EVE General Discussion

Aside from my grudging appreciation for this new game mechanic. As on one hand my exotic ship collection was reduced to regular stock space ships. On the other hand I was left with a pile of permanent skins that I could activate for my character.

I'm just wondering what the reasoning was behind the 30 day ship skins that I was left with.

In particular:

Catalyst Serpentis SKIN (30 Days)
Coercer Blood Raiders SKIN (30 Days)
Cormorant Guristas SKIN (30 Days)
Cyclone Thukker Tribe SKIN (30 Days)
Thrasher Thukker Tribe SKIN (30 Days)

I paid a lot of isk to get these ships to pad out my exotic ship collection and these skins are now only good for thirty days. Is this a measure to phase out the ships entirely from the game or is the 30 day skin going to be a recurring item on the market? How do the rest of you feel about the new skin system?

Seems to be a desire to make skins a consumable (much like ammo, that you use up and need replacing) to create a continous market.

Personally, I have no idea why anyone would want to have that hassle. But hey, guess there's enough people out there that want to pimp their ship every month.

They should of just left the consumable skins the old way. Apply to single ship, ship loss = skin loss. Timed skins are lame.

how come everyone went so mad over ccp with micro transactions before but now this is in everyones like 'yep, give skins, take money'.

I agree with you. Really for anyone who had bought those SKINS before todays update they should have been permanent. Then post release they could make any further ones 30 day if they so wished. Or refund you the Aurum you paid for them. It's yet another bad refunding process like when the data interfaces were removed and we received a pittance instead of price paid or actual value.

If I'm not mistaken, all the temp skins drop as items in game, so the idea is that there is a constant free supply of them and if they were permanent then they would slowly be made more and more useless.

I'm not a fan of the 30 day time limit, personally. Would rather it be something like one ship use only or have an option to buy a permanent license, but it doesn't look like those options are on the table at the moment.

I've seen this question asked many times in several places, and if there has been a response to it I am unaware of it.

The faction stuff is time limited now. I enjoyed a bit of pimpness in my Guristas Shuttles so I'm somewhat disappointed as well. I like that they're catching on to the market saturation thing, and I'm hoping this precedent carries over to clothing in that it becomes consumed by a character. FW clothing in particular.

I hope it's more than a neat idea, and more like a valid idea. The move to make dropped SKINs time-limited is the result of a dev or devs taking a close look at the game, and I'm hoping clothing will get similar treatment when it gets its time under the microscope. If it doesn't matter to anyone (and it shouldn't), clothing should have a sink just like other items in the FW stores. True, you can destroy clothing by getting caught with it in cargo, but depending on that to stabilize the conversion is bad. It's also the current state of things.

i thought they only ever had the ideas for vanity stuff, but manacles were expensive, so riots ensued. now that it's just $1500 for all the initially release skins everyones like 'all fine'. seems they got what they wanted in the end just they went the long way round to get here.