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Lil Mule
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Posted - 2007.04.19 21:24:00 -
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Walking down the sidewalk, thinking about EVE as I often do, the thought occurred to me about how cool it would be to have player made ship skins. Perhaps this idea has come up before, perhaps not. How cool would it be to have your own ship look, perhaps one common for your corp or alliance? Often times in real life, the look of your enemy can be just as intimidating as what they do/say/
A lot of online games have customizable skins, and in my limited understanding of how difficult this would be, it seems like a pretty easy thing to do. Simply create the skin for the ship type, drop it in the correct folder, and it should be uploaded. I know Tribes 2 had an extensive skin modding option in it, and while challenging for some less skilled players like me, it seemed to work pretty well.
Anyhoo - a neat thing I'd like to see in the game that would pretty exciting for most players.
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Tolomea
Gallente 5th Front enterprises New Eve Order
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Posted - 2007.04.20 01:00:00 -
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It would be nice, unfortunately a non trivial portion of the player base has the maturity of a 13yo. Withen a week you'd find that everywhere you go you are passing ships painted with genitalia, racial slurs, and pretty much anything else rude and offensive the 13yo mind can imagine.
On the upside it does look like the gfx revamp will come with corp logo's on ships.
Oh and yes it has been suggested a lot, but some how it's not yet in the commonly proposed ideas thread.
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Vincent Almasy
Gallente The Underground
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Posted - 2007.04.20 01:29:00 -
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A idea to limit it would be a sceme for each alliance who owns a outpost or station to make a skin.
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Aneroi
Amarr VIRTUAL LIFE VANGUARD Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.04.20 14:29:00 -
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It would be too much for the servers if they had to load individual skins for all the ships. terrible lag
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Tiberius Decius
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Posted - 2007.04.20 14:49:00 -
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how about just a slider to pick different colors then. Like the DOW skin painter, or the Mechwarrior sort of thing. No uploading of things
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Krynn Darkhold
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Posted - 2007.04.26 23:13:00 -
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I thought about being able to, at least, have the corp insignia generated in the corp controls on the ships. This shouldn't be too complicated and simply assign a specific location for the corp insignia to go. The other option would be replace the house insignias with the corp one when a player is in a non default corp.
As for ship customization, if it were done in an interface controlled by CCP I think it would be fine. color, certain detailing options, and such that you simply select like the corp logo creation. They could use a web interface for this to save load on the game servers with people trying to customize the ships constantly. Login to your account and you get the option to repaint and detail your ship.
I'd add in the option for armor and hull damage to scar up the paint job, leave blast marks and the like which would be options in the repair bay to fix but not the standard hull and armor repair units. Maybe a painter module LOL.
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Foppemoa
Caldari Royal Swedish Capsulers Inc.
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Posted - 2007.05.15 12:31:00 -
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I would really like to be able to customize my ships a bit. I think they had a pretty decent feature for that in starwars galaxies. You could select a couple of colours for your ships (hull and tags). Later on you could also get different patterns and set the colours for those too. I thnk there was up too 7 different patterns for each ship. and personally i didn't notice any difference in lag when implemented all of these "custom" textures (x-wing with flames ftw...). So the only info the server had to send was a few lines of code; colour X, "part" Z (after reading that amazing code you guys might i'm a pro programmer or something, but sadly; no, im not...). But roughly that "should" be all the server have to send.
You didn't fly around in a super pimped out ship, but atleast it gave some more individuality to the ships. Right now it's just depressing to see 10 ravens that are identical to each other.
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Suboran
Gallente Sphinx Inc Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2007.05.15 14:04:00 -
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how about not only having a colour slider but having several versions of each ship (no changes to base stats or anything) but slightly different appearances for example, minmatar ships could have diferent fan/wing changes
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Taran Summers
The Merovingians
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Posted - 2007.05.15 17:35:00 -
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Originally by: Suboran how about not only having a colour slider but having several versions of each ship (no changes to base stats or anything) but slightly different appearances for example, minmatar ships could have diferent fan/wing changes
Minmatar ships should have their fans and wings randomized each time they get repaired |
Revan Kadee
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Posted - 2007.05.17 02:12:00 -
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to be honest this is in my opinion a big easy thing they have missed, i cant imagen it being hard to develop something like this. when i first started playing i though you would be able to do such things, as its the case in other games such as WoW were you have the abilty to shoose logo's for your guild. but unfortunately in EVE which is a game BASED on team work, this is not the case. it would be a geat change if you had the abilty to design the whole paintwork of your ship, but i dont know is this is going too far. i love caldari ships but boy do i hate the combination of balck and red stripes on the ship, i would certainly like to at least do the colouring my self. another guy mentioned blast marks on the paintwork and the ability to re paint them at the stations, i couldnt agree with you more. this whole game is gereat, players have a lot of freedom, if the makers gave us the ability to get a little creative, it would be all the better.
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MotherMoon
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Posted - 2007.05.17 04:07:00 -
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Originally by: Krynn Darkhold I thought about being able to, at least, have the corp insignia generated in the corp controls on the ships. This shouldn't be too complicated and simply assign a specific location for the corp insignia to go. The other option would be replace the house insignias with the corp one when a player is in a non default corp.
watch the engine test video on the website with the new models. The corp insignias are on the ships
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Minigin
Ganja Labs Hydra Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.17 07:09:00 -
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only for super capitals please Your signature <----- My awsome Sig
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Cassius Hawkeye
Minmatar UK Corp FATAL Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.17 12:20:00 -
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I would like to see your corp or alliance's "badge" on the side of all ships you pilot, in a decal format. It could be fariyl easily controlled, and would give a lovely florish to the game. A real sense of "belonging" to a corp or alliance.
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Kayleigh Jamieson
Gallente Dragonstar
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Posted - 2007.05.17 13:32:00 -
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Edited by: Kayleigh Jamieson on 17/05/2007 13:29:57 Ooh, yes. At the very least the corp badge somewhere on the ship would be great.
Having the option to customise further would truly be the icing on the cake As someone mentioned, full customisation might be a bad idea with all the 13-year-olds out there, but some options/colours/skins surely wouldn't be so hard to implement without stressing the servers too hard. At least at a corporate level. It would really add a sense of belonging to a corp if all members flew the same colours.
Kay.
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MotherMoon
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Posted - 2007.05.17 19:16:00 -
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people don't read anymore do they? this has allready been planed and used on the new models.
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SketS
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Posted - 2007.05.19 12:03:00 -
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im liking the idea... but please CCP keep the "flametags" out.. Keep the game intelectual not kiddylike
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Theo Samaritan
Gallente UNSC Manufactoring Corp
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Posted - 2007.06.02 15:18:00 -
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In one of the earlier builds/betas you could actually paint your ships, and by god the lag it caused.
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Camilo Cienfuegos
Caldari EP0CH
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Posted - 2007.06.02 16:44:00 -
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Quote: Minmatar ships should have their fans and wings randomized each time they get repaired
Awesome - /signed!
The problem with allowing people to set their own skins/colours etc on their ships is that like everything else, it'll result in exploits - someone'll find the colour that your ship changes to when you activate a cloak, for example, and render themselves invisible.
I'd love to see some level of customisation, but in truth if it ever comes (and I hope it does) it'll probably be in the form of two or three choices of colour. Personally though, I'd settle for just being able to "blacken" my ship before entering combat, which may or may not give a bonus to signature radius. ;)
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Deadeye Devie
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Posted - 2007.07.14 22:28:00 -
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Edited by: Deadeye Devie on 14/07/2007 22:28:38 personally, a system similar to (dare i say it) 'need for speed' would be an interesting workaround. base colour/pattern for the skin, and decals of your corp/alliance.
perhaps maybe 2-4 layers of 'further' paintwork to add an individual flair to the corp based/personal ship paintwork.
small gangs of rifters with tribalistic flames off the jets at the front of the frig? perhaps a small group of gall ships with a bumblebee motif for a corps tackler squadren?....i think it would add to the feel and look of the game...and a set stock of gfx skins and overlays would eliminate the 13yo offensive paintwork mentioned earlier
but this is purely the oppinion of a humble newbie
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Katana Seiko
Made in Germany
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Posted - 2007.07.17 23:06:00 -
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Well, what about that: CCP does a contest with ship skins. At the end there should be like five skins for each ship left to choose from (maybe add some customized fins?). And if everyone has those in his data, like i.e. with the next patch, that won't cause any lag anymore...
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Cartet
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Posted - 2007.07.27 09:22:00 -
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Originally by: Taran Summers
Originally by: Suboran how about not only having a colour slider but having several versions of each ship (no changes to base stats or anything) but slightly different appearances for example, minmatar ships could have diferent fan/wing changes
Minmatar ships should have their fans and wings randomized each time they get repaired
dude...
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lol /bump
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Lord Zoran
Caldari House of Tempers
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Posted - 2007.07.27 18:56:00 -
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Originally by: Minigin only for super capitals please
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ViRUS Pottage
Caldari byeee Corp Hydra Alliance
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Posted - 2007.09.02 11:36:00 -
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Wonder how people would color the Thorax ------
Originally by: Okura im drunk, so noeyt to manu qurtsions plase
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Crystal Pin
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Posted - 2007.09.06 21:43:00 -
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good idea, just look closely at any rat ship , they are made in darker tones and even a velator looks cool that way And if you do it the DOW way as proposed (or maybe just give it ,say, 15 different colors for 5 different positions on ship) id shold not cause lag because all players will have the same data on their client
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Caldruis Asher
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Posted - 2007.09.27 23:46:00 -
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i dunno if CCP is gunna give the paint option when they upgrade but right now rats have awesome colors already for instance Gallente navy megatron rats(Lvl 4 missions) have a wicked red/gray camo pattern if patterns such a this already exist in the game why not just add a new service to the station and allow player to buy the paint jobs of faction the've already fought or have good standings with i mean like i fight for the caldari navy so i could buyin in their station(either thru LP or ISk) paint schemes/parts for my ship that are related to their friends/foes that way not everyone could get the schemes in a single place and also by doing it per ship it could potentially minimize any lag cause not eveyone gonna have/afford a red/grey camo drake (i wish it existed)
what i haven't seen on this forum is a reply from CCp what they think about this what ca nthey tell us about this i mean this is a whole area to expand upon to take some of the monotony of eve(if there is any)
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Altaica Amur
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Posted - 2007.10.04 08:06:00 -
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My advice for this is yes and no. Certainly creating a complete skin for your ships would be a very bad idea because of the technical challanges for the players as well as the issues loading 600+ ship skins in a large fleet battle. That dosen't mean that a degree of this cannot be done though, simply look at the options offered in Homeworld 2 main color, stripe color and 'decal'. The first two would be applied to pre-determined parts of the ship so that the added information needed for a particular player's ship would simply be two colors, an incredibly small amount of information. The latter could be loaded in the same way that player portraits are, with perhaps a limit to how far you are before they're loaded into memory, say the 100km focus view limit. Offensive materials could be petitioned and result in that player's inability to use decals, also having them disabled on trial accounts would help keep people in line
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Berexia Cannin
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Posted - 2007.10.10 14:02:00 -
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well i can see uploading skinns could be a problem,....... possably with hacks and or viruses. but possably allow race/faction/corp skins. i mean ven eq2 and wow have guild tabbards. mechwarrior 4 allowed custom unit insignias for the player mecinary units and they had no problems with it. was a simple (i believe 20x20png or 24x24png, coulda been bmp.) image file transfer that went into a insignia folder in the cache.
this would be uber cool.
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Garonis
Caldari Templars of Space Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.10 17:23:00 -
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I could definitely see them implementing a ship skin for an alliance... It would be similar to the alliance logo, and released during a patch or something. I also like the idea of having 3-4 skins per ship, with a color slider, IMHO it wouldn't add much more information to the datastream, I.E. Skin=5 R=14 B=10 Y=0 Viola! a purple camouflaged Rifter. It would add customization galore, and shouldn't add too much to lag. Especially with a lot of the visual effects getting moved to the graphics cards. This is my sig ^^ |
Ris Dnalor
Minmatar Union Enterprises
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Posted - 2007.10.13 05:07:00 -
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haha i don't see this happening, b/c then ccp couldn't repaint a ship model and call it something new :) -- Talking in Circles is more dizzying than walking in them...
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mercyonman
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Posted - 2007.10.29 21:11:00 -
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Originally by: Tolomea It would be nice, unfortunately a non trivial portion of the player base has the maturity of a 13yo. Withen a week you'd find that everywhere you go you are passing ships painted with genitalia, racial slurs, and pretty much anything else rude and offensive the 13yo mind can imagine.
On the upside it does look like the gfx revamp will come with corp logo's on ships.
Oh and yes it has been suggested a lot, but some how it's not yet in the commonly proposed ideas thread.
dude i am 13 and I don't do that plus that is very offensive not ALL 13 year olds think like that but still you can eliminate wording and just have painting
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