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About the new V3 ship skins...
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Montevius Williams
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2011-12-01 00:54:51 UTC
Dalloway Jones wrote:
Overall I love the Gallente ships. Greatly improved.

Caldari ships are too dark. They look nice in station or in some of the very bright systems but they otherwise look like dark blobs. What is the point of the V3 texture remodel if the ship is no longer visible?

For the record I started a thread complaining about this on the test server forums and was basically told by everyone "Shut up space is dark".


Thats becasue Space is dark. I think the new Caldari ships are epic.

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Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#22 - 2011-12-01 00:55:56 UTC
Gallente Police Ship > Federation Navy Comet

Wish I could get my hands on one of those... Big smile

Hay CCP! How about a surprise Gallente Police Ship for Christmas? Blink

Signatures should be used responsibly...
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#23 - 2011-12-01 01:12:26 UTC
I don't know WHERE you're looking at them (probably out in 0.0 space?), but to me they certainly don't all seem "jet black".
In fact, even the Crane (which is the darkest of them all) doesn't seem jet black either.

Badger I - gunmetal grey : http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4705/1badgeri.jpg

Badger II - gunmetal grey : http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/5296/2badgerii.jpg

Crane - very dark grey but not quite black, with red splats : http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9545/3crane.jpg

Bustard - light sepia, with dark ochre stripes : http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9181/4bustard.jpg

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Theron Inkunen
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#24 - 2011-12-01 02:21:14 UTC  |  Edited by: Theron Inkunen
There's a difference between polished Caldari gunmetal and black spray-paint.

Tengu is an example of good-looking V3 Caldari gunmetal:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/4/46363/1345604-tengu_super.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/2ijhmxf.jpg
The new Osprey is an example of this spray-paint style I don't like:
http://i43.tinypic.com/j9bxp4.jpg
Naga:
http://oi43.tinypic.com/16bizw0.jpg
Naga in space:
http://oi39.tinypic.com/rrru4y.jpg
My Osprey in Jita:
http://oi43.tinypic.com/zwyfyq.jpg

All images except first Tengu (I don't own a Tengu to screencap in a hangar) are my own screencaps. You can see in the Naga picture that bright backgrounds obscure detail just as much as dark ones. The ships are simply too dark.

I hope these images make my point clearer, and show what I mean by the black paint vs. dark metals. No ship in Trinity was ever this dark in space, because the hulls reflected light better, even on Kaalakiota ships.

If CCP wants dark, I would prefer polished dark gunmetal, like what's on the V3 Tengu, instead of the Naga's dull black paint job. Smile
Foster Kincade
Legio Decima Gemina
#25 - 2011-12-01 12:46:06 UTC
Theron Inkunen wrote:
There's a difference between polished Caldari gunmetal and black spray-paint.

Tengu is an example of good-looking V3 Caldari gunmetal:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/4/46363/1345604-tengu_super.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/2ijhmxf.jpg
The new Osprey is an example of this spray-paint style I don't like:
http://i43.tinypic.com/j9bxp4.jpg
Naga:
http://oi43.tinypic.com/16bizw0.jpg
Naga in space:
http://oi39.tinypic.com/rrru4y.jpg
My Osprey in Jita:
http://oi43.tinypic.com/zwyfyq.jpg

All images except first Tengu (I don't own a Tengu to screencap in a hangar) are my own screencaps. You can see in the Naga picture that bright backgrounds obscure detail just as much as dark ones. The ships are simply too dark.

I hope these images make my point clearer, and show what I mean by the black paint vs. dark metals. No ship in Trinity was ever this dark in space, because the hulls reflected light better, even on Kaalakiota ships.

If CCP wants dark, I would prefer polished dark gunmetal, like what's on the V3 Tengu, instead of the Naga's dull black paint job. Smile


totally agree with this. Many of the Caldari ships are too dark and your pics show this perfectly. Yes space is dark but eve is not ALL about realism. I would like to be able to see my ship when flying in space (unless i'm cloaked)
Obax Bannon
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#26 - 2011-12-01 13:05:21 UTC
I must admit looking over my ships yesterday most were pretty decent...big thumbs up for those.
What has been done to the CNR tho....from a really nice smooth green/brown camoflage effect its gone to a black/grey/white one.
While this color scheme is probably better for space it seems awfully blocky and pixellated almost when you zoom in to it.
Is it intended to be like this ?
Got to say i'm not totally convinced so far on that one
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