This is just a thought I had, and I was wondering what the community thought about it. I was thinking that it would be nice if in the next update/expansion we were able to visually customize our ships with different paint colors/schemes; I mean lets admit it, some of us buy special edition ships b/c we like the looks or hate the standard looks. For example minamatar rust-buckets color scheme.

Now imagine if we were able to design the colors of our ships that we actually wanted, or take that one step further what if Corps were able to do the same or even add their corporation logos to ships instead of the faction flag.

I don't think that it would take a drastic amount of coding to accomplish this (of course I am no programmer) It could even be added to the repair shops in stations for cost (same as getting repaired). Anyway it's 6 am and I am rambling but just wanted to put it out there and see what others thought also maybe get CCP's attention, anyway thanks for listening.


*fixed*

thanks for the fix, I had just woke up and was out of it :)

I like the idea, but I think that the colour schemes should be limited in some ways. I don't want to see pink Megathrons flying about. I am sure I have seen this suggestion before - the worry was how much extra lag this would cause when you were in a high traffic system.

What would it bring to the game? This is a dead horse, please take it and WIS out back and shoot it.....

And clothes, and monocles and....

Conar 07

Except, like WiS, CCP say that it will happen eventually. People who make successful computer games (read CCP) think it would add something (immersion if nothing else). So frankly, I find your opinion lacking.

minamatar rust-bucket scheme.

The problem with arguing for adding custom color schemes is that we play a game filled with 30 year old little kids. I don't want to play Hello Space Kitty Online with it's neon pink ships. I'm all for adding variety, just don't add stupidity. I'm ok with logos being emblazoned on the hull of a ship so long as their large enough to see clearly, but I don't think custom colors is such a great idea.

People have already done evil deeds in this area. of course. Here's one and here's another. Luckily, these nasty reskinned things only appear on the reskinner's own client. To the rest of us, they still look like normal ships.

But seriously, CCP would have to limit the recustomization options available to players. As somebody said, it would just turn into a bunch of genitalia flying around.

They look great to me

A selection of designs would be more preferable I should think. Give someone a marker and tell them to pain the ship, you will find penises and vaginas landing on gate.

This for the win...

Best EVE ship skins EVAR!!!!

Me wants. Bring it on CCP!!!!!!!

MY PINK HELLO KITTY RAVEN WAS EQUIPPED WITH THE FOLLOWING

I wish I had a pink hello kitty raven tbh

I wish I had a pink hello kitty raven tbh

I wish I had a pink hello kitty raven tbh

Welcome back, how is the little one? Taller than CCP Guard yet?

I would love to have all my ships painted a shocking pink.

Why would this be bad?

I wish I had a pink hello kitty raven tbh

I like the idea, but I think that the colour schemes should be limited in some ways. I don't want to see pink Megathrons flying about. I am sure I have seen this suggestion before - the worry was how much extra lag this would cause when you were in a high traffic system.

I wish I had a pink hello kitty raven tbh

The whole 'skins will increase server load' thing annoys me a little. Because it doesn't have to. CCP have said so already and frankly anyone with any IT savy can see how it doesn't have to.

When you load grid, you load the hull types of all those ships. The hull type (probably a single integer ID) will then be used to get the ship's stats, and then your capsuleer skills to modify those stats, as well as ammo, and implants etc etc. Pulling the single integer ID at the beginning is not likely the problem given how much else has to occur afterwards. If these new skins were separate hulls in the nex store, then the process would be identical. That new integer ID would just refer back to the original hulls stats, or alternatively (and more simple) it's own set of stats, which happen to be identical.

This would be no different to the current system.

The corp logo thing would only cause client side load and could be turned off in the options. You already load the corporation of each ship when you hit grid, all that's left for the logo to appear is for the client to interpret it.

A selection of designs would be more preferable I should think. Give someone a marker and tell them to pain the ship, you will find penises and vaginas landing on gate.

The whole 'skins will increase server load' thing annoys me a little. Because it doesn't have to. CCP have said so already and frankly anyone with any IT savy can see how it doesn't have to.

When you load grid, you load the hull types of all those ships. The hull type (probably a single integer ID) will then be used to get the ship's stats, and then your capsuleer skills to modify those stats, as well as ammo, and implants etc etc. Pulling the single integer ID at the beginning is not likely the problem given how much else has to occur afterwards. If these new skins were separate hulls in the nex store, then the process would be identical. That new integer ID would just refer back to the original hulls stats, or alternatively (and more simple) it's own set of stats, which happen to be identical.

This would be no different to the current system.

The corp logo thing would only cause client side load and could be turned off in the options. You already load the corporation of each ship when you hit grid, all that's left for the logo to appear is for the client to interpret it.

lol!

thank you, it's good (and scary) to be back

Came here to call the op capt obvious and shout abuse at him, then twiged the date on it...good call dude.