Market Discussions

edit :nvm

They haven't announced any details about the price in the future, and there are hint there might be time-limited SKINs as well as permanent SKINs.

Right now I can turn 1 PLEX into 3,500 AUR and I can buy a battleship skin for 350 AUR (or 10 for 3,000 AUR), which pegs the price of those skins directly to the price of PLEX. Frigates are significantly cheaper.

When the SKIN system goes live, we don't know what price currently existing SKINs will be as permanent licenses. I speculate they will be more expensive, at least for some ships - and if that's the case, anybody possessing a skin BPC/skinned ship prior to the change gets a license, that would be quite the investment opportunity.

But if the SKIN price stays the same as the BPC price, or if they announce the price change long before it goes live, not so much.

They didnt changed they always stated each quafe ship sking it will be its own license .




No hints about time limited skins , all skins will be PERMANENT , that was confirmed . We know when skins go live the price will be bigger (obviously btw) and yes anyone having a license now has made a nice purchase , not extraordinary because almost EVERYONE understood this and there are way to many current selling bpc on player hands , so they wont be much in demand , but for personal use that was a nice purchase .




Many are focused on current shop skins , while the real deal is in unique limited ones .

They didnt changed they always stated each quafe ship sking it will be its own license .





Well others may have followed this more closely than I but what I originally understood was that if one purchased a skin the idea was it would fit all ships of all sizes. Now I am hearing that this might be the case for some skins but not all. If there is no merit to what I'm saying please do tell.

All bought up today.

@GankYou

uhm, you did read the Devblog today, right? Because (just in my opinion and if my math is actually right) you sold some of your ships way too cheap. Like the Abaddon Kador Edition for 270mil.
When patch hits, you would have a regular Abaddon (which you could sell for ~220 mil) and the new SKIN license, which is going to cost 3455 Aurum. And to get that amount of Aurum you would have to spend over 15€ or several hundred million ISK on the market. So my guess would be, that the ship you just sold for 270mil, would be worth 1bil after next week.

Just read it and pulled the rest of my orders down. BPCs still intact.

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/ship-customization-time-to-show-some-skin/?_ga=1.157894714.1883539901.1421897621

Bought them all back.

The frigs alone are 2390 AUR / 40 previously * 8 mil = 478m.

Now, given the number of new SKINs being introduced, there is going to be a lot of competition between them - a few select ones from the previous batch are worth holding, tho.

Can someone explain to me why this will be worth all that much after the initial " gotta have it" pop? I get there would have to be a floor as you need AUR but I don't get why skins are expected to go onwards and upwards. The skins last forever except for the timed ones which have not even been released yet.

A few things.
The new price in Aur gives a guideline price in ISK via conversion. Aur have a real life dollar value, so do ISK. This makes working out the guideline price very easy.

The gotta have it pop is per character not per account. If you have a few pilots you like across your accounts, you may want a few.

Once consumed they can't be put back in the system.

Although it may be cheaper to buy one with real life cash, by going through the Aur process the in game ISK price will probably be a bit higher. For the simple reason it's simpler to buy it off the market for ISK even at a bit of a premium ( compared to the conversion rate ) rather than spend real life money and press a ton more buttons.

New players will always want the cool skins that the cool kids have. Who want to fly a boring ship when you can fly the elite skin ship?

The "stockpiles" of skins are nothing by comparison to the number of players. The stockpiles won't last a week.

50% of players probably won't even know about the new skins until they see them flying around and ask where they all came from. Never underestimate ignorance.

If you think none of this makes sense, and that logically players won't buy them. I remind you of all the proof of players playing illogically. ALODs, blingly ships exploding, players falling for obvious scams, PLEX transportation in ships, AFK piloting, mining without a permit.

My guess is that the final price of skins in ISK will settle at the conversion rate Aur -> PLEX -> Isk plus at least a 20% premium for convenience cost.