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Clystan
Binaerie Heavy Industries
#1 - 2012-10-31 21:20:17 UTC
It would be cool if you could buy skins on the market. A person would have to train a skill that would allow the application of the skin. (No trial accounts). If you trained up, you could apply the skins to larger ships. The skin would have a finite number of uses and would be used to skin a specific class of ship. This would be a neat lootable item.
Jaling Orion
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-10-31 21:28:36 UTC
Are you just talking about alternate paint patterns for the ship's model like what the Navy ships do?
Clystan
Binaerie Heavy Industries
#3 - 2012-10-31 21:43:14 UTC
Jaling Orion wrote:
Are you just talking about alternate paint patterns for the ship's model like what the Navy ships do?


I think you could have a couple of different types of skin:

1) Player designed (Limited and variable options based on a players skill and the use of a Paintshop service in a station)
2) CCP created

The skins would fit in cargo like a BP and have limited uses.

Something like that.
Hakan MacTrew
Konrakas Forged
Solyaris Chtonium
#4 - 2012-11-07 14:28:14 UTC
Ship paint jobs would be ace. We all want them. I wouldn't make them reusable or lootable. I would suggest just having them as a single use item, useable on an assembled ship.

I want a red Typhoon, with mining lasers...

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Michael Loney
Skullspace Industries
#5 - 2012-11-07 14:40:25 UTC
Even just the idea of

- Primary color
- Secondary color
- Trim color

With RBG sliders?

I know this will quadruple the data loaded per ship but it is a lot less than entire skins on a per player basis.
Huttan Funaila
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-11-07 16:00:31 UTC
Something like a "paint rig" slot would allow for them to be player made, traded, one shot and not reusable. I can see a business model for painting ships, but I also see a lot of clowns making pink dicks (this used to happen a lot in Second Life, and probably still does) to fly through space (this would vastly increase the number of Exequrors being flown).