Xercodo
Xovoni Directorate
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Posted - 2015.06.04 23:53:08 -
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CCP FoxFour wrote:
On the cross racial stuff: It is something that could happen. Lore is not stopping us. Right now the reason it doesn't happen is performance and technical. To get faction SKINs to work properly cross race however would require basically remaking it and having the Quafe skin for Gallente and the Quafe skin for Caldari. That same effort could go into making new SKINs, which is what we have chosen to do at this time.
Victory Rattlesnake: Hopefully this summer, but no promise on that.
I'd MUCH rather see existing skins usable on everything than any new ones. Especially since I highly doubt the skins you guys are making are going to apply to ships I fly much since they seem to be so singularly targeted at single ships.
As far as pricing is concerned:
- All skins of the ship class need to cost the same
- I could support a price INCREASE but only if it applied to all ships of the same class. In other words drop the prices significantly enough for individual ship skins, that a bundle of say, every T1 amarrian frigate sounds reasonable. Right now, assuming you use the $20 AUR deal as a indication of AUR/USD ratio then pack of the cheapest skins would cost $22, and that's just 6 frigates. It should probably be more like a dollar each with the pack costing 5 as an incentive to buy a skin as a group.
- 6 frigates - $5 pack
- 2 destroyers - $3 pack
- 4 cruisers - $8 pack
- 3 BCs - $7 pack
- 3 BSes - $10
- 4 capitals (5 if counting freighter) - $16/20
Full race T1: $50 (53 if you used the packs separately)
THIS is where micro transactions are micro. Because if you make a handful of skins that work for ALL ships within a faction that has quite a bit of potential. If you wanted the skin to work for all factions that'd be $200 and that still sounds high when that doesn't include any faction ships (navy or pirate) or any T2 ships.
The idea of a corp or alliance wanting to have every member using a same skin is entirely blown out the window because full skins for every ship would cost the alliance more than a titan if you had only 20 members. And that's in my reduced pricing system. For that sort of thing mine still sound too high.
The counter to this is that people in a corp probably won't be all flying EVERY ship, but people do change roles a lot. So as it is right now, it's not worth it to me to buy any skins besides a couple for ships I know I use a lot and are my favorites.
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