Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hi again, everyone!

So I'm sure you've all seen the new SKINS on the NES, with even more being added today. My focus here is on the Equilibrium of Mankind SKINS for Amarr ships. Now, don't get me wrong - I love these SKINS, and I was wicked excited to buy most of them.

However, there's been a... change to the EoM scheme since the new rendering has been applied. It's really just a matter of the scheme being used for the ship with that particular SKIN, but it's a glaring difference.

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Here are some shots some Amarr ships, using the new shaders for EoM:

Apocalypse: 1, 2

Armageddon: 1, 2

Paladin: 1, 2

And here are some shots of the same ships as they would look with the old EoM scheme (which I always loved):

Apocalypse: 1, 2

Armageddon: 1, 2

Paladin: 1, 2

Here's all of them in one album, if you'd like to see them all together.

The shots with the old scheme were taken from http://pozniak.pl/caldariprimeponyclub.com
The shots with the new shaders are taken from http://www.caldariprimeponyclub.com

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We're comparing the different schemes here, though different shader methods make for some difference as well (PBR, etc.); while that does mean there are some differences in the way they're rendered, it doesn't change the fact that the EoM color scheme has been constructed erroneously in the new shaders. The new scheme is decidedly blue-on-grey, with the grey being much lighter than the blue, and the whole ship being aggressively reflective; the old scheme was a very distinct blue-on-pitch black, with the black being much darker and the whole hull having a much softer reflective sheen, giving it an instantly recognizable and (in my opinion) extremely attractive appearance.

If the SKINS we could purchase on the NEW for EoM looked like the old ones when it came to scheme, I'd buy most of them in a heartbeat; I'd absolutely love to see their ships look as they used to, and I hope enough people share that opinion that CCP takes notice of it.

Thanks for reading, and I hope this gets some attention! Cheers~♪
-Uriel

The is no need for you to use RL money: Buy PLEX for isk > convert PLEX to 3500 AUR > buy SKIN for AUR
You can also buy AUR tokens if you want or buy the SKIN for isk from another player

It's too shiny, I have to agree. Would love these SKINs much, much more if they were fixed

Uriel, you have my support, I think the Black & Blue looks better. 100%

+1 Seems like a reasonable tweak to the matte level.
Or perhaps Minmatar ships get rustier while Amarr ships get shinier?

This isn't actually a thing that happens currently.

Agreed. Also please fix Khanid ships...we're not exactly looking Dark Amarr enough

I pay a monthly subscription to CCP and I am not willing to throw more money into CCP's throat beyond that monthly macro transaction, neither directly nor indirectly. CCP would have no need to do this kind of stuff other games do to increase their revenue if they would have created, invented and implemented proper activities, content and mechanics that make people rip their livers out to get a month subscription for EVE. Correcting this mistake and creating this kind of content should be CCP's only course of action. However, instead CCP takes the way the other publishers took: The easy mode way of a money grab. That is not something I am going to support beyond my MMT.

Although I like the new look, I think the old one looks better. I would support changing the existing EoM skin to the old, darker version.

I've had a problem with all these shiny new coats. I have to turn down my lighting settings so I can actually see what I'm looking at, because the ships are so reflective I can't see the paint for the reflections. Please add more bright colors, contrasting color schemes, and matte paint. Here's an idea, make parts of it shinier than other parts. Makes sense that the gold cover on an Amarrian ship is polished; doesn't make sense that the black underside of an Amarrian ship is polished.