Jita Park Speakers Corner

The more variety the better, at all manner of price points, with a healthy of in-game and microtransaction based options. Ability to do basic color swaps as a low end option, also a plus. Basically the only thing I don't want to see come out of it is a huge emphasis on the microtransaction based skins over in-game ones, whether that's simply "more of them are real money only" or "cool ones are real money only".

Shhhh Malc you're not running again.

And yeah. Ship skins and customization are awesome. I'd like to see alliances and corps be able to license designs or reserve designs or include logos or whatever-- basically, some way to have a trademark "look" so anyone who sees them coming will quake in fear. Or laugh. Either way.

Some should be microtransaction, some should be in-game achievement. The in-game achievement ones in particular allow CCP to add a cool tangible but non-gamebreaking reward to certain behaviors-- imagine if you could find a super cool skin through exploration in the deepest reaches of space, or if more tournament participants walked away with skins as a way to say "I did this", or if faction stores sold LP skins to highly valued allies, so you could sport your loyalty to such-and-such group in-game.

Basically, ship skins are a huge bonus to the "community" part of the game, and I hope the present experiment succeeds and they're used far and wide.

I really like the idea of the ship skins. I do agree that people should get more than one; as Malc said, if you only have one ship and it's going to be a pain in the neck to replace, we aren't going to be seeing them in space.

The other concern I had was with the application method - using a manufacturing line in order to add police lights to a Comet ( <3 ) makes sense, but I am sure the production lines in high sec would love the congestion. :D Personally, I think it'd work better from an end-use standpoint if they were a fitting that could be added to a ship/dropped from a wreck, but CCP needs to do whatever works best for their current program architecture.

Also, I would gladly pay for a few copies of a purple and gold skin for my megathron. :)

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Ship skins are great. I'm happy with them being available both from the Nex, and from other places like LP stores. I wouldn't be happy with the way they're doing it, if that was the long term option, but as it isn't, I'm happy enough.

The battleship price feels a little high.

You should be able to take a plex and break it down into the aurum tokens. (and be able to break the aurum tokens into the smaller aurum tokens). This is to get round the "I want to paint my own ship, but a plex is too much at a time" 'problem'.

Right there in the devblog.

A little late on the reply but I'd like to weigh in on this one.

CCP is currently doing Ship Painting right... and if they continue to move forward with additional features to enhance the selection of skin schemes purely as cosmetic, and available in a variety of ways. I can't see this turning sour.

Aurum being spent on customizations are the perfect vehicle for this outside game influence currency and micro-transactions. This is healthy and I'd love to see more options continue to become available. The caveats to that being a) It does not increase performance. b) paint schemes do not affect ship stats beyond value. and c) Paintjobs and Ship skins don't become the focus of a full rollout.

The reintroduction of the flashing lights on a comet with the police edition is quite welcome, but a small part of me was left hoping all 4 empires would get the Police force treatment.

Moving forward I think it'd be a great option for Alliances have the option to purchase customized ship skin's available in the same way you may have your alliance Logo changed, my calls for the GSF bumblebee Black and yellow Rifter Complete with Fat Bee decal or something similar becoming an option would be outstanding.

I do have several criticisms. I very much dislike the current mechanic of paint skins being set up as a blueprint. I'd love instead to see it as a Module or Rig slot. I'd also address possible lag concerns by adding ship skins to the graphics menu as something that could be turned on and off, because god knows when you're zoomed out in a cap fight, you don't really care about which Rokh or Maelstrom has a sick paintjob more so than volleying them off the field.

I believe for me ship skins fall into the category of "Things that are nice, But please don't make it CCP's sole purpose in releasing content."