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Hey love the new kronos police skin, one thing that bothers me though, the red blinking light on the deck blinks blue for the first blink and then switches to red. kinda weird

The reason the excuses are underwhelming is because the real excuse is the one thing that the players have asked about the most...

The one thing that ccp refuses to talk about even though CCP thomas the monetization director attended their meeting one month ago according to CCP falcon....



MONEY AND PRICES

Ccp tell us about this

Could you at least open the skins up to matching race ships?
Something like.....
'This skin was designed by x corporation for x ship, however they have extended it to all Caldari subcaps, though they make no promises it will create as fine a visual image.'
That way players know that there might be the odd ship the skin applies poorly on.

You could also add in that skins get automatically disabled when a player enters TiDi, so as to avoid heavy server load in large ship battles from skin performance, which alleviates that issue.

Personally I'm happy to pay for a general skin I can use on many ships and will accept that it may not look as good on some of them in order to get that diversity. But the current one ship per skin range will not get me spending any real cash on this, though if I end up with spare isk it's possible I'd buy something on the market.

TLDR. More people will buy if it's at least an entire races ships, even if some of the skins cause the occasional visual bug, but all the bugs (rather than not quite as obvious corp skins) you've shown have been cross race ships, so a racial restriction would avoid most of that.

Maybe this has been answered, but is it possible to have pack of existing skins sold together at a discounted rate? Particularly similar ones across different ships, classes, etc.

Yes, please put the SKINs pricing through tiericide. Right now the pricing structure is very, very inconsistent.
Example:
Aeon Khanid Skin: 4,300 AUR
Aeon Sarum Skin: 6,500 AUR

Which would seem to imply that Sarum skins are more valuable/pricey
But then we see:
Oracle Khanid Skin: 4,300 AUR
Oracle Sarum Skin: 2,830 AUR

Then we also have the fact the the pricing seems to be unrelated to the ship hull size as well:
Avatar Khanid Skin: 6,500 AUR
Aeon Khanid Skin: 4,300 AUR
Apocalypse Khanid Skin: 4,300 AUR
Oracle Khanid Skin: 4,300 AUR
Harbringer Khanid Skin: 2,830 AUR
Augoror Khanid Skin: 2,830 AUR
Dragoon Khanid Skin: 2,390 AUR
Inquisitor Khanid Skin: 1,540 AUR

It seems like pricing was randomly chosen without respect to similar hulls or similar skins relative value to each other.
The word "maddening" comes to mind.

This clean look is better than the worn golem.

http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/67273/1/image20.png

http://i.imgur.com/aRBpcnE.png

Excuse me for linking something I wrote. I think it's relevant right now. https://rainfleet.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/a-title-will-come-to-me-later/

TL;DR

To those of us who don't work in video game development, a particular change seems easy to make. It probably also makes a lot of sense in our minds. But there's a lot of work that goes into these things. Devs have eyes too, and they probably want the same things we do. It just takes a lot of people to do it. It's best to be patient.

Though to agree with you, the judgement calls confuse me.

This statement has a lot of flaws in it, and I don't know if you are aware of this, even if we forget that not every capsuleer is a psychopathic murderer. I don't know if you read the eve novels or how many backstories and chronicles you read.

In fact, a lot of it is based on the "suspension of disbelief"
There is no indicator how a capsuleer is "freed". You'd think someone donates however many millions into your head and sends you to capsuleer grad school (aka starter corporations) out of purely altruistic reasons? WITHOUT a failsafe? You cannot be serious.
Capsuleers are not immortal because the cloning contract only works if your pod gets cracked. The brainscanner is an integral part of the capsule. If Joe Shmoe manages to slit your throat in your captain's quarters, there is no coming back. You're done.
A clone needs time to grow and there are only so many spare clones at the ready at any given time. If you kill a capsuleer often enough in rapid succession, there is no place to teleport your brain back to, so you would need to be lucky if that information is stored in a buffer somewhere... and survive intact.

Those are just the tip of the iceberg. Capsuleer lore and how they work in game are both flawed beyond recognition, and any argument based on this is automatically just as flawed as well. Suspension of disbelief and "game first, lore later" is the only reason why this works and is accepted.


Excuse me? Who uses the "look at" function or does rightclick FOV drag to check how a ship looks before they decide if they want to lock it or not? That is what the overview is for. And to iterate further on your argument:
There are skins now which have previously only been used for tech2 variants. Example: Ardishapur has the same colours as Viziam. However, Viziam is only for Tech2 ships. Now you can colour T1 ships in a "T2 fashion". Just saying.



*looks at the Cerberus* Try that again please? Usually, tech2 ships at least have a slight variance in their hull. I tried to even find this basic difference in Caracal and Cerberus, and failed.


Anyway...
Your idea of the the price structure needs to be explained for real now.
Why are "Rust online" Nugoeihuvi ships more expensive than "Space camo online" Wiyrkomi?
There is no reason to throw the "rarity" argument in here. If you have based the prices on what people bought previously, then that would have been a flawed statistic to begin with.
There is a very good reason to base the prices on size though... "we need more paint" ... I mean... KERR particles. Why Frigate Skins should be as expensive as capital ship skins... is beyond me.

I would really like this c: Not only does it add a direly needed ISK sink but it is a sensible approach to it. But I do think we will see a third iteration of ship skins. Here is why;

We've seen how the technology exists in the engine to put any skin on any ship, but not all of them look good doing so. Which means further tweaks will need to be done to them. That means in the future there will be a time when there is either a more sensible way for the engine to automatically apply colours and decals, or everything has been adjusted manually. At that point, or even earlier, it would be a lot smarter to condense the skins to a generic license.
For example; "Gallente Frigate Interbus license". You buy the license, and apply it to any of your Gallente frigates. Once done, it will unlock this skin for this type of frigate, let's say the Incursus. If you want to have another Gallente Interbus frigate, you need to buy the generic license again. This can be broadened into "Gallente Interbus" or "Frigate Interbus" or simply... "Interbus ship paint license" to apply on whatever ship you want. I do think we will keep within a faction setting though. Then again, this makes it difficult for other people who "changed sides" to properly identify with their new affiliation. Gurista Apocalypse? Innerzone Thrasher?

I wouldn't have minded an additional, destructible version of the skins. In fact, I often suggested to do both. Have the "unlimited" skin being more expensive to unlock forever at will like we have now, but have a slot in the ship that allows for a regular destructible skin to be slotted. You could unslot the skin again to sell it, but if your ship explodes, the skin is automatically destroyed, like rigs. So you would buy the skin depending on your playing preference and slot it.

I still think we need to be able to "revoke" the licenses for skins to sell them on the market again.

But the continued seeding of new skins gives me hope that we will see another revision of it c:

Reverse Kaalakiota?