EVE General Discussion

I can understand green and brown cammo in the woods, white cammo in the snow, and yellow and brown cammo in the desert, but what purpose does cammo serve in space? If it's just for looks, then why would they put it on military ships? Seems strange that a military corporation would care to do that.

Saying that, I'm actually not that fussed. Just expressing something I found odd.

Sure Effect One, perhaps for you millionaire veterans.. I literally have to wind down a window and get my binoculars out to see what I'm fighting in my hunk of junk.

Wait, they have a colour? I just see red boxes which I turn in to white triangles..

Like everything else in EVE, you'll be able to pay for it with ISK as well.

Personally, all my ships will likely end up in the Blood Raider scheme if available, or the Interbus yellow and black.

Never looked black to me, maybe a dark brown. Those Amarr missile ships were closer to black than angel ships.

Black is my favorite color, moar black ships please!

Camo is horrible unless your a frickin soldier in RL, in a setting that is appropriate. Wearing it for fashion in RL tells me all I need to know about you.

Black would be space camo. Defintions 1 and 2.


cam·ou·flage

1. The method or result of concealing personnel or equipment from an enemy by making them appear to be part of the natural surroundings.
2. Concealment by disguise or protective coloring.
3. Fabric or a garment dyed in splotches of green, brown, tan, and black so as to make the wearer indistinguishable from the surrounding environment.

Expected to see a thread about new ship modules. Instead got a whine about color schemes.

*leaves thread*

yk

You are reacting emotionally. Don't.

I completely understand your position. I even share some of the frustration at times. But, the bottom line is that "flavor" items which offer no in-game advantage whatsoever purchased for real world currency does not affect your $15/month gameplay experience.

You don't want to spend more than your sub? You feel you shouldn't have to in order to play effectively? Great... you would be right on both counts with or without a NeX store.

Confirming EVE is looking more and more redneck. Can I get a gun rack attached to the back of my camouflage ships and a stuffed deer head to adorn the hood?

What kills me is not only is camouflage in space useless as many have already pointed out, but it is by nature anti-design. That is its purpose, to break up recognizable shapes. The artists have worked hard to make some truly awesome looking spaceships, then they go and destroy those sweet looking shapes with camouflage paint. At least with the Angel ships there are some non-camouflaged areas, they're not quite as much of a mess as the Navy Raven. Nowhere near as badassed looking as the original Angel skins though. Simple and monochromatic is fine for spaceships. If you must jazz it up, stripes like on the Widow are acceptable.

I'm not fond of the new super saturated orange lights and headlights either. Looks cartoony.

Qft.

I still hate the fact they turned Khanid ships into something resembling soda cans with red and blue lights. Black, Silver, Blue and Red? Seriously CCP?? Pay your designers a course in colour theory - if you must add another colour for whatever tasteless reason, it should be a complementary one...

Deliberately offending that law helped me in creating what a lot of people call one of the ugliest characters in Eve - despite relatively normal underlying facial features.

As for CCPs obsession with camo patterns - noone seems to like them except CCP - I don't get why they keep heading down that road.


No reason to quit over, as I usually don't see any ships anyway but why 'fix' something for the worse that wasn't broken and removing distinct features people grew to like - the Comets police light, the Ishtars smile, the Vagas ears, the Curses antennas, the old Phoon.

Maybe they just made them so ugly to later offer the original skins (v3'd) in the NeX...

The Serpentis ships would be a case of camo done right. because it has a style to it, not just generic camo.


Blood Raiders too, but it isn't paint.