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Apparently it is OK to reuse skins of unique ships

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Entity
X-Factor Industries
Synthetic Existence
#1 - 2015-06-04 17:13:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Entity
Really?

So you hand out unique ships as event reward and then just go "lol we'll reuse this skin because only a handful of people have it anyway. We don't care about upsetting customers that obtained those ships, we just care about getting a few more bucks from skins"

Thanks, CCP. Thanks a lot.

I guess I can look forward to seeing the skins of all the unique ships I have in the NEX store.

Seriously though, the visual identity of these ships is part of what makes them unique. I think it's a bad call to reuse those skins. It's not good for the game in the long run.

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Tollen Gallen
Glory of Reprisal Enterprise
#2 - 2015-06-04 17:17:08 UTC
I like Battleships.

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Paranoid Loyd
#3 - 2015-06-04 17:23:12 UTC
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Falin Whalen
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2015-06-04 17:28:11 UTC
Entity wrote:
Really?

So you hand out unique ships as event reward and then just go "lol we'll reuse this skin because only a handful of people have it anyway. We don't care about upsetting customers that obtained those ships, we just care about getting a few more bucks from skins"

Thanks, CCP. Thanks a lot.

I guess I can look forward to seeing the skins of all the unique ships I have in the NEX store.

I can paint my car to look like a police car, but it's not a police car, because it doesn't have a cop motor, cop shocks, and it was made after catalytic converters so it runs terrible on regular gas. It is not the new Bluesmobile.

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stoicfaux
#5 - 2015-06-04 17:32:25 UTC
Reminds me when Hasbro decided to milk more money out of the GI Joe toy line by re-releasing existing vehicles in chrome.

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Entity
X-Factor Industries
Synthetic Existence
#6 - 2015-06-04 17:33:11 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Reminds me when Hasbro decided to milk more money out of the GI Joe toy line by re-releasing existing vehicles in chrome.

Regular Cobra HISS Tank
Chrome! Cobra HISS Tank



Oooo gotta have the shiny one!

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Hipqo
Tyde8
#7 - 2015-06-04 17:34:24 UTC
Read this.

More importantly, this part:
Quote:

CONVERSION AND NEW SKIN PLANS
The general conversion plans will give you a SKIN if you had a Blueprint perviously, or a SKIN and base ship if you had a skinned ship. If you do not have the ship at the time of conversion (ex. you sold it or it was blown up) you will not receive a SKIN.

The conversion process is as follows:

  • 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.

  • Skin Blueprints will become a number of SKINs equal to the number or runs remaining on the blueprint. They will all be placed in the redeeming queue. For example: If you have an Abaddon Tash-Murkon Edition 10 Run Blueprint you will receive 10 Abaddon Tash-Murkon SKIN (Permanent) items in your redeeming queue.

  • Skinned Ships and blueprints which are located in a corporation owned location will find the new SKINs in their HQ deliveries hangar. Ships will not move.

  • Skin blueprints that drop in game will become time-limited SKINs that last 30 days once activated.

  • Pirate ships which are skinned through blueprints that drop in-game (4 destroyers, 4 battlecruisers) will become the base ship and 1 time-limited version of the SKIN.

  • Any special edition ships or BPCs in the market or contracts will be cancelled and refunded the ISK it cost to put them up. The ships and BPC's will then be converted over as normal.

  • Codes and referral packs which reference ship skins, or skin items in your redeeming queue will provide a copy of the SKIN equivalent when redeemed.

  • Ship skins BPCs in your redeeming queue will be converted into SKINs in your redeeming queue.

  • Any SKINs in general, which are given to you under this conversion will be put in your redeeming queue.


As a way to reward early adopters of the Ship Paint Pilot Program, and in preparation for the new SKIN system release, all existing skin Blueprints will no longer be purchasable from the NES as of the publication of this dev blog.

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Entity
X-Factor Industries
Synthetic Existence
#8 - 2015-06-04 17:35:35 UTC
Hipqo wrote:
Read this.


And this is relevant how?

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Entity
X-Factor Industries
Synthetic Existence
#9 - 2015-06-04 17:38:49 UTC
Falin Whalen wrote:
Entity wrote:
Really?

So you hand out unique ships as event reward and then just go "lol we'll reuse this skin because only a handful of people have it anyway. We don't care about upsetting customers that obtained those ships, we just care about getting a few more bucks from skins"

Thanks, CCP. Thanks a lot.

I guess I can look forward to seeing the skins of all the unique ships I have in the NEX store.

I can paint my car to look like a police car, but it's not a police car, because it doesn't have a cop motor, cop shocks, and it was made after catalytic converters so it runs terrible on regular gas. It is not the new Bluesmobile.


Except this is a video game. The visual identity is part of the allure of these things. the fact there's even a skins system proves my point looks matter.

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Marsha Mallow
#10 - 2015-06-04 17:39:21 UTC
If they put plaques or a unique logo on the older hulls would it help?

Not a troll btw, I agree rarity ships skins shouldn't be recycled. Although if they are really good designs and there's huge demand for them the people likely to complain are a tiny minority.

Poke them in the feedback thread, you're more likely to get a dev reply there.

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Entity
X-Factor Industries
Synthetic Existence
#11 - 2015-06-04 17:40:39 UTC
Marsha Mallow wrote:
If they put plaques or a unique logo on the older hulls would it help?

Not a troll btw, I agree rarity ships skins shouldn't be recycled. Although if they are really good designs and there's huge demand for them the people likely to complain are a tiny minority.

Poke them in the feedback thread, you're more likely to get a dev reply there.


Unique decals would be acceptable.

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Dersen Lowery
The Scope
#12 - 2015-06-04 17:40:57 UTC
If the special ships never undock, does it matter? The hull's still rare.

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Entity
X-Factor Industries
Synthetic Existence
#13 - 2015-06-04 17:44:45 UTC
Dersen Lowery wrote:
If the special ships never undock, does it matter? The hull's still rare.


Counter question: Why does it matter if they undock or not? This is a sandbox game. You do with your stuff whatever you want.

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Elenahina
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2015-06-04 17:49:35 UTC
Entity wrote:
Really?

So you hand out unique ships as event reward and then just go "lol we'll reuse this skin because only a handful of people have it anyway. We don't care about upsetting customers that obtained those ships, we just care about getting a few more bucks from skins"

Thanks, CCP. Thanks a lot.

I guess I can look forward to seeing the skins of all the unique ships I have in the NEX store.

Seriously though, the visual identity of these ships is part of what makes them unique. I think it's a bad call to reuse those skins. It's not good for the game in the long run.


I'm missing the point I think.

All I see in the image is a blue stratios. What's so special about it?

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Dradis Aulmais
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2015-06-04 17:50:29 UTC
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Entity
X-Factor Industries
Synthetic Existence
#16 - 2015-06-04 17:51:29 UTC
Elenahina wrote:
I'm missing the point I think.

All I see in the image is a blue stratios. What's so special about it?


Look up Stratios Emergency Responder

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Chainsaw Plankton
FaDoyToy
#17 - 2015-06-04 17:52:31 UTC
I would hope the new sanctuary SKIN and the Statios Emergency responder would look different.

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Xtreem
Knockaround Guys Inc.
#18 - 2015-06-04 17:53:59 UTC
What I can say is i am VERY pleased to have offloaded my scorp ishkone watch ships before skins hit, I made isk, if i had kept past this change i would have lost ALOT, i feel for the people that had rare ships that were turned into skins :-(
Elenahina
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2015-06-04 17:59:56 UTC
Entity wrote:
Elenahina wrote:
I'm missing the point I think.

All I see in the image is a blue stratios. What's so special about it?


Look up Stratios Emergency Responder


Ok, now I get the problem. And I agree with Entity. If they were intended to be limited issue ships, then they should remain as they are.

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Falin Whalen
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#20 - 2015-06-04 18:00:04 UTC
Entity wrote:
Falin Whalen wrote:
Entity wrote:
Really?

So you hand out unique ships as event reward and then just go "lol we'll reuse this skin because only a handful of people have it anyway. We don't care about upsetting customers that obtained those ships, we just care about getting a few more bucks from skins"

Thanks, CCP. Thanks a lot.

I guess I can look forward to seeing the skins of all the unique ships I have in the NEX store.

I can paint my car to look like a police car, but it's not a police car, because it doesn't have a cop motor, cop shocks, and it was made after catalytic converters so it runs terrible on regular gas. It is not the new Bluesmobile.


Except this is a video game. The visual identity is part of the allure of these things. the fact there's even a skins system proves my point looks matter.

The only place looks matter, is in station when you spin your ship.

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