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Forest Camo In Space Is Dumb
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Xavier Liche
ACME Mineral and Gas
#1 - 2014-07-03 17:35:36 UTC
Just sayin...


Also noticed when I searched that almost every anti-camo thread is locked, but they seem really popular and really tame.

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Dhaq
Doomheim
#2 - 2014-07-03 17:36:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Dhaq
Camo is the new black. Adapt or get out of the way

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#3 - 2014-07-03 17:38:37 UTC
Since the visuals don't matter, forest camo is no more or less dumb than any other, so you might as well paint the ship in whatever looks good or has some historical significance.
Xavier Liche
ACME Mineral and Gas
#4 - 2014-07-03 17:42:52 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Since the visuals don't matter, forest camo is no more or less dumb than any other, so you might as well paint the ship in whatever looks good or has some historical significance.


Camo has historical significance? This is gotta hear Big smile
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#5 - 2014-07-03 17:46:09 UTC
Xavier Liche wrote:
Camo has historical significance? This is gotta hear Big smile

Sure. It's as much a unit identifier as any other marking or colouration. All such identifiers can gain some kind of significance over time.
Chandaris
Immortalis Inc.
Shadow Cartel
#6 - 2014-07-03 17:50:01 UTC
bring back zebra stripes on the sleipnir and wolf the new skin sucks

plox & tee wai
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#7 - 2014-07-03 17:52:00 UTC  |  Edited by: Ralph King-Griffin
Actually, it's not all that bad.
Edit: the use of word there isn't a reflection of anything.
as far as I'm aware it was rather effective, looked awesome and irritated the **** out of the top brass, allround winBig smile

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Xavier Liche
ACME Mineral and Gas
#8 - 2014-07-03 17:54:07 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Xavier Liche wrote:
Camo has historical significance? This is gotta hear Big smile

Sure. It's as much a unit identifier as any other marking or colouration. All such identifiers can gain some kind of significance over time.


No, the shoulder patch (in the US) is the unit identifier, esp right side because that is the combat unit you serve with.

BDUs are all the same.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#9 - 2014-07-03 18:00:01 UTC
Next time you are fighting in the great space forest, you will be thankful that your Navy Mega is hard to spot...




Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#10 - 2014-07-03 18:03:33 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
Xavier Liche wrote:
No, the shoulder patch (in the US) is the unit identifier, esp right side because that is the combat unit you serve with.

BDUs are all the same.
…and yet they will let you identify the unit and as such can gain historical significance. MCCUU ≠ DCU ≠ ACU ≠ NWU ≠ etc (and that's just for the last decade and a single nation — add ODs to the list and you immediately introduce historical significance). Again, it's no different from any other marking in that regard.
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#11 - 2014-07-03 18:10:14 UTC
Camo lets you hide behind asteroids... and blend into nebulae... everyone knows that. P

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#12 - 2014-07-03 18:10:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Ralph King-Griffin
Tippia wrote:
Xavier Liche wrote:
No, the shoulder patch (in the US) is the unit identifier, esp right side because that is the combat unit you serve with.

BDUs are all the same.
…and yet they will let you identify the unit and as such can gain historical significance. MCCUU ≠ DCU ≠ ACU ≠ NWU ≠ etc (and that's just for the last decade and a single nation — add ODs to the list and you immediately introduce historical significance). Again, it's no different from any other marking in that regard.

Would you mind telling me what those abbreviated designations are tippa?
Genuinely interested here.
No need for gratuitous details now, just enough point me for my own research.

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Dinsdale Pirannha
Pirannha Corp
#13 - 2014-07-03 18:11:28 UTC
Xavier Liche wrote:
Just sayin...


Also noticed when I searched that almost every anti-camo thread is locked, but they seem really popular and really tame.

Conspiracy? Blink


Of course you are correct.
The stealth ships should all be matte black, with radar absorbing paint, aka B2 bombers.

But nope, CCP instead tries to squeeze cash out of silly people with various skins.
Humans have proven throughout history there always has been, and always will be, a market for frivolous items bought by frivolous people.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#14 - 2014-07-03 18:13:53 UTC
You arse , I just had them asleep!

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#15 - 2014-07-03 18:18:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Would you mind telling me what those abbreviated designations are tippa?
Genuinely interested here.
No need for gratuitous details now, just enough point me for my own research.

They're various combat uniform (hence the reoccurrence of “CU” in their names) patterns and designs from the U.S. armed forces. Pretty much every branch (and many sub-branches) have their own designs, either to very explicitly set them apart from others or to fit what they feel is a specific mission profile that the other branches don't have to deal with.

I could have picked something more close to home, where we have the differences (and very historical significance) between m/39, m/59, m/69F, m/69P, m/70, and M90.

Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:
Of course you are correct.
The stealth ships should all be matte black, with radar absorbing paint, aka B2 bombers.
You know that “radar absorbing paint” is mainly just snake oil, right, and that they're fairly easy to detect by just altering the wave pattern? Oh, and that only those backwards Amarr even use radar sensors. P
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#16 - 2014-07-03 18:22:47 UTC
nice one cheers tippa.

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Yarda Black
The Black Redemption
#17 - 2014-07-03 18:25:45 UTC
I think the camo paint jobs are ugly
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#18 - 2014-07-03 18:27:11 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Actually, it's not all that bad.
Edit: the use of word there isn't a reflection of anything.
as far as I'm aware it was rather effective, looked awesome and irritated the **** out of the top brass, allround winBig smile
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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#19 - 2014-07-03 18:28:46 UTC
Yarda Black wrote:
I think the camo paint jobs are ugly

Now that is a much more reasonable argument than the idea that the colour scheme would somehow change your gravity or magnetic signature. P
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#20 - 2014-07-03 18:34:26 UTC
Note to self, giggling maniacally at dinsdale is not conducive to children sleeping.
The next time this happens you're getting them asleep mister piranha

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