Erm, which part of "the skin only applies to you, the actual ship doesn't change, you cannot sell limited edition ships, and the number of limited edition skins that will be available on the market will be INCREDIBLY small, not to mention the fact that the skins are a one time use only item" did you not pick up on? So if by "unlimited copies" you meant "the people who actually fly them will be the ONLY people who CAN fly them, ever".

Just to review here: me and my poor self will not be able to go out and buy unlimited numbers of this ship, instead I would need to buy one of an extremely limited number of the permanent skin.

And if you're going to sling crappy insults around, at least do it with a non-NPC toon

Before: Rattlesnake Victory Edition (A rare(ish) ship and around 4 bill ISK to whelp). Someone flies it. Pew pew. Blows up. Lost ship. Ship is completely gone ergo.........NOT.....COMING.......BACK.

I am remarkably determined to be mad about something

Let's also not forget that once applied, that SKIN is never going to see the light of day outside of the sale of that toon.

While I still hope CCP will add a way to uninstall a SKIN License and make it an item again, with the way it's being made now expect prices to skyrocket.. Cause now you can fly that "rare" ship. But at the same time, if you ever fly it, you can't sell it.

Now personally I want a way to pay to remove one, like a PLEX for re-sculpt or something, or even an out-of-game system like trading Chars, 2 PLEX to trade a skin from one char to another.. Cause the downside of this new system is today I can fly my Victory RS, run missions, do whatever, then sell it after.. But come the change (once the Victory edition gets rolled in) I won't be able too :(

You paid for it - I don't see why you can't deactivate it. You can remove your monocle...

As an addendum, there are a few ships we would like to convert over in the future, and will be doing so in subsequent releases.

The Rattlesnake Victory Edition has some technical issues with the underlying model, but once those are sorted it will be converted to a SKIN.
The Capsule - Genolution 'Auroral' 197-variant is currently created from an implant (Genolution 'Auroral' AU-79) in a very specific and roundabout way. This will be removed in the future in favor of standardizing it with the rest of the ships as a capsule SKIN.

Agreed, but this probably falls into the catagory "things that will change over time as the system gets fleshed out".

What about shuttles? Goru's and Guristas map to the caldari shuttle and are available in game so 30-day and interbus maps to the gallente shuttle permanent. We can lose the extra 10 m^3 from the interbus. The interbus one just looks so awesome, I want to be able to spin it wherever I can find gallenete shuttles.

You've changed your argument twice now

So yes, it will be unlimited. For that character. Only. Ever. Once used, it's used.

The ABILITY to fly the ships forever and ever is what will be rare. And that ABILITY will be far more expensive and valuable than the ship could have ever been, and will only increase in value over time.

Also, you seem a tad overly emotional about being in a fake corp.

You're the one that got but mad over me being in an NPC corp.

The LIMITED EDITION SHIP no longer becomes limited edition because it will be a skin that can be applied to your ship constantly over and over again. That was the point I am making. Limited is no longer Limited. Its unlimited for that character. They can go and lose as many of them ships with them skins as they want.

The whole idea behind Eve was that the ship you fly would be lost. A rare ship such as the Ishukone Watch Scorp means that they can fly that same ship as many times as they want.

I don't know how to make that any simpler for you. If you don't understand that, there is no hope for you. And I won't be replying to you anymore.

Anyway, the answer is that the special edition Miasmos-es have different base stats than the regular Miasmos, and they will remain separate ships because of this.

By using my leet psychic powers!
(or https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5687291#post5687291 when I don't want the headache that entails)

2. Conversion - Your Quafe Megathron with all it's fittings, damage, etc. will turn in to a normal Megathron with all the same fittings, damage etc. as the Quafe one. And then you'll also have a Megathron Quafe SKIN (Permanent) item in your redeeming queue.

3. Killmails - Some people just want to see that kind of stuff, know they killed a rich guy cause he was in a Ishukone skinned Scorpion, etc. You;re right that is has no added value and nothing is destroyed but some people just want to know.

4. Standing based SKINs - These are totally possible and I could see us making some. We don't want the entire SKIN collection to be NES store items only.

(oh and what Terminus said later: )
5. Rare ship skins should increase in price over time, but also see the light of day more. This is good for collecting, good for showing off something rare and cool, and good for people who actually get to see these ship skins in space.

6. We'll be evaluating the pricing structure as with everything else.

The whole idea behind Eve was that the ship you fly would be lost. A rare ship such as the Ishukone Watch Scorp means that they can fly that same ship as many times as they want.

This is weird because the Scorpion Ishukone Watch version has different stats too, and still it gets converted. Whu?

Also, could you please stop with the weird accusations about people being in a starter corporation? We are not any less players because of it, and certainly nobody should be treated with prejudice just because of their corporation or alliance affiliation. Thank you c: You replied to a member of an NPC corporation previously just fine. I don't see why you need to bring that argument out anyhow.

I do hope they eventually expand the skins to the pirate faction ships. Khanid Cruor looks pretty nice. Any possibility of the code used to generate the ships for this being released, or made available over the API? Making an app to pull the generated WebGL pages after selecting ship and paint job from a dropdown menu would be really fun.

Not sure this was asked, if it was sorry.

Are the skins locked to the char? like if i get rare skin with only 10 available and add it to my account, is that now locked and i can not then decide in the future to resell it? Cause that would be a drag.

So, i know a few people have brought it up, but I recall some pretty awesome skins that were given to the Serenity server (i'm referring to a super sick Machariel skin). Is there any effort towards Faction Battleships Skins, or perhaps can we get our hands on those Serenity skins?

Please please please please please please!!!
http://i.imgur.com/7e80QBB.jpg

-Chugs

A request:
I have a feeling that I'm not very interested in having the Genolution golden pod anymore if it's only SKIN. My character decided to use the implant because he thought it might do something special that was not cosmetic (because of the targetting range attribute and description). He's not the type of guy to show off his wealth and would rather have sold the bling to spend that ISK in a more useful manner.

So if you can, could you also convert my plugged- in AU-97 implant to a perm-skin in my redeeming que?
Long shot, I know, but I had to try.

Didn't think about that for the Scorpion IW (I don't fly battleships so I honestly didn't even look)....wonder what the reasoning is there.

The NPC corp thing was just a poke back for the "confirmed poor" which home dude then raged over.

That's really odd cause I used to swear by the one that only had the salvager ops on it because it was faster at pulling "ye 'olde Loot Spew." Maybe they changed their stats when the Loot Spew and several other data/relic site mechanics changed....

And i just didn't notice ......

The old Scorpion Ishukone Watch had the same stats as the base version. The Scorpion got rebalanced but the Scorpion Ishukone Watch was forgotten in that process and never got the new stats.

Maby missed that... link ?

How can there be a money grab for something that isn't obtainable with money? That's really the fundamental difference there.

The old Scorpion Ishukone Watch had the same stats as the base version. The Scorpion got rebalanced but the Scorpion Ishukone Watch was forgotten in that process and never got the new stats.