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Ship Custom Colors based on Alliance/Corporation?

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JAF Anders
Adenosine Inhibition
#41 - 2013-06-07 18:10:12 UTC
It would make sense for a ship that in manufactured in player-owned space to bear the Alliance logo that holds the system. I'm not a huge fan of much more than that, though.

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Helena Crow
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#42 - 2013-06-07 19:14:01 UTC
I Fully Support this idea, I think it's fantastic, and needs to be implemented for sure.

+1
Di Mulle
#43 - 2013-06-07 19:37:02 UTC
Kaito Marshall wrote:
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Amitious Turkey
10kSubnautic
Warriors of the Blood God
#44 - 2013-06-08 06:47:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Amitious Turkey
Sirinda wrote:
So there's this corp with around (insert number here) people from all over the world.

You really believe they'd agree on a paint scheme?

If you answer this question with yes, I have some prime real estate for sale in the Everglades. Also, contract me any amount of ISK and I'll double it.

That said, I'd love to be able to apply a custom paint job to my ship and I wouldn't even be averse to seeing an option for a corp or even alliance specific paintjob to be incl


IMO agreement on a paintjob is the alliance's problem to figure out. It's not like we would use it to identify a pilot's affiliation anyway.

Personal paintjobs=win.

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Jean-Pierre Olenarde
Room for Improvement
Good Sax
#45 - 2013-07-07 13:46:12 UTC
Sounds like OP's apprpach is good take on this. It can obviously be done, since we've been getting dif colored ships from time to time as gifts, and some of the ships sport NPC logos. CCP should limit the amount of times it can be changed by making it have some cost, like 5M like with Corp decorations.

I still want that yellow and gray Megathron Ive seen in some of CCP's promotional images.....

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Yusef Brion
Big Yellow Pidgeon Inc.
#46 - 2013-07-07 14:47:25 UTC
Kaito Marshall wrote:
Yeah it would be optional. Like a checkbox in the graphics settings. It would also be optional to the individual pilot if they want to use their alliance skins or the standard skins.


I don't think they are in the mood for giving us options anymore. See: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3140338#post3140338

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killorbekilled TBE
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#47 - 2013-07-07 14:54:21 UTC
cerbus wrote:
As a note op, there are over 800 custom veneered ships already in the client files, unreleased.
Each race has 14 variants designed for almost every hull. :)

here are some of them:

Aliastra Ships - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXyyoSXQS1o
Bloodraider Ships - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1FLBC5Ysz4
Lai Dai Ships - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_KAHCtQAv8
Innerzone Shipping Ships - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BNiGeVMLx4

Hello Kitty Widow/ Scorpion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffzwroDldBQ
Random Ships - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSYSu9jDpHs

All but the Hello Kitty ship and Chribba Issue ships exist in the client files already.

Its about ~32bits or less to change the veneers of most of these ships. Often they're using the same textures and masks as the basic hull but with different shader values. For the ships that have different veneer patterns (like Brutor does) they have a unique specular map and sometimes two unique texture masks which all reside in one .dds file, aswell as the unique shader settings.


This is the type of thing i need in my life right now, CCP pwetty pwease can i haz shiney ship skinz !!!!!!!!

:)
Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#48 - 2013-07-07 15:36:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Mallak Azaria
Only if I can put this on my ship & there is no option to switch it off.

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Adunh Slavy
#49 - 2013-07-07 15:45:21 UTC
+1, as long as we can turn it off.

This is not the first time this has been suggested BTW.

My fear however is that CCP will find a way to Aurum this idea and that'll be that.

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Roime
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Shadow Cartel
#50 - 2013-07-07 17:24:22 UTC
Custom ship skins, along with modular POSes would ramp up the user count beyond CCP's wettest dreams.

At least release the NPC corp variations already in game.

+9001

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Hogarth Starbanger
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#51 - 2013-07-07 22:00:26 UTC
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#52 - 2013-07-07 22:25:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Mr Epeen
Kaito Marshall wrote:


Imagine a RED alliance fleet, black hulls with dark red accents, getting into a fight with a roaming gang of Goons, with their hulls being black and yellow, It just makes battles that much more epic!


Oh, I can imagine it.

Here's what that epic battle would look like:

RED FARKIN' SQUARES !

Good God! Does no one that posts on this forum ever PVP? You will never see an actual ship in a battle.

Mr Epeen Cool
Hogarth Starbanger
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#53 - 2013-07-07 22:34:43 UTC
Mr Epeen wrote:
Kaito Marshall wrote:


Imagine a RED alliance fleet, black hulls with dark red accents, getting into a fight with a roaming gang of Goons, with their hulls being black and yellow, It just makes battles that much more epic!


Oh, I can imagine it.

Here's what that epic battle would look like:

RED FARKIN' SQUARES !

Good God! Does no one that posts on this forum ever PVP?

Mr Epeen Cool


But deep down each and every pilot can die happy knowing that their red square was the coolest of them all.
Hessian Arcturus
Doomheim
#54 - 2013-07-07 22:52:26 UTC
Caldari ships with shotgun metal grey/black with a deep burnt orange colour for me...
That and the alliance/corp logo on the stamped on it...

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cerbus
Carpe Noctem.
#55 - 2013-07-08 00:08:00 UTC  |  Edited by: cerbus
Hogarth Starbanger wrote:
Mr Epeen wrote:
Kaito Marshall wrote:


Imagine a RED alliance fleet, black hulls with dark red accents, getting into a fight with a roaming gang of Goons, with their hulls being black and yellow, It just makes battles that much more epic!


Oh, I can imagine it.

Here's what that epic battle would look like:

RED FARKIN' SQUARES !

Good God! Does no one that posts on this forum ever PVP?

Mr Epeen Cool


But deep down each and every pilot can die happy knowing that their red square was the coolest of them all.


Yellow Ships and Black and Red ships as ordered - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W01N2GtUj9o

(Not quite as mentioned, but close enough seeing as they already exist in the client files)

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Inokuma Yawara
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#56 - 2013-07-08 00:32:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Inokuma Yawara
I like the idea of corporate and alliance paint schemes, but I don't want all of my ships to have the same paint schemes. What if I want to paint some of my ships with my own color schemes? I want to be able to do that too. Also, I would like to see Corporate and Alliance emblems to be emblazoned on our ships. Some of my ships have the O.R.E. emblem or the Gallente Federation emblem; nice examples of ship emblems. I don't believe we should have personal emblems - only corporate and alliance emblems should be allowed.

Finally, yes. Allow for these to be displayed optionally.

Of course, to alleviate the problems with the creation of "obscene art" on ships' hulls, we'll need some kind of reporting tool.

I'll throw CCP a bone. CCP could provide tons of cool pre-made graphic designs that we can modify slightly and then custom colorize. But for elevated levels of customizations, we could go to the "Nex paint and body shop." to allow us to create our own customized skins for a reasonable price.

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ISD LackOfFaith
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#57 - 2013-07-08 15:07:16 UTC
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Maldiro Selkurk
Radiation Sickness
#58 - 2013-07-08 21:32:57 UTC
The first time i see a fleet of hot-pink battleships flying around im going to raise gazillions of ISK and pay some merc fleet to camp you for the the rest of your life.

Yawn,  I'm right as usual. The predictability kinda gets boring really.
Inokuma Yawara
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#59 - 2013-07-09 07:50:58 UTC
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Donnero
Arliuhtan
#60 - 2013-07-09 08:34:35 UTC
Hmm make the needed colours be part of the economie, with bpo and such. Like pink only drops in drone space, gold only in amarr space and so on ....

i really like the idea of having coloured ships, remembering me of the good old DAoC times.