EVE General Discussion

Nah he was referring to Somer. Basically there was a special Somer auction for 4 SER hulls (5 but one winner took a diff prize).

So only 4 people got these hulls, they have different/better stats. Most players don't know they exist.

Somer was shut down later last year, with Forums speculation ranging from RMT to disclosure of Comms, to rigging. I honestly don't know if it was ever actually mentioned. I have no idea myself no do i care to speculate.

So in summary:
1 person is upset that a skin is being released to match a ship he owns
in appearance only,
and his ship has better stats,
questionably never undocks anyway since he is a collector,
doesn't actually affect his collection since hull is still different,
that few players know exist,
and was awarded from a questionable gambling site,
with no promise of exclusivity or limited nature (just that at that time they would only seed winners).

Anybody saying that the looks of the Stratios emergency arent what makes the Ship is delusional. Re releasing these ships as skins is going to hit their value by quite a bit. But if were going down this road why not release gold and silver Magnate skins as looks dont matter at all and maybe Moracha/Chremoas skins aswell, I really like the look of these two.

If I sell a cheap Picasso print for 50 dollars that does not mean the original Picasso will go down in value by 50 million dollars. To say that there isn't going to be a buyer for asking price tomorrow if the variant hull is actually put on market is naive or disingenuous. There is probably a very small pool of players who can afford the asking price to begin - and those folks would jump at a chance to own a ship with 3 or 4 hulls in existence.

It has little to do with 1% and everything to do with the fact it's cheap and lazy to copy an existing skin, of a unique ship no less.

There's 2 problems with this:
- Clearly everyone who is saying looks aren't important are forgetting that they're apparently important enough for CCP to charge you for them.
- If CCP isn't committed to maintaining the integrity of unique content, then they shouldn't release unique content. What's next? A ship with the same stats as a unique? "Oh but it has a different name so it's ok, your ship is still special". Yeah whatever

Yours is a Stratios Emergency Responder.
Mine is a Stratios with a coat of paint on.
Yours can launch 5 sentries.
Mine can launch 4 sentries.

Result: Yours is still an unique snowflake.

Hey how about starting with inverting the colours, wow that took 10 seconds of my time to think up, maybe professional designers who get paid all day to think of these things could do better, rather that what they did do; nothing at all.

OK, so you're in the "make up a new corp just to please a few people" camp. You just gloss over the part where it's not just the available colors that define the livery. The US flag is not the French flag.

Noted.

I'd be more worried about their value being reduced if we saw another 125mbit band/500m^3 Drone Bay stratios variant rather than just a paint job.

So the fact that the ship remains distinct in a far more meaningful way than its skin is somehow irrelevant to the uniqueness of the ship and its value?

Do you honestly think the paint job alone constituted the bulk of the draw here without the stats, name or scarcity on top of having to chose between use and transferability/collection of the item?