I love the red UI myself, it's a great counterpoint to the Fed's cool blue, and some bs-psychoanalysis of mine explains the difference in terms of differing viewpoint between the two factions (feds are peaceful and friendly and emotionally detached, hence cool blue, while klingons are ruthless and aggressive, hence they 'see red' all the time.).

Having said that, I do understand why people might not like the UI.

I do wish they would do something with the UI color palette for the Klingons, it is quite painful after a while.

I understand your point, I think they should tone it down, maybe some more greys and greens to balance it out a little.

I've actually dug into the files and looked - the UI seems to have been designed with job security in mind, not modular/modifiable utility. (This is something I constantly ran into in my Flash days, even in paid templates). Its unfortunate, but unless they have an out of game tool that manages all the spread out files for them, modifying the HUD would be *very* difficult. It also doesn't appear to be made out of pieces that are dynamic, but static images instead, so actually trying to set the colors would be impossible as it stands without some creative thinking (I may be mistaken there). I could imagine a way to put a Hue filter on it, actually... but it would have to be some method of post-processing the HUD elements, and could impact performance.

EDIT: I take some of it back - I did not find ALL the elements, I stopped looking after it became apparent it was going to be nightmarish to locate every single line and icon just to replace them with the Fed versions (I never got to the point I was adjusting the colors to my own scheme, and never will). So, it is possible at least some of it is dynamic and can have a color slider applied.

The red hud is the main thing that keeps my KDF dude as a partially abandoned alt, and the only reason I don't have 3 KDF captains to go with my 3 Fed captains.

It is fine at first, but after about 20-30 minutes I find myself going crosseyed and getting headaches. For some reason the red is really really rough on my eyes, and tends to stress them much more than the Fedblue hud does, even when I'm wearing my gunnars.

I love everything about the KDF, and would really love to be able to spend more time over on that side, but I physically can't. And that sucks.

I strongly dislike the red hud. And that the ships are green or greenish. Even the different color "tattoos" doesn't show much -.-

But the poor man's space orcs are cool for grinding dilithium an contraband And the few Storymissions

Exactly. Options for both fed and KDF.

Recoloring would be a beast, based on my digging into things.

I could redouble my efforts to at least swap them back to fed blue, but frankly, I already have three jobs (one being the fleet).

Color sliders are not an option based on what I saw, only direct art replacement... but perhaps a set of options will be available at some point, or a tweak at least.

Be sure to /bug this stuff (or use the support page), as I dont know if this particular complaint is still on their radar.

Getting people to say "yes" to Klingon is not the path to growth. Removing the reasons they say "No" is.