EVE General Discussion

I respect your opinion, however you don't get those snazzy new outfits for free either (which is a more apt. example)... you pay ISK for them as well (or cash if you're really, really ISK poor).

I do agree that the difference between 1 purchase allowing you a piece of clothing forever vs. losing a ship skin every time you lose the ship needs to be addressed. It needs to be one way or the other, and prices adjusted accordingly.
(In other words you pay more if they are both one time only purchases, or less if you lose them every time you die).

We are making some assumptions though as to what will and what will not be possible. This could go beyond just ship skins, or it could simply be back end stuff that helps them manage ships/skins from a data or inventory point of view... and perhaps nothing more than that.

However this ends up playing out, I really don't think too many people have an issue with there being a cost for customization options that have no affect on game play. That way the cost is paid by those that want those options, and does not affect those who could care less at all. I might have an issue if the only form of payment accepted was cash, but that hasn't been and likely won't ever be the case.

I don't get my ships for free, or my modules/rigs for free to equip them, and I don't expect to get "extra" options for them for free either. As long as the process is tied in at some point to player manufacture and marketing, I'm good with it. Needless to say, I believe clothing should be tied to those things as well at some point.

I'm mostly ok with the last 2 suggestions. I just don't want my creative juices to be stifled by my tendency to explode ships.

In programming terms, a 'factory' is usually a specific sub-system designed to handle the generation of objects; for a roguelike (which is my own project), an 'item factory' spawns the items into the game world and controls their properties (cursed/enchanted items, randomized names, etc).

From the description, it sounds like CCP is re-building the 'factory' so it handles ships and items in the same manner. Since a ship is, from the server's perspective, just another 'object in space' (i.e, the model itself has no special properties), a 'unified' factory would treat the model as it would any other asteroid or station.

In short: an 'Object Factory' would allow new items to be created with much less work, since an asteroid and ship are technically the same thing. It also permits the re-painting of stations, since they would then use the same 'factory' as a ship.

Wow, I'm a bit slow sometimes.

This also could very well be the foundation for being able to apply corp/alliance logos to ships as well, although I've always thought that would be best done like the emblems in War Thunder are handled... sort of a "sticker" you can move around and apply to any ship and scaling/orienting it to your taste.

Understandable.

I was looking at it from the "buying an established corp color scheme" point of view... but they did show that clip at fan fest of an engine that allowed different patterns and stripes and such to be applied, stretched, etc. that looked as if it might be something the players could use to customize with and still keep the TTP factor under control.

I looked to be fairly complicated though. If they can simplify the control/adjustment mechanism so that us untalented apes can manipulate it... well, that's a horse of a different color.