Player Features and Ideas Discussion

As a result of the glitch that was present over the last few days and fixed in this morning's update, we've seen that SKINs are actually capable of working "better than intended", and that despite the dire warnings from CCP Falcon there appeared to be no technical reason they could not be applied to every ship.

We also saw through the various screenshots many glorious creations of player ingenuity and experimentation - ships which were works of art, and perhaps every bit as individual of a creation as capsuleers themselves. Things like a Dominix bathed in the rich red and gold of Sarum colors, or a Chimera dressed in Kador blue, Things we were not meant to have, but yet, we want them more because of it.

At the same time, many of the choices offered to us are rather... lackluster. The Chimera gets to choose a darker shade of grey? Ho hum. Boring. Why exactly would I spend as much as I would on a month's subscription for that?

What has been seen cannot be unseen. The sharp limits that presently apply to SKIN licenses will not do, not once those limits have been broken once.

We want these skins to use as we will. You want our money. We want to give it to you, but not for the crippled excuse for a skinning system. So, I have a proposal.

License all the purchasable skins by hull size and hull size alone. No hull restrictions, No racial restrictions Adjust the prices accordingly. You will sell more and at higher prices, now that the players have had a taste of the possibilities,

Keep any truly "limited edition" skins limited - they were promised to be exclusives, and should stay that way.

Your move, CCP, our wallets eagerly await your response.

It's a bit laughable that they introduce adaptive spacecamo that on it's own refuses to take on the colouring of another faction's paintjobs.

It's pretty much like saying *This benz doesn't come in red, cause ferraris are red*

Ugh. The point would be to get rid of the racial limitations - they are rigid and artificial, and altogether unnecessary.

I can't, and for a few days, people didn't have to, and the screenshots of whats possible are out there - and absolutely beautiful.

Besides the ships have enough of a unique racial identity through their shapes, choices of weapons systems, and backstory.




This. It's still basically a paint job - with the possibility of a rare exception here and there, it shouldn't be exclusive to a particular model.

+1 for the Baboli...

would this be the same art department that said lets give everyone space camo for navy ships. And didn't even bother to do drastic variances between them. I know from combined arms ops in the asian realm we all wear green of some kind cammies. Thai forces are a completely different style of scheme from US. This was even in the days of classic woodland scheme before digital camo scheme became a thing,


Or the are team who removes liked features. especially on minmatar where extraneous stuff was actually liked and gave them their flare as it were.

or the same art department that is making caldari more symmtric with every redo. Asymmetry being caldari's thing more over the other races imo.


Tl;DR....this is a line of crap as ccp is homogenizing this game slowly...but steadily. They hit a nice cord here. They should have done this years ago it seems. A reskinned how it was wanted by the player BS got more fan appeal as a bug than nestor ever did, or has to be honest (lost track of it rebalance passes).

AFAIK it actually doesn't. Which is why this bug "worked" in the first place. With the V3 shaders, it's simply a matter of "apply pattern A on zone 1, pattern B on zone 2, etc'. So if a skin is in the game at all, it shouldn't bloat the client any more if it's available for more than one hull.