CCP Darwin
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Posted - 2015.06.05 03:41:47 -
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Scipio Artelius wrote:Yet here, just because the Stratios Emergency Responder is not a T2 variant, it's ok to have the potential for that very same visual gameplay implication.
That seems like a strange decision in my view.
Note that your chances of encountering a Stratios Emergency Responder in space are extremely close to zero, while T2 ships are very common.
From a graphics development standpoint, there's a maintenance cost associating with keeping the look of a particular hull/faction combination rare, since those ship looks need to be updated from time to time as technologies change. So, Team Size Matters has assessed each ship in the game with a special look, to determine whether its look should be preserved as unique, going forward.
Some ships, such as the Tempest Tribal Issue or Gold Magnate, will have the uniqueness of their looks preserved. Others, such as the Stratios Emergency Responder, may resemble closely a ship with a SKIN applied. It's an assessment that they made on a case-by-case basis.
Note that, while there is value in having certain items remain very rare in the game, CCP has never promised that rare items would remain rare for all time, or hold their value indefinitely.
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CCP FoxFour
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Posted - 2015.06.05 10:17:56 -
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Entity wrote:Marsha Mallow wrote:If they put plaques or a unique logo on the older hulls would it help? Not a troll btw, I agree rarity ships skins shouldn't be recycled. Although if they are really good designs and there's huge demand for them the people likely to complain are a tiny minority. Poke them in the feedback thread, you're more likely to get a dev reply there. Unique decals would be acceptable.
Well we are 90% OK then. :D To clarify the Stratios Emergency Responder is a Sanctuary ship and has the Sanctuary logo on it. SKINs are not supposed to change the logo on a ship. If you look at the Paladin with the default SKIN and the Paladin with the Blood Raider SKIN they have the same logo. I went to get a screen shot of this to show you for the Stratios and noticed that with the Sanctuary SKIN the logo does change. This is a defect and we have a defect written up for it internally and it will be fixed later this summer.
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