Overview Settings: Adaptations for Color Vision Deficiencies

General

Living with Color Vision Deficiencies is a difficult proposition. As you can imagine, it makes certain aspects real life and of gaming difficult. After experiementing with overview settings, I've reached a satisfactory adaptation and am compelled to share it in the hopes to help others with similar conditions. It may also benefit those without color vision deficiencies as it aids in rapid recognition and minimal tranlation time.

The adaptations are Eve University overview compliant as the intended target recognition and order are still acheived because it is built upon E-Uni overview settings.

IMHO these settings will help color vision deficient players compensate effectively:

Prerequisites

First step is to follow the Eve-Uni Overview Guide to the letter.

Next Steps

Adaptations for Color Vision Deficiencies:

Overview Settings/Appearance/Colortag: Blinky Icons

Overview Settings/Appearance/Colortag

1. Put an X in all boxes
2. Right click and turn blink on for the following:

• Pilot is at war with your corporation/alliance
• Pilot is at war with your militia
• Pilot is in your alliance (to help distinguish between pilot is in your corp/alliance. this will be clear with below color changes)
• Pilot is an outlaw (to help distinguish between outlaw/security status below 0/bounty)
• Pilot has a bounty on him (to help distinguish between outlaw/security status below 0/bounty)
• Pilot (agent) is interactable. (personal preference. I haven't seen any yet, and this blinky will help increase the visibility and chance to locate an agent in space.)

1. (does anyone know how to make this a 3? please edit if so)Right click and make the following color changes to the associated icons:

• Pilot is in your fleet - BLUE
• Pilot is in your corp - BLUE
• Pilot is in your alliance - BLUE

Note: makes all know friendly icons blue and makes alliance distinguishable from corp when coupled with above blinky settings.

• Pilot has excellent standing - INDIGO
• Pilot has good standing - PURPLE
• Pilot is in your militia - PURPLE

Note: distinguishes between allies/know friendlies and good standing catagories while distinguishing between excellent and good standings.

Overview Settings/Appearance/Background: Flashy and Solid Backgrounds

Overview Settings/Appearance/Background

1. Right click and make the following blinky:

• Pilot is at war with your corporation/alliance
• Pilot is at war with your militia (to distinguish between militia wt/outlaw/bad standing/security status below 0)

1. (also this should be 2)Put an X in the following boxes:

• Pilot is at war with your corporation/alliance
• Pilot is at war with your militia (to distinguish between militia wt/outlaw/bad standing/security status below 0)
• Pilot has bounty on him (to distinguish between outlaw/security status below 0/bounty)

Note: the suggested changes to bounty catagory on both Colortag and Background tabs are necessary to make the "bad" categories clearly distinguishable. I have found that it doesn't clutter the overview excessively, and it is comforting to know who to keep a close eye on.

Disclaimer

There are different color vision deficiencies, and my deficiencies are pretty bad. Anything blue-ish (blue, indigo, purple, dark blue, etc.) is blue to me. Red/Green, Yellow/Bright Green, you get the idea. So, you may need to experiment with the color choices to make it work for you. Which ever color choices you make should work if you stick with the above blinky/flashy adaptations to the Eve University Overview Guide.

Sign off

Respectfully submitted,

Hypertac Armer

• Work in progress. TOC, example images, color to follow soon.