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Painting ships coming?
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Velicitia
XS Tech
#21 - 2011-11-06 20:04:30 UTC
Hungry Eyes wrote:
absolutely no mention of AUR for custom skins, youre making stupid **** up. this would cause another uprising, CCP aint that dumb.



see: The Monocle Cool

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
Hungry Eyes
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#22 - 2011-11-06 20:13:43 UTC
that was a vanity item for the avatars. ive no issues with this. morons who wanna waste their RL money on this **** instead of donating to charity for example can go ahead.

but applying AUR to ship-related things would be suicide, and they know it.
T'amber Anomandari Demaleon
#23 - 2011-11-06 20:45:41 UTC
i highly doubt they will be "custom" skins.
We'll probably get a selection of predetermined colours and corp logo.

www.shipsofeve.com
Tennoku
Mercury Nation
#24 - 2011-11-06 23:07:59 UTC
Hungry Eyes wrote:
that was a vanity item for the avatars. ive no issues with this. morons who wanna waste their RL money on this **** instead of donating to charity for example can go ahead.

but applying AUR to ship-related things would be suicide, and they know it.


CCP has already stated that the NEX store, with the ability to offer micro transaction sales, is part of the future of EVE. The players (at least, by their representatives the CSM, iirc), reluctantly agreed to the NEX as long as it contained vanity items only. Now that CCP might be adding the most important vanity item they could offer in the NEX, you want to deny them?

Ship paint jobs are the perfect item to aim for selling on the NEX. It is probably the main thing that CCP should be selling in it. Clothes for avatars, skins for ships. If you want to keep NEX as vanity only, then allow CCP to put the most compelling vanity-only items in it, so that vanity proves to be worth their while (and paint jobs probably will be).

I can understand why players, given all that's happened the last few months, would think it silly for CCP to put any new type of item in the NEX. But really, ship paint jobs are the perfect item to target for NEX, IF there is going to be a NEX.
Lairne Tekitsu
DadTZ
#25 - 2011-11-06 23:46:44 UTC
Tennoku wrote:
Hungry Eyes wrote:
that was a vanity item for the avatars. ive no issues with this. morons who wanna waste their RL money on this **** instead of donating to charity for example can go ahead.

but applying AUR to ship-related things would be suicide, and they know it.


CCP has already stated that the NEX store, with the ability to offer micro transaction sales, is part of the future of EVE. The players (at least, by their representatives the CSM, iirc), reluctantly agreed to the NEX as long as it contained vanity items only. Now that CCP might be adding the most important vanity item they could offer in the NEX, you want to deny them?

Ship paint jobs are the perfect item to aim for selling on the NEX. It is probably the main thing that CCP should be selling in it. Clothes for avatars, skins for ships. If you want to keep NEX as vanity only, then allow CCP to put the most compelling vanity-only items in it, so that vanity proves to be worth their while (and paint jobs probably will be).

I can understand why players, given all that's happened the last few months, would think it silly for CCP to put any new type of item in the NEX. But really, ship paint jobs are the perfect item to target for NEX, IF there is going to be a NEX.


I'd be more than happy to pay for for ship skins if they also lowered the subscription price. I'm already paying 15$ a month for this game.
Arugas Koken
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#26 - 2011-11-07 00:16:05 UTC
Lairne Tekitsu wrote:

I'd be more than happy to pay for for ship skins if they also lowered the subscription price. I'm already paying 15$ a month for this game.


Well no ship skins for you then. You don't see me demanding CCP lower their subscription fees so i can buy a monocle.
Lairne Tekitsu
DadTZ
#27 - 2011-11-07 00:18:59 UTC
Arugas Koken wrote:
Lairne Tekitsu wrote:

I'd be more than happy to pay for for ship skins if they also lowered the subscription price. I'm already paying 15$ a month for this game.


Well no ship skins for you then. You don't see me demanding CCP lower their subscription fees so i can buy a monocle.


Hey, I never said I wouldn't pay for it if they didn't.

Honestly, my biggest concern is if I have to repaint my ship every time it gets destroyed.
Arugas Koken
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#28 - 2011-11-07 00:23:15 UTC
Lairne Tekitsu wrote:

Honestly, my biggest concern is if I have to repaint my ship every time it gets destroyed.


Well NeX clothes don't get destroyed when you're podded so maybe ship skins will be similar. No point raging before CCP makes an announcement.
Written Word
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2011-11-07 01:10:34 UTC
Hungry Eyes wrote:
absolutely no mention of AUR for custom skins, youre making stupid **** up. this would cause another uprising, CCP aint that dumb.


Remember the Ishukone (?) special Scorpion?

Remember how it was going to be put in the game magically by paying with Aurum because "there would be no effect on the economy if we spawned scorpions for a week". Then they backpedaled and said they would fix it so it would require a Scorpion + Aurum = Normal Scorpion.

They've said multiple times it will cost Aurum.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
Vote Steve Ronuken for CSM
#30 - 2011-11-07 02:33:52 UTC
Ship skins are vanity items.

No problem with them costing aurum here. Not like they're going to have a game effect.

Woo! CSM XI!

Fuzzwork Enterprises

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