Ships & Modules

I miss my shiny Paladin with the chrome-red plating.

The different 'blobs' of cammo can be made with various materials designed to 'baffle' radar and such other devices in a space environment so 'space cammo' may not be as silly as it first appears....




so there....





And I like it BTW for all the new V3's....and the new Amarr is awesome :)

Down with space camo!

Adding my 2c. I would rather wait another year for V3 until CCP could come up with something a little more original. This camo theme on all the ships feels like a cheat. Why go through the effort of designing a new paint scheme when CCP can just throw up a few blobs in photoshop and call it a day? LAZY!

I would rather see a cleaned up version of the Dramiel and / or Cynabal applied to all the Angel ships. Maybe add some of that pearlescent effect .

Not sure why you're upset about the space camo, when the biggest issue here is actually the Machariel having its model size reduced.

Well i was afraid they will switch from stupid to more stupid and put race stripes on em,in a 5-10 years maybe some new guy walk in 'art' department and undo this 'quick hide behind that orbiting bush over there era'.

love all the camo in the game apart from caldari, it totally irks me and i want to kill them all!!!

There is no stealth in space.

Camo is just lazy artistry. EACH model should have it's unique colour scheme. A lot of effort went into designing the hull itself so why not put the same amount into the colours too? Many of these hulls have been around for years - plenty of time to come up with a decent paintjob for each one.

Ships should look as varied as super hero/villian costumes - i.e. some would be bright, garish and in your face while others were subdued and subtle - seeking to blend in and avoid drawing attention.

Total player side customisation is probably impossible because of server load issues but a selection of several skins (2-4) might be feasible as a start.

Alternatively, allow local re-skinning (on the client only) so that you see the colours that you want while everyone else sees their own. This has been possible in FPS games for years. It would also be the boldest statement of the fact that a ship's colour doesn't matter one bit in space anyway.

To be fair, the machariel already had space camo. That doesn't make it any less hideous or give reason to blight the other angel ships with it, of course. I actually think the Angel Cartel has a much more cohesive color scheme as it is, instead of all camo all the time. The little dark colored ships blend in with the spots on the giant machariel, it's kind of a nice effect. The universal camo is just... boring.

I'd really like to see a dev blog, or at least a forum post, from someone at the art department who's responsible for all this camo in space. I'd like to hear their reasoning, get a confirmation as to whether we're getting custom skins or are just going to have to live with it, and see a picture to make sure they aren't some psycho who wears a full camo jumpsuit everywhere they go.

At this point I honestly wouldn't be surprised to wake up and see the Sansha ships suddenly had all their spikes removed and replaced with arctic camouflage.

The mach hasn't changed one bit so what's the problem?

Camo is fine L2P.