I am referring to this Reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/34hvr9/psa_you_can_skin_any_ship_with_any_skin_blood/

Apparently CCP has the means to allow us nice new skins on every ship in game.

Let that sink in for a moment, any skin on any ship.

While I do understand the argument of now allowing Sarum Ishtar, for lore reasons, why I cant use Vexor skin on Ishtar is beyond me.

Or any other skin that is avalible on T1 ship to be used on T2 variant.

Clearly that can be allowed today.
It was allowed on SiSi.

Guess they will squeez every cent out of skin system.
Where you have to buy a skin for every T1 / T2 ship separately.

With average price for a skin of 30$
And as far as I know skins stay on character , so when you sell a char you sell skins as well.
That you paid a lot of RL money to own.

This could be worse idea then monocle gate.

Did we learn nothing from inside CCP PDF called - Greed is good ?
http://theelitist.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/CCP-MT-Bulletin.pdf
( By the way the PDF is legitimate. They did actually publish it in house )

Will we see yet another Hillmars apology and yet another dunk in player base, that never recovered from Incarna mistake.
How many times do you have to make bad decisions to learn a lesson CCP ?

Reddit has a habit of overreacting to things. SKINS have zero gameplay effects, no missions require the use of them. CCP is a company. A for profit company . They want some more profits. What a surprise said nobody with a brain. Lets not act like raving lunatics over something that literally has zero effect on gameplay.

OK, so why don't you give specific feedback. What do you want to see, and what price is the most you'd be willing to pay? Imagine everything conceivable is on the table.

Same was said about monocles. Didnt stop the rage.

What do you want to see, and what price is the most you'd be willing to pay? Imagine everything conceivable is on the table.

About $1 for a frigate, $5 for a battleship.

Although honestly I would rather you hadn't bothered with AUR at all and instead gone with temporary skins for ISK to get another sink for the in-game economy going.

You guys seem to be going straight for the whales. I'm guessing you have convincing data to support that strategy. But to me it seems a little weird.

Pricing it by ship class is very lopsided, and I strongly disagree with that idea. It's the type of subjective "cool factor" call that the pricing system is already guilty of. Compared to a set microtransaction price for one SKIN regardless of hull, varied pricing will miss players' perceived value by being high or low. A character can only pilot one ship at one time. For that reason just make it the same basic price no matter what hull or color.

You'll also miss out on sales by virtue of some ship classes being more popular than others. People who know better realize that smaller is more fun / has better stats compared to mass and sig radius, and cost. You'd be reinforcing that by making smaller ship classes cheaper to SKIN. Then you start affecting game balance with NES prices.

So yeah, that part is a bad idea.

http://imgur.com/yY2W7xh

Time to burn down a monument!

GG, CCP

OK, so why don't you give specific feedback. What do you want to see, and what price is the most you'd be willing to pay? Imagine everything conceivable is on the table.

There is a huge opportunity here and being too conservative could cost a lot of money.

Have ship skins and color schemes.

Time limited and permanent ship skins that can only be applied to a certain ship that is based off of lore and consistent with the universe and offer time limited and permanent color schemes that resemble the skins but don't have logos that can be applied to any ship.

This would let players choose. Do I want a Police Comet or do I want an Nightmare that has the same type of appearance but without logos. I agree that the lore aspect is important and that it needs to be consistent but CCP also needs to consider the people that pay no attention to lore.

There is a huge opportunity here and being too conservative could cost a lot of money. I think skins limited by time shouldn't cost more than five or six dollars and color schemes should be three or four. I would pay more for a particular faction because I want that faction's logo but if I just like the colors without the logos it should cost less. Think brand name and generic, very similar products but one has a name you're paying for.

Permanent skins should around $15 and color schemes should be around $10. I would love to have a Blood Raider Prospect but the most I am going to pay for a permanent skin is around $15 but if I could get a similar color scheme that I could put on my Prospect or Algos I would pay $10, no problem. The scheme wouldn't have the logos or the exact pattern but it would be close enough for me to enjoy it. Keep skins within lore but allow color schemes on any ship.

CCP Darwin seems to be the only dev willing to talk about it.

As we said over the weekend, and fix for this was inevitable given the fact that it was unintended and was clearly a bug.
We have however learned a lot from what people have been doing with SKINs over the weekend, and we actually have a meeting set up this afternoon to talk about where to go from here and talk more about strategy for skins in the future.
While the bug has been patched out, we've gathered a lot of valuable feedback over the course of the weekend, and will be talking about it and considering it going forward :)

Logged in this morning to no more Quafe Confessor. Needless to say I'm disappointed.
But most of all I'm a target consumer who feels rather burned.

We know what the system can do, but CCP Darwin seems to be the only dev willing to talk about it. We've been given no long term plants for how the system will be used. No explanation for the random pricing. No indication that they will offer us what we want from this "glitch" that clearly showed that as players we don't want Lore and an excuse to not let us paint our ships however we want, or at least however existing skins would permit.

Now I invested in Aurum before the patch happened. And I have a stack of almost all the SKIN's that existed before the system changed, less the Scorp and some ships I didn't care for. But now I'm not planning to invest anymore. I'm someone who would gladly pay for skins for ships I use regularly.. and for ships I don't just to collect, but I'm not spending any more on this system till CCP either Delivers, like the bug did, or provides some feedback beyond "Ya we thought that was fun" and "Lore says no.."

The lack of feedback over a bug that's caused more excitement in Eve than I've seen in a long time boggles my mind.

Please don't infer anything from this. Not every developer engages on the forums the same way.

I'll quote CCP Falcon's post on Reddit:


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