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About time we got some red in this thread.



Corp and Alliance Logo's and color schemes would be great but ship skins shouldn't be limited to just that. There's lot's of players who would also like to have 'Custom' paint jobs.

As for changing ship color, it definitely should be a fitted item such as a rig slot. That would work great and hopefully not be a problem to do regular colors, ie, black, white, red, green, etc.

Course having multicolor paint jobs would be excellent, as well as having the option to place Flames, Racing Stripes, Flags, etc.

Anyway, that's my 2 ISK worth of imput.



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How ship painting is treated with respect to the ship:

Ship ### Edition, for example. A ship should not suddenly enter a new category because it is painted. Skins in my opinion should be treated like rigging. If you repackage the ship you lose it. They should also be traded by contract, and not on the market as now. It's just a skin.

Instead I think it would be better if painted ships had some detail in their fitting or inventory that shows that they are painted. That should be visible in the contract, but not in the name or otherwise. After all I am not "Chihiro Silver Coat Edition" just because I am wearing a silver coat. I am still just chihiro, and the ships should be treated the same.

Review:

Its a nice idea, and its nice to see the company moving in a new direction. Ship painting is a beta, and I think it still needs some work. Mostly to be less intrusive, to add some (meaningful) personal value to the skin/item, and be to be available.

When can we expect some more skins?!

This looks great! Any chance it will be available in the future?

http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/615046359613718478/11A24AE561B0D880C935343F9297E4E92F59A83C/

Ok, great that CCP thinks about coloring ships.

I suppose this thread is for the feedback...


So there goes:


The model of ship customization to shoot for can be seen in Pirates of the Burning Sea (PotBS)

Features:

1) for each differently colored/textured set of surfaces on their ship, players can choose from a color palette, that is limited to colors that match the style / color palette of the game.

2) these colors can be set any time you please and there is no cost whatever. (in a subscription game, charging for coloring your ship looks like a rather insolent cash grab, even though I understand CCP's frustration with their Aurum store, which failed due to the whole walking-in-stations fail. If Bioware did this in their F2P SWTOR I'd have no issue with it, but here, its just greedy.)

3) different colors can be chosen for in-game or player made faction / alliance / corp logo color sections.

4) there are some rare, really cool custom paint jobs available, that are either in-game achievement rewards or Aurum purchases.



It would be really bad if players still had to depend on the taste of some CCP employee for picking contrast colors to simply make a larger selection of still pre-fab skins, which are then called "player ship painting skins" which they are not, cause we'd still be stuck with some other guy's choices, which we know from experience can be pretty poor. (think forest or desert camouflage in space and other nonsense, or simply being unable to get the desired color on the particular ship you trained for or favor for any reason)


So, I hope the Aurum stuff is just for special skins with some special motive, that someone at CCP put a lot of effort into, but that basic ship coloring has no price tag whatever.



P.S. I "painted" an Abaddon at the cost of loosing its rigs and a Punisher. Even though I like black for some ships (the Amarr Curse used to be a great looking ship in black, as was the Khanid Navy Omen and the black Nighthawk - all sadly repainted in something ugly since then) the Abbadon still has large surface areas look like cardboard, and the Punisher was also a so-so mix with a faded grey much too prominent on top.

Absolute simplest thing is allowing us to set primary, secondary, and highlight colors via hex code, then give us the option to choose which of our available emblems to paint on the ship. The info should be stored as meta-data for the ship, and payable with currency,

This means that the Goons can troll people by making bright pink ships.

lol ships with orange-black bee stripes!

Well, I think CCP would limit the palette to what matches the game palette, same way other games do.

Though there's always one or another player that finds a way to make a very hideous and loud paint job.
Those are the ones you shoot first in a fleet battle ;D

I just hope that the paint job sticks with the hull, and we can generate our own colors.

That would open up a world of possibilities for things like titans... especially if they can work in some internet memes as a few joke skins.

The new transport and industrial skins look slick.