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Some quick questions about your plans for this.

What kind of limitations (if any) will there be? Will I we able to for example make a Khanid Interon V or an interbus Tengu?

Will the blueprints be ship specific? Ie, we'll have to buy a "Qafe Dominix" BP or would it be something more like a "Quafe Battleship" BP that can be used with any battleship?

How about a "skin slot" on ships. Instead of manufacturing a ship with a specific skin, we just create the skin as an item and then apply it to a ship of appropriate size. Ie, I buy a Thukker Mix Cruiser skin BP, produce some Thukker Mix Skins and then put one on my Legion, one one my Thorax and sell the rest on the market.

It doesn't affect combat. There's no reason for you to possibly take issue with this, except you feel like CCP shouldn't be able to make extra money on something that can fund more game development from people willing to pay for it. And you don't even have to use real money to get these, you can buy them from other players for ISK. Given the amount of free AUR people were given before, the market should actually be flooded with these pretty quickly.



Because CCP is making the most popular and most requested skin in their game history not cost extra money. Nice of them, eh?

Since models are tied to type ID's, would it not make sense to utilize the system already in place to modify models WITHOUT chaning TypeID's? A legion, for instance, is always classified as a legion, even though it has thousands of shapes/models. The skins should be fittable like subsystems, and all skinnable ships should be treated (technically) like the tech 3 cruisers. They have their skin 'fitted' to them, which then loads in the proper model.

Oh yeah.. and... WOOP WOOP!!!!

Using aurum doesn't excite me one bit. But that's just me I guess. Having more paintjobs is cool, but having to muck about with the NEX disaster is not so cool.

I'd be interested to know if you contemplated just trading paints for isk instead, and why you decided not to? It would be a nice sink, one imagines.

This looks amazing, can't wait until we can paint more ships. Although I do kinda agree, it would be nice to have skins in LP stores, maybe custom skins (if they happen) could be AUR or Concord LP? I really hope it's possible to overcome that code to allow custom ships...

Please tell me you can overcome the old code? <3

Just other skins is nice - but I think corporates and alliances need the ability to develop colour schemas.

Why colour schemas:
Ship painting is like a corporate symbol/icon or a flag in the air.

And if you allow to change colour - not structure of texture - it is 'just' another parameter for graphics and not a whole different graphic pack that client has to download.

Every ship has same body parts like weapons, front hull, side hull and so on. I think you can imagine what I mean.

Define areas where players can change colour - i.e. weapons, windows, special parts of hull (front, rear, sides, bottom, top) and see what players will do with it.

So if you are in a corporate that got such a schema, you do not need to colour your ship by your own - you just set it to the corporates colours.

Limits of colouring your ship
I think pink ships will destroy any space ship atmosphere, so you should allow just those typical eve colours in all of it's dark directions and more less light directions.

My thoughts about your 'test':


I think as long as you do not give people the opportunity to colour their ships by their own, you can't test if they are more risk driven or whatever.

Just now it is like you want test a new car with cool features without this cool features but a new colour.

This sounds like a really fun project. I'm curious to see how it turns out. Thanks CCP.

(Also, hi Morwen!)

Shut up and take my money.

Very few things compare to the stature, authority and elegance provided by the simply gorgeous Looking Glass Monocle Interface.

It's not really a code problem. It's a data problem. You allow the skin, everyone who sees the ship has to download it's texture it to their computer. It's also a immersion problem, because they want ships to look like they fit the universe. Giving EVE players complete control of texturing would be a nightmare. So it has to be done in a way that won't allow you to abuse the design too much.