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Final Results for the Custom Ship Painting Survey
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Aeon Noblemagus
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#161 - 2012-03-04 22:28:44 UTC
maybe the cost of the paint job could be something like free for frigates then increasing in price for both size and tech type of the ship,
for example t1 cruiser costs 5% of its hull for a new paint job but a T2 costs 7-10% and faction 7-15%? this way it still keeps it cheap and doable but still makes faction/t2 ships still feel special.
and it would be nice if you didn't want a new paint job and your personal/corp/alliance or a mixer of all 3 on the base paint job?

That way you can your personal picture/emblem on your fancy faction pimped up ships and your corp/alliance logo on generic hulls
Asudem
Black Spear.
#162 - 2012-03-05 09:43:10 UTC
This feature is just what I looking forward to! Please add it soon, CCP. :)
Rek Seven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#163 - 2012-03-05 12:29:59 UTC
Some of those ships look awesome.

I would love to customize my own ship but maybe it would be better for the game if you had to learn new skills and use a new station/POS service to do it....

The wishlist is pretty much complete...
Prototype Delta
Prototype Research and Technologies
#164 - 2012-03-05 17:57:13 UTC
is it strange the i get hard looking at those?
T'amber Anomandari Demaleon
#165 - 2012-03-05 20:55:33 UTC
Prototype Delta wrote:
is it strange the i get hard looking at those?


Every time I look at them, I must rub my thigh five times or my family will die.

not really no :)

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Dasquirrel715
Aurora.
The Initiative.
#166 - 2012-03-06 04:48:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Dasquirrel715
To be honest, I don't really see why people are so against something like ship customization going into the microtransaction system. This is the kind of thing that system was designed to deal with and to be honest, spending a dollar or so on a superWTF awesome ship color scheme only benefits CCP if it is done through the aurum system. And if you are one of the many thousands who buy plex with ISK then this system is no different than ISK for ship designs. Personally, let CCP use their micro transaction system for something that is as innocent as ship customization.

EDIT- In the realm of corp/alliance/coalition logos, those should be done through isk, simply because they affect large numbers of people.
Alpha Wolfgang
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#167 - 2012-03-06 06:23:38 UTC
i would really like ship customization. i believe it would need the option to turn it off and return ships to their normal colors (for fleet fights) but when im roaming around it would be a fun feature.

i am curious how much strain that would put on the server though, loading each custom paint job :P

thumbs up for ship customization!
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#168 - 2012-03-06 16:29:25 UTC  |  Edited by: James Amril-Kesh
I think this would be a great idea, and I personally like the interface shown in the OP's post.

Because I too would like to fly a Hello Kitty Scorpion.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
T'amber Anomandari Demaleon
#169 - 2012-03-10 02:49:23 UTC
About 500 or so more participants required to reach the target level.

Thanks to everyone whos been taking part.

Regards,
T'amber

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PotatoOverdose
Handsome Millionaire Playboys
Sedition.
#170 - 2012-03-10 03:55:18 UTC
mmmmm ... Pink Scorpion ... do want.
T'amber Anomandari Demaleon
#171 - 2012-03-10 13:12:08 UTC
PotatoOverdose wrote:
mmmmm ... Pink Scorpion ... do want.


Just to make it clear I definitely do not want to see that ingame, not only would it **** off CCP watshisnamedoesntlikepinkships there's some ip suits just waiting to happen there :P

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Xen Solarus
Furious Destruction and Salvage
#172 - 2012-03-10 15:18:55 UTC
Great idea thats been around forever, but can't see how it can be done without increasing server load. Sad

Though i hope im wrong! Lol

Post with your main, like a BOSS!

And no, i don't live in highsec.  As if that would make your opinion any less wrong.  
T'amber Anomandari Demaleon
#173 - 2012-03-10 23:53:31 UTC  |  Edited by: T'amber Anomandari Demaleon
Xen Solarus wrote:
Great idea thats been around forever, but can't see how it can be done without increasing server load. Sad

Though i hope im wrong! Lol


Will get back to you on that, I'm still in discussions with 3d programmers on a solution, but most of the load will be client side and someone just offered up a better solution than I was originally thinking

Regards,
T'amber

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Shenra Twrin
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#174 - 2012-03-11 00:52:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Shenra Twrin
In my Opinion this should be Aurum based....

ok lynch be but let me tell you why its good to make it Aurum based..

First it should be keep as special thing not everyone should have it on his noob frig...

2nd CCP should have something from it and have a nice plex sink is good for the company = more money for cpp = faster and better updates due to more ppl work for ccp ( also dont even try to complain with " they will use it for WoD or Dust herpderp" because also eve will benefit from it. )

3rd: it should be 1000Aurum per "skin" and it should be destroyed when the ship gets destroyed.... that´s the spirit of eve u can lose anything exept the shirt u wear :).
Also 1000 Aurum is not so much ccp gift much aurum and one plex = 3,5k aurum = 3 skins and really how many ships do you want to paint every little ship u have....NO


Also this Option to pay makes it really tasty for CCP to implement it, you dont need to have a "skin" it doesn´t give you super powers or anything just cool looks so it´s totaly optional!

Sure there will be many ppl who say now QQ I NEVER will buy anything for aurum or pay euros for it.........
So also many ppl in League of Legends say QQ i dont pay for skins ... sooo ? there are many ppl who still do, but most of them dont spam forums about they buy skins .....

Plex dont cost to much ~500mio isk is totaly ok .... remember it should keep special so it cool to have it and then u kill them u can havest much more tears :D

thanks for reading

sorry for bad english

Just my 2Cents
T'amber Anomandari Demaleon
#175 - 2012-03-11 02:39:17 UTC  |  Edited by: T'amber Anomandari Demaleon
Still figuring out the details of server cost, but its roughly around 32bits extra data per unique ship for the server to send to each client in the ballpark during preload - with high levels of customisation. This estimation has been formulated with the help of an ex ccp employer who suggested an alternative coding method to translate the customisation data.

The majority of the load has been confirmed as being client based but his method would require new shaders and code to handle his suggestion. Shaders do not use much of your computer's or video card's memory but loading and rendering each unique ship would, which is where options to turn the feature (or parts of this feature) off would help.
The server would however still need to send your client the details of each unique ship so it wouldn't negate the extra server load.

If our estimation is correct, 32bits would be pretty small.. even with 1000 pilots in a system with 500 unique ships there would not be much extra load on the server. Saying that this example could still cause problems with your pc especially with an old card installed - Unless you're playing brackets online and are zoomed out completely.

Once I've talked to someone who works with graphics engines and shaders we may be able to estimate potential load on your client. While I do not know or have contact with anyone at CCP in the relevant department the lead 3d engineer from Ubisoft Massive in Sweden is willing to talk me through it which may be helpful.

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Alpha Wolfgang
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#176 - 2012-03-12 14:20:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Alpha Wolfgang
would it be possible to have an auto shutoff feature? you select a number of ships beforehand and if there are that many on field it will turn the paintjobs off automatically so that you dont have to fiddle with it when the poo starts flying.
Terminal Insanity
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#177 - 2012-03-12 15:20:40 UTC
As long as there is an option to completely disable customized paintjobs (for client performance reasons).

But as long as that disable option is provided, i'm all for custom paint and would spend a filthy amount of isk doing it.

"War declarations are never officially considered griefing and are not a bannable offense, and it has been repeatedly stated by the developers that the possibility for non-consensual PvP is an intended feature." - CCP
Valei Khurelem
#178 - 2012-03-12 15:22:43 UTC
Terminal Insanity wrote:
As long as there is an option to completely disable customized paintjobs (for client performance reasons).

But as long as that disable option is provided, i'm all for custom paint and would spend a filthy amount of isk doing it.


I agree with that, I think for people as well who hate the idea of pink hello kitty logos ( seriously who could hate that? ) you should also have an option to just leave the standard paint jobs on.

"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
T'amber Anomandari Demaleon
#179 - 2012-03-12 23:36:20 UTC
http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1203/new_ospreys.jpg

Some custom Ospreys using existing colours and textures from the client.

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Gogela
Epic Ganking Time
CODE.
#180 - 2012-03-12 23:56:13 UTC
I'm digging the white ships. Big smile

Looks awesome T!

Signatures should be used responsibly...