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Camouflage Calamity
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Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#21 - 2012-08-01 06:27:31 UTC
Kult Altol wrote:
My ship is shiny and gold, what camo.
What colors would you have em be? Your nit picking. I wish they gave the players different options to pain their ship.

Mm, Amarr...

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Roime
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#22 - 2012-08-01 08:11:18 UTC
Ground camo on spaceships is a terrible mistake, and yes, I hope they get replaced with proper paint jobs. The navies should have distinctive war colours that increase the desirability of these fine ships.

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Cpt Gobla
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2012-08-01 08:25:36 UTC
My personal opinion on the matter is that camo is fine on the criminal pirate factions (Angel, Serpentis and Guristas) since it's about as sensible as shooting your gun sideways whilst your pants are around your knees. Which would work since the grunts of these factions are unlikely to be any more complicated than your average real life 'gangstah'.

On the navies however I do agree it makes no sense at all. A navy should be designing ships that are cost-efficient, effective and sensible. Space camo is none of these things. The grunts of these factions would be trained military personnel.
Mandos2k
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#24 - 2012-08-01 08:48:17 UTC
Rendiff wrote:
Ever since CCP started doing the V3 shader update a lot of the ships in our EVE have been wrapped up in camo. I personally do not like the camo patterns I think it's silly to put camo on a space ship.


I like my camo ships. Thank you very much.

Besides that any color of any kind on any ship in space would be silly. Ships traveling faster than light with sensors recognizing you from millions upon millions kilometers away don't care for your ship painting, no matter whether it's deep black or bright glowing pink.



I don't know whether that was CCP's intend and I don't know whether it even fits into the EVE lore, but I once read that the camo color patterns originate from the prevalent vegetation of the home worlds of their corresponding races. With Gallente having wide spread jungle flora or Caldari lots of ice and cities.

Therefore the camo patterns would be based on a cultural heritage the different races carried with them out into space. And that's a thought I like very much.


At the very least it makes more sense than a military vessel with police style paintings in civil ownership (though I admit that was cool and fun, if only because it was so ridiculous).
Nikko Jiangtibayan
Ghosts That Linger
#25 - 2012-08-01 08:56:13 UTC
I'd prefer neat Starfleet-style trim, stripes and insignia for navy ships. They are after all a Modern Space Navy, not a 21st-Century Ground Army.

Hello...mate. 

Mizhir: "Brakes are for cowards and they makes the ship heavier."
Jackie Fisher
Syrkos Technologies
#26 - 2012-08-01 08:59:27 UTC
If the new V3 paint schemes were nice colours then nobody would buy ship skins when they are released.

Fear God and Thread Nought
St Mio
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#27 - 2012-08-01 09:05:24 UTC
P.S. Any ships with arctic camouflage should get a reduction in Signature Radius whilst in Ice Belts
Tor Gungnir
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#28 - 2012-08-01 09:12:35 UTC
My biggest gripe is that the ships looked just fine pre-V3ing. If they had just updated their current skins to higher resolution instead of just totally scrapping their original look for this camouflage nonsense...

Also: They raped the Vagabond.

Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you.
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