Do ships need to be repackaged to be painted or can we use already fit and rigged ships?

3500 aur per plex, but also a good idea on the addition.

What free AUR?

I admit that I haven't read all of the comments, so I apologize in advance if someone already mentioned something like this.

I think it would be cool to be able to specify a primary, secondary, and highlight color, in addition to a logo. Maybe more or fewer, but two or three colors plus a logo seems right to me. Each of these gets a dedicated slot on the ship, like a rig, and the "paints" are single-use items which can be traded. You'd have to determine which parts of every ship would fall into the primary/secondary/highlight categories, but I think this is better than allowing fully custom skins and it's more flexible than having a bunch of pre-built paint jobs, especially if a paint job can only be applied to a specific ship.

I'd really like to be able to change the paint job on my ship whenever I want. It doesn't really make sense that I could replace gun turrets on a ship but not re-paint it. The key is to avoid having to list differently painted versions of the same ship on the market (a packaged ship would be unpainted), and I really don't want custom painted ships to become rare and expensive. That seems better reserved for special edition ships, although maybe certain "special" colors could be rare.

In terms of cost, I can't see myself spending more than 20% of the cost of a ship on a paint job, unless it's something really special. If the cost were at or below 10%, I'd custom paint every ship - and I'd love to be able to do that! To me, convenience factors into the cost; if I have to trade PLEX for aurum, I'm probably not going to bother.

LMAO I thought CCP was dedicated to solving the lag issue which since it was improved has since the rubicon patch , gone back to 2007 lag times and this is a backward step, now your going let painted ships into game this will be another slap at lag the bandwidth hog is going to cost us all as CCP wont replace dc`d lost ships now , they deny their is a problem even when ping plotter and similar programs show massive packets loss from ccp server at time of dc , PAINT + lots of lost ships to lag well done CCP the only business on the planet apart from Japanese nuclear industry that actually prides itself in going backwards.

I am all for painting ships but only when for instance I have ping of 30 from country (Australia) , after painted ships are introduced ping now on fibre connection is 259 get real or get people into dev that know what they are doing

Why was the Ship Painting Pilot Program Dev Blog bumped back to the top?

I try to stay up-to-date, and patient, with Dev news (as hard as I try...). But I really don't appreciate reposts of the same material.

Looking forward to more developments on this front :)

After the fanfest video....I really hope CCP doesn't let this go the way of 'the door' and the high resolution textures.