Customizing your ship costs a crazy amount of gold and few people even use it except for presets. This is an awesome feature of star conflict that is sadly, largely unused.
I suggest that you make it free to change paint colors or make it cost credits and reserve gold standards for decals.
I think that one change that is necessary would be to make the color/icon permanent, not in the current sense though. Permanent as in you can remove it from the ship and it will go into a warehouse of sorts, so you can put a different icon or paintjob on, but not lose the other one. I feel like this would only increase monetization from this, as people may want to buy multiple paint-jobs for a ship.
Pay To Win Dude! Look at my $paceJacht GS P2W $park, ready to kill anybody! Dollar eveywhere! They should add EURO sign as well for moar money.
Customization is ok for $$$ it doesn’t makes you stronger I think the price and the model in this case is ok. I only wish more presets at the Steam store.