before. A little more name contrast couldn't hurt, though removing the offending letters could also help.
BTW be careful the devs are fascists on dialup and like to kill pictures despite the forum having a function to do it for them. -So says Xindi Kraid
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Alchemise
Amarr Minmatar Mafia Black Hand.
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Posted - 2008.11.15 11:08:00 -
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I quite often use fullscreen 1680x1050 in premium.
All nice and shiny.
I also have quite bad eyesight.
Anyone know whos anything about glasses or lenses in general will know that +10 dioptres is quite something.
Anyone, I fully endorse the motion/product.
Also slashes through the zeros would be good - command prompt style
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MystLynx
Gallente Ships R Us
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Posted - 2008.11.15 11:11:00 -
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Edited by: MystLynx on 15/11/2008 11:15:19 Edited by: MystLynx on 15/11/2008 11:12:11 /signed i agree ! this could be VERY very simple for the dev's. remeber how they took out our implants for the qr patch. but we couldnt repackage them? well they made a script to go through and repackage all implants in hangers! they can make a script and have it go through and simply change the font/capitalization of system names. ( a font that has 0 with a slash through it would be awsome also...) 1920x1200 res here
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Xindi Kraid
Caldari Cerulean Sky Fire Industries
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Posted - 2008.11.15 11:27:00 -
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Originally by: Alchemise
Also slashes through the zeros would be good - command prompt style
If its going to be command prompt style then I demand dots in the 0s -So says Xindi Kraid
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enymphia
Ore Mongers Black Hand.
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Posted - 2008.11.15 13:45:00 -
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Originally by: Xindi Kraid
Originally by: Alchemise
Also slashes through the zeros would be good - command prompt style
If its going to be command prompt style then I demand dots in the 0s
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NightF0x
Gallente Chicken Coup Raiders
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Posted - 2008.11.15 14:46:00 -
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All caps are standard in engineering fields (and I'm sure in many others). Reasoning is that it is usually easier to read all caps than it is for mixed cases. 1's and L's are easy to distinguish as well as 0 and O (in most fonts). What we have in Eve is a custom font that does a poor job at distinguishing the characters from one another. I would rather see a standard font such as Arial or Times being used or better yet, have a combo-box with a selection of a couple of fonts for us to choose from. |
Alchemise
Amarr Minmatar Mafia Black Hand.
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Posted - 2008.11.15 20:14:00 -
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Originally by: NightF0x All caps are standard in engineering fields (and I'm sure in many others). Reasoning is that it is usually easier to read all caps than it is for mixed cases. 1's and L's are easy to distinguish as well as 0 and O (in most fonts). What we have in Eve is a custom font that does a poor job at distinguishing the characters from one another. I would rather see a standard font such as Arial or Times being used or better yet, have a combo-box with a selection of a couple of fonts for us to choose from.
Engineering fields are useless at standardising things. But anyways, the eve font looks very very nice. Far better than arial or times new roman. Of course the problem is we can't easily tell the difference bewteen certain symbols.
I suggest they just tweak the font, make B's a bit more obvious from D's; and put a strike or a dot through the zero.
I suppose the other alternative is to learn a different language with clearer letters.
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karrea
Caldari Minmatar Mafia Black Hand.
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Posted - 2008.11.16 00:07:00 -
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Edited by: karrea on 16/11/2008 00:10:11 thanks for the support... i guess we don't have to lowercase everything, a change in fonts would make the distingishes easyer...
as long as the problem gets fixed, ill be happy :P
and again the bad letters are: O (capital o), 0 (zero), and D (capital d) and the second set B (capital b), and 8 (eight)
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