Comments on: Jester’s Trek: The Emperor’s New Clothes

By: Randall Flagg

Randall Flagg — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:57:54 +0000

Dude, I can't wait. Do you know what I would give for a pink Thorax to gank miners in? I'd name it "The Gaymobile" and play Village people on the Youtube vid.

By: Sold

Sold — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:48:43 +0000

If they can put alliance logos on TCUs, they can put them on ships.

By: TheOfferer

TheOfferer — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:54:53 +0000

You've got it wrong buddy. The reason I've bought the "Red Coat" is because I had a 14 days reactivation offer on an alt that had AUR on it (AUR that CCP gave away during eveisreal contest). I figured… 500AUR, wth.

I admit I do like the new line of clothes, but it's just like sex – just because I like it it doesn't mean that I'm willing to pay for it.

By: doublefacepalm.

doublefacepalm. — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 11:53:45 +0000

i would pay for a skinning right of my mission ship thats for sure
my pvp ship naa since i plan on losing it. (atleast if the cost is high)
but i would pay ALOT for a pink itty V and see how many trips with empty containers i can make between Jita –> Rens

honestly with V3 every model slapping on decals and painting the ship should be a breeze and not take many man hours. and besides doing that is a 2-3man job for an expansion

to do the POS right they need to have the structure already done.
sure its a job to get every module of the new modular pos system to fit but last time i heard anything aobut it POS rewamp was for Winter 2013 to be done. so i don't see how its stopping art department from skinning my ships? sorry i don't… because art can't start until they have done some decisions on how it should work.

By: Dirk

Dirk — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:36:37 +0000

I don't know about barbies but a few Space Kens would probably keep 5% of the player base around.

By: buggrit

buggrit — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:30:45 +0000

Barbies suck, and you'd soon see pink dildos flying around.

But player colours or alliance badges or some such would make people more invested in their game.

It'd also make for real nicer close-ups when a ship blows up. Great fraps!

By: ZeetFleet

ZeetFleet — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:30:23 +0000

Sorry I couldn't read this article properly, my monocle kept making things go blurry.

By: Lube

Lube — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:00:34 +0000

Jester are you some sort of a serial killer?

By: Danny_Centauri

Danny_Centauri — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:52:15 +0000

Yeah unfortunately you misinterpretted them. The new POS system will be completely new assets as they are moving POS's to a new modular design without the POS forcefield etc. If you want to know more read the CSM notes.

By: kosmiq1

kosmiq1 — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:19:16 +0000

Players should be able to put their Alliance and/or Corp logo on their ship. Other skins would be neat as well.

By: Ashesofempires

Ashesofempires — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:01:17 +0000

This. The art team would be working on the new POS and POS module models. Personally, I wouldn't think that it would take all that much time to make some palette shifted skins as an intro to ship skinning. Of course, i'm not an artist, familiar with photoshop, maya, or anything involving graphic design so maybe it's not easy.

I just get the feeling that CCP wasn't asking "should we do some minor ship skin work to test the waters," rather than "do you want us to dive into this 'whole hog' rather than work on something else." I don't think it would be a good use of art team resources to put EVERYONE on ship skins, but I can see the value in putting one guy on it who really knows his shit, and then once every couple weeks he can show off his creations for approval. Then rather than sit on the assets, they could swap them in for the normal ship skins on singularity to see how the greater EVE community feels.

If they are well received, have that one guy do more, and get a couple programmers to work on the underpinnings to get them in as a nex shop buy.

Personally, I'd have that one guy stick to battleships for the moment. Definitely do the popular fleet comp ships like the Abaddon, Maelstrom and Rokh.

By: zzz

zzz — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:03:10 +0000

fucking barbie lover

By: Idontneednographics

Idontneednographics — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:01:15 +0000

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!

But really I'm Guessing they means the art/graphics for the POSes as, due to them being totally revamped, they would have no existing graphics and thus need input from the art and graphics team. Seems like a reasonable statement to me.

By: Razor grunt

Razor grunt — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:54:06 +0000

"whether implementing ship skins would be a good use of resources… compared to other things the art team could be doing… like POSs"

We've been told time and again that the tasks of the art and graphics teams don't take away from game content design. This was to placate a player base that couldn't care less what the game looks like but instead those players want a glitch-free and balanced game. Now CCP is using the opposite excuse? Art people work on hardcore content like POSes? Nobody is calling bullshit?