EVE General Discussion

Ships skins may be coming this winter, if the recent hints are anything to go by. The possibility that they'll be sold on the NeX store is very high.

I'm going to pre-emptively attempt to stop an influx of tears when this is finally announced. I believe that there will be a lot of hate directed at this decision, simply because of a knee-jerk reaction that 'NeX is automatically bad'. Here are some idiotic arguments I expect, and rebuts for them:

'OMG I don't want to pay RL cash for ship skins! P2W! CCPfail! Unsubbing my 68 billion alts now! Will still continue posting, though!'
Simply purchase a PLEX off the market using ISK, convert it to AUR and purchase your ship skin. Finally, P2W is Pay To Win. Ship skins do not make you win.

'You'll be able to buy ships outright for Aur!?!/ OUTRAGE! ANGER! DERP!'
Nope. You'll need to trade in a ship and AUR in order to get a skinned version. We'd have had the Ishukone Scorpion already, but since the only way to purchase it would have been AUR->Scorp CCP decided to delay the purchase of skinned ships until the NeX store could support trade-ins or blueprint purchases.

'WTF! Barbie Nex store trash rubbish!!1 i'm not spending a single aur on rubbish barbie nex!'
First off, you're not buying 'barbie dress-ups rubbish'. You're buying ship skins. You only hate the fact that ship skins are on the NeX store because you're:
1. An idiot
2. An idiot who hates Incarna so much that you want WiS removed from the game even though ship spinning is back
3. An idiot who hates the NeX store because there are some items on it you're not interested in
You may be an :elitepvp: hot-dropper who despises Hulk because they're all 'pubbie noob carebears'. Do you buy off the market? Of course you do. Hulks are also on the market. Does it matter? No.
The NeX store can offer a large catalogue of vanity items, many of which you can ignore if you want.

'VANITY IS STUPID WHY SPEND ISK ON SHIP SKINS!? Remove from game! I am the community! I am anger!'
Then don't use ship skins. If other players (many players, at that) want a black Drake or Comet with flashing red & blue lights, then don't take it away from them.

'HELLO KITTY SKINS DETRACT FROM THE DARK DARKNESS OF EVE'
There are no pink, shiny, Hello-Kitty skins. Check for yourself in the Sisi .stuff files. Furthermore, a pink ship skin for the Drake as a Christmas present would be excellent.

Thank you.

The Spaceship Barbies will rage, if that's the case.

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My little pony skins where CCP? I demand a fluttershy drake.

The reason I don't like the NeX store is that it doesn't add any gameplay to Eve.

Traders and manufacturers derive their gameplay from new items and markets that are added with expansions (examples would be T3 ships and boosters). Traders/industry players never get dedicated expansions like PVPers/PVE players do (oh wait.... Quantum Rise ). When new items and features are just plugged into the NeX store and tied to the PLEX trade, it's kind of a slap in the face to traders and manufacturers.

Ship decals could be a player run service, that would be fun.

I'm all for my little pony skins, nothing more satisfying than seeing your 425mm rounds blast into some cute unicorn's head!!

Oh yeah, late to see shrink, have to go....... ;)

Of course ship skins will be in the NeX store. Anybody who thinks CCP isn't doing everything they can to salvage their microtransaction superstore is a moron.

1000 AUR isn't reasonable at all. Not if ship skins are destructible along with the ship. If you think about it, that's a 100mil+ cost for a skin that might go on a ship worth far far less

Now I know, the current nex items cost more than this. That's dumb too, but at least they are permanent in some sense.

CCP should actually want to see these skins flying around. Once fully V3'ed and corp logos start to appear, CCP should WANT to see big fleet engagements with skinned and logo'ed corps.

For 1000 AUR apeice, I think most will decide faction fittings are more important. Or just new ships.

If these are destructible, even 100 aur may be too high.

All that said, I have no problem if these are nex items. BUT, the price has to make sense. these present a nex store option that players may want to buy again and again, and that should be taken into account when deciding the prices. a repeat purchase should not cost 1000 AUR.

And, skinned ships should be transferable, so if corps want to be uniform, they can provide rather than having everyone now buying AUR.

This, to me, is one of those "watch what they do vs what they say" moments.

If, after admitting that NEX was a terribly designed mistake that ended in absolute failure, CCP then decides to massively expand NEX by adding ship skins then we will know by their actions that they don't regret NEX at all -- they just regret that we didn't all drop to our knees and blow them for it.

If they were going to go this route they would have removed the NeX by now. They are desperate for something that players actually want to buy to put in the NeX.