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Bandar Koots
Doomheim
#1 - 2015-07-06 09:55:39 UTC
The skin store is fantastic but I was wondering why ..for a price I could not for instance repaint a captured Minmatar vessel in the colours of the glorious Empire. For millenia nations have used and repainted captured vessels so why not here. I am proposing that nations who are either at war or in a state of heightened tension should be able to buy a skin package enabling them to apply the nation specific skins to the opposing sides ships. The owner of the skin package would be unable to use any other skin packages once the Home Nation Skin Package is activated and it would last for 6 months to a year. This could be extended to include minor nations and tribes ie Khanid and Thukker. Im sure there would be no sight likely to make an avid nationalists blood boil than see a blinged up Tornado in Amarr colours or an Oracles reduced to the dun brown rusty wreck huws of the Minmatar. If it was put on the AUR store at 5000 + AUR it would make it a viable proposition for the Devs (and discourage abuse). Its probably an old idea but Im new so dont shoot me down in flames.

"By His light, and His will" - The Scriptures, Gheinok the First, 12:32
FireFrenzy
Cynosural Samurai
#2 - 2015-07-06 11:04:24 UTC
abuse? its a can of virtual paint...
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#3 - 2015-07-06 11:08:27 UTC
Why would I want to buy this if it locked me out of all my other SKINs?
Lloyd Roses
Artificial Memories
#4 - 2015-07-06 11:12:21 UTC
Bandar Koots wrote:
[...] see a blinged up Tornado in Amarr colours or an Oracles reduced to the dun brown rusty wreck huws of the Minmatar. [...]


Why not buy a nefantar skin? They are exactly that, a Tempest in amarr colours, including the golden stuff.
Elenahina
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2015-07-06 13:10:27 UTC
FireFrenzy wrote:
abuse? its a can of virtual paint...


This.

What kind of abuse are we envisoning here? It's not like it changes the DScan or Overview information.

Eve is like an addiction; you can't quit it until it quits you. Also, iderno
Felix Judge
Regnum Ludorum
#6 - 2015-07-07 13:36:06 UTC
Like. But why be able to paint all ships of one faction, and not be able to paint any other while it lasts? (I.e., this lock-out and all-ships-of-one-race do not make sense.)

Just make cross-empire-SKINS available. You "capture" a hostile ship, go figure if you want the expensive paint job for it, too.