So, what is this annoying problem then?
Colour blindness. Can you see the number 74 in the picture above? If you can't then you're colour blind too most likely. Generally I find that it is an ailment which is very much misunderstood by many. Typically with most people assuming that I cannot see colour at all and go through life in grey scale. Please be reassured that is not the case, can see colours, even the ones I have issue with it's just that what I see as red f example you may not and certain colours I may not be able to pick out amongst others.
Personally I am colour blind to red & green like I think 8% of the male populace.
How does this affect my game play, well have a quick think. How many items or events happen in red or green in EVE? Here's some quick-fire examples:
- We all love shooting those red crosses don't we? Well I struggle to see them, especially when the brackets appear red around them to indicate they have opened fire.
- Probing, Trying to find that red box/dot that is a probe hit. Horribly horribly difficult.
- Overheating, totally impossible o see heat damage.
I'm colour blind and it makes flying ecm boats hilariously hard. Normally people say 'green background for gallente, blue caldari, red minmatar, gold amarr'. I cannot tell the difference between the caldari and gallente backgrounds and the minmatar and amarr backgrounds. So I use the wrong jammers and die :)
ReplyDeleteMine isn't as severe, but I hear you. I appreciate that Eve seems to have a lot of customization in the UI. As a relative newb I haven't dug into all the overview tweaks, but can you use some of the stronger contrast and symbols to set up your own pattern you can follow?
ReplyDeleteHey I made a post on the EVE forums just a few days ago about the same subject, feel free to go chip in and maybe they will do something about it?
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Hopefully we can get some added functionality that supports this :)
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