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Loving the idea but hate you all devs so much for such shity way of realization.

You are going to make a new vanity item.
Why not to place it directly to market? Or even LP shop?
Why to the ******* aurum shop?

Stop becoming greedy mmo devs as most of they are. Do you have lack of real money? Stop wasting money for MONUMENTS and spend it for developing game! Without such crap as vanity items.

I realy want to paint my ship but I will not!!!!
You may ask why! Answer: it is very stupid to spend 30x price of ship just to paint it. Or even 10x.
All you give is 'nothing' for bunch of realmoney (or even isk, not directly); just a texture.

Still, I can't paint a **** on my hull or a unicorn, narwhal, nyancat for example. So why should I pay real money or such a big sum of isk for such useless item?

Do you think it is normal to buy an eye hole (impant) for price of battleship? Or shirt for a price of t2 cruiser?

Pilot's who agree, just boycot and do not use this 'feature' to break their expectation (If this pilot program reveals that the painting of internet spaceships is indeed popular and we are able to gather enough data and thoughtful feedback...).

Message to some sily-minded pilots who will ask me about my shity pricy shirt - I've got it as gift. Will never spend so much money for useless item. Also I'm thinking to sell it and buy a battleship for PVP.

And want to repeat - I AM LOVING IDEA, but I do not support the way you going to release. Won't use it if it becomes a vanity item in crap(aurum)shop.

All mentioned above is my own opinion.

This is AWESOME.

One question: Will players be able to tell whether a ship has a custom skin via dscan, or only by looking at the ship or seeing it on the overview? I see that the dev blog says it will appear with the new name, corresponding to type ID, but will this be the case on dscan as well? I ask because I enjoy using special edition ships as PVP bait--e.g., the Sarum Magnate or the Interbus Catalyst, as they tend to draw a lot of fights.

The prices actually look good at this point, but one thing I suggest is that the cheaper these skins are, the more people (like me) will not just buy them, but undock in them. If they are too expensive, the problem is people may still buy them, but they won't do anything to lose them (PVE, PVP, or even undocking). I will certainly be buying a few custom frigates and PVP in them, but if they were even cheaper I can guarantee you I would buy more and, consequently, lose more.

Hi would you guys mind putting the current AUR value of one plex in the devblog? i'm gonna go look it up now but it would be convenient to see right there how many paint jobs a plex would get you.

Unfortunately, you won't be able to undock in a ship with the new skins, because the door... errr.. I mean hangar won't open...

Five gets you ten this'll go the same way as ambulation - nowhere.

If you find any sort of excuse to not pursue this I will grab a plane to Iceland, go to your offices and **** on your door mat.







and that's a promise.

Nice idea ... but who the hell came to the stupid idea , to offer 8 (!) items with AURUM and only one (!) in the game itself? This sucks very hard.

@Georgiy Giggle: full approval

As the blog stated, the developers would love to have a broad variety of methods how you can get the ship skins and not just AUR payments. For example, the blueprint to convert the Federation Navy Comet into the Police Pursuit Comet is available in the CONCORD LP Store.

Just for clarification, I'm showing roughly 43 million ISK per USD based on ~645 mil. ISK and 15 USD per PLEX, which means the cost of painting a Battleship should be ~80 million ISK. Overall fairly reasonable IMO. Comes out to roughly half the base-cost of the hull for a T1 ship and on Faction ships it's a far lower percentage.

If someone from CCP or the CSM could spot-check my math that would be great.

Going forward if this is popular enough it would be great to have us able to buy/acquire "patterns", like the digital camo of the Caldari Navy, but customize the colors ourselves when we install the color, allowing for far more diverse ship coloring than a simple fixed set of textures.

The down-side of course being that for the sake of performance we likely wouldn't be able to view (at the least) the custom colors without specifically hitting view on another person's ship, the same way guns don't render on other ships by default. Or maybe I'm wrong (hopefully).

Either way, awesome new feature. Now, to go paint my Rokh... :3

Oh, for Wormhole people moving forward, I vote an Orca or Roqual mounted paint-cannon! "Invade our Wormhole and we paint your ships pink!" xD

Hope this flies. The idea of maybe corporate identity logos on the horizon is something.

Also hope the accompanying performance drop won't be very large.

I don't like that the BPCs are currently only available in the NEX store, but if we can also get them from, for example, LP stores, I'd be fine with that. I have to say, I do like the new colors for the ships.