EVE General Discussion

You are not very good at that whole "secret" thing. You are fired.

My problem with ship skins is that they're not "look at me" enough.

Before the SKIN system, they were special ships. That was cool -- you felt like a bad ass flying something special.

Now no one gives a **** what my skips colors are.

Make one SKIN apply to a range of different hulls and I'll gladly pay 4 to 8 dollars for one. But 8 bucks for a skin on 1 ship? No thanks. Too expensive. Especially since, let's be realistic here, I'm the only one who is ever going to really see it. The only SKINs worth getting for the purpose of showing off are capital skins.

Re-using unique skins and selling them is bullshit!

The only skins that should be available for purchase are new skins specifically created for purchase.

Also if they had done this correctly, I would have easily spent a couple hundred bucks on skins over time. Now I will probably only buy one or two.

The real joke is on me though as the one skin I really want was in an early spy shot and isn't available. With my luck probably never will.

So if it the goal is to make money they failed, at least with me.

You want to punish the people killing afk porn addicts by... making them watch porn?
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'Log before you flog' is just as important as 'don't fly what you can't afford to lose'. And it should be enforced, creatively.

This.

When they announced skins, many people, including me, thought that we would finally get a way to customize the looks of your ships. They even showed us an awesome editor for selfmade skins! What did we get in the end? Overpriced, prefabricated skins. ~12€ for a skin which can only be used on 1 battleship. Thats ridiculously expensive.

The SKIN feature in its current form is a huge waste of potential.

Well, they were initially destructible. The very first ship skin attempt was applied during the manufacturing phase but didn't fly. Then they went to the one where it is assigned to the character as a nanoparticle license or something and people bought em. I have a nice share of skins. Note my jacket too.

In my case, it is twofold. First, I see it, and eve is a visual experience. It connects to me on my roleplay side. Second, the few dollars I kinda consider a tip to the company. Is pricing off? I dunno. I didn't mind the price though it would be nice if we can get packages.

I paid actual dollars to get this stuff. Compared AUR to plex to market and found the best way. I got my space barbie stuff, and have no regrets to it. It enhances my gameplay simply because of how my brain works with getting immersed into an experience. It is a visual I like more when seeing my avatar, seeing my ship, etc.

Why do people care what color their car is when the purpose of paint is to keep it from rusting? Why is every vehicle on the road not Tremclad orange? Why do people pay thousands on top of a base price just to have a fancy color?

Simple answer, we are animals. Billions of years of evolution from being just amino acids in a pool means we have parts of our body and minds that respond subconciously to stimulus. Ship skins appeal to that. It doesnt have to be logical, only that it does. So our subconcious grapples with our logical conciousness and as such, I have the collection of sanctuary skins for my SoE ships I infrequently use, and a skin for my Basalisk which I rarely fly. Simply because it tickles my subconcious more than the cost of getting them.

Well, we are all armchair economists, game designers and polymaths. No, really.

Or maybe we just like commentating and chatting about stuff. Discussion is good. Some useable bits might emerge, and CCP might use some. The 'EvE is dying' rhetoric is tricky to wade through but it's just verbal shorthand to make a point forcefully, and it gets people involved. Which is good sometimes, rattle some cages, gets people involved.

The only reason I'm not pursuing this one is because I'm hoping there's a larger agenda behind it. If nothing pops out of value in a reasonable timeframe, or there's a whiff of PTW I'd treat it as a knife in the back after being patient and respond in kind.

But actually commenting that something is retardedly overpriced and your mates might be gouged (even if you won't) isn't selfish, petty or entitled. Quite the reverse.

I agree, the prices could be a bit lower. But not by much. Hopefully the SKINs concept will be improving over time, and I do intend to keep getting them. I have a few ideas for them, but the cost isn't a big issue. Just make more money. After all, they're suppossed to be luxury items.

You don't have to buy them.

Every corporation in the world takes the money that you use to buy their products and services and uses it to create new products and services to sell to you, it's commonly known as being in business.