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Any way to customize your ship is a good thing.

I've not read all 31 odd pages so this might already be noted, however, I am concerned with the amount of work this could cause in future. Imagine, down the line, every ship in EVE having 10 or so paintjobs. Now imagine, as technology increases, CCP finds the need to remodel the ships. This adds a vast amount of work update all the models, the textures and paintjobs.

I would like to point to the current corp logo system as a more "sandboxy" solution. When creating a logo, you have 3 fields that you can populate with a variety of textures and colours (These are obviously then saved as images, but we will skip that bit).

Likewise, for ships, you could have a "paintjob" consisting of X number of fields that the user then populates from a variety of provided textures and colours. For a simple example, 2 fields; a background colour and a highlight colour. Each ship hull then has a single texture with areas defined that say "this area, use the background colour, but in these areas, use the highlight colour". If you get what I mean. The advantages?

1) The current ship colours are now just a special pre-set paintjob.
2) A single custom "paintjob" can be applied to all ship hulls. Say, an alliance or corporation colour scheme - your whole fleet has the same colour.
3) Ships that are introduced or remodelled simply need to have the texture as described above to be compatible with all current and future paintjobs.
4) New paintjobs can be introduced by adding in more textures and colours (or later, as tech increases, more fields).

I'm not going to discuss this in any more detail; people always prefer to pick things apart than add constructive criticism.
I just wanted to encourage some discussion about a more sandboxy/providing the tools approach to paintjobs.

Regards,
Mordeth

Being able to put you Corporation or Alliance logo on your ships I believe would be far better that general paint jobs.

Here's wild thought: how about fixing a number of the LONG-STANDING BUGS that many of us have been working around for years, rather than more NeX store non-sense?

Just a crazy thought, I know...

Hi Everyone,

I think the idea about customising your ship is a great idea. It has already proven successful in FPS games like COD, Battlefield and also like Diablo 3. I think the really important aspect about why these programs work so well is because the players of any game want some aspect of individuality. But more importantly these customisation programs works because they were Free or only cost very low amounts of in game currency.

I think all players understand that setting something like this up in Eve will take time but I really do think it is important to remember that every player is paying every month to play this game. Yes some people can afford to sell Plex and maybe that should be left to limited edition paint finishes or something. But I believe that all players should be able to at least add paint jobs to the ships free of charge.

Another idea would be to be able to add the corporation logo to the ship in areas we desire. Or like all the FPS games be about to create our own personal decals using all different shapes to make something amazing.

I really do look forward to hopefully customising the look of my ship in the future. I just really hope the Eve Dev team does this for the players to make the game better rather then to increase profits alone.

Thanks.

The answer is in the devblog.

Minmatar are supposed to be hideously ugly.

I understand your point, yet it had little to do with what I was saying. Complain about vulgarity, evemail me, I have plenty more.

Have you seen the Nefantar Maelstrom?

You will see it when more options are added from different Minmatar corporations. The current skins are designed around the color scheme of the NPC corporation they're named after.

So a more legitimate criticism to make that voice your concern would be "Please start with so-and-so or this-and-that corporation CCP, so that we can more adequately judge the difference these skins are going to have overall, since their color scheme has more contrast with the base Minmatar colors."

The Krusual is actually one of the more visually striking designs, it's just that these hulls don't necessarily lend themselves to it. I think for the next set they should consider:

• Kor-Azor (Amarr)
• Hyasyoda or Sukuuvestaa (Caldari)
• Roden Shipyards (Gallente)
• Core Complextion (Minmatar)