Ship Skin and Color Customization

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I would like to suggest that players be given the ability to purchase different skins (or patterns) for their ships, in addition to more colors.

 

Allow me to illustrate. Currently we have 13 camo patterns ingame (not including Special Event camo). So why not let players pay to change the pattern on their ships so they can have a matching fleet? These would simply serve at templates that players could then customize the colors. For example:

 

Only usable on Federation Ships:

Federation Standard

Armada

Vanguard

Privateer

Premium

 

Only usable on Imperial Ships:

Imperial Standard

Legion

Warden

Shadow

Premium

 

Only useable on Jericho Ships:

Jericho Standard

Raid

Tech

Cyber

Premium

 

Military Faction patterns would only work on ships belonging to their respective faction (so the Vanguard camo can only be used on Fed ships). These camo pattern colors can be customized.

 

Pirate camo patterns can be applied to any ship of their rival faction (Shadow camo can only be used on Imperial ships, Privateer camo can only be used on Fed, and Cyber camo can only be used on Jericho).

 

Pirate camo patterns are only unlocked by purchasing a ship with that specific pattern in the ship tree or in the corresponding DLC. Pirate camo pattern colors cannot be customized.

 

The Premium camo pattern can only be unlocked by purchasing any Premium ship in the ship tree. Premium camo pattern color can be customized.

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this would heavily limit the posibilities of player to invididualize their ship

 

can you please explain the advantage of this?

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this would heavily limit the posibilities of player to invididualize their ship

 

can you please explain the advantage of this?

 

Apologies for the delay in my response.

 

You misunderstand what I mean when I talk about the current faction paint-schemes. I am suggesting all the current patterns be used as fully color-customizable templates for ship of their faction.  So if I choose, I can take a Grizzly Mk 2 and first select the Basic Federation, Armada, Vanguard, or Premium patterns and then select the colors to apply to the pattern. If I select the Privateer pattern, the colors come preset (white, red, and grey tribal design).

 

So it would actually expand player options considerably.

 

So, to reiterate, these would be customizable templates that can be re-colored. The only exception would be the Pirate templates which would have a set color pattern due to their complex designs.

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this would heavily limit the posibilities of player to invididualize their ship

 

can you please explain the advantage of this?

If I’m right, he’s asking for something like they have in WarFrame.

Here’s a picture to demonstrate.

 

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Both of these are the same WarFrame with the same colours applied, but the skin changes how the colour applies to the model.

 

This would give us a LOT more customisation, because not only can we recolour the ships, we can then change how the colour is applied to the ship!

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It would seem Error unearthed one of my previous threads on this topic…

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ok, this is clearer - forwarded to the Devs

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Good day! the idea is great, but we don’t possess enough resources at the moment for it’s realization.

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Good day! the idea is great, but we don’t possess enough resources at the moment for it’s realization.

Surely this is just a case of assigning a new texture to an existing model? After all, every ship in the game has four default textures (the Prometheus and Wolf have five), so unless I’m missing something wouldn’t this just be a case of applying a quick swap?

 

ie: if the player wants to give their Nukem a Wardens heraldry, then it’d simply be a case of writing some code that applies the R1_M3_F2 texture to ship R1_M3_P (if I remember the ship’s naming conventions correctly).

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Surely this is just a case of assigning a new texture to an existing model?

 

By “resources”, Aliskosan probably means “programmers”. And they are probably up to their ears with programming the new Secret Project ships.

 

I’m perfectly happy to wait for this. I’m ecstatic that it got a response after all this time, and might actually be in consideration!

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Nice option, i totally support it, even that i really doubt im gonna spend GS on it xD

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I’m almost at the stage where I would use my GS for customisations. I have enough premium ships unless they bring out more interesting ones XD Customisation would be good for this game I think. It would be nice if you could select for example 

 

Skin1, colours 1,2,3    And you can buy multiples of this combo or you can make another

Skin2, colours 4,1,6

 

So that you can have a gallery of skin/colour combos, however you can only use it on one ship at a time unless you buy more.