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I look forward to fighting more comets (and now more expensive comets) based on the fact that this skin exists.

I know you've chosen the 'iconic' ships from each range, but I think you should have instead gone for the ships that are seeing the most use. I would argue that the Punisher is not used anywhere near as much as the Tormentor or Executioner. Not to mention, there are already upgrade available for the other T1 hulls (Inquis -> SB, Punisher -> AF, Crucifer -> EAF, Exec -> Inty, Magnate -> Covert Ops) yet the tormentor is perpetually vanilla.

PIE wants Imperial Tormentors!

Also, +1 to being able to have a corp / alliance skin. We would have enough of these blown up on a regular basis to make it worth all the effort. And yes, we would add 8 mil to the cost of our Tormentors to fly in PIE Inc. True Golden Shrimp Fleets (tm).

They should all be like a million a pop, use them & lose them! I dont want to spend 80 mill on my black battleship with black stripes on a background of black ('Disaster Area' anyone?).

These arent one time purchases as they can be destroyed, I spend $1 on app for my phone... I don't expect it to self destruct and have to buy it again!

Although I will agree that 'Special Edition' all gold bling paint jobs could be priced higher, I've got nothing against collectable items.

BTW.. I've been waiting for this feature since 2002, so a) about time! but b) would much rather it took the Dawn of War army painter approach, allowing me to be creative.

Also... when can i put my corp logo on the ship (and for free! lol).

If you think 8mill isk for a frig skin is to much....then..... I dont know what to tell ya man.


its only for looks, its not like you need the item, if players enjoy them and buy PLEX for AURM and that helps CCP keep the best MMO ever running, then great, ill buy a few here and there, saddly I dont use a lot of the ships they are skins for, ill get a few Kador Punishers, use them in FW....

if the skined models show up on KB, and have the increased price on the KM, that will be sweet.... hope to see a lot around

The only down side this has are to players that dont want to use them, dont care about them, and buy PLEX with ingame ISK to keep toons active, because if this becomes really popluar, it might increase PLEX ISK costs by 30-50m or so, I cant see more than that, maybe right at first launch.

But, that might get a few more people to buy PLEX with $$ to earn some quick ISK (what CCP is hoping for)

so at some point can i assume that we will see ;

Faction corporate paint jobs(including Pirate factions) - Relevent corp LP store + reasonable amount of ISK

Factions without LP stores or stations/space for that matter and other "special" paint jobs - Aurum store

PLEASE PLEASE include some cap/super cap paint jobs with these also

I think this is a good start. Even tough i am not that interested in custom paintings i know many are and having more options in a game is always better. But ofc the feature in this state can't continue like this. If it becomes popular i hope CCP will copy Riot. They have an excellent skin system.

The final feature needs to have a slot where you put your purchased skin. CCP can continually develop different skins and put them in the NEX store. Each skin should be stick to only one type of ship. Some can be purchased for Aurum, some from lp stores and some why not form exploration. Important thing is they can be sold on the market.

Pricing should be changed 0,20 for frigs, 1 dollar for BSs, 5 dollars for caps and 10 dollars for supercaps.
CCP can make some special skins where some effect on the hull are added and can be a bit more pricy. Lot of options are possible.

I d defo purchase some special skin for my Guardian.

I say new-go-ee-oo-vee. Slur it together and you get something that sounds about as Caldari as the rest of the Caldari stuff I manage to say.

The Nugoeihuvi Rokh looks sick. Not sure if I would want the target painted on my back. And my front. And all my sides.

EDIT: Can we get pictures of the painted ships on a lighter/white background? It's difficult for me to see them.

I'm sure someone has already said this but like Alliance and/or Corp Logo's or skins would be totally awesome. Plus the skins thing is a great idea... if you train for months and pay a billion to get that nice ship you been wanting... might as well make it look cool and unique as apposed to.... ohh another missioning or ratting tengu, ect....

Definitely a great idea for EVE.

Overall it seems like a good idea.

With the current PLEX-to-Aurum conversion rate, seems a bit pricey, but only time will tell how the community responds to that.

1 PLEX = 3500 Aurum = 652,000,000 ISK

Frigate: 45 Aurum [77 per PLEX] = 8,382,857.14 ISK
Battleship: 350 Aurum [10 per PLEX] = 65,200,000 ISK


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Do want. I have no problems with vanity items at a sensible price.

The initial price point could be lower, I'd like to see it set at about 1/2 of what it is now, and increase on the same scale as a ships default mineral value. If a paint job is sellable via the market as a module or item then the market will eventually set its own price as it has with all other player traded items.

BPOs or LP reward BPCs that can be used normally should be a thing eventually, as should some colour and pattern customisation via something like the corp logo design interface including the application of corp and alliance logos.

Method of implementation is down to devs, if there is a demand for this kind of thing then they'll implement it more fully over time.

I admit that I haven't read all of the comments, so I apologize in advance if someone already mentioned something like this.

I think it would be cool to be able to specify a primary, secondary, and highlight color, in addition to a logo. Maybe more or fewer, but two or three colors plus a logo seems right to me. Each of these gets a dedicated slot on the ship, like a rig, and the "paints" are single-use items which can be traded. You'd have to determine which parts of every ship would fall into the primary/secondary/highlight categories, but I think this is better than allowing fully custom skins and it's more flexible than having a bunch of pre-built paint jobs, especially if a paint job can only be applied to a specific ship.

I'd really like to be able to change the paint job on my ship whenever I want. It doesn't really make sense that I could replace gun turrets on a ship but not re-paint it. The key is to avoid having to list differently painted versions of the same ship on the market (a packaged ship would be unpainted), and I really don't want custom painted ships to become rare and expensive. That seems better reserved for special edition ships, although maybe certain "special" colors could be rare.

In terms of cost, I can't see myself spending more than 20% of the cost of a ship on a paint job, unless it's something really special. If the cost were at or below 10%, I'd custom paint every ship - and I'd love to be able to do that! To me, convenience factors into the cost; if I have to trade PLEX for aurum, I'm probably not going to bother.