EVE General Discussion

So far, I am loving the changes to ship textures to add some new layers.
Having dirt be an overlaid texture rather than be baked in is nice even if it hasn't reached its full potential yet (ships that sit in the belts all day don't seem to pick up space dirt any faster than the ones in the hangar for instance), and while being a damn dirty carebear means I don't have much use for kill markers, it's still a neat thing to have.

So where does EvE go from here? Certainly between those two texture overlays, and the texture replacement system that makes SKINs possible, the framework is there to do lots of neat stuff with ship hulls, so it's probably more a question of when rather than if.

Given that, I'd like to know does CCP have any sort of plans for adding other overlays such as finally letting us put corp and/or alliance logos on our ships, or have the ship name printed on the hull somewhere? Is it WiP now, is it planned to be WiP sometime soon, or is there some sort of other back end that needs to be done? Also while SKINS are great, are there any future plans for some sort of alliance livery *eg. change some of the secondary colors of the hull, but the chosen SKIN can still give the first), or is that not possible yet without just letting all the big alliances just plain make their own SKINs?

NOOO, but I just polished my hull; you bastard
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On the subject of bombs and missiles, though. it'd be kinda neat if even after running your armor repper to get you back to full health, there were still battlescars on the hull only removable by repackaging.

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We're very aware of the desire for corp or alliance logos on ships. I can't speak to how soon you might see such a feature but it's something we'd like to do.

I personally have not heard the idea of ship names on hulls come up. It's an interesting idea but would require a lot of work to do well.

As for alliance color schemes, that's not coming soon, but some of our upcoming technology work may enable such a thing in the future. No promises on this, though.

I suppose putting dirty logos and names on the side of ships was bound to happen eventually.

It'll be like WW2 all over again.

To be honest, I had figured that would have been the first item added, since I could swear it's one of the most asked for minor visual additions, and I would have thought would be easier since it's an attribute of your character rather than the ship.

So how much work WOULD it require anyways?

No?
I could have swore I've seen it mentioned before. Maybe not, but having stuff like names and registry numbers painted on the ship makes so much sense, I would have thought it inevitable; less if, more when.


:(
and after that fanfest ship painting demo got my hopes up so long ago

Structure SKINs?
I do agree logos are practically mandatory at that level.



I hadn't even considered it would need a thread suggestion, since, as I mentioned, I kinda figured it for an already assumed probably in the future eventually sort of thing.
Now wjhat I would love to suggest, is more characters in ship names so i can call my ships such things as Just Read the Instructions, Of Course I Still Love You, and, of course, Obligatory Gravitas Reference.

Not SKINs, but actual color sheme for structures in that corporation, possibly chosen in the corp logo creation menu. Else we will have generic looking structures everywhere. When you see POS at least you can see different pattern in localization of structures inside the forcefield. With citadels everyone would look the same.