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Any chance we'll eventually get the ability to set the base hull color and that of the ship running lights?

Sorry if this has been asked already, but will ALL existing ship skin BPCs/skinned ships be converted to PERMANENT licenses?

I saw the timed licenses on SiSi and was wondering if the current BPC skin drops from the explo sites will be timed since if they are not, those sites will get pointeless real quick.

Can we get the ability to change lighting in preview window? Some jobs look really bad under certain lighting depending on what part of space you sit in. One weird example is how amarr ships look green under the default fitting window lighting.

For everyone upset about "no more juicy kills" or T1 looking like T2 (& vice versa) or having timers on rarer licenses.. Come on people, this is JUST a way for us to have a little personal touch to the things our screens are focused on for hours on end. There are plenty of UNIQUE ships Faction,T2, T3's and more T3 destroyers coming out all gonna be around for your "juicy Killmails".

So what if a "Guirsta's Permanent License" is eventually obtainable for everyone.. People come and people go and people try new things. I dont think rares should be timed for the only sake of keeping exploration relevant.

In my opinion the most Sophisticated and "Familiar to EvE" way of integrating CCP's SKIN system is to first distribute licenses in game according to hull type:
Frigate Licenses
Destroyer Licenses
Cruiser Licenses
Industrial Licenses (All ORE ships in this category as well)
Battlecruiser Licenses
Battleship Licenses
Capital Licenses (Freighters in this category)

If the entire lineup were directed right for NPC corp/Faction LP stores it would allow CCP to control their value having a LP cost tied in. Rare Pirate licenses could be the equal cost of its faction-edition ship since they'd be obtained in an identical way
Few Examples:
A permanent Pirate Battleship Skin License would cost the same as that Pirate Faction's Battleship
A permanent Navy Cruiser Skin License would match the cost of the Navy-Edition Cruiser in the LP stores
A Permanent R&D corp Skin License for hull types would be available via R&Dcorp's LP store. Maybe they can be only obtained as a R&D agent's reward for highstanding research missions. They should be as rare as highgrade implants & boosters

This would balance the rare ones quite well and add new opportunities within all the NPC LP stores since each one would be supplying their own style skin for each of the 7 hull types I listed above.

All BPCs from the NES Store will become an amount of permanent Licenses equal to the runs left on the BPC.

All skinned ships that come from the NES and a list of special edition ships will become a base ship and a SKIN License. The full list will be in the dev blog, will only really affect special edition ships that don't have a stats difference from the base ship, other than the Scorpion Ishukone Watch which will also be converted over.

BPC skin drops will become Time Limited Licenses. We have no plans to sell time limited SKIN Licenses but we do want to use them for in-game drops.

Ships which are created in-game such as the ones made from dropped skin BPCs (4 destroyers, 4 battlecruisers) will become the base ship and you'll be given at least 1 time-limited version of the SKIN License.

Licenses given to you under this system will be put in your redeeming queue.

Hope that helps!

The newer ones yes. You'll still need to have the ship or BPC somewhere when we convert it. Some of the older Quafe industrials with Quafe bays won't be converted over, but ships like the Quafe Tristan, Quafe Catalyst, Quafe Vexor, Quafe Megathron, and Quafe Dominix definitely will be.

I am still confused, are the licenses of any particular skin only good for one ship type? Ex: if I have a BP now for a Interbus Moros skin, when release on Tq would that just become an interbus skin license for any T1 I sit in?

So your InterBus Moros Edition BPC will turn in to a Moros InterBus SKIN (Permanent) which is a License that will be placed in your redeeming queue.
The License only affects the Moros in this case, and all Licenses in the initial release will only affect one ship, though there is no technical limitation to why we can't have it affect multiple ships in the future.

I didnt see it in your post, or earlier in the thread, but what about LP purchased ones? Like the Police Comet.

It wasn't a Aur/NES purchase, but it was an isk/LP purchase. So Perm or Timed?

How will this work for those of us that have a lot of ships on the market? Will we have those sell orders returned to us with the ships and skins?