Player Features and Ideas Discussion

BTW, I too find silly that prosthetics, tattoos and such can be replaced on the fly and unconsequentially. But then, the whole idea of tattoos and prosthetics in the year 23,000 it's silly in itself.

Even if we don't account that EVE's prosthetic limbs came after some other game announced that feature, much as now the debris fields in asteroids have come once another game has been released with that feature.

Yes, this is why CCP just is removing the destructable ship paintjobs; because destructable vanity items are the key to ultimate success in microtransactions.

"You should buy this because it does nothing and it is lost when you die ingame" -unbeatable selling line from Iceland (TM).

Yep. Guilty. I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to that stuff.

Wait, they're removing ship paint jobs? Why?

Did they say if skins would expire?

Yes.

The S.K.I.N. is applied to your character, so you are able to board any base hull and the paint will be automatically applied.

It would look something like this.

You can change paints, even with a 'painted ship' because it is really just the base model with a different shader.


And Rain, no, they never implied that. I would see no reason why it should.

Depends how much they charge, really.

Unfortunately, it seems like skins won't be tradeable between players this way (unless they implement some kind of clever tax). I doubt they'd want players trading away skins when they get tired of them, because that would mean less sales.

The game does not require that new licenses for ship paints have to be brought.

It will much alike apparel in that respect. A system that people will want to use.
Heck, it doesn't take much to see which one people use more.

Both offer something that is of no value outside of 'looking cool,' but one is significantly less practical in the game play.

The fact that aesthetics are indestructible is a non-issue. The core of the game is meant to be fun, after all.


It's more simple for CCP, and it's both more fun and more simple for players.

I really can't see how this would be of benefit to the game in the end.

I would guess they've projected that more additional players will purchase the SKINs if they are indestructible, than they would have repeat purchases from players in a destructible SKIN environment.

+1 to Rain.