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What's the purpose for apparel in New Eden Shop?
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Hir Miriel
Elves In Space
#21 - 2016-12-23 03:26:55 UTC
To cover our naughty bits

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Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#22 - 2016-12-23 03:51:37 UTC
The purpose of apparel is to look darn swank when someone for whatever reason double-clicks your portrait and selects 'full body view'.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
Matthias Ancaladron
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#23 - 2016-12-23 04:26:03 UTC
They really dont spend any resources at all on it. There's like 6 different clothing options and then they just recolor them over and over again and out put it out as something new.

Hopefully star citizen never actually gets finished or it will make ccp look bad on the wis front amd having fps combat in and out of ships which is what dust was supposed to be.
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#24 - 2016-12-23 04:31:14 UTC
Matthias Ancaladron wrote:
They really dont spend any resources at all on it. There's like 6 different clothing options and then they just recolor them over and over again and out put it out as something new.

Hopefully star citizen never actually gets finished or it will make ccp look bad on the wis front amd having fps combat in and out of ships which is what dust was supposed to be.


Also, barring that armoured suit and the Amarr robes, everything else looks like something I would wear IRL than something future people would wear. What I wouldn't give to swap out the jacket for something designed by Acronym.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
Jotunspor
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#25 - 2016-12-23 04:53:38 UTC
Sveuba Star wrote:
For game without actual need for having full body avatar and with so much apparel in New Eden Shop,
I must say that CCP spends fair amount of resources into creating new apparel.

If clothes are only for bragging or self admiring in the mirror,
I must say that I'm really disappointed.

I chatted with many new players in local and most of them shared similar feeling about this.

I've read few posts about WiS and I wonder will it ever be implemented?



Well, you see. You've basically explained it using simple logic. There is no point in the clothing. EVE has gone from: Making your character = Creating a character portrait. To: Prettier character portraits. And to somehow justify the fact that we can actually create and sculpt our character's bodies and faces. We have our little hamster cage... I MEAN, Captain's Quarters. It's been seven incredibly long years, and nothing has happened. Seven years to develop virtually any kind of video game from scratch is a considerable amount of time. And it's absolutely pathetic. They have the capability, and do wonders when it comes to optimization and from an overall perspective of mathematical precision. I'd say they're on par with Kojima Productions. The Phantom Pain is an extremely well optimized game, and is a testament to how a game can look/run on a certain level of hardware.

EVE's characters and character creation system are great. But at this point, the only logical conclusion is that it's there purely so they don't look like TOTAL complacent jackasses. Even though it doesn't really help them that much. They're still laid back, yet all of the competition is slowly and surely starting to emerge. What a ****-show.

Perkin Warbeck
Higher Than Everest
#26 - 2016-12-23 07:18:48 UTC
Hir Miriel wrote:
To cover our naughty bits


Now all I want is a Gurista's codpiece.

That, and to retain my floppy hair under a beret. CCP make this happen.

Oh and OP I am dissapointed in you that you have not spent several hours making your avatar look like it hasn't been lobotomised in front of the telly.
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#27 - 2016-12-23 07:51:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Zimmy Zeta
With the influx of new alpha players as genuine newbies, apparel is a pretty good indicator if a younger character is a true rookie or an alt of an older and wealthier player.
No real newbie would waste hundreds of millions of isks on vanity items.

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Josef Djugashvilis
#28 - 2016-12-23 08:06:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Josef Djugashvilis
CCP make money from selling Barbie items, good for them.

I would argue however, that ship skins are somewhat overpriced.

I have not checked for a while, but some of the skins seem to cost the same as about two months game-play, why would anyone do that?

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Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#29 - 2016-12-23 08:10:15 UTC
Josef Djugashvilis wrote:
CCP make money form selling Barbie items, good for them.

I would argue however, that ship skins are somewhat overpriced.

I have not checked for a while, but some of the skins seem to cost the same as about two months game-play, why would anyone do that?


They are actually alot cheaper than fancy clothes these days.

If you had been around since the Incarna era you probably would have quite a not-insignificant amount of AUR to spend. Which I did. To make my Breacher-waifu look pretty.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#30 - 2016-12-23 08:20:20 UTC
Josef Djugashvilis wrote:
CCP make money form selling Barbie items, good for them.

I would argue however, that ship skins are somewhat overpriced.

I have not checked for a while, but some of the skins seem to cost the same as about two months game-play, why would anyone do that?


Custom paintjobs are there to add some more individuality. Since they are expensive, you usually don''t apply them to all your ships, but to the ships you fly most often and like the most.
If they were dirt cheap, everybody would use the best looking skins on all of their ships, completely defying the basic idea of individualization.

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#31 - 2016-12-23 09:02:11 UTC
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#32 - 2016-12-23 09:26:21 UTC
I figured out the definitive answer:

So players can cosplay new things at gatherings.

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Yarosara Ruil
#33 - 2016-12-23 09:37:01 UTC
But I like playing space barbie...
Tanuki Kittybeta
Ripperoni in Pepperoni
#34 - 2016-12-23 13:32:45 UTC
i like it
Gadget Helmsdottir
Gadget's Workshop
#35 - 2016-12-23 13:48:23 UTC
Style.
Is.
Everything!


Any schlep can mine a rock, shoot someone in the face, make a ton of ISK, lose a ton of ISK, or do whatever in EvE.
Doing so with style is what gets you remembered.
Clothes help the image - for both the pilot and the ship.

--Gadget

Work smarter, not harder. --Scrooge McDuck, an eminent old-Earth economist

Given an hour to save New Eden, how would respected scientist, Albertus Eisenstein compose his thoughts? "Fifty-five minutes to define the problem; save the galaxy in five."
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