EVE General Discussion

I haven't purchased any skins yet (I do have legacy ones from the free aurum they handed out when NES opened).

I would if they were more affordable.

pretty much. although I did spend ~2.5bil for a rattler VE, and ~3bil on a quafe mega a while back. There are a few others I wouldn't mind getting, but not really worth it to me quite yet. The oracle skins look pretty nice, and I like a few other ones, but with just the number of ships I can fly, and the price of skins I probably won't be buying them at a high rate, but probably will pick a few up here and there.

Each to their own. I prefer to play with my zoom out to see at least 3/4 of grid - alas I just see dots brackets and icons.

Try defining yourself through the things you do, not the things you own. You might be surprised how unique you feel all of a sudden.

I'm not keen, but I'm hoping there's a reason. SKINS are being sold via Aurum which is handled at the backend (financially) differently to Plex. It might be an experiment in a new type of currency. They probably are trying to find the sweet spot with regard pricing so I'm not sure it's worth having a massive fit over whilst it's being tweaked. Although I too like to grumble and am not buying a thing. We kicked off over Monoclegate and $1000 jeans and basically curtailed attempts to revise the subscription model via vanity items, but the sub model really does need to change. These are purely vanity items, and bizarely there are people willing to spend $1000s on it. From a personal perspective, it's a concern that other players are chucking that type of money at digital items, but it's rife in gaming so... awkward. If it allows CCP to rebuild the subscription model so they can actually go FTP I support it. Even if it is rocky to start with. I just won't buy anything for the time being.


Bet you didn't say this during Summer of Rage, lol


Ummm no. I won't overpay for trash but I can see others doing so ingame (do a lot of recruitment etc so you see wallets/character purchases etc). Had one guy a few weeks ago show me a screeny of his eve-o account management showing $500 of Plex purchases a month. He's less than a year ingame, has multiple high sp characters, every super etc etc but has no idea how to play. You might normally write these people off as sillies, but that's a corpie in a tight knit group, so it does make you cringe. There is also a murky side with implementing this because it means explicity gouging wallet wielding numpties to benefit the wider community - but they're still part of our community and our mates, so. Yeh, not keen. I've seen a couple do this to such excess they had to RMT their way out of game to pay for basic RL stuff (ex, a boiler) and then got whacked with the banhammer and slid into really bad depression.

Fair comment

That said, my beef in the summer of rage wasn't with the prices of the items that were initially available in the NEX store, it was CCP's blasé and dismissive attitude to concerns about golden ships and ammo as well as the overall failure to deliver on promises and the worthless half-arsed implementation of WiS.

Skins are simply a money spinner for CCP, and have no relevance in the game. It is disappointing as destructible shiny painted corp and faction ships was something a lot of people were looking forward to. This has pushed that prospect way into the future now if ever at all..

Hopefully they can fleece as much as they can from those who want to play space barbie and put it into more interesting features.

Don't like them, don't buy them.

Why would you buy something with no production limits to feel unique? I didn't acquire a skin to feel unique, I bought one because I felt the Golem looked better in Kaalakiota colors.

Did you know some games now use operatives to haunt forums to create the impression of player-based support for their "new ideas" (which are actually modifications to fit business models)? Yeah. Odd, huh? Almost devious.

Ship skins. ROFLMAO. Ship skins.