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Nice idea.

Too expensive.

1000 AUR = 1 PLEX

1 PLEX = 650mil ISK

1 Painting = 45 AUR

That works out to be about 30mil to paint a Rifter... A RIFTER?! That you can put together with fitting for between 5 and 15mil. I don't know anyone who would want to fly a 40mil Rifter. Even the T2 Wolf, completely kitted out is not 40mil ISK.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&find=unread&t=325519

Perhaps consider something along these lines. The basic foundation is already in the game and would take minimal effort to implement on V3 ships already.

1 PLEX actually converts to 3500 AUR

1 PLEX = 3500 AUR

Also please tell us more about how Pubbie McPubberson knows more about the actual feasibilities of implementing these changes than the actual devs

Still 8.5mil which, for larger ships (or T2 like Wolf or Jag) is not bad... But not a Rifter.

however, billy bob player could pay for it via a plex and decide to sell it on the market for 1m isk. He paid for the plex with irl money, so can sell it for whatever he wants.

I am REALLY excited about this. I would especially like it if we could do corp paint schemes!!!

Hrm. On the one hand, if you're feeling out for demand, starting with an upper-limit price point isn't really the way to do it. On the other hand, people would be flipping tables if you hiked the price after a while and too low could calibrate people's expectations in the wrong direction.

My misgiving is that if this goes badly and doesn't generate the sales desired, do you blame the price point or 'lack of interest'? I'm sure if all the skins were 1 Aurum, you'd get a lot more interest...

Also ship identification is definitely of concern- prefixes on the ship names can make Overviews much harder to parse due to identical ships being in massively different spots of the alphabet, not to mention a number of 3rd party developers are having aneurysms on how to deal with the new ships/killmails etc.

The sad reality is that none of these ships are doctrine ships where I fly, so the chances of me wanting to go out and buy one, let alone lose one in any of the fleets I fly in, are small. If you really wanted to test the waters, you should have done a Megathron skin...

It's just kinda sad to be seeing 'we really want to develop this feature, so give us lots of money on a stop-gap implementation and we might do more'. If you want to do that... just do a kickstarter or something- I can't and won't be buying these skins as they are, but I would put £30 towards a project for it done right (have pledge levels and promise a certain number of skin tokens or other benefits- the usual exponential increases for pledges).

So, uh, I guess we need a 'plex for features' thing in-game?

No one said these were one run blueprints.
And that's something they can easily balance. 2, 5, 10 runs? Could be dirt cheap.

It's a way to see if people really want it, while funding development.
Think of it like a kickstarter.

1) It's cool in theory, but unless everyone is rolling around with space paint....those that do are basically hanging a sign around themselves saying "primary this". Heck, I already know one hi sec merc in particular who will make it his lifes mission to hunt lvl 4 mission runners in hi sec. So just undocking will say shoot here.

2) How bout new ship designs? Paint jobs are cool but I'm sure alot of us would rather see some of these hideous ships either get a design overhaul or just scrapped all together in favor of some professionally designed hulls.......and not using the same hulls over and over across different ship classes. Much more important than space paint imo.