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Is my Blood Raider Paladin skin still on the way?

So, basically, instead of actually applying paint to the ship we will have a High Tech, electrically controlled, optical illusion. Is there going to be a capacitor power drain for this?

What. Kinda like skills? Maybe CCP should start making us retrain skills when we get podded (sarcasm).

Hi folks first time here.. let me start by saying I really enjoy this game and have for years.

I have a suggestion on the ship skins that would be nice to see..

1) I have always enjoyed checking out what folks have named their ships and it would be totally awesome if we could have our ships named appear on the hull of the ship.

2) Lets talk "camo skins" make up some skins that use the systems around us as a ship skin.. like a Golem flying into combat painted all black with stars painted on it.. that would look cool.

Thank you for allowing me to post here.
Keep up the great work.

PLEASE CCP take a look at this: http://i.imgur.com/Mmj8jBk.jpg
It could make nanocoating part of EVE by involving many other aspects of the game (some of which require attention aswell) while still involving microtransactions.

Images speak louder than words.


Kind Regards, Ben

Why not use a module system instead. Give every (with exceptions for repainted hull faction ships so a worm can't get a new paint job becuase it's a gurista customized merlin etc) ship a single paint job module slot.

Bring up the paint jobs into small, medium and large (and maybe x-large for capitol ships) allow high run BPC to be purchased from the NEX stores and LP stores, and allow BPO to drop from high end explorations, make the materials and time to manufacturer a paint module minimal, allowing them to be made with the most basic expenditures of time by a low sp pilot.

There are a couple of reasons for using a module
1. It allows a chance of the module surviving when destroyed, allowing player to gain said module though pvp ganks, and allowing pve player to regain it it if they get popped by npc's.
2. It uses known systems and ui, thus the act of using paint jobs will be familiar to all players, and won't require a additional tutorial for the newbies.
3. It creates a new tradable item for players, and since it would be a low skill and low material requirement it should stay cheap to create, and cheap to buy, with a large number of them being sold as well. Plus, if we make

While the future you are going to add is really cool and have been asked many times in the past in forums if it doesn't have some customization will make no difference.What i mean ?Able to change the color of a ship or some parts of it ,or able to place signs,flags etc, . Unless you can give us so many options to choose and put them in our ships .I f it's still limited to only few ships ,not a lot of choices etc I don't see any difference from current system(except the destroy factor you said)

This is why I haven't used the current system yet.


And if they implement this system I'm not likely to purchase any SKINs either because it doesn't make me feel invested in my decision.

@CCP FoxFour
With it no longer being destructible, I foresee over-saturation of the markets where these skins drop rather quickly.. so, I have a suggestion.

You Buy a SKIN, or a rat drops one, or you get it from a LP Store.. Anyway, it's a painjob, but on it's own, it is NOT tied to a ship. No you are in your fitting Window, and you are deciding what to paint your shiny new Mega.. Sure you already have the base ones, and the Quafe one, but you want something different, so you take one of your SKIN's from your loot pile, and inject it. BAM. Blood Raider Megathron. That SKIN has been inject, and is now your license to paint all your Mega's that way.
This way no one is stick with a pile of SKIN's for Blood Raider Proph's or whatever. You can inject it to apply to any hull, but as your current idea is, once injected it's tied to that hull.
This also opens up far more fun in being able to skin ships that shouldn't look that way, the way you want.

If I want a Blood Raider Dominix, I should be able to do that with your new system. Rather than hoping that at some point you make a specific skin for doing that outside of the Lore.




Personally. This isn't the way I'd of done it. I'd make drops be like I said above, a paintjob that can be applied to ANY ship. But I'd leave them destructible, and just add a fitting slot to every hull that you can drop the paintjob in (or remove when you are done).. This way it can be lost, and it's not tied to any one ship/hull/class/race/whatever. I could go mission all day in my Blood Raider Paladin, pop the skin out, and go drop off my loots in Jita in my Blood Raider Iteron V, only to be ganked in Niarja, and now have some ganker flying around in his Bloot Raider Tornado :p

In my opinion, this would open up more choices for players, and a more fluid market . I'm sure your way will be a nice boost in $$$ when it launches, but after a year or so, most people will have what they want and never need to buy them again. My way, you need it again each time you die, unless the loot god's are kind and you are able to scoop it back.

Anyway, there's my 2cents.

But while I'm here, When are we going to get access to the skinned Marauders? They are there, in game, let us have them! I want my Quafe Kronos Dammit!

+1. Now that is much more eve like.

Out of curiosity who produced that image?