No, I don’t need some cheese with my whine. In 15+ years of playing this game I’ve come to realize there really is no point whining. But whine I must…
A bit of backstory before I pour the whine 
I was quite active since mind 2023 [after a long break of 2 years] and skilling with intent, upgrading gear, mentoring, soc-hopping [it’s a hard life for people in my time zone], trolling + healing at the sweatcamps and … generally … just being an Entropian.
Some real life successes meant that I played the game at a higher PED burn than ever before. I don’t feel the losses as acutely anymore, because, well, I’m not as poor as I once was. Generally all was well and I even did some grinding during Merry Mayhem for the first time. Nah, I didn’t get anything good, but I had fun with my in-game friends and socmates while decked in gear I could previously only dream of.
Then came … the interface update. It completely changed how I played the game and forced me to dump 10+ years of muscle memory and icon clusters and hotkey layouts … and it was too much, so I decided to take a break and wait for community whining about the INFERIOR new interface to finally force MA’s hand into giving us back some of the lost features of the old one.
And let me tell you … it’s another case of, if you want something done right, do it yourself. NOBODY complained! I logged in yesterday, and that interface is every bit the same frustration that made me take a 6 month hike again.
WHY? Did you sacks drop off? Am I to understand that most of the community prefers this new UI (not talking about the look so much as the functionality - which is inferior to the old one)? But before this thread gets locked as ‘another UI bugfix threat in the wrong place’ … let me say I’m kind of over it. I’ve made the compromises I had to and my current mappings and shortcuts and icon clusters (forced into either vertical or horizontal pre-set containers) are … liveable.
Will I ever be as fast dropping a probe while tagging a Hogglo? No. But maybe I was living too much on the edge doing that.
But back to pouring the whine … MY ARMOR LOOKS LIKE SHIT!
The old Jaguar Adj armor just looked so damn GOOD for a female avatar. So did Eon and several other armors. They had a distinctly feminine flow to them and I that’s why my armor was as much a fashion preference as a defense choice.
The new Jag Adj looks horrid! I look like a damn Transformer. It’s butch and bulky and square. I love the new detail and higher-rez mesh and crisper textures - don’t get me wrong - but I no longer care to wear this and spin around my avatar looking at her from various angles and admiring how sleek the matted Jag Adj looked!
Even worse, previously Adj armors had more black sections in them (come on, we all want Shadow at some point in our life), and in the case of Jaguar Adj, a matted look on the main armor color for female sets (which made it distinct). Now the unadjusted Jag has more black in it.
The only armor I’ve seen that actually looks better now is Boar adj. I regret selling that set before the armor visual update, as I would much prefer to be in that over Jaguar adj at the moment. But it still looks like a 90s transformer! It’s too bulky.
So … there’s a good pour of whine for those who want to take a sip. No, I’m not gonna put up a poll to ask how many people prefer the old armor and if we should get the old designs back with just higher res textures and meshes. The definition of stupidity is not doing the same thing repeatedly, it’s expecting a different result every time. We can’t change anything.
MA don’t care - haven’t for a long time - and me whining about it and plastering polls in my thread won’t change that. Worst is that it seems it doesn’t bother anyone else (or somehow I missed all the whine threads about the very thing I am mentioning here).
Oh well … throw in your 2 cents into the Fountain of Whine … before it gets cemented up. I, for one, would love to get my old armor back. It was perfect the way it was. Heck, charge me 100PED to do an IRREVERSABLE ‘nostalgic look’ nano reconstruction that takes my armor parts back to tier 1 on every part. I don’t care. I just don’t want to stand in this ‘Pessimist Prime’ suit that makes me look like a dude from every angle!
