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Proposal: Custom ship textures
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Jethro Campbell
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2011-11-05 01:53:23 UTC
Sell custom ship textures in the AUR store. Wanna pink Thorax?

Maybe allow your corp icon to be painted on for a simple ISK transaction.
Wolodymyr
Breaking Ambitions
#2 - 2011-11-05 08:08:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Wolodymyr
Screw micro transactions!

Let us paint our thoraxes pink for free!

Seriously though we just had a huge dust up over Incarna. And a big part of that was the $80 monocle thing. I pay close to $15 a month for this game, and I am not going to buy a bucket of ship paint for another $50 or whatever.

I honestly think PoCo based sov is a good idea https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1417544
akuro arishima
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2011-11-05 15:32:10 UTC  |  Edited by: akuro arishima
It could be nice to be able to buy pre determined ship textures for a certain amount of aur (another thing to get aur for)
just things that are cool but do not give unfair advantage. And ofcourse not for those insane monocle prices. more like 50 aur for a texture (for example) the texture stays in posesion of the owner but only one ship can be painted with it. If the ship gets destroyed you can use the texture to paint a new ship. but you can not paint two ships with the same texture.

the reason for pre determined textures would be obviouse ofcourse. but for the people that dont get it.. no flying pink dildos..
Wolodymyr
Breaking Ambitions
#4 - 2011-11-05 19:59:00 UTC
akuro arishima wrote:

the reason for pre determined textures would be obviouse ofcourse. but for the people that dont get it.. no flying pink dildos..

Shhhhh!

They already took away my "Golden Retriever" Don't tell them about the pink dildos!

I honestly think PoCo based sov is a good idea https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1417544
JitaJane
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#5 - 2011-11-05 21:07:53 UTC
I do not want Qauffe pajamas. I do not want a monocle. I NEED to pimp my 'Cane. That, CCP, we might actually pay for.

90% of of the time my posts are about something I actually find interesting and want to learn more about. Do not be alarmed.

Wolodymyr
Breaking Ambitions
#6 - 2011-11-06 17:59:49 UTC
If you have custom ship textures then we'll need to make new models for most of the ships.

Take a look at the Megathron, Navy Megathron, Vindicator, and Kronos. They are basically the same hull painted different colors.

So you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a pink mega and a pink vindicator. So for example the Macharael does not look like any other minmitar battleship hull.

New models would be kind of cool. Now I will support this idea. Except for the microtransacion part.

I know Eve is CCP's cash cow, I just wish they didn't treat the player base like the udder.

I honestly think PoCo based sov is a good idea https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1417544
Solo Player
#7 - 2011-11-06 23:43:12 UTC
Wolodymyr wrote:
Screw micro transactions!

Let us paint our thoraxes pink for free!

Seriously though we just had a huge dust up over Incarna. And a big part of that was the $80 monocle thing. I pay close to $15 a month for this game, and I am not going to buy a bucket of ship paint for another $50 or whatever.


This, basically.

I have been clamouring for customizeable ship colours on the old boards for years. I stopped last summer. The thought of needing to pay extra for a basic feature such as this in a sub-based game is simply ridiculous and instantly took away any interest I had in it.

Aside from that, according to a recent video blog, custom ship colours are coming as part of the so-called V3 initiative that redoes all current ship models (started out with the scorp a while ago) and allows them to modify ship colour easily on a shader level. I guess model distinction will be upheld through those same shaders.

Good news, that, but if they go the NEX store way, I sure as hell hope there'll be an option to turn off display of this sad travesty.
nakKEDK
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2011-11-07 06:51:35 UTC
Solo Player wrote:
Wolodymyr wrote:
Screw micro transactions!

Let us paint our thoraxes pink for free!

Seriously though we just had a huge dust up over Incarna. And a big part of that was the $80 monocle thing. I pay close to $15 a month for this game, and I am not going to buy a bucket of ship paint for another $50 or whatever.


This, basically.

I have been clamouring for customizeable ship colours on the old boards for years. I stopped last summer. The thought of needing to pay extra for a basic feature such as this in a sub-based game is simply ridiculous and instantly took away any interest I had in it.

Aside from that, according to a recent video blog, custom ship colours are coming as part of the so-called V3 initiative that redoes all current ship models (started out with the scorp a while ago) and allows them to modify ship colour easily on a shader level. I guess model distinction will be upheld through those same shaders.

Good news, that, but if they go the NEX store way, I sure as hell hope there'll be an option to turn off display of this sad travesty.


Dont pay for it then. Let other people waste their money.
Tidurious
Blatant Alt Corp
#9 - 2011-11-07 17:42:58 UTC
No. It'll make the server work harder for no good reason, provide no benefit to players, and will make this game look, well, stupid.
akuro arishima
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2011-11-13 12:55:00 UTC  |  Edited by: akuro arishima
As a said before. Only predetermined textures by CCP. So they are in the client and dont couse extra lag. just some more disk space.

a vindicator get say 5 new textures that can't be used on a normal megathron or faction version. (fill in yourself for other ships)

So with new textures the eve installment will be some megabytes bigger...