EVE General Discussion

Every new ship you release furthers my disappointment. Who wants a rusty looking paint job on a ship? That's not what players had in mind, from all the picture posts and renders of custom ships and hell even ones I did, making it a rustic looking orange spatter is not what people had in mind. Painting your ship should be about you showing it off, showing a uniqueness, and making it look badass with several customizable skin options, none of this prefab paint job nonsense. They downright are ugly, or so dark its very un-distinguishable unless you are close up. CCP would it be so hard to take players advice as is for once instead of taking the idea and attempting to put just your own spin on the idea. You have these discussion forums up for a reason, use their advice as is.

What i was hoping for was a wide library of paintjobs/shades to choose from. Not the current implementation via blueprints.

Yes, I too am disappointed.

I think they look great. No complaints.

Players have not had any unified suggestions on the subject. Freeform painting of ships would be difficult for the servers and enable conduct issues (who really wants to see a **** on an opponents ship), while breaking immersion (pright pink hello kitty ships anyone?). CCP chose the best option and are proceeding cautiously based on player feedback.

Lets be honest.

The answer is

of course.

In a flat second

As already stated, the ship painting/skins are a pilot program. You do know what the definition of 'pilot program' is right?

Its business speak for alpha test.

Essentually, they looked at used ships and decided to pick a few and see if players are even remotely interested in skins. If they have a few ships and crappy skins but player buy and use them and the crappy mechanic, then the guy in charge can take the numbers to the big wigs at CCP and go 'look, we wanted to hit a goal of xxx sold, we hit yyy! The players want this, even in this design, so can we have money to actually make it work? And based on our projections this will give ccp XXX profit.." Then the big wigs go "do it" or "no no money, wait longer" or "no scrap the entire idea"

This is why you did not see a new mechanic and it fully turned on. If no one used it, you would of seen people having a **** storm about wasted dev time. This was the fastest and easiest way to implement and prolly took a hew hours to do it, as oppose to weeks or months, all the while if it failed, then joe blow player can't go 'wait you wasted 6 months on this crap? you could used that 6 months to fix xxx! what the hell are you think ccp'

Understand? If you want more skins buy or use the ones we have now. Show them there is demand. People ask for this, but how many people, 100? 1000? that's not a lot when you have 500k or so accounts. But if that is shown to be 100k accounts buying the skins... then there is justification in doing a full blow feature.

Top tip of the day: understand the feature and its scope before complaining about it.

I respectfully disagree. You dont see if a new 3 course meal will be a hit by just serving the appetizer.

I hate all the new skins, but would still want to paint my ship.

Out of curiosity, what designs would you want? Flame blue? Pin stripes? Bumble bee?

Now Ive seen my fair share of female genitalia and I have to see when looking at the caracal..I really dont see it.