EVE General Discussion

Make Zainou SPZ-3 "Torch" available in NeX Store.

Tattoo's

Not Face Tattoo's :|

Excellence.

Or they could simply put in the 200 items of clothing they said they have ready or almost ready (that was around a year ago now) .. I know i've been saving my Aur for those latex catsuits. I just don't get why they are holding back on them ffs

I think that's due when they are done with V3-ing all ships. I mean a pink Thorax cannot go alone without a pink Avatar, now can it?

As for the rest, forget it. CCP prototyped it and scared away from it. It's something that takes multiple expansions to deliver and a dev crew almost solely working on it. Not gone happen any time soon™.

it's tradable

Use AURUM for painting ships. I want my Stabber to have Fiesta colors and spinning rims.

WiS and ship customization are two separate though not dissimilar issues.

WiS died the death it deserved because of crippling performance issues that weren't solvable and I suspect never were. WiS in Eve was an alpha of WoD technologies. When WoD development was redirected/postponed and WiS was explicitly shelved that should have outted WiS for what it was....a test and not a real or integral feature. Lets assume that CCP did intend for WiS to be integral. The fact that a majority of customers with mid-level systems were having serious performance issues with one small room and one avatar on low settings meant that interaction with other avatars in large expensive environments was going to somewhat of a hurdle. Either the technology that CCP was developing for WoD was a dismal failure or it was being developed for subsequent generation hardware. Subsequent generation hardware theory may have support given that WoD has no near term or far term release date. Dismal failure theory is definitely supported by the results and CCP's subsequent actions. Either way, WiS is dead man. WiS is dead.

Ship Customization might have performance issues that CCP hasn't been able to economically overcome. Ship customization is like any "skin" in any other game, primarily distributed by skin packs that are downloaded and installed locally. So there may be some issues with distribution for CCP. There may be technical aspects that interfere with current ship renderings that need to be addressed *shrugs* There may be performance issues that we'll run into when we're in systems with lots of people. CCP hasn't mentioned any more about this since last fanfest. So, it's hard to tell. It would definitely be a money maker though to what extent is not known.

CCP's efforts to monetize the game beyond plex failed miserably. But what gets me is why aren't they making efforts to monetize the technology they have. Given that WiS is dead and no development is on the horizon it's not hard to see why the NeX is being neglected. But, some simple steps could be taken to actually peak customer's interests, like the T-shirt idea I posted. It's not like they'd have to hire a designer. They have the T-Shirts. All they'd have to do is license trademarks and scan the designs (over simplified I know), nothing major to implement. Though there may be issues with licenses running out and having to delete everyone's favorite t-shirts. And there may be issues with Nexion which I think was handling the NeX. IDK. Another idea is to take all those custom alliance logo's, since CCP already owns the rights to them, and make virtual T-shirts.

The NeX failed primarily, not because of crap clothing in the store but, instead because of it's exclusive macro-transaction nature instead of being inclusive using micro-transactions. That we don't have a functioning WiS only means people can't show off their wardrobes in "person" but, I suspect they'd be more than happy to show it off in their portraits. But whatever, CCP can run their business however they want.