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"More realistic" Minmatar SKINs
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Rionan Nafee
#1 - 2015-08-11 12:44:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Rionan Nafee
SKINs brought a lot of visual variety into the EVE universe (Thank you very much for this CCP!)… but not for Minmatar.

While all empire factions have several colour variants and patterns, the SKINs for the Minmatar peoples remains monochrome. Regardless of Krusual, Nefatar or Sebiestor Tribe they all show only one color without patterns. The only exception is the Thukker Tribe SKIN for the Vargur which is cool but shows only the same grey camouflage pattern which is the default pattern of the Tech II ships (e.g. Cheetah). The Justice SKIN is nice but on all ships it becomes boring slowly because it is also dark green monochrome.

Thereby in my eyes the Minmatar are especially predestined for eccentric and striking tribe pattern or "war paint" on their ships because of their unique tribal structure, their rituals and their tatoo_culture. They would show their origin and loyalty with pride and highly visible.
But instead of use this to the full extent to run riot artistically, this very important aspect of the Minmatar peoples remains unattended almost completely. Only in the long past and deeply moved storyline around the assassination of the former premiere minister Karin Midular this was mentioned a little bit.

As a Minmatar fan I would be very happy if CCP would be underline this part of the minmatar much more in the future and would offer more varied and more striking SKINs for the Minmatar ships to show them with pride.
I would buy much more SKINs if they are more "minmatar like" as the current ones.

Thanks for attention.
Yngvar ayShorn
Einheit X-6
#2 - 2015-08-11 14:03:56 UTC
+1

It's exactly my opinion.

Give us some Minmatar-Style-Skins with "woah!-effect!".. not.. "uhm..another dark-anything, is it green, blue, grey!?".

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Alek Row
Silent Step
#3 - 2015-08-11 15:07:08 UTC
Yngvar ayShorn wrote:
+1
grey!?".


Agreed
But I would prefer dark grey to the current greenish stuff they have been spewing out tbh.
Avvy
Doomheim
#4 - 2015-08-11 15:11:00 UTC
+1



Minmatar could do with a bit more colour.


Justice skin isn't too bad as it's dark.

Got 3 of those, Cheetah, Wolf and Jaguar.
Stitch Kaneland
The Tuskers
The Tuskers Co.
#5 - 2015-08-11 15:36:59 UTC
I like the nefantar stuff. Got the nado skin and it gets gold guns Pirate

The rest of the skins are pretty boring though tbh. The justice vaga almost looks decent, but would be so much sexier if it were black. Like how sebiestor skins looked before they re-updated PBR. CCP has mentioned they will be tweaking some of the skins to get back to their original colors though.

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Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#6 - 2015-08-11 15:42:33 UTC
War paints != corporation identity colors. The corporations all have pretty unremarkable patterns, but there could certainly be some kinds of special skins (Tribal Stand in Yulai, War Paint from Mekhios) and such.

Stitch, the Nefantar are basically Amarr. They are extremely heavily amarr-influenced people. Don't confuse their color choices with colors the war-torn Minmatar would chose for their ships. Nefantar tribe and the Minmatar tribes have quite different cultures now.

Obligatory: SKINS should be ISK exclusives and should not cost any extra RL money to get.

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Omnathious Deninard
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2015-08-11 16:34:01 UTC
Realistic minmatar skins would have lots of duct tape and bailing wire holding them together and less panels covering the tape.

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Stitch Kaneland
The Tuskers
The Tuskers Co.
#8 - 2015-08-11 18:07:44 UTC
Rivr Luzade wrote:
War paints != corporation identity colors. The corporations all have pretty unremarkable patterns, but there could certainly be some kinds of special skins (Tribal Stand in Yulai, War Paint from Mekhios) and such.

Stitch, the Nefantar are basically Amarr. They are extremely heavily amarr-influenced people. Don't confuse their color choices with colors the war-torn Minmatar would chose for their ships. Nefantar tribe and the Minmatar tribes have quite different cultures now.

Obligatory: SKINS should be ISK exclusives and should not cost any extra RL money to get.


Still looks cool Big smile

Way better than the other skin options atm. Plus i kill amarr FW peeps in it. They get lured in by big gold plates on the front, and golden guns.

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Xe'Cara'eos
A Big Enough Lever
#9 - 2015-08-12 21:40:10 UTC
I think even if you want to keep corp skins the same colour, CCP should just produce less 'corp' skins for minmatar, and more 'tribal' skins

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Spugg Galdon
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2015-08-12 22:33:34 UTC
I keep posting about this very topic.

I'm pretty sure you and I are thinking the same thing. If Minmatar ships had skins that had tatoos like this on them I would buy them.

This too is a good example of what I think minmatar paint jobs should look like
To mare
Advanced Technology
#11 - 2015-08-12 22:54:21 UTC
we need old rusty skins back.
Trinkets friend
Sudden Buggery
Sending Thots And Players
#12 - 2015-08-12 23:51:37 UTC
Wait, so someone else has noticed how extremely boring a variety of sludge brown, crap brown, diarrhea green, olive green, dark muddy green-brown, greige, dark tan, tan brown sludge greige-green is?

Wow. I wonder if anyone would be able to give us an idea of the quantity of SKINs purchased, by racial subtype, highlighting the fact that no one buys Minmatar SKINs because they are horrible. I mean....if you don't ever look at your ship, Minmatar SKINs are perfect vanity picks.

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Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
#13 - 2015-08-14 00:53:58 UTC
Trinkets friend wrote:
Wait, so someone else has noticed how extremely boring a variety of sludge brown, crap brown, diarrhea green, olive green, dark muddy green-brown, greige, dark tan, tan brown sludge greige-green is?

Wow. I wonder if anyone would be able to give us an idea of the quantity of SKINs purchased, by racial subtype, highlighting the fact that no one buys Minmatar SKINs because they are horrible. I mean....if you don't ever look at your ship, Minmatar SKINs are perfect vanity picks.

So more rust then? Twisted

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