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Dev blog: Designer SKINs to please your eyes

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Justa Hunni
State War Academy
Caldari State
#21 - 2015-08-22 01:50:38 UTC
So judging by the increasing number of pay for skins coming out can we conclude that the free-form painting system that CCP Seagull showed at Fanfest two years ago is dead in the water?

Shame really, I would prefer being able to customize things rather than get nickel and dimed to death if I want something beside the vanilla ships.
Sir Livingston
Doomheim
#22 - 2015-08-22 02:33:43 UTC
I eat crayons.

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Mike Adoulin
Happys Happy Hamster Hunting Club
#23 - 2015-08-22 04:18:07 UTC
It was all the female players saying they were going to paint up their ships ala Hello Kitty.

Icelanders can't abide Hello Kitty; it is the kiss of death to them.

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And if it isn't, it's your job to make it a trap...:)

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Kristen Andelare
Night's Shadows
#24 - 2015-08-22 05:00:21 UTC
How about you go bold? None of these new skins are all that inspiring. They are well-executed, yes, but still appear somewhat drab.

Capsuleers being the flamboyant bunch of swaggering immortals that we are, We like a little more flash than the average corporate drone, religious zealot or freedom fighter. Don't be afraid to offer us bold stripes, tiger, leopard, fractal, and geometric patterns, and colors that can stand the glare of harsh lighting. You can do this.

We'll love you for it.
Inovy Dacella
Empire Assault Corp
Dead Terrorists
#25 - 2015-08-22 08:07:07 UTC
Will the Minmitar Sebiestor and Krusual skins return to their original color scheme in Galatea? The most expensive Minmitar skin turned green when the rust was added!
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#26 - 2015-08-22 09:09:15 UTC
These look nice I guess.

When are we getting corp and/or alliance logos? Or skins with colour trims that reflect alliance colours?

As a technical issue, it would be pretty easy for you to implement, so what's the holdup?

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016

Faelune
Tous Pour Un
#27 - 2015-08-22 11:08:31 UTC
I feel younger,

this caracoid reminds me the shape and color of Eva 002 from Evangelion
http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/67488/1/2.png
Like a space evolution of her features.

Now I feel a need for the red plug-suit for myself
Dan Seavey Allier
Seavy Acquisitions
#28 - 2015-08-22 11:57:39 UTC


Dear CCP:


I want to put a W W 2 flying tigers motif on a Gnosis, or even better a German U-Boat skin.

Make this dream happen and I will pour enough money into this game to reboot WOD.

Swear to God.



Dan





Honey Never Sleeps. - John Russell

Alstevar Eastern
Caldari State
#29 - 2015-08-22 12:54:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Alstevar Eastern
Skins

  • Raata Sunset, Caldari in red it's ok for me.
  • Valklear Glory, i think it's look like a bit too much an ORE skin.
  • Blue Tiger, finally some blue to Minmatar and Caldari ships.

Industrial Outfits

  • Hephaestus Industrial Outfits, the red/white look good but the others need less white on each white placeholders.

What’s next

Can be good to have ;

  • Tash-Murkon skins for ALL t1 Amarr ships.
  • A golden skin to make the raven look like the old Golem.

Your effective personal standings need to be higher to see the player's signature.

Ariz Black
#30 - 2015-08-22 16:52:00 UTC
Justa Hunni wrote:
So judging by the increasing number of pay for skins coming out can we conclude that the free-form painting system that CCP Seagull showed at Fanfest two years ago is dead in the water?

Shame really, I would prefer being able to customize things rather than get nickel and dimed to death if I want something beside the vanilla ships.


they were showing it as an internal tool that would let their artists make lots of nice new ship skins, which they clearly are doing. it was never even mentioned that players would be able to use it.
Bentakhar
ANKOU INITIATIVE
#31 - 2015-08-22 22:03:28 UTC
Ariz Black wrote:
Justa Hunni wrote:
So judging by the increasing number of pay for skins coming out can we conclude that the free-form painting system that CCP Seagull showed at Fanfest two years ago is dead in the water?

Shame really, I would prefer being able to customize things rather than get nickel and dimed to death if I want something beside the vanilla ships.


they were showing it as an internal tool that would let their artists make lots of nice new ship skins, which they clearly are doing. it was never even mentioned that players would be able to use it.



I'm sorry but they said soooo many times that they 'wanted to give us these controls' to 'see what we come up with' and 'give that freedom to the players' and so on.
Every fanfest they say this! They showed us awesome tech demos ... and now what do we get?? ... they changed the basemap on some caldari ships from grey to red? Then all the rest of the skins are basically silver and blue (intaki, kador, eom, quafe, sanctuary and so on ...)

Kind of a joke. Homeworld had a custom skin system which included , stripes, basecolor and a logo. ANY logo you wanted. and that was in the early 2000s.

So disappointed by the half-assed SKIN system. So much potential. So much possibilities to make it a rich gameplay feature by involving exploration , industry and PI. Making people collect and mix pigments, create / find skin patterns, perfect them and sell them... And all we got is a 'BUY' button. It is so out of the sandbox that its not even funny.

flaming phantom
Unlimited LTD
#32 - 2015-08-22 23:03:15 UTC  |  Edited by: flaming phantom
The Valklear Glory theme is awesome!
I hope it comes out for the thrasher, wolf, svipul and/or rapier!
Would definitely get some more Aurum for one of those.

EDIT: to all the haters. While I could immediately agree that being able to make your own skins would be cool, I actually wouldn't like everyone making their obnoxious or inappropriate ship skins. I am find with leaving it to CCP, just make more skins available for more ships.
Jeremiah Saken
The Fall of Leviathan
#33 - 2015-08-23 06:15:23 UTC
Bentakhar wrote:
I'm sorry but they said soooo many times that they 'wanted to give us these controls' to 'see what we come up with' and 'give that freedom to the players' and so on.
Every fanfest they say this! They showed us awesome tech demos ... and now what do we get?? ... they changed the basemap on some caldari ships from grey to red? Then all the rest of the skins are basically silver and blue (intaki, kador, eom, quafe, sanctuary and so on ...)

Kind of a joke. Homeworld had a custom skin system which included , stripes, basecolor and a logo. ANY logo you wanted. and that was in the early 2000s.

So disappointed by the half-assed SKIN system. So much potential. So much possibilities to make it a rich gameplay feature by involving exploration , industry and PI. Making people collect and mix pigments, create / find skin patterns, perfect them and sell them... And all we got is a 'BUY' button. It is so out of the sandbox that its not even funny.

Exactly what I'm thinking about whole SKIN system. They not made by players. It's good there are corporation skins with corp logos made by devs, but I want to paint hulls my way. I want caldari colours stratios with navy camo. This what I called custom skin. I understand there are money in whole system to be made, it's business after all, but can we divide ingame corporations skins from player made ones? No matter how you called new skins line, designers or not, players have zero impact how they look.

"I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas..." - Herman Melville

Rat Scout
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#34 - 2015-08-23 08:28:46 UTC
Designer SKIN's for T1 ships are like GUCCI purses sold at the docks in Miami.
Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
#35 - 2015-08-23 11:18:13 UTC
Malcanis wrote:
These look nice I guess.

When are we getting corp and/or alliance logos? Or skins with colour trims that reflect alliance colours?

As a technical issue, it would be pretty easy for you to implement, so what's the holdup?


Good luck with that, I've been waiitng the release of a dress since April 2011... Lol

Roses are red / Violets are blue / I am an Alpha / And so it's you

FarScape III
Journey On Squad
#36 - 2015-08-23 19:32:00 UTC
Oh no. These look like house paint? An entirley red drab ship. And blue crayon and gold spay paint?

Look, just don't use dark colors like the intaki dark blue and those dark brown on the minmatar ships because you can not see them.


You got lines going in any old direction etc... these are bad.

Quaife is one of the best because it is a pretty shiny blue you can see too.

And the Police Comet looks like one of the best AND because you can see it.



Please just try starting with just one at a time, and make sure it really looks nice because these things will be around a long time.

Far

Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#37 - 2015-08-23 22:41:13 UTC
Yusss. I believe in you, Peter.

Is there a chance you might use vanity item sales to build up a real money tournament prize pool? Items that are only available for real money directly (not AUR), and have to be redeemed directly to a character, never reaching the in-game market.

?
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#38 - 2015-08-24 02:09:13 UTC
Tournament edition SKINs, rivaling the appeal of the Serenity SKINs we can see via item lookup, or an XIV avatar background. Tournament ships themselves, if you want to let it reach market.

Which I think would be a better use of those new ships, since the money from their sales would make EVE tournaments more mainstream and legitimate to outside gamers.

What would tournament teams rather have, a cool unique ship, or money? And how popular do you think an Etana would be, if it was sold for money to anyone.
CCP Terminus
C C P
C C P Alliance
#39 - 2015-08-24 03:43:05 UTC  |  Edited by: CCP Terminus
flaming phantom wrote:
The Valklear Glory theme is awesome!
I hope it comes out for the thrasher, wolf, svipul and/or rapier!
Would definitely get some more Aurum for one of those.

No T3 ships are getting SKINs at the moment. But everything else you mentioned should have them yes.

Kristen Andelare wrote:
How about you go bold? None of these new skins are all that inspiring. They are well-executed, yes, but still appear somewhat drab.

Capsuleers being the flamboyant bunch of swaggering immortals that we are, We like a little more flash than the average corporate drone, religious zealot or freedom fighter. Don't be afraid to offer us bold stripes, tiger, leopard, fractal, and geometric patterns, and colors that can stand the glare of harsh lighting. You can do this.

We'll love you for it.

We're basically waiting on tech for that sort of stuff. The art requirements of the new structures do have a bit to do with the delays.

Inovy Dacella wrote:
Will the Minmitar Sebiestor and Krusual skins return to their original color scheme in Galatea? The most expensive Minmitar skin turned green when the rust was added!

As far as I know, and don't quote me, they are being fixed up a bit in the next patch. I haven't checked but you should be able to see if they've changed or not on sisi.

@CCP_Terminus // Game Designer // Team Size Matters

Sp3ktr3
The Regency
The Monarchy
#40 - 2015-08-24 04:11:42 UTC
I was really excited to see the Raata Sunset SKINs, and was looking forward to buying one for my Navy Raven. Then I realized these seem to be T1 only. Will these be coming for the Navy hulls as well? If not I'll be extremely disappointed.