Oh, and there should be a dev blog coming out soon I believe that might be relevant. It will discuss the new Space Object Factory (or something like that, I'm so feeble minded lately) which may be part of the groundwork for this to happen.

Last I heard, ship painting is currently in the "experimental" phase of development. I think they are still trying to rework some legacy code to allow for easier ship painting (rather than the current method of creating an entirely unique database entry for each type of paint job).


edit: the pic you posted OP is a concept design made by a player.

Thanks for the input. Good news that they are at least working it.

Why is this not a thing?

This is a thing. It does stuff.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that since SWG has customizable paint jobs for swoops/ground cars circa 2003/2004 and E&B had them for ships...and everyone else saw your paintjob...I'm just not going to buy the "wow this is complicated or would be a significant resource hit on people's rigs" argument.

If CCP wants to say "meh, we just don't feel like it" that's one thing. Saying "oh boy this is hard" is something else entirely.

It's not hard to do in principle, but when you have a large, complex system that's designed to work a different way, engineering such a feature requires proceeding deliberately and taking great care not to break anything.

What finished features regarding player ship customization end up looking like is a game design question that's out of my area, but (as that Fanfest presentation indicated) the engineering to allow it to happen is certainly in progress.

Dio gives it 2 horns DOWN

I am completely in favor of not breaking things :) Take your time.

Thanks. I would not be surprised to see more information released about how this work is going fairly soon.

Thanks. I would not be surprised to see more information released about how this work is going fairly soon.



I'm an EVE player too, and I too care about gameplay changes. That said, our graphics developers are graphics developers, and our gameplay developers are gameplay developers. I can say with certainty that none of the infrastructure work going on for these features have any impact on gameplay advances.

I think the way CCP is doing it right now is not bad. It lets them gauge long term demand for destructible customization (you get killed you lose it.. unlike character customization).



Pink one has CCP Punkturis's name all over it.

It's not hard to do in principle, but when you have a large, complex system that's designed to work a different way, engineering such a feature requires proceeding deliberately and taking great care not to break anything.

What finished features regarding player ship customization end up looking like is a game design question that's out of my area, but (as that Fanfest presentation indicated) the engineering to allow it to happen is certainly in progress.

Hell, why does this guy get a devtag so fast ...

Hell, why does this guy get a devtag so fast ...

I like to think it's representative of the efficiency I'll bring to the rest of the job.

I like to think it's representative of the efficiency I'll bring to the rest of the job.

Nice... and I think that's a really good attitude.

Can't you poke others to do the same? :/

I have a thread full of sexyness that begs for attention ....
... and is actually related to skin customisation ......

You really need to learn how to quote.

I would so put the Hello Kitty skin on my Rattlesnake. And I kind of hope they don't implement player created skins. I don't want to see stupid ponies flying around in space. Would be enough to make me vomit out my eyes and throw my computer out the window.

What finished features regarding player ship customization end up looking like is a game design question that's out of my area, but (as that Fanfest presentation indicated) the engineering to allow it to happen is certainly in progress.

I would trade all of my assets for one of those.

You have your ship max zoomed out anyway.

what's the point of paint job if you won't see it ?

I'm an EVE player too, and I too care about gameplay changes. That said, our graphics developers are graphics developers, and our gameplay developers are gameplay developers. I can say with certainty that none of the infrastructure work going on for these features have any impact on gameplay advances.

Yeah. It's more useful/seen than shoes for you character at least.

Time to phallic thorax... 3...2...1....

You mean it isn't now?

http://m.imgur.com/281OP8j

I've heard CCP has the tooling for this already and yet they are messing with pre-painted ship designs you have to build. This is something they could implement into the eve store and use it sort of like current character rescuplting. Is this feasible or are there technology barriers?

You people didn't see my top sexy post in that "best/worst ship thread", hu ..................

*snickers xD*

I'd be happy if in the meantime they'd just release all those corp skins they've had since at least Fanfest 2012

Though I'm dubious as to whether 'demand for destructible customization paid for with real money' is going to pan out well for them.

I should bookmark this post forever and link it whenever someone cries about "no better graphics because gameplay" ...

Well, they'd have to create slots in the overview and other data base entries for each and every skin.... very, very messy.

And why on earth would you pay real money for any of this, unless you just have an overwhelming desire to do so? Real money payment is completely unnecessary for items offered through the NES. Buy a PLEX with ISK and convert it to AUR.

Real money payment is merely a convenient option, not a necessity.

Meh, I don't see it as all that messy. They're not new models, they're not 'faction' ships with special beefed up stats to be balanced, they're ordinary T1 hulls with a name change and color pallet swap.



Either way CCP is still getting paid real money for the items, regardless of whether the person who paid the real money is the one who bought them.

Anyway, the issue I see is that if people are going to pay real money, or spend the time and effort to get the ISK to purchase a PLEX, for a cosmetic item, they generally want to keep that cosmetic item for a good long while. And not only is the way EVE is structured in general not conducive to that, they're actually more likely to lose said ship due to the fact that rare/expensive ships, especially ones with no special stats, make for more tempting targets.

Corporate ship skins are an obvious example, as it seems like they should have been a blindingly obvious addition to Corporate LP stores, but CCP decided instead to see if they could milk people for real money for them. And even that has been poorly implemented, two years after they show off the skins and they've released what, a grand total of 2 corp skins per faction and only for three specific ships for those factions?

Clothing items should be dirt cheap and destructible as well.

They are, unless worn.

Making things dirt cheap removes their perceived value completely
and no one will buy it anymore. People nowhere pay money for vanity items that are too cheap,
unless they are cheap themselves. Or little kids..

I am so very looking forward to this update.

Have been an advocate of ship customization for the longest time.

KuroVolt!

Long time no see! ^_^

Yeah, RL got in the way for a while but I'm back on the forums!

Good to see you still keeping the place on it's toes, Sol.

Why is this not a thing?

because it doesn't do stuff.

0/10 I guess ship skins, nebulas, particle effects and other visuals don't do anything either. I guess we should get rid of them.

Seriously there is more to this game than just game play mechanics that draw people. Without visuals it would just be a game of numbers.

0/10 I guess ship skins, nebulas, particle effects and other visuals don't do anything either. I guess we should get rid of them.

Seriously there is more to this game than just game play mechanics that draw people. Without visuals it would just be a game of numbers.

That is some marvelous piece of fanart.
and unfortunately its fanart only. However I second this fanart and would like to express my desire to paint my ships.
And not for AUR, for ISK'ies and time, just like building stuff.
Afterall, although, it is only cosmetics, it can - and I am sure it will - attract a ton of players.
People do not only play for the blue donut, not for hot dropping 4 frigates in FW with titans, nor do they all for blowing up each other.
Some like to just catch the tunes and visuals of space while relaxing after work. CCP should release it in an expansion like...err.. i dont know... "EvE-Online: Aphrodite" when they stick to the greek god thingy.

I want this, as long as the customisation options work aesthetically with EVE as it is now.

As much as I like pink, I don't think a fleet of baby pink ships in EVE would be appropriate.

Perhaps there can be a collection of 'compounds' that can be obtained like ores and mining to make the different colours and finishes available in the 'workshop'.

0/10 I guess ship skins, nebulas, particle effects and other visuals don't do anything either. I guess we should get rid of them.

Seriously there is more to this game than just game play mechanics that draw people. Without visuals it would just be a game of numbers.

sooo, I post a joke and you go all serious on me?

Good job, sir.

exactly why i posted 0/10

Regarding ship colors, I think there should be restrictions, such as no pink thoraxs etc. That would take away from the game.

I can confirm that you have no humour at all. :p


*spreads pink sparkles over your head*