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Can you make it so i can pay for different colored pos forcefields, id really like my pos shield to be purple, or stripper hotpink

exactly. it's not bling if every ship you ever see has quafe or whatever on it.

I think that it wouldn't be very hard to add it a stat to the assembled ship that says which skin it has on it. Maybe my neurt Abby is a blood raider one, my art Abby is tashmurkon and my pulse laser brawler Abby is kador. It can even be applied to the fitting mechanism so that specific fits have a skin pre applied to it. If the character doesn't own a license for the skin then it fails as if they didn't have the module I their hanger for a normal fitting.

This way the skin could persist when not in the ship until someone unlicensed gets in it, in which case it deactivates like a module. Like if a newb steals a T2 fitted BS and all the guns go offline :P

Additionally you could pick to set a skin as a default for all newly assembled ships. And use a skin shop window that can be used to set a skin to mass numbers of ships, if for example you have 20 atrons you wanna reskin, but not the other 10 for suicide runs to another skin. This shop can be a mini-NES to let people buy licences directly and be the future window to be used for player-made skin designing.

It could still be used in space though to reskin the current ship, but when docked can reskin any of them.

And if we returned to client side rendered icons you could have a ship icon that reflects how the ship was skinned for quick indentification.

Was wondering about this. I think clarification is needed...from my understanding getting back in a ship will reapply the SKIN of your preference. Will that happen at an SMA or can SKINs only be selected in a station? WH dwellers everywhere want to know, I'm sure.

So just looking for some clarification on not implementing the systems displayed at fanfest. This system required inputting a seperate model for each different paint scheme, or....? This system of nano-coating really still doesn't interest me at all...although I fully realize that it's the base for more work so I'm not trying to say you shouldn't have it. The skins system is just SO limiting. At the very least I would expect corp names to come soon, I'd love to put my corp name overlayed on any skin.

In short, point of this is why this system and not the system shown at fanfest (in a little detail more than we can't please). Thanks!

edit: Perhaps saying it doesn't interest me isn't completely true, I just don't plan on using it. The future of it will be interesting.

While the general implementation seems vastly improved over the current system and I like skip skins, I have one massive concern; the big buy button in the ship fitting panel. It might not seem like much to you, but I never want micro-transactions to intrude on my regular play. Especially in Eve Online, where it already has a full priced subscription model. I can't shake the concious thought that I'm being manipulated into a purchase. It's pressure I don't want to feel in a game, and I feel justified in expecting a clean experience with my subscription.

The mock up here would effectively place an advertisement in a task we all do regularly. I understand why you'd want to do this as a business, but do realise you're trading the quality of your product to do this. It wont be enough on it's own for (most, it'd be enough for me but I'm weird) people to stop playing of course, so you're not concerned, but the things do add up. It's the straw that broke the camels back, so to speak.

The current system is hidden in it's own menu, that you never have to see unless you want to. There is no in-game advertisement and this is exactly how I think it should stay.

TL;DR - Please remove the buy button from the fitting window.

Custom fittings being an extra bling thing is also more in line with the modern eve goal of everything being destroyable

Overall, i really like the idea. It's a good way to implement skins without cluttering up the market tab with all those (skinned) ship duplicates. The only downside i see, is:



That would be a really bad desicion, in my opinion. Please CCP, reconsider this point.

Furthermore, if i may add an idea for the conversion of existing ships/BPCs to the new license system with the example of the Quafe Megathron:

If a player owns a Quafe Mega BPC it will be converted to a Quafe Mega Skin License.
If a player owns the actual Quafe Mega Ship, he will get a regular Mega and a Quafe Mega Skin License instead.

I highly enjoy this notice regarding ship skins.

I wonder if perhaps we will FINALLY be able to paint our glorious Amarr Hulls in Equilibrium of Mankind colors?

One question, this will apply to Shuttles/Industrials/Transports/Freighters too? As a Hauler, I spend a lot of time in my Industrials all over the place, and so far all I have seen is love for combat ships, but none for the industry ones (and shuttles)

All in all a wondrous add to the game, more colors and a solid stepping stone for Alliance/Corp colors and perhaps "decals" too!

+1!!!

EoM and Khanid are my favorite. As for industrials, I hope so.