A new day and a new EVE Online patch, today we are greeted with the option of customizing your favorite faction ship with skins brought from the NeX store, here is the original patch note:
The Stabber Krusual Edition, Omen Kador Edition, Caracal Nugoeihuvi Edition and Thorax Aliastra Edition can now be traded on the market. One of these new cosmetic cruiser skins will be released in the NeX store each week between now and Fanfest.
Check ’em:
First you have to acquire a Blueprint Copy from the NEX Store (found as a “Station Service” in any station) for Aurum. Many of you may have some promotional Aurum left over from years ago, waiting for an opportunity just such as this! You can also obtain Aurum directly from account management, or by converting PLEX purchased from the in-game market, account management or through GTCs.
The material requirement of that blueprint copy is a ship hull of the type you want to paint, so make sure that’s in the same place you want to start the painting process. Simply put, the only input will be a regular ship and the output will be a painted ship with the same stats, but a different color. Like other blueprint copies, it will only have X many runs and will be destroyed once all the runs have been used up.
Pop the blueprint copy into a manufacturing slot (right click, Manufacture) and after a short while you can Deliver your shiny new ship.
To reiterate, the only thing that changes is the color. All the stats will remain the same. Also, to state the obvious: When your painted ship is destroyed, well… then it is destroyed. Yes, this destruction will be supported in killmails.
You can read the rest of the of the Dev Blog regarding the new ships paints here.
