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Sorry must have missed something but last I checked, the very point of Eve was that it was not 'just like every other MMO'? I don't really have anything "up my rear" in particular about Aurum but I do have a serious issue with conformity. Personally, if WOW or DIABLO is doing something, that's justification enough for doing the exact opposite!!!

No one is 'butt hurt', the point is very simple: Should we get charged AUR when the next sov change happens, or the next POS iteration happens? After all, the players have been asking about it for years.

No. This feature is being done with existing devs, and their time is allocated for this feature. This isn't costing CCP anything more than normal development costs, so it's not like they have to recuperate additional costs.

This is a dangerous slope. The next thing that the players have wanted for years could be spun into another AUR fee, all under the guise of 'it being cosmetic'.

Eve doesn't need micro-transactions for things like this. It's totally out of place. If this is technically doable, then it should be done as part of the normal development cycle of an expansion.

While I think a LOT of players want ship skins, especially custom ones we can 'make' ourselves with a paint bucket tool, I don't see a $2 per ship price scheme doing very well. More than likely, people will purchase 1 or 2 skins, maybe even lose a few and then buy 1 or 2 more, but after the initial interest dies down, so will sales.

Why instead not make the color scemes themsves something you purchase the rights to, at a higher price point (say, a few thousand aurum) and you can then apply that skin to any ship, with no limitations.

Combine that with a large selection of preset skins, as well as the ability to make up a paintjob youself from templates, and I think you would generatr not only more interest, but also more revenue.

Congrats CCP this is an excellent way to get the ball rolling. While the choices are limited, that's what a pilot program is all about - a few options at minimal development cost to confirm interest/opportunity.

Key elements here:
- no impact on combat capability
- reasonable price point
- up to each player if they want one....or not
- sounds like it will explicitly show up on KBs - which will make more tasty treats for those of us who like to see explosions


I will be getting myself a police car - woop, woop

As usual the EVE community shows its vast ability to not read properly. Over 50% of the responses are: OMG! I have to pay out of game money to get this! RAAAAAGE!

No... this will work the same as PLEX. Supply and demand. People will buy them with money and put them for sale on the market where you can buy them for ISK. Problem solved, don't **** your pants any more over this please...

Being different doesn't mean EVE is a charity. And if CCP's going to work on vanity items in ADDITION to regular game development, they need ADDITIONAL funds. Otherwise they have to cannibalize other things to work on vanity stuff.

I gave Blizzard as an example of the worst case. Literally pay for max level is insane. But every online multiplayer game has microtransactions now, that's the state of the industry, and like it or not, it isn't changing back. It's something you have to HTFU and learn to live with. And then push for responsible and reasonable use of MT (like vanity items).

NO.

Make ship painting an addition to ships, not new ships.
Making specialty ships with new colors is not the ship painting that everyone was wanting or hoping for. While it is an interesting step, this is not a good decision.

Why the same ship painted green instead of brown would have be an entirely new item, and one that is only available form specialty shops, is kind of mind boggling when you attempt to apply it to any real life analogues.

paint is not a rare substance and with the proliferation of ships in eve its rather difficult to imagine that ammarian color paints could be restricted to only amarrian ships in any enforceable way.

I would approach this issue thusly :

2 new item types, that plug into ships, purchaseable in stations for isk/arum from the station.
- Sov stations do not recoup this expense by pilots, but the price is lowered to represent "at cost" for those whom have standing with owning corp/alliance. NPC stations all make a "profit" though lessened by player standings towards pilot.
- installed like rigs, they are destroyed by changing them, 1 pattern, up to 3 colors per pattern.

1. Paint patterns x 5
- the basic way that a ship is painted, be it cammo, stripes, or solid colors this is the format for the color placement
- this is different by ship type, but consistent by ship. my merlin with cammo5 is the same pattern/color placement as your merlin with cammo5, but the incursis with cammo5 has a slightly different look

2. Colors x 10
- each pattern has several options, this changes which color is where, but consistent with the pattern.
- think color by numbers, simply changing which color goes with which number.

this could be the addition of 18900+ items that represent all the possible pattern and color options as one info item or 15 items per hull (1890) that represent pattern and color to be filled in by the client.
(5x3x10x126) or (5x3x126)

and as always, remember to allow clients to choose to display ship colors or not.

Edit, while i was writing this others have stated a preference for rig type colors and the same setup as my idea.

I am very much looking forward to this.

How much for one of these

Aurum / LP payment is fine

As long there always be a isk option on the market.




Seed with LP / Aurum

Be able to -market- it , with ISK

*major fangirl squee*

Police.. *shakes* persui..*/shudders and squees again*

As an honest space pilot just trying to keep the spacelanes clear of undesirables it is a joyus day when I can step into a police ship to give some more official look to my pirac.. i mean policing.