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Final Results for the Custom Ship Painting Survey
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Indahmawar Fazmarai
#41 - 2012-02-09 14:48:42 UTC
Naga Elohim wrote:
I thought the link was photoshopped? Did I miss something?

If it doesn't hinder performance....im all for it!!!!

Black Hurricane with Red Stripes....ooooooh yes.


It IS photoshopped. You think CCP would ask Sanrio for a license to put Hello Kitty on EVE ships? Roll
War Kitten
Panda McLegion
#42 - 2012-02-09 14:53:23 UTC
Indahmawar Fazmarai wrote:
Naga Elohim wrote:
I thought the link was photoshopped? Did I miss something?

If it doesn't hinder performance....im all for it!!!!

Black Hurricane with Red Stripes....ooooooh yes.


It IS photoshopped. You think CCP would ask Sanrio for a license to put Hello Kitty on EVE ships? Roll


Obviously not, but thank you captain obvious.

Your failure to consider discussing a well-presented idea with hard work behind it is duly noted.

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Christine Peeveepeeski
Low Sec Concepts
#43 - 2012-02-09 14:57:51 UTC
Nice initiative this post :)

Stabber/fleet stabber/Vagabond are my fave hulls. I'd love to be able to paint it a mahogany red with darker red stippling. Similar to the caladri navy style.
Ciar Meara
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#44 - 2012-02-09 15:00:20 UTC
Done, I like the idea of ship skins. But not for Aurum unless you can directly mine the aurum of a destroyed ship skin with salvagers Pirate.

Ship skins should be created by the player and/or directly linked to factions and standings.

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Valei Khurelem
#45 - 2012-02-09 15:04:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Valei Khurelem
If they actually went ahead and did this it would be a fantastic thing for EVE, but yes as a proper expansion and not a stupid micro-transaction designed to steal all our money.

I can just picture it now, a pink avatar with a carebear .gif stuck on the side :D

Edit: I just finished the survey

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Pyx Jasta
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#46 - 2012-02-09 15:05:51 UTC
I'd be for it if it was part of the market economy. Shouldn't be overly expensive, but definitely destructible as it's part of a ship, unlike the neX clothing which you never lose. And obviously would need to be able to be turned off to lower system load if need be.
Eugene Spencer
Set Phasers To Malky
#47 - 2012-02-09 15:07:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Eugene Spencer
A good, constructive thread. Thanks.

Personally I think you should be able to customise any ship I own. I don't want to see anything that would break the game but some outlandish colour schemes would be nice. So yellow and black chevrons, but pink and purple would be too far.

I own a few ships I have spent a lot of time upgrading, caressing and tweaking over the years. I have grown quite attached to them. I'd like to spend even more ISK on them to make them truly unique - ships I will remember for years to come. They will die, and anything that makes them that little bit more special (and their deaths that little more tragic) is pretty cool.

I own a Kessie I'v had since 2004. I use it as a shuttle and it still has it's original (rubbish) fit. It's called "The Pulsar" and I will remember it long after it's destroyed. I'd love to add some battle damage and ageing to it :)

I don't care if they are AUR-based or whatever. Reasonably priced to me would be something like half the "price of the ship". So a battlecruiser would maybe be 20m, a faction battleship would be like, 300m. A titan? 30b or whatever they cost.

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Christy D Floyd
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#48 - 2012-02-09 15:09:58 UTC
I cant wait to see this +1000000000

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Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#49 - 2012-02-09 15:15:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Nova Fox
Tamber making me look horribad at what I do for a long time.

Either way I agree therer needs to be some level of customization such as ship painting corporate/allaince fleet striping (auto applied on joining fleet for uniformity!) and having a mix of free, player made, ingame drop, and prenium ingame options should be made available.

On ship destruction section add - Should be able to presave designs to be quickly reapplied later like ship fittings.

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Terazul
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#50 - 2012-02-09 15:34:08 UTC
I believe this is something that absolutely should have been in the game since launch.

I also support outlandish colors and logos. I mean, we're capsuleers - who the hell is gonna 'regulate' what kinds of colors we can paint our ships? Especially for people who live completely outside of Empire borders, there's no reason they can't color their ships pink or purple if they damn well feel like it.

I think the Aurum system should be scrapped as it literally breaks the game lore (lol @ pair of pants costing more than a goddamn battleship), with customization options being bought with isk or manufactured like almost everything else is (so you can have things like rare paints with unique material properties like iridescent and pearlescent paints). In fact, I think it's kind of moronic that CCP even considered Aurum viable to begin with - what's wrong with people wanting to buy plex for ISK? Why add another currency to the mix? Having everything cost some amount of isk (or minerals, or salvage, or whatever) just makes a lot more sense.
Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#51 - 2012-02-09 15:36:18 UTC
They need to change the names of all the clothes in the store to clothing contracts since those clothes are 'immortal'.

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Muad 'dib
State War Academy
Caldari State
#52 - 2012-02-09 15:49:22 UTC
Looks fantastic!

Purple/pink thorax plz :D

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Deathwing Malevolent
The Unclaimed
Unclaimable
#53 - 2012-02-09 15:51:21 UTC
+1111111

This is something I thought you would be able to do when I originally signed up to Eve Online so needless to say was disappointed when I realised you could not. It is high on my very brief list of things that would potentially excite me.
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#54 - 2012-02-09 16:00:34 UTC
Roime wrote:
Good points from people who noted that it should be part of the player economy. Why not create a whole new skillset for ship painting? Something new for the indy guys to train.

Still custom paintjobs could involve an ISK sink (besides the skill books), some sort of Concord licence to use custom colors in space, perhaps.


You can do both by requiring the person to buy BPCs to create the paint / stickers / whatever from a NPC store with LP or ISK or AUR. But it would require someone to manufacture that BPC into the customization kit.

Or do it the other way around, in order to buy the customization kit from the NPC store, you have to supply ISK/AUR/LP along with player-made items (ship hull + misc PI items).
Valei Khurelem
#55 - 2012-02-09 16:10:22 UTC
GIVE ME HELLO KITTY CORPORATE LOGO!

"don't get us wrong, we don't want to screw new players, on the contrary. The core problem here is that tech 1 frigates and cruisers should be appealing enough to be viable platforms in both PvE and PvP."   - CCP Ytterbium
Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#56 - 2012-02-09 16:20:15 UTC
Nighthawk, Candy Apple Red w/ Black Flames on the front and a tastefully placed black skull and crossbones.

...and T'Amber for CSM7!

I'll be in the market for a set of all the caldari ships w/ the Hello Kitty color scheme when they become available as well... so getting my order in now!

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Pop Bear
Doomheim
#57 - 2012-02-09 16:30:41 UTC
This would be so awesome!!! TBH this should've been introduced years ago, but sadly instead they wasted 3 years in developing the stupid space-barbie that sucked so bad that it's not even funnySad
Wacktopia
Fleet-Up.com
Keep It Simple Software Group
#58 - 2012-02-09 16:33:00 UTC
Wow. Just... wow. Can't tell if trolling?

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Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#59 - 2012-02-09 16:42:01 UTC
Wacktopia wrote:
Wow. Just... wow. Can't tell if trolling?

If so it's the most time consuming troll ever. tbqh what little I know of T'Amber suggests to me that this is very much not a troll and he is deadly internet spaceship kitty serious.

Signatures should be used responsibly...
Kid Chaos
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#60 - 2012-02-09 17:22:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Kid Chaos
Madly, madly in love with this idea. I will now set fire to random structures in my community every 48 hours until this is implemented.

On a slightly more serious note, people have suggested that this would be a great ISK sink to add to the game, and that most players have a strong desire to see this feature utilize ISK instead of other resources.

My suggestion would be to make the customization cost based on ship hull cost. For example a Rifter should be very cheap to customize, where as a Curse or Zealot should be much more expensive to give a custom paint job too. This way you create an ISK sink that is relevant to players who want their big shiny fancy ship to have a sweet new look, but you don't exclude newer players or players who like to fly cheap disposable ships.

The cost should be some direct percentage of the basic cost for that ship. That makes sense, right?