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I get the balance between generating revenue and providing content. We want stuff, but CCP's employees need to eat and pay rent. No big deal. I accept this truth, and support it. All for this system costing AUR.
Keep in mind that a smaller AUR price tag will mean more people will jump on these, and tying each skin to one hull isn't the best way, either.

As someone who has used the current system (in combat, no less), and WILL use the new one when it happens, allow me to suggest this... apply each design to size class, carry over the "pirate" skins to the new system (never giving up my Guristas Ferox), those of us who were gifted the Quafe skin should have that license, and keep the price tag as small as possible.

Example:
I am far more likely to buy every skin if I'm paying, say, 50 cents for each skin in every size class than I would be to buy the Nefantar skin for every single individual hull I use, but paying only 25 cents a pop. And I'm sure most of the playerbase feels the same.
This way could allow you to release far more skins, and still have people buy a good number of them. Besides... some days, I'm in a piratey mood and I just want to Guristas all the things :)

If I've repeated anything, please forgive me, and just add my voice to the pile. 8 pages is a lot to read through before class.

Indeed, much more Eve-like. CCP, have you ruled out a solution like this for any particular reasons? It seems much more reasonable.

I did ... you can find it on my Flickr Aswell ^^ FLICKR

I totally support the direction. I would buy more skins if they were reusable.

Now if the licenses are temporary, like 1 year of a skin, people will complain it's a micro transaction cash gouge. If they are permanent and reasonably priced, I think they could become quite popular.

One thing, though. This technology can open the door to player created ship skins. Now I trust CCP's art, but if players are allowed to design skins or put their own corp logos on ships, please put in a feature allowing me to disable logos and/or disable skins, preferably disable player skins. I would like the ability to see CCP created skins but not see player created skins.

Players will uglify anything they can get their hands on.

Would this be too technologically difficult?

This. +1

Make the Aurum store sell SKIN-BPOs and make the SKIN itself a rig on a newly introduced skinning-rig-slot.

Skins would feel less like a way to get microtransactions into the game and more like an in-game item, thats part of the sandbox.

Corps & alliances could enforce a unified look for their fleets by handing out pre-skinned ships.

NPCs, Data/Relic sites and LP Stores could provide BPO's (or in some cases BPC's) as well. That way general availability, real world money value and in-game ISK value could be completely decoupled for a wide variety of interesting choices.

To start take to the ships did not change its color depending on the shaders settings.

We will be throttling the number of times you can change SKINs for obvious reasons. It will most likely be much faster while docked, and a reasonable (undetermined at this time) length in space. So you'll pick a new SKIN, the ship will do a nice transition effect, and then you have to wait X amount of time to do it again.

I too think it is not really nice that way. Having "BUY" spewed all over the place while taking a look at available skins is not only ugly but also just a cheap sort of free-to-play trick for children to fall for.
One subtle button somewhere around it would be a much nicer solution. How about a button that takes you to the NES and preselects the according filters to match your current ship.

Sounds good, make it happen next release.

It's better Then before but two Color dye system would be better. And if the dye is two slots on the ship then
A: you sink some ISk in it and you create demand for them
B: you solve all in space transfers
C: you could get blood raider coloured scorpion etc