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Dev blog: Ship Customization: Time to Show Some SKIN

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Odin Shadow
ZC Industries
Dark Stripes
#101 - 2015-04-21 20:07:51 UTC
Primary This Rifter wrote:
Odin Shadow wrote:
DaReaper wrote:


im talking about the free 5500 aur's they gave us, can that be pooled so we don't have to top it up for the high end skins?

can that can be put into tokens and traded?






how do I buy these tokens? (im not seeing them in the store)

They're not available anymore.
They were offered when AUR was tied to character's wallets, instead of accounts, so when buying a specific amount of AUR you'd get a token for that amount that you could redeem in-game for that amount. Alternatively you could sell them on the market. Now that AUR is tied to accounts there's no need to do this anymore.


dam must have missed that. 10 accounts each with 5500 aur on and the stuffs I wanna buy is 6300. oh well will sit there for longer then I guess
Ix Method
Doomheim
#102 - 2015-04-21 20:09:03 UTC
Dangeresque Too wrote:
Pretty curious here... whats up with the MASSIVE price difference between SKINs of the same hull class? Like between the Punisher and the Merlin... what gives?

Am curious about this too?

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Gaia Ma'chello
Photosynth
#103 - 2015-04-21 20:09:33 UTC
Kotori wrote:
Looks like there was some insider knowledge on this one!

Blog released at 17:00 today.
Huge Spike in purchases on the 20th April.

Bit of a mismatch there.

I hope there is to be an investigation as to who is abusing their powers?

Speculation is one thing, but a mass purchase the day before a dev blog announcing that availability will be stopped immediately....

That spike extended to the PLEX market. It went up about 50 million too. People needed AURUM to get their skin BPCs.
Cr Turist
Arcana Noctis
#104 - 2015-04-21 20:12:03 UTC
Really cool !!!!

But I must ask WHERE THE HELL IS THE BLOOD AEON!!!!!! and dont you even think about making it a 30 day skin!!!
Dangeresque Too
Pistols for Pandas
#105 - 2015-04-21 20:13:18 UTC
Black Romero wrote:
I would go so far as to call this the preeminent micro-transaction system in MMORPGs.
The CHEAPEST ship SKIN being near $5 and the more expensive ones being over $30 and you call this the best micro-transaction of all?
Gaia Ma'chello
Photosynth
#106 - 2015-04-21 20:16:38 UTC
Agent Unknown wrote:
Elenahina wrote:
Kotori wrote:
Querns wrote:
Kotori wrote:
Looks like there was some insider knowledge on this one!

Blog released at 17:00 today.
Huge Spike in purchases on the 20th April.

Bit of a mismatch there.

I hope there is to be an investigation as to who is abusing their powers?

Speculation is one thing, but a mass purchase the day before a dev blog announcing that availability will be stopped immediately....

Um, the SKIN program has been talked about for months. Literal months.


I do not dispute that one bit. But the sudden "Re-Interest" in purchasing all the skins. The day before an official announcement like this, is at the very least... *Slightly* Suspicious


I went out and bought all the ones I didn't have last week. Am I also suspicious?


Considering the SKIN system has been on Singularity for weeks now, I don't think it's insider trading ...much like how the Entosis Link materials are already known based on publicly-available information.

I personally don't really care about the SKINs...my Quafe set will probably fetch decent ISK once the conversion is made.

Its the price difference that makes it suspicious. Until this blog hit, no one was supposed to know that the new SKINs were to cost more AURUM than the BPCs. So why suddenly buy a huge number of them? All those who bought BPCs in the last few days could potentially make a huge profit:

Buy PLEX
Turn to AURUM
Get skin BPC
Wait for it to turn into SKIN licenses
Resell at a huge markup, as the SKIN licenses are many times more expensive.
Greygal
Redemption Road
Affirmative.
#107 - 2015-04-21 20:20:51 UTC
Been playing with the new skin system on SISI, and it's so wicked cool! Love all that you have done with this, want more skins soon!

Like others, I'm finding the aurum prices somewhat on the high side - I figured you'd raise the prices, but it does seem like the prices were raised to somewhat unreasonable levels. I agree with those asking/suggesting for 30% drop.

Keep up the good work, CCP!! ♥

GG

P.S. Is there a name for next week's release yet? "The April release" is just so clunky Big smile

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Primary This Rifter
Mutual Fund of the Something
#108 - 2015-04-21 20:23:16 UTC
I do think the prices are a bit high.
Louise Beethoven
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#109 - 2015-04-21 20:31:14 UTC
Most of us want CCP to succeed at this and hopefully generate some new income, while we get some awesome skins.

But the prices are too damn high!
Esceem
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#110 - 2015-04-21 20:32:27 UTC
I'm not that excited.

The SKINs themselves actually look really nice and shiny.

However, I don't appreciate that CCP makes such a fuss about it.
They're just some new colours, so what?

1) Making them - way to overpriced - NEX tem with an imo unnecessarily complex functionality around it makes it appear to me like an attempt to ripp off players. As if PLEX prices aren't already high enough.

2) Also, I expected players will be able to create their own individual SKIN designs, at least on a corp or alliance level.
Memphis Baas
#111 - 2015-04-21 20:36:51 UTC
1. The open-GL preview window doesn't show ships the same way as in-game, at least for me. All I see dull greys, almost no color.

2. If you call the tab SKINS in the Character Sheet, new people will think there's something wrong with their character's epidermis, or that they can change it. Might want to call it Ship SKIN Certificates or something.
Acel Tokalov
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#112 - 2015-04-21 20:41:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Acel Tokalov
As Radgette suggested can we please get the Thukker paint job as a permanent one and swap out the Angels as the "pirate". The Nefantar is boring because it went from white to a dirty grey, and most of the ships that have the Krusual skin just look like slightly more red versions of the base hull.

I love so many of the Amarr skins but as usual the Minmatar get the short end of the stick and have only 3 patterns that are worth getting (Thukker, Sebestor, and Justice) all the other patterns so far are bland and hardly worth $5 let alone $15 for the higher end skins.
SilentAsTheGrave
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#113 - 2015-04-21 20:41:13 UTC
$20 for a frigate ship skin?! Are you guys out of your ******* mind? X
Thoth Aventine
Doomheim
#114 - 2015-04-21 20:53:49 UTC
Kotori wrote:
Looks like there was some insider knowledge on this one!

Blog released at 17:00 today.
Huge Spike in purchases on the 20th April.

Bit of a mismatch there.

I hope there is to be an investigation as to who is abusing their powers?

Speculation is one thing, but a mass purchase the day before a dev blog announcing that availability will be stopped immediately....


The information about the new skin process and some initial hints about the way skins would be converted has been in a thread in the test forum and on the test server for three weeks. The info has been available for a while and there's nothing suspicious going on, the spike you see is simple market speculation. As with all speculation, everyone who dumped money into this had very real risk of being totally screwed should the final implementation have changed by the time of the dev blog.
Mister Ripley
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#115 - 2015-04-21 21:10:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Mister Ripley
What happens to Interbus Shuttle?

Why are are the prices so random? I would prefer a more linear way like frig: 1000 up to titan 10000 or something like that.
Although the current price points for frigates are actually totaly fine. Since it's cosmetic, even 10000 or more for a frigate skin would be fine for me.
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#116 - 2015-04-21 21:11:31 UTC
This is pretty cool to be finally happening. That said I'm still not feeling much desire to invest since the ships I actually fly (mostly tech 2 ships) seem to still lack options.

Another issue that comes to mind, is there a way to have owned ships become skins to be sold rather than applied other than putting them in a corp hangar?
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#117 - 2015-04-21 21:14:21 UTC
Tyberius Franklin wrote:
This is pretty cool to be finally happening. That said I'm still not feeling much desire to invest since the ships I actually fly (mostly tech 2 ships) seem to still lack options.

Another issue that comes to mind, is there a way to have owned ships become skins to be sold rather than applied other than putting them in a corp hangar?



They're going to be dropped into your redemption queue, so you can then redeem them and sell them?

Quote:
Skinned ships will become a base version of the same and a SKIN item for that skin will be added to the owning players redeeming queue. For example: If you have a Megathron Quafe Edition you will get a standard Megathron in the same location as the original, and 1 Megathron Quafe SKIN (Permanent) item placed in your redeeming queue.

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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#118 - 2015-04-21 21:20:48 UTC
Steve Ronuken wrote:
Tyberius Franklin wrote:
This is pretty cool to be finally happening. That said I'm still not feeling much desire to invest since the ships I actually fly (mostly tech 2 ships) seem to still lack options.

Another issue that comes to mind, is there a way to have owned ships become skins to be sold rather than applied other than putting them in a corp hangar?



They're going to be dropped into your redemption queue, so you can then redeem them and sell them?

Quote:
Skinned ships will become a base version of the same and a SKIN item for that skin will be added to the owning players redeeming queue. For example: If you have a Megathron Quafe Edition you will get a standard Megathron in the same location as the original, and 1 Megathron Quafe SKIN (Permanent) item placed in your redeeming queue.

Ah, I misunderstood somehow and thought they were being directly applied to the character.
Lena Lazair
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#119 - 2015-04-21 21:23:38 UTC
Catherine Laartii wrote:
KHANID ALL THE THINGS

AAALLLLL THE THIIIIINNGSSS


The number of ships I'll be able to fly just went up considerably :)
Aroye
Mechvale Planetside Productions
#120 - 2015-04-21 21:23:42 UTC

Ok some skins are nice but these prices are way too high, they compete with buying game time. Shocked